Clarkson - The Specials
Clarkson - The Specials
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Clarkson - The Specials

1996
1 season
16 episodes
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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.Unleashed on Cars

    21-10-1996

    This is the first of Jeremy Clarkson's specials. It features stunts, reviews and clips of shocking racing crashes. We also get to see a hated car of Jeremy's, get mutilated and ine...

  • Ep 2

    2.Apocalypse

    20-10-1997

    Clarkson's second outing pulls no punches, with a corvette being obliterated with helicopter tracer fire.

  • Ep 3

    3.The Most Outrageous Video in the World... Ever!

    26-10-1998

    Under scrutiny in Jeremy's third outing are the Ferrari F40, the McLaren F1 and the outrageous 880bhp TVR Speed-Twelve.

  • Ep 4

    4.Head to Head

    01-11-1999

    Jeremy finds out which cars are fastest round a race track. He also takes the giant 2.5 tonne Lamborghini 002 through London, wreaking havoc in the process.

  • Ep 5

    5.At Full Throttle

    20-11-2000

    Vicky Butler-Henderson joins Jeremy, who are given £5000 each to buy and modify a car, to see who produces the fastest. Jeremy mocks people who modify cars themselves, insisting th...

  • Ep 6

    6.Top 100 Cars

    19-11-2001

    Clarky literally counts down his all time favourite cars, from one hundred to one.

  • Ep 7

    7.No Limits

    11-11-2002

    Jeremy takes some new cars to their limits, including a Lamborghini Murcielago, a TVR Tuscan R, a Mitsubishi Evo II, and a Bentley Arnage are but a few of the cars on show.

  • Ep 8

    8.Shoot-Out

    10-11-2003

    The antics in this episode consist of a drag race with a Bentley Continental and a Rolls Royce Phantom, and a Mitsubishi Evo vs a Subaru Imprezza Sti. Jeremy picks the best road ca...

  • Hot Metal

    9.Hot Metal

    08-11-2004

    In "Hot Metal", Jeremy Clarkson tells us how everything is slowing down. But is it the same for today's cars? That means the 200mph Jaguar XJ220 taking on a Pagani Zonda. It means...

  • Heaven and Hell

    10.Heaven and Hell

    07-11-2005

    In "Heaven and Hell", Jeremy Clarkson trawls the whole of cardom to bring you seven great cars and then truffles through the undergrowth looking for seven automotive disasters. The...

  • The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

    11.The Good, the Bad, the Ugly

    06-11-2006

    Jeremy Clarkson heads to the USA to find out if the country that gave us fast food and the fast buck can make a decent fast car? In his quest, he pitches the best of the West again...

  • Supercar Showdown

    12.Supercar Showdown

    05-11-2007

    Jeremy Clarkson travels the planet - from Spain via Strasbourg to Swindon - for the "Supercar Showdown" to beat them all. There's a fight between a prancing horse and a raging bull...

  • Thriller

    13.Thriller

    01-11-2008

    In "Thriller", it's unsurprisingly all about thrills at the wheel. Aston Martin's 'gentleman thug', the DBS, takes on rivals from Italy – including the 240mph Pagani Zonda F Roadst...

  • Duel

    14.Duel

    02-11-2009

    Which car makes the most smoke while going sideways – a Lamborghini Murcielago SuperVeloce or a Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst S? What is best at drifting – the Jaguar XKR, the Lotus Evora...

  • The Italian Job

    15.The Italian Job

    15-11-2010

    First up, Jeremy Clarkson compares Ferrari's 458 Italia with the limited edition 599 GTO, before heading to the racetrack at Imola to take the Porsche GT3 to the limit. Also presen...

  • Powered Up

    16.Powered Up

    07-11-2011

    In "Powered Up", Jeremy Clarkson heads to the south of France, where he puts cars to the test on the Circuit Paul Ricard and on the open road. Among the cars featured are the Ferra...

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