Top Gear (2002 TV series)/Series 1/Episode 8/Airing history

United Kingdom

Here is a list of all the times Series 1, Episode 8 aired officially on a BBC-owned television station in the United Kingdom.

Channel	Date	Time	Cut	Definition	Type
	8th December, 2002	20:00	Original	Standard	Premiere

Worldwide

Internationally, the episode would first premiere on BBC World on New Year's Day 2003, 3 weeks after its UK release, although some regions wouldn't receive the episode until the end of January. It would then be shown in the Netherlands on Veronica from the 14th of November, 2003, 11 months later, before appearing on BBC Prime at the end of December 2004, and then the likes of TVN Turbo in Poland and NTV in Russia during 2005, the latter in a similarly cut-down form to how the episode was shown on BBC World. The episode would be reshown in a handful of countries thereafter, but would not premiere in many Baltic and Balkan nations such as the Czech Republic, Hungary and Estonia until as late as mid-2009, a full six and a half years after the episode was first shown in the United Kingdom.

Here is a list of all the times Series 1, Episode 8 aired officially on a BBC-owned television station on a worldwide basis, namely BBC World and BBC Prime.

Territory B

In countries such as South Africa, Series 1, Episode 8 would air almost a month after it had already premiered on the station in other regions.

Channel	Date	Time	Cut	Definition	Type
	29th January, 2003	20:30	Original	Standard	Premiere
	30th January, 2003	13:30	Original	Standard	Repeat
	31st January, 2003	17:30	Original	Standard	Repeat
	1st February, 2003	10:30	Original	Standard	Repeat
	2nd February, 2003	05:30	Original	Standard	Repeat
	2nd February, 2003	17:30	Original	Standard	Repeat
	3rd February, 2003	00:30	Original	Standard	Repeat