I fully agree. But he didn't merit some of the level of criticism that he received on here.

I remember the Big Match being followed by the Persuaders.

And preceded by a combination of All Our Yesterday, The Farm Show and University Challenge.

After The Big Match was tea time.

was it not "Out of Town" with Jack Hargreaves? seem to remember it was incredibly boring

That as well.

I think the farm show was a bit earlier, maybe about noon and on BBC. Always had film of cows and cow shit everywhere. Not the best lunchtime viewing.

I hope this link hasnt been posted elsewhere

The 3-1 win over Brighton in 1978.

I remember it like it was yesterday .... a very warm day for October.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX75kiCoJBY

I always remember it as The London weekend Show with Janet Street Porter, then Thunderbirds then The Big Match.

The Big Match was mainly on at 2.15 on sunday afternoons, was on for 45 minutes and only had one ad break, at half time during the main match.

:lux: :lux:

30 years ago - christ! The team still feels so familiar.

Magical but sad. The chances of ever having a team like that again feels so remote.

When was Tomfoolery on?

John Burridge is not wearing any gloves?

Similar to my recollection. But I remember watching Thunderbirds first and Sunday lunch was served almost exactly when it ended. The LWT Show happened while we were eating and we were then allowed to leave the table early to watch the Big Match.

If lunch was late, you watched the start of The LWT Show that was a cartoon of JS-P in big flares with exaggerated teeth and Elton John style glasses wading across an animated London skyline.

There was also a time when the pre-Big Match line up included Weekend World with Bwian Walden which was a sort of weekly round-up of the political week presented by a bloke with a speech impediment that made Jonathon Ross sound like an elocution instructor. It had the fantastic Nantucket Sleighride by Mountain as its intro; in fact, if you played the non-vocal parts of the record now, I'm sure more people would say "that's Weekend World" rather than "that's Mountain".

I've got a feeling that it started at 12:00. Obviously this is a very specific couple of months in time; late-70s definitely.

What about Police 5? That preceded the BM as far as I can remember.

KEEP EM PEELED!

Is Shaw Taylor still with us?

Thunderbirds was 1pm which lasted for an hour. TBM was 2.30pm. Can't remember what was on between Tbirds and TBM :p

20the Century Box with Danny Baker?and Weekend World with Brian Walden, also very boring and such such inapprotiate theme music for a current affairs programme

not sure either,but The Persuaders was always on after The Big Match...........the theme tune still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end,they don't make 'em like they used to:D .............http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgLEdvRKAYI

Great thread this ....

See, you boys had the London based The Big Match. We in the West country very rarely had access to TBM.

Were I live we had either the HTV produced Soccer Special which covered Swindon Town, Bristol Rovers & Bristol City with the truly awful Roger Malone commentating, or ATV's Star Soccer which covered the Midlands. Mostly WBA, Brum, and Wolves with the voice of Hugh Johns, again dreadful.

We used to dream of watching the Big Match with teams such as Palace, Spurs, Arsenal & Brentford. I did remember watching us play Arsenal in Oct 1972. I think we lost 2-3.

Here's some interesting links .....

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carouse...ATVLondon.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/carousel/ITV/HTV.html

Happy days,basking in the sun,and watching Mullery squirm !!!:bash:
What a fantastic player Mike Elwiss was in his brief career with us,but for injury,he would have become a great.