Top Gear
Top Gear
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Top Gear

7.9 / 10
1978
45 seasons
530 episodes
Documentary

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

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Episode 1

    13-07-1978

    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...

  • Ep 2

    2.Episode 2

    20-07-1978

    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...

  • Ep 3

    3.Episode 3

    27-07-1978

    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 Br...

  • Ep 4

    4.Episode 4

    03-08-1978

    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...

  • Ep 5

    5.Episode 5

    10-08-1978

    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 r...

  • Ep 6

    6.Episode 6

    17-08-1978

    Angela attends the finals of a nationwide search to find a girl rally driver who can take her place beside international stars Roger Clark and Russell Brookes. Predictably she take...

  • Ep 7

    7.Episode 7

    24-08-1978

    Traffic jams make the headlines almost every weekend of the summer. When the cause is an accident, the emergency services often have difficulty getting to the scene and the police...

  • Ep 8

    8.Episode 8

    31-08-1978

    Every year a quarter of a million people go to Le Mans to watch this premier sports car race in the international calendar. This year Top Gear cameras followed the fortunes—and mis...

  • Ep 9

    9.Episode 9

    07-09-1978

    Top Gear invited international teams of four-wheel-drive vehicles to decide who is King of the Country. Could cross-country cars from the US, France, Japan or Russia break the time...

  • Ep 10

    10.Episode 10

    14-09-1978

    Brum revs up for the Motor Show. The largest Motor Show ever held in Britain opens its doors in five weeks' time at the National Exhibition Centre, near Birmingham. Angela Rippon a...

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