Episode guide
Top Gear: Season 1
10 episodes · premiered Jul 13, 1978
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- Episode 1: Stig Outruns a Speed Camera Jul 13, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 2: A Bus Jumps Not-Very-Many Motorbikes Jul 20, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 3: Grannies Do Donuts Jul 27, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 4: Episode 4 Aug 3, 1978 · 57m 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…
- Episode 5: The Team Turns a Rover 800 Into a Bond Car Aug 10, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 6: The Grannies Learn How to Handbrake Park Aug 17, 1978 · 58m 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…
- Episode 7: The Team Finds the Fastest Faith Aug 24, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 8: Gambon Corner Gets Its Name Aug 31, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 9: The Stripped-Out Jaguar XJS Sep 7, 1978 · 59m 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…
- Episode 10: The Team Finds Out the Fastest Faith - Again Sep 14, 1978 · 58m 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…