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Overall Rating: 3.33 based on 3 ratings
Featured on Sunday's on ABC from 1974 to 1983. Athletes from various sports competed in various athletic competitions to determine who was the best of all. Most notable for placing Joe Frazier in a swimming pool and nearly drowning him. (Add picture)

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alpepper (21)
05/07/2005
Though it garnered some interest in the 1970s, it fostered in a genre of sports called Trash Sports as X Factor Z notes. They were kind of a forerunner of today's reality shows. The one thing irksome about Superstars was that the ultimate winner was never a football or baseball player, but a player from some geeky sport like soccer or track & field. My favorite TrashSport was Battle of the Network stars. I remember the very first one where they were running a relay race and some bimbo on the NBC dropped the baton after they had a huge lead. NBC Team Captain Robert Conrad (who was one of my favorite TV actors) got into a big brouhaha with ABC and CBS Captains Gabe Kaplan and Telly Savales. At one juncture, Conrad says on National TV, You're Jewish [Pointing to Kaplan], and you're Greek [pointing to Savales]. I'm German so I shoot you both (in a Hitleresque accent). Can you imagine if he said that today. I think the wind-up was Kaplan and Conrad ran a 100-yard dash and Kaplan whooped him big-time.

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X Factor Z (13)
05/04/2005
Fun and nostalgic, especilly if you consider the Battle of the network stars along with it...cheesy fun that was much better to watch than today's reality garbage like the Bachelor.

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irishgit (146)
04/25/2005
I can't say I miss it, but it was sure good for a laugh. I remember O.J. Simpson rowing in circles, and Joe Frazier swimming like a boulder.

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