Episode guide
Top Gear: Season 2
10 episodes · premiered May 1, 1979
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- Episode 1: Richard Becomes a Driving God May 1, 1979 · 47m Every day in central London approximately 140 vehicles are towed away by the Metropolitan Police and taken to compounds. Angela reports on what happens to your car when you park it…
- Episode 2: The Team Finds the Fastest Political Party May 8, 1979 · 53m Three-quarters-of-a-million motorists take their cars to Europe each year and one in ten end up needing some kind of help whilst abroad. Angela investigates how motorists can best cope…
- Episode 3: David Soul Breaks Two Lianas May 15, 1979 · 50m Would you drop your child face downwards from a third-floor window? The impact is exactly the same for an unsecured child in the passenger seat of a car crash at 30 mph. Judith Jackson…
- Episode 4: Clarkson Doesn't Get Bored of Driving May 22, 1979 · 50m Technology has totally changed the performance of today's tyres and Angela examines the latest developments. Are You Thinking of Buying a New Car? Mike Dornan and Gill Pyrah begin a series…
- Episode 5: Clarkson Doesn't Hate a 911 May 29, 1979 · 53m Angela joins the motoring press at Donington race circuit. Are You Thinking of Buying a Used Car? with Mike Dornanand Gill Pyrah. Noel Edmonds tests another new car and Alec Jones, Chief…
- Episode 6: The Team Doesn't Set a Caravan Land Speed Record Jun 5, 1979 · 51m Each day of the year six pedestrians are killed and fifty seriously injured, and half involve children under 14 years of age. Angela Rippon reports on research towards safer car design…
- Episode 7: Richard Flattens a Portakabin Jun 12, 1979 · 53m The Problems People Have with Their New Cars: New owners have a chance to air their grievances about unsafe and badly made cars. Mike Dornan reports on a new method of weighing lorries…
- Episode 8: James and Richard Go Camping in Cabriolets Jun 19, 1979 · 48m Citizens' Band Radio - Mike Dornan investigates whether we should be free to make CB Radio the motorists' friend. Judith Jackson spends a day with perhaps the most enthusiastic…
- Episode 9: Jeremy Drives From the Backseat Jun 26, 1979 · 52m Angela Rippon goes to the Ruhr to discover technology in a new road information system. Last year Mike Dornan took part in a drink-and-driving test in conjunction with Motor magazine at…
- Episode 10: Clarkson Doesn't Kill a Dog Jul 3, 1979 · 56m Barrie Gill reports from the International Transport and Traffic Exposition in Hamburg. Noel Edmonds drives around Silverstone in his own Ford GT40.