Dickie Davies, host of ITV’s World of Sport for nearly two decades, dies
The presenter anchored the five-hour live TV marathon every Saturday between 1968 and 1985. …
He also had an unlikely sideline during his early years on World of Sport, as he had invested some of his his TV earnings in a pub called the Globe in Andover, Hampshire – and was occasionally pictured working behind the bar on a Saturday evening, just hours after broadcasting to millions of people.