TV has come a long way since the late Roy Castle and his beyond-pedestrian
Record Breakers in 1974.
Here the also-late Cozy Powell attempts a particularly pointless and arbitrary "record". He has to hit 400 drums in one minute

The whole thing has a kind of half-arsed after-school
Blue Peter feel about it. We are clearly on the brink of the technological revolution here as Castle is at pains to point out the new-fangled digital timer in the corner of the screen and the overhead cameras watching Cozy's every move