Sportsnight

Name: Sportsnight
Genre: Documentary

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The midweek sports programme, and the strand most of British sports broadcasting learned its trade on.

Sportsnight kept one opening title sequence, 36 seconds long, across season 26.

It arrived on BBC One in 1968, when Grandstand, This Is Your Life and Top of the Pops were also on the network.

The opening titles

36s

Fan upload of the 1993 titles; counting a season per year from the 1968 launch, that is the twenty-sixth.

1964–2006BBC OneDocumentary

Forty-two years of the chart, and a Phil Lynott instrumental called Yellow Pearl for a theme.

1962–ITV / BBC TwoDocumentary

College Boy by Derek New, and a split screen that has stacked two teams on top of each other since 1962.

1965–2003BBC OneDocumentary

Live demonstrations of things that did not work yet, opening on graphics that promised they would.

1963–1966ITVDocumentary

"The weekend starts here" — the British pop programme that put the Beatles, the Stones and Motown on the same stage.

1965–1985ITVDocumentary

ITV's answer to Grandstand, which is remembered now almost entirely for the wrestling at four o'clock.

1964–BBC OneDocumentary

Barry Stoller's theme, unchanged since 1970, over whatever graphics the decade happens to allow.