Superstars - Challenge of the Champions (1981)

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  @gazjohn7885 · 2 months ago

  How fitting this appears on my feed very randomly, and seeing the late great Kevin Keegan being the true sportsman that he ever was. RIP Kevin Keegan.

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• HE

  @he1213 · 1 year ago

  You won’t find anyone above 55 who doesn’t love this show and ears will prick up on hearing the theme tune😊

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• RO

  @roytheboy1963 · 1 year ago

  I loved watching this when I was growing up, it only seems like yesterday hearing that iconic theme again, then I realise I'm 60 lol

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• SI

  @simondelarue4849 · 1 year ago

  The most refreshing thing about rewatching this, all these years later, is the uniform humility displayed by the competitors from all sports. That’s why we didn’t just admire them - we loved them.

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• LE

  @lee4171 · 1 year ago

  Proper TV. When you think of the shite we are subjected to these days.

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• AH

  @ahoythespoonsareawake4617 · 2 months ago (edited)

  Gen X algorithm pulls out some absolute gems and this is one of them. I wonder if we are the final generation that all watched the same thing at the same time and were shaped by it? Kevin Keegan’s bike crash & his magnificent resilience, Brian Jacks’ athleticism and Ron Pickering’s general joy at everything - lovely to watch. The 70s were rough but there’s a civility and a sense of sportsmanship here that I really treasure.

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• PA

  @PannariChomboom · 2 months ago (edited)

  Brian Jack's owns and runs a bar/hotel here in Pattaya Thailand.Lovely guy.

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• KE

  @kevinwall795 · 1 year ago

  Now THAT is competition!<br>I remember my mum worked as a barmaid at the hotel the Superstars were staying at near Peterborough. She phoned my dad to bring me down to meet them (I was about 11).<br>I met and got autographs from boxer Dave &apos;Boy&apos; Green, table tennis player Desmond Douglas and rugby internstional Roger Utley.<br>I was so happy. <br>Even now, as a 55 year old man, it still makes me smile.

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• NE

  @neilcarpenter2669 · 3 years ago

  What a theme tune whenever I hear it I still believe that I can do the things I did as a young man.

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• LE

  @leecousins7805 · 1 year ago

  Seems like yesterday Keegan came off his bike and hurt his shoulder. Why do we have to get old😢

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• SH

  @sheridansay8667 · 2 months ago (edited)

  I remember watching this as a kid and thinking that Brian Jacks was just a Superstars pro. And not actually a Judo chap. This is how a tv program should be. Bang, bang, bang. Event after event. No dull interviews and excessive replays

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• PH

  @philjones45 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m amazed how seriously they all took it, if this was remade today it would be full of crappy celebs making light of the whole thing, while getting paid thousands to appear. I imagine the line up being filled by Roman Kemp, Jill Scott, Bobby Brazier, Danny Dyer, Tony Bellew and Lee Mack.

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