World of Sport

Name: World of Sport
Genre: Documentary

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

World of Sport kept one opening title sequence, 73 seconds long, across season 20.

At 73 seconds, it opens well above the 37-second median for documentary sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on ITV in 1965, when The Sooty Show, Ivor the Engine and Danger Man were also on the network.

The opening titles

73s

Fan upload of the 1984 titles; counting a season per year from the 1965 launch, that is the twentieth.

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.

1968–1997BBC OneDocumentary

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

1964–BBC OneDocumentary

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