This is Your Life - Mark Todd

Olympic champion Mark Todd is the first recipient of the big red book as host Bob Parker launches the New Zealand edition of This is Your Life. Weeks earlier, Todd and mount Charisma had won the country's first ever equestrian gold medal at the Los Angeles games. There's footage of Todd's agonising wait, cigarette in hand, for American rider Karen Stives to make a mistake that would give him victory. Guests include Todd's parents (who recall him as a "lovable horror" as a boy), Captain Mark Phillips (then husband of Princess Anne), Stives and bronze medallist Virginia Holgate.