Episode 1

The sport's rise to prominence, beginning by examining how Alex `Hurricane" Higgins upset the snooker establishment to help transform a game played in the backrooms of working men's clubs into a TV ratings hit. Interest in the sport had been growing thanks to the new possibilities of colour broadcasting, and in particular the weekly snooker show Pot Black, but it was the antics of the unpredictable Ulstersman that took the game stratospheric.