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Jimmy Hill dead at 87 following Alzheimer’s battle

19 December 2015 Jimmy Hill has died aged 87 following a battle with Alzheimer’s. Hill will forever be remembered as one of the most influential figures...

Mickey Mantle

Mickey Mantle's illustrious baseball career began in the 1950s when he was a teenage phenomenon out of Commerce, Oklahoma, thrust into the limelight of...

World Cup Willie

Evonne Goolagong

Young newcomer Evonne Goolagong was one month away from her 20th birthday when she scored straight-set victories over Billie Jean King in the semi-finals...

Pelé

Born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, Pelé was Brazil's soccer superstar, and one of the greatest footballers ever. He was fantastic, fabulous and friendly -...

Harlem Globetrotters

The exact beginnings of the Harlem Globetrotters are uncertain, although the team considers that their first-ever road game took place on 7 January 1927,...

George Best

There is a famous story about George Best after he had won one night at a casino and a bellboy found him in his...

Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay

"I am the greatest," claimed Muhammad Ali - and many still consider him to be the finest heavyweight boxer of all time. His catchphrase "float...

Jackie Stewart

Jackie Stewart - The Flying Scotsman - drove an Elf Tyrell In 1973 at Watkins Glen (which was Jackie's 100th Grand Prix) Stewart's teammate Francois...

Nadia Comaneci

Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, delighted crowds at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. She won three gold medals, a silver and a bronze, scoring...

Roller Derby

Roller Derby was born in Chicago during the Depression but didn't achieve national prominence until the advent of television in the late 1940s. In...

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Dustbinmen, The

1 9 6 9 - 1 9 7 0 (UK) 1 x 90 minute pilot 20 x 30 minute episodes Cheese And Egg is the leader of a...

Aswad

Aswad - whose name means 'black' in Arabic - formed in 1975 in West London's Ladbroke Grove and built their early reputation on four...

All Our Yesterdays

1 9 6 0 - 1 9 7 3 (UK) 1 9 8 7 - 1 9 8 9 (UK) A half-hour nostalgia documentary programme from Granada which...

Case Histories of Scotland Yard

1 9 5 5 (UK) This half-hour drama series based on actual Scotland Yard case files was introduced by noted journalist and criminologist Edgar Lustgarten and...

JFK (1991)

Oliver Stone's massive, three-hour JFK is powerful, compelling, brilliantly written and directed, superbly acted by a stellar cast of luminaries with courage and conviction, and one...

Operation

The key to successful surgery is a steady hand. Of course, it is also handy to have a patient whose nose lights up red...

Kizzy

1 9 7 6 (UK) 6 x 30 minute episodes Adapted from (Margaret) Rumer Godden's 1972 novel The Diddakoi, the only major change apart from a linear...

Mr Peepers

1 9 5 2 - 1 9 5 5 (USA) Debuting on NBC on 3 July 1952 as a summer replacement series, Mr Peepers proved that not...
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