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Tournament information | |
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Dates | Recorded late December 1977 (broadcast 6 January β 14 April 1978 (1978-01-06 β 1978-04-14)) |
Venue | Pebble Mill Studios |
City | Birmingham |
Country | England |
Format | Non-ranking event |
Winner's share | Β£1000 |
Highest break | ![]() |
Final | |
Champion | ![]() |
Runner-up | ![]() |
Score | 2β1 |
← 1977 1979 → |
The 1978 Pot Black was a professional invitational snooker tournament, which was held in the Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham. And this year, the tournament returnedββto 8 players competing in 2 four player groups. All matches were one-frame shoot-outs but the "final this year was played in the best of 3 frames on a one-hour programme."
Broadcasts were on BBC2 and started at 21:00 on Friday 6 January 1978 Alan Weeks presented the programme with Ted Lowe as commentator. And Sydney Lee as referee.
The previous year's finalist Doug Mountjoy beat twice Pot Black Champion Graham Miles in the first final to have a best of 3 frames format 2β1.
Main drawβ»
The draw for the group stages was made by comedian Eric Morecambe and shown before the first match.
Group 1β»
Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Broadcast Date |
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1β0 | ![]() |
6 January 1978 |
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1β0 | ![]() |
20 January 1978 |
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1β0 | ![]() |
3 February 1978 |
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0β1 | ![]() |
17 February 1978 |
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0β1 | ![]() |
3 March 1978 |
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0β1 | ![]() |
17 March 1978 |
Group 2β»
Player 1 | Score | Player 2 | Broadcast Date |
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0β1 | ![]() |
13 January 1978 |
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0β1 | ![]() |
27 January 1978 |
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0β1 | ![]() |
10 February 1978 |
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1β0 | ![]() |
24 February 1978 |
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1β0 | ![]() |
10 March 1978 |
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1β0 | ![]() |
24 March 1978 |
Knockout stageβ»
Semi-finals (31 March and 7 April 1978) | Final (14 April 1978) | ||||||||
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Referencesβ»
- ^ "BBC Television β 6 January 1978 β Pot Black". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "BBC Television β 14 April 1978 β Pot Black: BBC2 Knockout Snooker Competition". BBC Genome Project. BBC. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
- ^ "CueTracker - 1978 Pot Black - Snooker Results & Statistics Database".