Top Gear

Overview

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

Episodes

S01E01 Episode 1

July 13, 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 fatigue? Angela finds...

S01E02 Episode 2

July 20, 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...

S01E03 Episode 3

July 27, 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 British system and the way it...

S01E04 Episode 4

August 3, 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...

S01E05 Episode 5

August 10, 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 racing scene.

S01E06 Episode 6

August 17, 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 takes a turn at the rally...

S01E07 Episode 7

August 24, 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 can do little to ease...

S01E08 Episode 8

August 31, 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 misfortunes—of the Ian Bracey...

S01E09 Episode 9

September 7, 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 put up by the British Rovers...

S01E10 Episode 10

September 14, 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 and Barric Gill report...

Cast

Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Clarkson
Self - Host
Richard Hammond
Richard Hammond
Self - Host
James May
James May
Self - Host
Ben Collins
Ben Collins
The Stig

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