1988 World Championships (CBS)
Introduction to Men’s and Ladies’ Competitions (shows clips of top competitors from previous year’s Worlds)
Men's Free Skate
- Intro to Men’s competition
- Pat O’Brien interviews Brian Boitano backstage
- Focus on quadruple jump attempts in the past and interview with Kurt Browning about his intent to do a quad jump in competition
- Kurt Browning Grand Canyon Suite (landed first ratified quadruple jump in competition!)
- Profile of Brian Boitano
- Brian Boitano Napoleon
- Shot backstage of Brian Orser while Boitano receives his marks
- Brian Orser The Bolt
- Final standings
- Interview with Brian Boitano
Feature on Budapest, Hungary
Ladies’ Free Skate
- Midori Ito Le Corsaire/Grande Pas Clasique/Paquita
- Final group warm-up and interview with Debi Thomas’s coach Alex McGowan
- Interview with Debi Thomas’s father
- Profile of Debi Thomas with comments by Thomas, McGowan, Katarina Witt, and Marty Blackman (advertising consultant)
- Jill Trenary Nutcracker/The Seasons (missing first few seconds)
- Caryn Kadavy Rodrigo
- Elizabeth Manley Irma la Douce/Canadian Concerto
- Katarina Witt Carmen
- Claudia Leistner American Music medley
- Clips of Katarina Witt backstage while Debi Thomas warms up
- Debi Thomas Carmen
- Interview with Debi Thomas
- Ladies podium and medal ceremony
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