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Pot Black: 2006 Pot Black, 2007 Pot Black, 2005 Pot Black


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Pot Black was a British series of (non-ranking) televised snooker tournaments that played a large part in the popularisation of the modern game, from 1969 to 1986. The event was revived in the form of several one-off tournaments throughout the 1990s and up to 2007. In the late 1960s the BBC started broadcasting in colour, and were looking for programmes that could exploit this new technology. The game of snooker, with its rainbow of differently-coloured balls, was suggested. The programme first aired on 23 July 1969, on BBC2, presented by Alan Weeks, with Sydney Lee refereeing and match commentary by "Whispering Ted" Lowe. Filmed at the BBC TV studios in Birmingham, the first tournament was won by Ray Reardon. The success of Pot Black was immediate and phenomenal, and it became the second most popular programme on BBC2. The event was a round-robin tournament with single-frame weekly matches, a format devised by BBC Birmingham producer Philip Lewis. A player's total number of points scored could often become crucial. Therefore matches always ended with the potting of the black ball, which is often not bothered with in multi-frame matches. Pot Black's theme tune was the ragtime classic Black and White Rag, composed by George Botsford and performed by Winifred Atwell. Mark Williams holds the events' highest break record of 119. Pot Black ran from 1969 to 1986, by which time professional snooker, with its long matches, had become so popular that the single-frame matches (the finals were the best of 3 frames from 1978 to 1997) that Pot Black offered seemed almost irrelevant. The original version of Pot Black only had two hosts, Alan Weeks and, towards the end of its run, David Icke. Pot Black featured all the top players of its ti... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=622927


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  • ISBN-13: 9781158242986
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 24
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Weight: 50 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158242980
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: 2006 Pot Black, 2007 Pot Black, 2005 Pot Black
  • Width: 229 mm


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