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Top Gear

2002–2022 · Ended · 33 seasons

Documentary Comedy Talk Show Travel

First aired: Oct 20, 2002
Last aired: Dec 18, 2022
IMDb rating: 8.7 / 10 136,050 votes

Overview

Tests whether cars, both mundane and extraordinary, live up to their manufacturers' claims. Travels to locations around the world, performing extreme stunts and challenges to see what the featured cars are capable of doing. Celebrity guests appear on some episodes to help test the vehicles. Things don't always go as planned, though, with broken bones and mechanical mishaps sometimes part of the experiments.

Nominated for 7 BAFTA 12 wins & 22 nominations total

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Episodes

Season 10 · 10 episodes

E1 Episode 1

Oct 7, 2007 61 min

Jeremy, Richard and James drive three lightweight supercars across Europe in search of the best roads. Dame Helen Mirren is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
E2 Episode 2

Oct 14, 2007 60 min

Jeremy, James and Richard again attempt to build amphibious cars. The Audi R8 is on the Top Gear track and Jools Holland is the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car.
E3 Episode 3

Oct 28, 2007 59 min

Jeremy drives the smallest car ever made, Richard races a Bugatti Veyron against the RAF's Typhoon jet fighter, and the Ferrari 599 rips up the Top Gear track.
E4 Botswana Special

Nov 4, 2007 60 min

Jeremy, Richard and James are challenged to each drive a second-hand car across the wilds of Botswana, facing obstacles such as salt pans, rivers and animals.
E5 Episode 5

Nov 11, 2007 61 min

The guys race across London: Jeremy in a speedboat, James in a car, Richard on his push bike and the Stig on public transport. The star in a reasonably priced car is Simon Cowell.
E6 Episode 6

Nov 18, 2007 61 min

Jeremy goes mad in two fast estates, Richard invents motorhome racing and James pits an Alfa Romeo against a man who crosses the Humber estuary without using a bridge. The Stig attacks the test track in Honda's new Civic Type R.
E7 Episode 7

Nov 25, 2007 60 min

Jeremy, Richard and James celebrate 40 years of British Leyland by reviewing three of their cars. Also, a review of the Aston Martin DBS, Jennifer Saunders as the Star in a Reasonably Priced Car, and whatever happened to the beach buggy?
E8 Episode 8

Dec 2, 2007 60 min

Motoring magazine show with James May, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson. Includes interviews with Lewis Hamilton and James Blunt, and a BMW that can drive itself.
E9 Episode 9

Dec 9, 2007 62 min

Jeremy, Richard and James enter a 24-hour endurance race in what turns out to be one of their toughest challenges to date. James tries the new Fiat 500 on the mean streets of Budapest, and the Ferrari 430 Scuderia hammers around the test track.
E10 Episode 10

Dec 23, 2007 61 min

In the last show of the series, Jeremy, James and Richard take the new BMW M3, Mercedes C63 AMG and Audi RS4 to Spain for a thorough test of performance.