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Celebrating television's This Is Your Life
David VINE (1935-2009)
THIS IS YOUR LIFE - David Vine, television sports presenter, was surprised by Michael Aspel while presenting the Masters Snooker Tournament for television at the Wembley Conference Centre.
David, who was born in Newton Abbott and raised in Barnstable, began his career as a reporter with the North Devon Journal Herald and later joined the Western Morning News after completing his National Service with the Intelligence Corps. In 1961, he joined Westward Television as the producer of their sports department but was soon appearing in front of the camera.
He joined the BBC in 1966 as presenter of Sports Scene and later was chairman of the quiz show Quizball which became A Question of Sport. He presented a wide range of programmes for the BBC, including showjumping, Miss World, Superstars and Ski Sunday, and from 1978 he became the channel's anchorman for the World Snooker Championships.
"We've got a snooker match to play! It's a wind up!"
programme details...
- Edition No: 1041
- Subject No: 1016
- Broadcast date: Mon 28 Feb 2000
- Broadcast time: 8.30-9.00pm
- Recorded: Wed 9 Feb 2000
- Venue: Teddington Studios
- Series: 40
- Edition: 16
- Code name: Grape
on the guest list...
- Mandy - wife
- Kim - daughter
- Katherine - daughter
- Martin - son
- Christian - son
- John Parrott
- John Virgo
- Peter - brother
- Gerald Kingdom
- Richard Brend
- Peter Bentley
- Judi Spiers
- Reg Gutteridge
- Trevor Banks
- David Broome
- Brian Jacks
- Alan Pascoe
- John Conteh
- Konrad Bartelski
- Ted Lowe
- Willie Thorne
- Ken Doherty
- Dennis Taylor
- Ben - grandson
- Georgia - granddaughter
- Oliver - grandson
- Stirling Moss Filmed tributes:
- Henry Cooper
- Franz Klammer
production team...
- Researcher: Emma Dooley
- Writer: Ian Brown
- Director: John Gorman
- Associate Producer: Helen Gordon-Smith
- Executive Producer: John Longley
- Series Producer: Jack Crawshaw
- Producer: Sue Green
- names above in bold indicate subjects of This Is Your Life
cueing the stars of snooker
Screenshots of David Vine This Is Your Life
Series 40 subjects
Roger Black | Hewitt Clark | Martin Kemp | Denise Welch | Rudolph Walker | Martin Jarvis | Stuart Hall | Rita TushinghamLen Vale-Onslow | Dale Winton | Ian Wright | Marguerite Patten | Eddie Jordan | Dave Lee Travis | Harry Hill
David Vine | John Craven | Richard Dunwoody | Tom Baker | Laurie Holloway | Kay Mellor | Mark Wingett
Christopher Timothy | Suggs | Jason Leonard | Desmond Wilcox | Roger Kendall | Daniel O'Donnell