Top Gear, The Specials
Top Gear, The Specials
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Top Gear's unique approach to motoring entertainment has already seen the popular BBC programme tackle such burning issues as "Can you build your own amphibious car?", "Can you buy an old supercar for less than the price of a small hatchback?", or "Can a stretched limousine jump over a wedding?" The answers as it turns out are "only if you want to get wet", "only if you want to break down then crash", and "sort of, but don't park any caravans behind the reception tent". Top Gear found this out so you don't have to. Silly and opinionated, Top Gear is full of big ideas that never quite work properly, or at the very least, catch fire a bit before they do. We've gathered all the best specials in one place so you can follow Jeremy, James and Richard on their adventures to the North Pole, Botswana and Vietnam.
Episodes
US Road Trip Special
Season 1: Episode 1CCSD
Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond travel to Florida in order to prove that a fly-drive holiday would be more fun if you bought a car instead of renting one. Having picked up some wheels for no more than $1,000 each, the boys embark on an epic road trip to find out who got the best deal, encountering heat, flies and very angry locals along the way.
1. US Road Trip Special59 Min11/02/2007£1.89
Botswana Special
Season 1: Episode 2CCSD
In a Top Gear special the boys travel to Africa with a challenge to buy a second-hand car costing no more than £1,500 and in no way designed to go off-road, and then drive 1000 miles across the wilds of Botswana. Along the way, they must negotiate salt pans, rivers and reserves full of animals while facing sweltering heat and suffocating dust.
2. Botswana Special51 Min06/11/2007£1.89
Vietnam Special
Season 1: Episode 3CCSD
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May round off the series in epic style as they travel to Vietnam. Their aim is to travel the entire length of the country in just eight days. However, first they must each buy some suitable transport for the trip and, despite having several million Dong in their pockets, this proves to be of rather less value than they originally thought. Nonetheless, the boys are resourceful and, with their wheels finally sorted, they set off on one of the most spectacular and incredible Top Gear road trips ever attempted.
3. Vietnam Special1 H 13 Min30/03/2009£1.89
Bolivia Special
Season 1: Episode 4CCSD
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three shabby 4x4s which they bought from the local paper. What follows is set to be their most extraordinary journey to date as they attempt to drive from the heart of Bolivia to the Pacific coast of Chile.
4. Bolivia Special1 H 16 Min19/04/2010£1.89
East Coast Road Trip Special
Season 1: Episode 5SD
The Top Gear boys are once again let loose in the USA, this time for an epic road trip up the east coast. Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are comparing the Mercedes SLS, the Porsche 911 GT3 RS and the Ferrari 458 Italia. Along the way they undertake a series of challenges culminating in a fight to find the fastest way into New York, all in the name of crowning the world's greatest sports car. There's a round up of car-related Christmas tat and Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle takes to the track as the star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
5. East Coast Road Trip Special1 H 6 Min21/12/2010£1.89
Middle East Special
Season 1: Episode 6CCSD
The three wise men of Top Gear embark on a seasonal road trip as they attempt to recreate a certain famous journey across the Middle East to Bethlehem. They do so in a trio of open top sports cars, each wholly unsuited to the conflict ridden mountains of Southern Turkey, the dangerous warzones of Iraq and the searing deserts of Syria. Along the way they test the limits of mechanical and physical endurance as well as asking the vital question, what exactly is myrrh and where do you buy it?
6. Middle East Special1 H 16 Min14/02/2011£1.89
Winter Olympics Special
Season 1: Episode 7SD
The Top Gear team hits Norway for a Winter Olympics special, in which they attempt Olympic events, but with cars. In a world first, the team fire a rocket-powered Mini off a ski jump, Jeremy and James tackle the Biathlon with the latest 4x4s, Richard stages a game of car ice-hockey, and the new Jaguar XK races a speed-skater.
7. Winter Olympics Special59 Min02/12/2006£1.89
Polar Special
Season 1: Episode 8CCSD
It's the ultimate test of man against machine - or should that be dog against machine - as the Top Gear team set out on their most ambitious and arduous challenge to date. Jeremy Clarkson and James May, in a seriously modified Toyota take on Richard Hammond and his dog sled in an epic land race starting in the town of Resolute, Northern Canada, finishing 450 miles later at the Magnetic North Pole.
8. Polar Special51 Min25/07/2007£1.89
Additional information
Networks
BBC
Subtitles
English (CC)
Duration
8 Episodes (8 H 36 Min)
Audio
English
Released year
2010
Genres
Documentary/Bio
Additional terms
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