Superstars: Jacks vs Thompson (pt 1 of 4) 

Why can't they bring this back these guys were role models for me and got me into sport and down the sports centre ...The kids need this type of thing today !!

I started doing judo when I was 8 because of Brian Jacks and watching him on superstars.

I remember watching this with my dad brian jacks was an absolute monster on the dips.

Ahhh! The really good old days. When they just......got on with it!

Daley Thompson was my olympic idol as a kid

Remember Kevin Keegan coming off a bike his shoulder like a cheese grater still got back on bike and competed don't make sportsman of this calibre anymore 👍🏻

‘Alan minters going for the rhododendrons’ ! 😂

Back when the BBC knew what sport meant. Not the showbiz nonsense they stuff down out throats, 'presenters' who are up their own arses . . . need I go on?

Fantastic! So sad that we've now lost David Vine as well as Ron Pickering. The Heaven Olympics now has one supreme commentary box!

Ron pickering david vine legends esp ron pickering

lightning1975 Ha! Good observation. Also note the church going type lady giving all the athletes a good ol' push on their bikes. Probably makes a lovely cuppa and a ham sandwich.

Thanks for uploading this. I loved this programme when I was a kid and Daley Thompson was my idol.

Back when shorts were really short

Ahhh....good times loved this show They should ask retired stars to do it Daley came to my school back in the day....the place went mad😊

Really wish they would bring this back! It was Awesome!!

Iconic music , iconic competitors!!

Great trip down memory lane here, Superstars was a staple back then! (Altho this is 1979 not 1980, I just checked in Alan Minters autobiography!👍)

As a teenage girl with an overdose of hormones, this programme certainly fuelled my imagination!

Wow this is great, I've never seen it before, it's a shame the amateurs don't get to keep the money they win though.

I watched this in Cwmbran at the time. I was 18 or 19. Really good memories.

Great competitors, loved this show.

Not fair that Daley Thompson had to ride on his own. He had no-one to race against! Grrrrrr

I loved this show! But it really wasn’t fair to make Thompson ride on his own!

quizman1967 Surely you jest, Pickering and Vine were bloody awful, though to their credit they no doubt helped inspire Steve Coogan's Alan Partridge character.