Saturdays were different back then...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLHMxFGqhIs
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26063499
Frank Bough was one of the highest-profile and highest-paid presenters on BBC Television.
In a career spanning three decades, he won a reputation for his relaxed and unflappable style on camera.
He presented the BBC's flagship sports programme, Grandstand, and launched the corporation's Breakfast Time TV programme in 1983.
But his career abruptly ended after lurid tabloid revelations about his involvement with cocaine and call girls.
Francis Bough was born in a two-up, two-down terrace house in the Fenton area of Stoke-on-Trent on 15 January 1933.
His father ,who worked as an upholsterer, lost his job, and the family moved to Oswestry, Shropshire, where Bough attended the local grammar school.
He was a keen sportsman and also enjoyed acting, taking parts in a number of school Shakespeare productions, including Hamlet and Macbeth.
Although not particularly academic he won a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, in the days when, as he later put it, "Oxford valued a good all-rounder".
Frank Bough RIP
Frank Bough RIP
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