Gods of Snooker

Alex 'The Hurricane' Higgins upsets the snooker establishment but helps transform a game played in the backrooms of working men’s clubs into box office gold.

Though snooker was firmly established on our TV screens by the early 80s, the game’s money-spinning potential had not yet been realised.

Jimmy White’s off-the-table excess threatens to overshadow his raw talent, as a young Stephen Hendry emerges as a new threat to his World Championship dreams.