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6 Episodes 1977 - 1977
Episode 1
John joins the Austen Brothers' Circus to sample the travelling life of the Big Top.
Episode 2
John tackles a week of training with the Castleford Rugby League team, as they prepare for a season of success.
Episode 3
John enters the toughest canoe race in Ireland, over ten weirs on the swollen River Liffey.
Episode 4
John and his dog Shep stride out on the 250-mile Pennine Way.
Episode 5
John visits the Pitlochry Highland Games, to try his luck with the caber and the hammer. But it's the Highland Fling that floors him in the end.
Episode 6
John joins the volunteer navvies on Britain's oldest narrow-gauge railway, in their two-year struggle to blast a new tunnel in the mountains of Wales.