List of Top Gear (2002 TV series) episodes
The BBC's Top Gear (2002) was a motoring television program that aired from 2002 to 2015, presented primarily by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May. This is a listing of the episodes broadcast during its run. Each series typically consisted of between six and ten episodes, broadcast weekly on BBC Two and later BBC HD.
Each episode typically featured a mix of segments, including:
- Reviews: The presenters tested and reviewed various new and used cars, offering their opinions on performance, handling, and practicality.
- Star in a Reasonably Priced Car: A celebrity guest would drive a pre-selected, relatively inexpensive car around the Top Gear test track, and their lap time would be recorded.
- Challenges: The presenters would undertake challenges that often involved traveling long distances in specific types of vehicles, modifying cars to suit unusual purposes, or attempting to complete tasks within a set budget or timeframe. These challenges often involved humorous and sometimes disastrous results.
- Power Laps: "The Stig," the show's anonymous test driver, would set lap times in various high-performance cars around the Top Gear test track.
- News: A segment where the presenters discussed current events and developments in the automotive industry, often with a humorous or satirical slant.
The show gained widespread popularity for its unique blend of automotive information, humor, and spectacular stunts. The episode list, available on various fan wikis and websites, catalogs the vehicles reviewed, the celebrity guests, the challenges undertaken, and the locations visited throughout the series' run. Details such as broadcast dates, episode titles, and brief summaries of content are generally included in these lists. Due to the show's long run and high production values, the full list of episodes represents a significant body of automotive-related television content.