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I tend to think Bullseye got a little caught out by the split towards the end of its original run - and this was apart from moving it to Saturdays, which felt like an early sign that the game was nearly up.

Up to that point, Jim had occasionally addressed the decline in TV tournament coverage during the Bronze Bully feature.

AFAIK, the split itself was never addressed on the show but in hindsight, one could sense that as the game's main TV platform away from Lakeside, it was under pressure to take sides (though am sure some of the breakaway players still appeared on the last couple of series)

And there was one quite telling episode - the 1992 Christmas special - with Olly Croft (BDO founder) appearing rather uncomfortably in the same studio as Phil Taylor and Rod Harrington (two of the 'rebels' who had founded the World Darts Council, forerunner to the PDC, earlier that year)

I've always suspected that's why they changed the intro sequence to the one with Bully in the studio - All but one (Dave Whitcombe, later two with Mike Gregory) of the darts players you see on the bus were part of the WDC rebels and Tony Green (who I believe was an in-law of Olly Croft) was very much on the BDO side of things.

Had a quick check and although some of the rebels appeared in the 1994 series, it could have been filmed before all the legal stuff started. Although in saying that, apparently Rod Harrington was on a 1995 episode and he was pretty much leading the WDC case at that point.