Season guide

Top Gear: Series 29

5 episodes Premiered Oct 4, 2020 Updated Sep 25, 2026

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Season 29 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 28.
⚡ 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.

Season 29 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 29: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (2): Crucial lore & season climaxes

Core (3): Character development & subplots

Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler

S29·E1 Mytharc

Episode 1

Oct 4, 2020 · 60 min

Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuinness return with a new drive-in studio. They also visit Paddy’s home town of Bolton to test three new company cars by spending 24 hou

S29·E2 Core

Episode 2

Oct 11, 2020 · 60 min

Freddie, Chris and Paddy tackle a monstrous wall of death in some very cheap insurance write-offs. The trio also take a Yorkshire road trip in classic supercars, and Freddie attemp

S29·E3 Core

Episode 3

Oct 18, 2020 · 60 min

Freddie, Chris and Paddy head to Cyprus on a budget rental car adventure, and sample the exciting new sport of car water-skiing. Back at the test track, Chris and Paddy sample the

S29·E4 Core

Episode 4

Oct 25, 2020 · 60 min

Freddie, Chris and Paddy are in Wales, taking a glamorous road trip in the newest grand tourers from Bentley, Aston Martin and McLaren, before taking on their German rivals and For

S29·E5 Mytharc

Episode 5

Nov 1, 2020 · 60 min

Paddy introduces Chris and Freddie to his latest creation: an electric, all-terrain ice cream van for the 21st century. They also test the battery-powered Honda E, Vauxhall Corsa-e