The Wrestling Heritage website has been working with BBC 4 to help them produce a television documentary that faithfully records the development of professional wrestling in Britain to the point that, through the sixties, it was the most popular indoor spectator sport in the country. The hour-long documentary promises to be the most informative and comprehensive British Wrestling documentary yet made.

For the last few weeks, Wrestling Heritage has been previewing the show's content, including news that footage of the 1962 epic between Jackie Pallo and Mick McManus will be featured. Their long-running feud is covered in some detail. There are interviews with celebrity fans, authors, promoters and popular sixties and seventies wrestlers including Johnny Kincaid and Adrian Street, as well as appearances by Kendo Nagasaki and Klondyke Kate.

Fans of 'classic' British Professional Wrestling should be grateful to the organisers of the reunions for helping the wrestlers get together to keep the memories alive; historians like Ray Plunkett and Wrestling Heritage and its forum contributors, and also the 'unsung heroes' investing their time and money to uncover archive wrestling footage.



On Friday 7th December The Guardian newspaper ran the following article, by Sarah Dempster, about the programme.



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