1976 Pot Black

1976 Pot Black
Tournament information
Dates early 1976 (Broadcast 21 May-17 September 1976)
Venue Pebble Mill Studios
City Birmingham
Country England
Format Non-Ranking event
Winner's share £1000
Highest break Australia Eddie Charlton (64)
Final
Champion England John Spencer
Runner-up Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor
Score 69–42
← 1975
1977 →

The 1976 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham, and featured eight professional players. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs.

Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Friday 21 May 1976 [1] Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator and Sydney Lee as referee.

Willie Thorne made his debut in this year's tournament against Fred Davis in the first show of the series. John Spencer won his third title beating Dennis Taylor 69-42 [2][3]

Main draw

Challengers League

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
England Fred Davis1–0England Willie Thorne21 May 1976
Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor0–1England Rex Williams4 June 1976
England Willie Thorne0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor18 June 1976
England Fred Davis0–1England Rex Williams2 July 1976
England Willie Thorne0–1England Rex Williams30 July 1976
England Fred Davis0–1Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor13 August 1976

Champions League

Player 1 Score Player 2 Broadcast Date
Australia Eddie Charlton1–0England Graham Miles28 May 1976
England John Spencer0–1Wales Ray Reardon11 June 1976
Wales Ray Reardon0–1Australia Eddie Charlton25 June 1976
England Graham Miles0–1England John Spencer23 July 1976
Australia Eddie Charlton0–1England John Spencer6 August 1976
Wales Ray Reardon0–1England Graham Miles20 August 1976

Knockout stage

  Semi-finals (27 August and 3 September 1976)     Final (17 September 1976)
                 
  Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 1  
  England Rex Williams 0    
      Northern Ireland Dennis Taylor 0
      England John Spencer 1
  England John Spencer 1    
  Australia Eddie Charlton 0   3rd place Play-off (10 September 1976)
 
England Rex Williams 1
  Australia Eddie Charlton 0

References

  1. ↑ "BBC Television – 21 May 1976 – Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "BBC Television – 17 September 1976 – Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  3. ↑ http://cuetracker.net/tournaments/pot-black/1976/887
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