The original Top Gear was a car-based BBC television series produced by BBC Pebble Mill, now BBC Birmingham, and broadcast on BBC2 from 1977 to 2001. It consisted of a 30-minute magazine format presented by a number of people, including William Woollard, Angela Rippon, Noel Edmonds, and Jeremy Clarkson.
The Top Gear team was also responsible for a number of other special programmes including coverage of the bi-annual British Motor Show, London Mo...
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The original Top Gear was a car-based BBC television series produced by BBC Pebble Mill, now BBC Birmingham, and broadcast on BBC2 from 1977 to 2001. It consisted of a 30-minute magazine format presented by a number of people, including William Woollard, Angela Rippon, Noel Edmonds, and Jeremy Clarkson.
The Top Gear team was also responsible for a number of other special programmes including coverage of the bi-annual British Motor Show, London Motorfair, and the Lombard RAC Rally. Its coverage of rallying was the only sport not controlled by BBC Sport in London for many years.
In 2001 the show was cancelled by BBC bosses in London only to be relaunched in a new one-hour-long, studio-based format made by the BBC in London one year later
Top Gear started in 1977 as a local programme made by the then BBC Midland Region (Pebble Mill) who offered it to the BBC2 network. Presenters included Noel Edmonds, William Woollard, Sue Baker, Frank Page and Chris Goffey. The show's theme music was ...
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