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Channel 1: The great escape artist STV 1

A padlocked steel box is lowered into a river. Inside,
wrapped in chains, is Harry Houdini, the granddaddy
of stuntmen back in the early 1900s. To the amazement
of the crowd, he frees himself in three minutes and
swims up to the surface.

Channel 2: Hang on a minute
Don’t miss your chance to see one of the classic movie
stunts of all time when silent movie star Harold Lloyd
hangs onto the hands of a clock high up above a city street
in the 1923 movie Safety Last!. The mild-mannered actor
designed and performed all of his own stunts.

Channel 3: The jumper
In memory of Alain Prieur (07/04/1949–11/08/2007),
stuntman supreme, who fearlessly leaped 16 buses on his
motorcycle and jumped from 13,123 ft (4,000 m) without
a parachute. Tragically, he died when his chute failed as
he jumped between two gliders flying one under the other.
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Channel 4: Long-distance leaper
Relive the moment that Ke Shou Liang makes
a stupendous leap in his Mitsubishi sports car
across the Hukou waterfall on China’s Yellow River
in 1997. This movie actor and stuntman first hit
the headlines after jumping his motorcycle
over the Great Wall of China in 1992.

Channel 5: Jetman
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Yves Rossy,
the Swiss pilot who flies with a jet-powered fixed wing
on his back at speeds of up to 186 mph (299 km/h).
Watch in disbelief as he crosses the English Channel
in under 10 minutes on September 26, 2008.

Channel 6: Don’t look down
You need a head for heights just to look at
Eskil Ronningsbakken riding a bike upside down STV 7
on a wire suspended 3,280 ft (1,000 m) above
a Norwegian fjord! The extreme balancing acts of this
fearless daredevil appear to defy the laws of gravity.

Channel 7: Urban climber
Who’s that tapping on the window? Why, it’s
Alain Robert, the French Spiderman with a passion for
scaling skyscrapers. Cheered on by office workers more
used to the sight of pigeons than headstrong climbers,
he races to the top of the world’s tallest towers.

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