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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 19 · 7 episodes

E1 Episode 1

Jan 27, 2013 62 min

Jeremy Clarkson attempts to build a car that is even smaller than the famous Peel P50 and tests it out on the streets of London.
E2 Episode 2

Feb 3, 2013 62 min

The team is on a road trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles and on to Palm Springs, taking in racing circuits, airborne attacks and a race against the police.
E3 Episode 3

Feb 10, 2013 60 min

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May engage in an epic race from Wembley to the San Siro stadium in Milan.
E4 Episode 4

Feb 17, 2013 62 min

Jeremy Clarkson and James May play a rather unusual game of rugby and Richard Hammond goes to Mexico for a nervous road test.
E5 Episode 5

Feb 24, 2013 62 min

Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond tackle the problems of an ageing population and the increasing complexity of modern cars by designing a vehicle exclusively for the elderly.
E6 Africa Special (1)

Mar 3, 2013 59 min

In the first of a two-part Top Gear special, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are in Africa with a simple mission - to find the definitive source of the Nile.
E7 Africa Special (2)

Mar 10, 2013 58 min

Having survived insane traffic, lethal mudslides and dubious map reading, the trio reach the climax of their quest to find the definitive source of the Nile.