Keoghan’s Heroes

Phil Keoghan’s pre-Amazing Race screen education included profiling Kiwi adventure sport thrillseekers in a series of short vignettes for TV3’s Mobil Sport. Scored to a sampler of early 90s pop music, these clips focus mostly on rad airborne acrobats: a ‘para-bungee’, the then-new sport of skysurfing, riding atop a Tiger Moth, Phil losing the sponsor’s product flying with veteran fighter pilot Bryan Cox, plus surfing down sand dunes on snowboards. Keoghan later took the Keoghan’s Heroes concept to Canada and the United States (including a slot on CBS news).

It’s a very exhilarating feeling ... It’s like being on a motorbike on a nice sunny day, and going for a ride.

– Wingwalker Cheryl Butterworth, on standing on top of an aeroplane

Key Cast & Crew

Phil Keoghan

Presenter, Creator
1991 - 1992