HOW COOL WAS THAT SNOOKER TABLE COMING UP ON HYDRAULICS. WOW! 😊

Great find!  Literally a few years to the great explosion of Snooker popularity in the 80's.  Thanks for posting

The kids playing on the table with perfect  rip the cloth form !

Sadly JV never became world champion but his commentary was world class, RIP John.

At 13 mins, Jim meadowcroft leaving the set of Last of the Summer Wine !

Steve Davis was about to come along and take the game to a whole new level.

Amazing to think Steve Davis was already playing on the circuit that year.

"Look this isn't a game, lad, it's a science!" It's trigonometry in motion.

The great Higgins elevated snooker

That was absolutely superb. Granada made some stunning television in that period. So well filmed and edited, a beautifully weighted pace.

And then Peter Ebdon came along and took the game to a whole new level

Fab doc.  RIP JV.

What a fantastic documentary & John Virgo has always been a character. 👌

I was a snooker player at 13 ,dad had a full size table at home,only when I was 18 I learnt how to play billiard,in fact I used to preferer billiards in competitions than snooker competitions,,great game

2:55 “David Taylor is one of the young pros…” - he was 35!

4 million players in the UK, that's incredible!

Virgo was punching..... Yeah, I would.
In a minute!

I used to work with a lad who could regularly knock in centuary breaks in practice but as soon as you put half a dozen people watching he couldnt pot a ball. He had all the skill to be a professional but he couldnt get over been in front of an audience.

Look at those big ugly brick snooker tables at the crucible yikes ! Fascinating 70s Documentary!

The era when they were only three or four tournament a year and players played in exhibition matches