Top Gear

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

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Documentary
Created By

Derek Smith

First Aired on

Jul 13, 1978

45 seaons till Aug 02, 2009

Popularity: 20.615
104 votes
Networks
(GB)
Production

BBC (GB)

Status: Ended

Show Ended

Last episode: Episode 7

Seasons & episodes

Total 45 seasons, 530 episodes

Season 1

Aired

10 Episodes
  • Episode 1Episode 1 min

    The big holiday rush begins this weekend and many drivers plan to travel through Friday night. How dangerous is this practice? What are the stress factors and what are the signs of fatigue? Angela finds out for herself by night driving to the West Country. Twenty people are killed and over 200 seriously injured each week yet these figures could be cut to one tenth if we used our seat belts. Should we leave it to persuasion or is compulsion the final answer?

  • Episode 2Episode 2 min

    The training of a British police driver is said to be the best in the world, but what makes it so good? Angela becomes a pupil of the Police Training Centre at Hendon and discovers rather more than she expected about her own driving standards. The Scottish Six-day Trial. The world's top trials riders spend a week in the mountains around Fort William in fierce and punishing competition.

  • Episode 3Episode 3 min

    The MOT test continues to be controversial. Is the interpretation consistent from station to station and does the motorist get a fair deal? Angela makes a comparison between the British system and the way it is done in Belgium, where they have been testing longer than anywhere else in Europe. Motor Caravans Reporter Mike Woodhead and family have their first experience of this fast-expanding do-it-yourself type of holiday.

  • Episode 4Episode 4 min

    Tonight Angela Rippon reports from Northern Ireland where to park your car can cost £600, a taxi fare is cheaper than a bus ride and where you are twice as likely to be killed in a road accident as in the rest of the UK. Driven to Drink. How much alcohol can you take and still drive safely? Mike Dornan reports on a special test day at Brands Hatch.

  • Episode 5Episode 5 min

    Tonight Angela Rippon climbs into the cab to report on the latest situation about tachographs in lorries. Colin Chapman talks to Barrie Gill about this season's Formula One motor racing scene.

Crew & Team

Lloyd Washbrook

Producer

Andy Wilman

Producer

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