Ordinary/Extraordinary

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A Chicago couple overcomes its tragic past to conquer a marathon race with the aid of a wheelchair, and an "extreme sports" addict climbs a sheer cliff in world record time, on ORDINARY/EXTRAORDINARY, a reality-based series hosted by John Schneider and Leanza Cornett, Friday, August 8 (9:00-10:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Among the inspiring and astounding stories involving ordinary people:

Lynn McGovern was nearly killed in an automobile accident five months before her scheduled wedding to Chicago mailman Jamie Parks in 1987. Jamie remained by her side throughout the seven months Lynn was in a coma, and told her he would wait for her to get

well, no matter how long it took. They were finally married in 1994 after years of grueling physical and speech therapy. Last year they competed together in the Chicago Marathon, with Jamie pushing Lynn in a wheelchair. Incredibly, they finished in under three hours, placing them in the top 3% of all of the finishers.

Cornett travels to California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains to report on Dan Osman, a safety consultant to hotels and other large buildings with a passion for so-called extreme sports. He is credited with creating solo climbing (rock climbing without ropes or tools), waterfall climbing (both frozen and free-falling waterfalls) and rope jumping (bungee jumping with an ordinary rope). In this

incredible report, he sets a new death-defying world record by scrambling up a 400-foot sheer cliff in five minutes!

Basketball becomes an astounding physical adventure in three segments that provide incredible new sports heroes: 1) Alec Carro, 2, is a dribbling sensation. Of course, he should be – the Memphis, Tenn., tot has been practicing basketball

since he was a baby. 2) the best free-throw shooter in basketball today is not an NBA pro, but 74-year-old Dr. Tom Amberry, a retired podiatrist from Long Beach, Calif. Three years ago he earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records as the greatest free-throw shooter of all time with 2,750 consecutive shots. 3) Ty Cobb leads an extraordinary six-man team in an incredible display of

slam dunks and acrobatics. This Ty Cobb is not the legendary baseball player, but a former head cheerleader at the University of Mississippi, who originated the idea of combining gymnastics and basketball.

In "News of the Extraordinary," Humphrey is a three-ton sea lion who has apparently fallen in love with a herd of milk cows;

visitors arrive from all over the world to see the amazing "Haunted Hill" in South Korea where cars and other objects defy gravity to roll uphill’ and Missy is a mischievous feline who had a blast stealing golf balls from mystified golfers until she was busted with the help of a hidden camera.

Yoshikazu Kimura of Kyoto, Japan, considered the world’s

greatest pool trick-shot artist, appears in the studio to show how he uses ordinary objects, such as quarters and soft-drink bottles, in a most extraordinary way to amaze his audience.

A young Australian soldier, bound by ship for World War II, wrote a note to his infant daughter and tossed it overboard in a bottle. Now 50 years later, the note is found

and sent to the daughter whose father died more than 20 years ago.