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In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.

Johnny "Snooker Man" Bonnar is the UK's 17th rated Ronnie O'Sullivan lookalike working for the UK's lowest rated lookalike agency. He enters the world of competitive miniature snooker playing, attempting to become the world champion.

Taking a look back at the golden era of snooker in the 1970s and 80s.

Two men compete in a game of pool for the highest of stakes... a cool hat.

Steve Davis goes back to the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield to celebrate 40 years of the world snooker championship, talking to some of the players forever ingrained in the sport's history. The venue has become the home of snooker since the championships moved there in 1977, helping to create memorable moments and scenes of drama that live on to this day. Featuring interviews with former champions Stephen Hendry and Dennis Taylor, six-time runner-up and fans' favourite Jimmy White, and celebrity snooker addicts Richard Osman and Stephen Fry.

The Defeated is back for a game of pool, and fiery vengeance... also his hat.

The 1985 Snooker World Championship final remains one of the most enthralling sporting contests of modern times. A record British television audience of 18.5 million watched Dennis Taylor and Steve Davis battle it out late into the night. As midnight came and went the two men ended up level on 17 frames each, and the World Championship came down to the last black of the last frame. Steve Davis was 18 points ahead with just 22 remaining on the table but Taylor cleared the brown, blue and pink. There then followed 4 shots of unbelievable tension as Taylor, Davis, Taylor again and then Davis again missed the black. On his third attempt Dennis Taylor sank the black; with the World Championship won he raised his cue above his head and danced a jig, wagging his finger in sheer delight at the conclusion of an incredible sporting moment. Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor talk us through the entire final frame, with the drama and tension building up to the amazing finale.

The legendary snooker player Steve Davis presents this documentary about the history of the game, from its origins in British India, through to the first professional players like Joe and Fred Davis. Includes footage from memorable games and of world-class players like Alex Higgins and Stephen Hendry. With narration from Clive Everton.

The best 147's, The worst misses and the Rocket's top ten players.

For 15 years the World Snooker Trickshots Championship has amazed and thrilled audiences from around the World, from Sun City, South Africa to Europe the World's very best have entertained audiences with a dazzling array of tricks.

The story is about two twin brothers, Azriel and Gavriel. Azriel is a shy, religious Jew who works in a fruit shop in Jaffa. Gavriel is a hoodlum and a good-for-nothing hustler who runs a snooker bar. Gavriel and his friend Hanuka make easy money by swindling people into gambling on snooker games. One day Gavriel is forced to renew contact with his brother because he is in trouble with a gangster.

Michael Shelton and his gold medal in wheelchair snooker are rightly celebrated by the mining community of Newstead.

A documentary following future seven time world snooker champion Stephen Hendry as a teenager in the run up to and aftermath of his first ever ranking event win at the Rothmans Grand Prix.

A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.

Ronnie O’Sullivan hasn’t had the most harmonious relationship with the media over the years, but his attempt to win the Snooker World Championship for a record 7th time in 2021 apparently proved to good an opportunity to pass up.

Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.

After a group of boys visit their departed friends memorial a year after his death their day out that follows puts their friendships to the test once they get into a tricky situation.

A year in the life of Snooker's greatest legend - It's Jimmy White as you've never seen him before! A controversial hard hitting look at the People's Champion! Featuring The Rolling Stones Ronnie Wood & Snooker Greats: Steve Davis, Ronnie O'Sullivan, Stephen Hendry, Hurricane Higgins, Ken Doherty, John Higgins, John Virgo, Cliff Thorburn, Dennis Taylor & many more! Contains Extreme Bad Language !

The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.

A boy living in underdeveloped Welsh village hopes for a better time of his homeland when seeing the two Japaneese businessmen with the apparent intentions to build a factory there.

A documentary detailing the life and career of snooker World Champion Mark Selby following his first World Championship victory in 2014.

An innocent Japanese boy steps into the dazzling world of White Party Bangkok for the first time-only to find himself swept away in a whirlwind romance with a popular Thai gogo boy.