Top Gear (2002 TV series)/Series 1/Episode 8/Airing history
United Kingdom[edit | edit source]
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 |
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8th December, 2002 | 20:00 | Original | Standard | Premiere |
Falkland Islands[edit | edit source]
In the Falkland Islands, where the channel has always been available for civilian access, Series 1, Episode 8 aired[1] on BFBS 1 in an unmodified format two weeks after it originally aired on BBC Two.
| Channel | Date | Time | Cut | Definition | Type |
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22nd December, 2002 | 12:00 | Original | Standard | Premiere |
Worldwide[edit | edit source]
Internationally, the episode would first premiere[2] on BBC World on the 29th January 2003, 7 weeks after its UK release. Based on surviving video footage, it appears this episode removed the van power lap challenge and Gambon's lap in the Liana, bridging straight from the super saloon test to Richard Hammond's supermini test. The Lada build challenge is also known to have aired on BBC World. 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.
| Channel | Date | Time | Cut | Definition | Type |
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29th January, 2003 | 20:30 | World Cut | Standard | Premiere |
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30th January, 2003 | 13:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
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31st January, 2003 | 17:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
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1st February, 2003 | 10:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
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2nd February, 2003 | 05:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
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2nd February, 2003 | 17:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
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3rd February, 2003 | 00:30 | World Cut | Standard | Repeat |
