Grandstand

Synopsis

Grandstand was a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it was one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock. There were only four main presenters of the programme during its long history: David Coleman, Frank Bough, Des Lynam, and Steve Rider. Changes in the structure of the programme during its last few years, however, meant it did not have a regular main presenter during this time. Among the more occasional hosts were Alan Weeks, David Icke, Clare Balding, Hazel Irvine, Bob Wilson, David Vine, Barry Davies, Dougie Donnelly, Harry Carpenter, Harry Gration, John Inverdale, Tony Gubba, Helen Rollason, Ray Stubbs and Sue Barker. The last editions of Grandstand were broadcast over the weekend of 27–28 January 2007.

First Air Date: 1958-10-11

Last Air Date: 2007-01-27

Number of Seasons: 3

Number of Episodes: 6

Created By: Bryan Cowgill, Paul Fox

Networks: BBC One

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Top Cast

Chris Brasher as Self (Host)
Frank Bough as N/A
David Coleman as N/A
Des Lynam as Self - Presenter
Mervyn King as Self
Chris Mason as Self
John Part as Self
Robert Paragot as Self
Guido Magnone as Self
Ian McNaught-Davis as Self

Seasons

Season 6 (1958) - (1 Episodes)

Season 43 (2001) - (1 Episodes)

Season 49 (2007) - (4 Episodes)

Season 6 (1958)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 39: October 11, 1963 (1963-09-28)

On 28 September 1963, the BBC broadcast a live program of an ascent of Snowdon's Clogwyn du'r Arddu, 'the finest crag in Britain south of Scottish border'. It starred the French Climber Robert Paragot alongside the cream of British talent: Joe Brown, Don Whillans, and Ian Mcnaught-Davis. The program had commentary by Chris Brasher and it was transmitted on Grandstand between Davis Cup tennis and Horse racing from Newbury. Grandstand presenter David Coleman introduced the climb as a TV first -the first-ever live coverage of UK mountaineering. Unfortunately, the action was clouded by rain and mist, and many of the cameras failed on the day of the broadcast, so most of the images of the climb ended being a kind of blurred haze.