As of July 2026, Top Gear Season 1 aired in 1978 with 10 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Top Gear Season 1

1978 10 Episodes Documentary ⭐ 8/10

If you want a documentary that respects its subject, Top Gear Season 1 is available on streaming right now. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 120 viewers have already rated it on TMDB — the kind of consensus that does not happen by accident. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

Top Gear Season 1 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. Top Gear Season 1 resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. Season 1 of Top Gear includes 10 episodes. It aired from July 1978 to September 1978. This season stars Barrie Gill, Angela Rippon and Tim Coyne. Barrie Gill and Angela Rippon lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1978. Top Gear Season 1 lets its subjects speak for themselves rather than shaping them into a predetermined narrative. It rarely drops the ball, and when it does, it recovers fast.

Top Gear Season 1 is the kind of documentary you immediately want to recommend to someone else. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

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🎬 Top Gear Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
Episode 1
1978-07-13
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 fatigue? Angela finds out for herself by night driving to the West Country. Twenty people are killed and over 200 serio...
E2
Episode 2
1978-07-20
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 rather more than she expected about her own driving standards. The Scottish Six-day Trial. The world's top trials rider...
E3
Episode 3
1978-07-27
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 British system and the way it is done in Belgium, where they have been testing longer than anywhere else in Europe. Motor ...
E4
Episode 4
1978-08-03
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 road accident as in the rest of the UK. Driven to Drink. How much alcohol can you take and still drive safely? Mike Dor...
E5
Episode 5
1978-08-10
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 racing scene.
E6
Episode 6
1978-08-17
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 takes a turn at the rally wheel herself. Rust and corrosion cost the British motorist £200-million a year. But savings could...
E7
Episode 7
1978-08-24
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 can do little to ease the congestion. Faced with similar problems seven years ago Belgium solved theirs by using helicop...
E8
Episode 8
1978-08-31
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 misfortunes—of the Ian Bracey entry, the Ibec-Hesketh 308LM, from the moment when it made its debut at Donnington Park and ...
E9
Episode 9
1978-09-07
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 put up by the British Rovers round a specially designed course through the mud of tank terrain in Dorset?
E10
Episode 10
1978-09-14
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 and Barric Gill report on the plans, facilities and entertainment in a special preview edition of Top Gear.

🎭 Cast of Top Gear Season 1

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Barrie Gill
Self - Host
Angela Rippon
Angela Rippon
Self - Host
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Tim Coyne
Self - Host

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