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* Ted Lowe, commentator on BBC's ' Pot Black ', which brought snooker to prominence on British TV, was a longtime resident of Bexhill until his death in May 2011.
* Pot Black, snooker dice
Others included the Dolphin, the Flower Pot, the Green Dragon, the Wrestlers, the Angel and the Black Bull.
Categories included Pot Luck ( Red ), Past ( Yellow ), Music ( Green ), Places ( Brown ), People ( Blue ), Sports ( Pink ) and Screen ( Black ).
Davis turned professional on 17 September 1978 and made his professional television debut on Pot Black, where he played against Fred Davis.
He followed this up a week later by becoming the first Irishman to win the Pot Black invitational tournament, beating Shaun Murphy 76 – 31 in the one-frame final.
# " Pot Kettle Black " – 4: 00
On 2 September 2006, Williams won the Pot Black trophy, after compiling a century break ( 119 ) in the final against John Higgins.
He also appeared on BBC's Junior version of Pot Black.
Johnson also won the Seniors Pot Black Trophy in 1997, beating Terry Griffiths in the final.
Pot Black helped transform snooker from a minority sport with just a handful of professionals into one of the most popular sports in the United Kingdom.
The first Pot Black was held in 1969 at the BBC Studios in Birmingham.
The event continued until 1986, at which time more and more televised snooker events were held and the Pot Black format was out dated.
A one-day Pot Black tournament was held on 29 October 2005, and broadcast on the BBC's Grandstand.
The 2006 edition of Pot Black took place at the Royal Automobile Club in London on 2 September 2006.
The 2007 edition, the final Pot Black to date, was aired on Saturday 6 October 2007 on BBC One.
There have only been six century breaks in the history of Pot Black.
The Pot Black highest break record is currently held by Mark Williams, with his 119 in 2006.
In the history of Pot Black the tournament used many formats.
A junior version, called Junior Pot Black, ran from 1981 to 1983 and that was also revived in 1991, for a single year.
A senior version, called Seniors Pot Black was held in 1997, featuring players who were over 40 at the time.
A Celebrity Pot Black was held on 15 July 2006 in aid of Sport Relief.
Pot Black's theme tune was the ragtime classic Black and White Rag, composed by George Botsford and performed by Winifred Atwell.
Pot Black was originally hosted by Alan Weeks.

Pot and was
Immediately after its victory, the CPK ordered the evacuation of all cities and towns, sending the entire urban population into the countryside to work as farmers, as the CPK was trying to reshape society into a model that Pol Pot had conceived.
It was the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, and Khieu Samphan.
Pol Pot was a key leader in the movement after he returned to Cambodia from France.
The history of the communist movement in Cambodia can be divided into six phases: the emergence of the Indochinese Communist Party ( ICP ), whose members were almost exclusively Vietnamese, before World War II ; the 10-year struggle for independence from the French, when a separate Cambodian communist party, the Kampuchean ( or Khmer ) People's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ), was established under Vietnamese auspices ; the period following the Second Party Congress of the KPRP in 1960, when Saloth Sar ( Pol Pot after 1976 ) and other future Khmer Rouge leaders gained control of its apparatus ; the revolutionary struggle from the initiation of the Khmer Rouge insurgency in 1967 – 68 to the fall of the Lon Nol government in April 1975 ; the Democratic Kampuchea regime, from April 1975 to January 1979 ; and the period following the Third Party Congress of the KPRP in January 1979, when Hanoi effectively assumed control over Cambodia's government and communist party.
Pol Pot, who rose to the leadership of the communist movement in the 1960s, was born in 1928 ( some sources say 1925 ) in Kampong Thum Province, northeast of Phnom Penh.
Pol Pot ( 19 May 1925 – 15 April 1998 ), born Saloth Sar (), was a Cambodian Maoist revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until his death in 1998.
During the years that the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, was controlled by the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot ( 1975 to 1979 ), the border disputes continued.
The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years, which was produced in a new version in 2000.
The Flower Pot Men was the story of two little men made of flower pots who lived at the bottom of an English suburban garden.
While the " man who worked in the garden " was away having his dinner the two Flower Pot Men, Bill and Ben, emerged from the two flowerpots.
For 2009, the winner in the " least likely to succeed " category was " Any name of the decade 2000 – 2009, such as: Naughties, Aughties, Oughties, Pot stickers, etc.
While Pol Pot was in power, between one and three million people died out of a total population of eight million.
Vietnam became internationally isolated during Lê's rule ; the country had invaded Cambodia and ousted Pol Pot from power ( which was internationally condemned ), engaged in a short war with China and had become dependent on Soviet economic aid.
The Old Koffi Pot café, dating from the 1930s was until the early 1990s known as ' Ferrara's '.
These businesses included Coulthards Brewery, Nicholas Bayard's slaughterhouse on Mulberry Street ( which was nicknamed " Slaughterhouse Street "), numerous tanneries on the southeastern shore, and the pottery works of German immigrants Johan Willem Crolius and Johan Remmey on Pot Bakers Hill on the south-southwestern shore.
Thomas Attree's villa, Queen's Park, Brighton, the only one to be built of a series of villa's designed for the area by Barry and the Pepper Pot ( 1830 ), whose original function was a water tower for the development.
Had Year Zero simply described the monster that Pol Pot was, it would have been quickly forgotten.
For example, during the Cambodian Khmer Rouge regime, images of dictator Pol Pot ( Saloth Sar ) were rarely seen in public, and his identity was under dispute abroad until after his fall from power.
Carney was a comic singer with the Horace Heidt orchestra, which was heard often on radio during the 1930s, notably on the hugely successful Pot o ' Gold, the first big-money giveaway show in 1939 – 41.
The Melting Pot album is also home to the highly tuneful Native American-influenced track " Fuquawi ", which was also released on single coupled with " Jamaica This Morning " ( see below ).
Before the Melting Pot album was recorded, Booker T. Jones had left Stax.
In 1961, W. R. Bullard conducted excavations led by the Royal Ontario Museum ( Rom ), at Baking Pot and San Estevan, and although no excavations took place, the site was initially called “ Rockstone Pond .” In 1963, quarrying activity by local villagers led to a recovery of a large and elaborate carved jade pendant.
The image of the United States as melting pot was popularized by the 1908 play The Melting Pot ( play ) | The Melting Pot.

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