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Rating - TVG A real-life jungle man swims
through vast swamplands, playing with
alligators, and an American family nurses
a severely abused Romanian orphan back to
health, on ORDINARY/EXTRAORDINARY, the
reality-based series hosted by John
Schneider and Leanza Cornett, Friday,
Aug. 22, (8:00-9:00 PM, ET/PT) on
the CBS Television Network.
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Among the Inspiring and
astounding stories involving ordinary
people:
• Cornett visits the Florida
Everglades near Miami to meet Manny Pulg,
a nature buff who loves to swim through
swamps undeterred by the man-eating
alligators all around him. In incredible
film footage, Pulg is shown alongside the
deadly creatures, sometimes
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thrashing and wrestling with
them, other times lulling them into a
nearly hypnotic state of calm.
• Evan, age 2, was a severely abused
orphan in Romania when Lynn and Koby
Waldeck of Arlington, Texas, adopted him
six years ago. Doctors considered the
child to be blind and badly brain
damaged. With extraordinary love showered
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upon him by the Waldecks,
and with the help of an innovative
program to stimulate brain activity, Evan
has regained his eyesight and his happy
personality.
• Evan Evans has become one of the
world’s fastest off-track truck
drivers, despite the fact that he is
paralyzed from the chest down. Evans, of
Wisconsin, lost the use of his
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lower body in a motorcycle
accident eight years ago. Now he uses
special hand controls to drive his truck
at a breakneck speed on rugged off-road
terrain.
• A unique team of neurosurgeons and
veterinarians perform delicate surgery to
remove a brain tumor from a gorilla.
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Brookfield Zoo, appeared
doomed until the first-of-its-kind
surgery was performed.
• Rope jumping, believe it or not,
is a sport, and Double Dutch jumping is
the kind using two ropes spinning in
opposite directions. A New York City
team, "Jumpers ‘N
Command," have won the world Double
Dutch championship three
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times, and shows the studio
audience how it’s done.
• Joel Bauer demonstrates his skills
as a "perceptionist." He not
only reads minds, he says he can transfer
thoughts from one person to a total
stranger, all by using his senses and
power of observation.
• Billy Copeland, of Ashland City,
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luge with rockets and rides
it at speeds up to 125 miles-per-hour.
• Shadow is an old sea dog with a
twist: he prefers life below the sea.
Donning his 35-pound wetsuit and special
spacesuit-type helmet, Shadow is seen at
Grand Cayman island, scuba diving with
his
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owner. The pooch has logged
191 dives and is a member of the Jacques
Cousteau Society.
• Young girl in India takes limbo
skating to new lengths, rolling
underneath 22 cars with her body arched
just inches from the ground.
Back to
beginning and controls.
On to the next show!
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