Top Gear: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
Stig Outruns a Speed Camera
Jul 13, 1978 · 59 min
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
A Bus Jumps Not-Very-Many Motorbikes
Jul 20, 1978 · 59 min
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
Grannies Do Donuts
Jul 27, 1978 · 59 min
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 Br
Episode 4
Aug 3, 1978 · 57 min
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
The Team Turns a Rover 800 Into a Bond Car
Aug 10, 1978 · 59 min
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 r
The Grannies Learn How to Handbrake Park
Aug 17, 1978 · 58 min
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 take
The Team Finds the Fastest Faith
Aug 24, 1978 · 59 min
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
Gambon Corner Gets Its Name
Aug 31, 1978 · 59 min
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 mis
The Stripped-Out Jaguar XJS
Sep 7, 1978 · 59 min
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
The Team Finds Out the Fastest Faith - Again
Sep 14, 1978 · 58 min
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 a