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197845 Seasons8.0

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Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: GB

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

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Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 13, 1978
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

398 hrs

530 episodes. About 57 weeks at an hour a night.

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SERIES

197845 Seasons8.0

Documentary

TMDB8.0

Votes127

Your rating

Genre: Documentary
Certificate: TV-PG
Origin: GB

About

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

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Jul 13, 1978 · 59m
Stig Outruns a Speed Camera
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?
E2 · Airs Jul 20, 1978 · 59m
A Bus Jumps Not-Very-Many Motorbikes
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.
E3 · Airs Jul 27, 1978 · 59m
Grannies Do Donuts
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.
E4 · Airs Aug 3, 1978 · 57m
Episode 4
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.
E5 · Airs Aug 10, 1978 · 59m
The Team Turns a Rover 800 Into a Bond Car
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.
E6 · Airs Aug 17, 1978 · 58m
The Grannies Learn How to Handbrake Park
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 wheel herself. Rust and corrosion cost the British motorist £200-million a year. But savings could be made. Barrie Gill reports.
E7 · Airs Aug 24, 1978 · 59m
The Team Finds the Fastest Faith
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 the congestion. Faced with similar problems seven years ago Belgium solved theirs by using helicopters.
E8 · Airs Aug 31, 1978 · 59m
Gambon Corner Gets Its Name
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 entry, the Ibec-Hesketh 308LM, from the moment when it made its debut at Donnington Park and then throughout the 24-hours-race, until the final climax.
E9 · Airs Sep 7, 1978 · 59m
The Stripped-Out Jaguar XJS
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 round a specially designed course through the mud of tank terrain in Dorset?
E10 · Airs Sep 14, 1978 · 58m
The Team Finds Out the Fastest Faith - Again
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 on the plans, facilities and entertainment in a special preview edition of Top Gear.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 13, 1978
Network: BBC Two
Studio: BBC

Time to finish

398 hrs

530 episodes. About 57 weeks at an hour a night.

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