Episode 1453
1985 World Snooker Championship final
Tue, 2021-Apr-27 00:13 UTC
Length - 3:31
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The 1985 World Snooker Championship final, also known as the black ball final, was a snooker match played on the weekend of 27–28 April 1985 at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, England. The match, which was the final of the 1985 World Snooker Championship, was between defending world champion Steve Davis and 1979 runner-up Dennis Taylor. It was Davis' fourth appearance in a final, and Taylor's second. The best-of-35-frame match was split into four sessions. Davis won every frame in the first session to lead 7–0, but only led 9–7 and 13–11 after the second and third sessions. Taylor was never ahead in the match, but tied the match at 17–17. The deciding frame culminated over several shots on the final ball – the black. Taylor potted the ball to win his only world championship. Media outlets reported this as a major shock; Davis had been widely predicted to win the match, having won three of the previous four world championships.
The final took place during the eighth year of the BBC's daily coverage of the championship, and climaxed in the early hours of Monday 29 April. It was viewed by 18.5 million people in the United Kingdom, which as of 2021 remains a record viewing figure for BBC2, and as of 2020 is still the record for a post-midnight audience for any British television channel. The total match time of 14 hours and 50 minutes is the longest ever recorded for a best-of-35 frames match.
The final is one of the most famous snooker matches of all time and part of the reason for the surge in the sport's popularity in the 1980s and 1990s. The match contained no century breaks, the only final at the venue not to receive one. Two hour-long BBC documentaries, When Snooker Ruled the World from 2002 and Davis v Taylor: The '85 Black Ball Final made in 2010, commemorated the event. The final frame was released in full on home video as "The Greatest Snooker Final of All Time". The post-match single word responses to the press from Davis would later be used as a basis for a recurring character for the television show Spitting Image.
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