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.

It was your cross country round that caught our imagination. From that time on, we knew that Mark Todd would be a name to be reckoned with.

– Captain Mark Phillips recalls Mark Todd’s first Badminton win

Key Cast & Crew

George Barris

Sound

Bob Parker

Production Associate, Presenter

Malcolm Kemp

Director, Producer

John Robertson

Camera

Chris Stanbury

Camera

John Sheils

Camera