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Mainstays of the competitions were the pride of ABC, Welcome Back, Kotter's Gabe Kaplan, CBS' Kojak, Telly Savalas, and NBC's star of The Wild Wild West, Robert Conrad. Why would that possibly matter? Who knows, but it was a big hit that lasted for over a decade. Thus, ABC decided they'd take male and female stars from their network and put them against the best CBS and NBC had to offer to see who had the most athletic onscreen talent.
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After ABC's Superstars, which pitted athletes from different sports against each other in unrelated to their sport competitions, became a huge hit, some network executive figured that they could do the same thing but with TV stars instead of athletes.
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Truly one of the stranger television concepts to ever blow up on the small screen, beginning in 1976 audiences could flip on the boob tube and be greeted with the strange sight of their favorite television stars going head-to-head in relay races, tug-of-war, obstacle courses, and the like.
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