Top Gear: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Top Gear Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Richard Becomes a Driving God
May 1, 1979 · 47 min
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
The Team Finds the Fastest Political Party
May 8, 1979 · 53 min
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
David Soul Breaks Two Lianas
May 15, 1979 · 50 min
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 Jac
Clarkson Doesn't Get Bored of Driving
May 22, 1979 · 50 min
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
Clarkson Doesn't Hate a 911
May 29, 1979 · 53 min
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,
The Team Doesn't Set a Caravan Land Speed Record
Jun 5, 1979 · 51 min
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 de
Richard Flattens a Portakabin
Jun 12, 1979 · 53 min
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 lor
James and Richard Go Camping in Cabriolets
Jun 19, 1979 · 48 min
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 mot
Jeremy Drives From the Backseat
Jun 26, 1979 · 52 min
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 magazi
Clarkson Doesn't Kill a Dog
Jul 3, 1979 · 56 min
Barrie Gill reports from the International Transport and Traffic Exposition in Hamburg. Noel Edmonds drives around Silverstone in his own Ford GT40.