Same here. I used to spend Saturdays with my grandparents, and they absolutely loved it (sure my grandmother didn’t realise it was in any way staged) so we watched it...........guess it killed time until the football results came on and grandad checked his coupon. Only time he ever got angry was...
Died in 97, so probably not. Agree though, 30 stone bloke in a mankini whose specialist move was the ‘splash’ - basically falling down. The long winter afternoons watching World of Sport just flew by.