Jeremy Clarkson
Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcaster, journalist and writer who specialises in motoring. He is best known for his role on the BBC TV show Top Gear along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May. He also writes weekly columns for The Sunday Times and The Sun.
From a career as a local journalist in Northern England, Clarkson rose to public prominence as a presenter of the original format of Top Gear in 1988. Since the mid-1990s Clarkson has become a recognised public personality, regularly appearing on British television presenting his own shows and appearing as a guest on other shows. As well as motoring, Clarkson has produced programmes and books on subjects such as history and engineering. From 1998 to 2000 he also hosted his own chat show, Clarkson.
His opinionated but humorous tongue-in-cheek writing and presenting style has often generated much public reaction to his viewpoints. His actions both privately and as a Top Gear presenter have also sometimes resulted in criticism from the media, politicians, pressure groups and the public.
Despite the criticism levelled against him, Clarkson has also generated a significant following from the public at large, being credited as a major factor in the resurgence of Top Gear as one of the most popular shows on the BBC.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.5462 |
| Birthday | 1960-04-11 |
| Place of Birth | Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson , 杰里米·克拉克森, |
2009
Love the Beast
6.5/26
What if you were a Hollywood movie star with an obsession for cars and racing? Eric Bana is such a star!
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Love the Beast
2005
Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2
0/0
Over 2½ hours of the award-winning topical news quiz, featuring previously unseen footage. Team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton are joined by a di...
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Have I Got News for You: The Best of the Guest Presenters Volume 2
2009
Clarkson: Duel
6/5
Welcome to my new DVD, Duel - it's all about challenges and some big questions. Which car makes the most smoke while going sideways - a Lamborghini Mu...
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Clarkson: Duel
2004
Clarkson: Hot Metal
7.3/3
In "Hot Metal", Jeremy Clarkson tells us how everything is slowing down. But is it the same for today's cars? That means the 200-mile-per-hour Jaguar...
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Clarkson: Hot Metal
2001
Clarkson's Top 100 Cars
9.5/2
This video continued the trend of its predecessors, with Clarkson driving some super cars around a track and destroying a "bad" one, this time around...
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Clarkson's Top 100 Cars
1999
Clarkson - Head to Head
4.8/3
Which is faster round a racetrack - a Porsche 911 or the Yamaha R1? Would you rather have a Ferrari 360 Modena or the new Aston Martin DB7 Vantage? Wh...
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Clarkson - Head to Head
2005
Clarkson: Heaven and Hell
6.4/5
I trawl the whole of cardom to bring you seven great cars and truffle the undergrowth looking for seven automotive disasters. The good ones - the Ferr...
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Clarkson: Heaven and Hell
1997
Top Gear: Fast and Furious
0/0
Fast and Furious is the third home video release of original-format Top Gear. Arriving in a classic Mercedes-Benz 300SL, Tiff Needell opens up with t...
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Top Gear: Fast and Furious
1995
Clarkson's Motorsport Mayhem
6/2
Clarkson presents a montage of various crashes, motorcycle stunts, auto racing mishaps, and other vehicular carnage.
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Clarkson's Motorsport Mayhem
2000
Jeremy Clarkson at Full Throttle
6.3/3
In the petrolhead world of customised cars, Jeremy Clarkson is about to learn that it's always possible to make the best even better. Swoon as Vicki B...
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Jeremy Clarkson at Full Throttle
1997
Apocalypse Clarkson
7/1
Clarkson compares a number of sports and touring cars to find the best-handing car in the world. Jeremy tests a reviled Lada to destruction, a Toyota...
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Apocalypse Clarkson
1998
The Most Outrageous Jeremy Clarkson Video In the World... Ever!
5.5/1
Clarkson presents a series of motor racing action, crashes, and road tests of high-performance sports and touring cars.
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The Most Outrageous Jeremy Clarkson Video In the World... Ever!
2003
Clarkson: Shoot-Out
4/3
2003 has been the best year for new cars ever. But I’m not interested in reliability, fuel consumption or even cup holders. This is all about finding...
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Clarkson: Shoot-Out
2007
The Greatest Raid of All Time
9/7
Jeremy Clarkson tells the story of what’s been called ‘the original Mission Impossible’ – the audacious Commando raid on the German occupied dry dock...
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The Greatest Raid of All Time
2007
Clarkson: Supercar Showdown
6.1/7
For Jeremy Clarkson's new DVD he has traveled the Planet - from Spain via Strasbourg to Swindon - for the Supercar Showdown to beat them all. His aim...
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Clarkson: Supercar Showdown
2006
Clarkson: The Good The Bad The Ugly
5.5/11
This year Jezza takes the cream of Europes super-cars to the USA to pit them against America's finest, with highlights including a race up a mountain...
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Clarkson: The Good The Bad The Ugly
2023
Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now
7.6/48
An intimate, all-access documentary that will chronicle Lewis Capaldi's journey from a scrappy teen with a viral performance to a Grammy-nominated pop...
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Lewis Capaldi: How I'm Feeling Now
2010
Clarkson: The Italian Job
6.7/14
It’s The Italian Job so obviously, I head to Kent in England for the race of a lifetime. But first I have to get ready. So, it’s the Fiorano test trac...
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Clarkson: The Italian Job
2008
Clarkson: Thriller
6.8/12
Welcome to my all new DVD Thriller, which, as the name suggests, is all about thrills at the wheel. Aston Martin’s gentleman thug, the DBS, takes on i...
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Clarkson: Thriller
2002
Clarkson: No Limits
6.4/4
Jeremy Clarkson takes driving lessons to new and uncharted heights. You'll learn how to stay in control when going sideways with smoke pouring off the...
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Clarkson: No Limits
2011
Clarkson: Powered Up
6.4/5
I’m in the South of France. My base? The high-tech testing ground for Formula One Circuit Paul Ricard. My mission? To find find my favourite car of th...
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Clarkson: Powered Up
2001
Jeremy Clarkson's Speed
6/1
The central premise of Speed is an intriguing one, that human beings are the only species capable of exceeding the speed limit that nature intended. C...
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Jeremy Clarkson's Speed
2003
Victoria Cross: For Valour
7.75/4
A 2003 BBC television historical documentary presented by Jeremy Clarkson who examines the history of the Victoria Cross, and follows the story of one...
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Victoria Cross: For Valour
1996
Clarkson: Unleashed on Cars
6.3/3
Jeremy Clarkson drives a wide range of vehicles as he attempts to find the "best car, in the world, ever."
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Clarkson: Unleashed on Cars
2012
Top Gear: The Worst Car In the History of the World
7.3/39
Jeremy Clarkson and James May travel to the North of England to name and shame some of the worst cars in history, from manufacturers who "should have...
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Top Gear: The Worst Car In the History of the World
2000
Top Gear: Fast and Furious 2
8.5/2
Featuring Quentin Willson, Jeremy Clarkson, Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tiff Needell Fast and Furious 2 revisits the most extreme footage recorded from...
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Top Gear: Fast and Furious 2
2023
Jeremy Clarkson: King of Controversy
6.5/2
A look at the career of Jeremy Clarkson and the many controversies surrounding him.
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Jeremy Clarkson: King of Controversy
2013
Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip
6.908/87
The aim: to select the ideal mode of transport for each leg of a pilgrimage from Venice, Italy to Pau in France – home to a legendary street circuit a...
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Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip
2014
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
8.1/6
Jeremy Clarkson tells the dramatic story of the Arctic convoys of the Second World War, from Russia to the freezing Arctic Ocean.
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PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
2007
Top Gear of the Pops
7.2/5
As part of Comic Relief 2007, the boys revived "Top Of The Pops" by having performances by Lethal Bizzle, Supergrass, Travis and Mcfly as well as inte...
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Top Gear of the Pops
2009
Top Gear: The Great Adventures 2
0/0
Two special Top Gear episodes presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. In 'Botswana Special', our intrepid explorers, attempting t...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures 2
2008
Top Gear: The Great Adventures Vol. 1
8/1
The Top Gear: The Great Adventures is a boxed release of the Polar Special which is a 72 minute "Director's Cut". and the US Special but a cut down 50...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures Vol. 1
2014
Top Gear: The Burma Special
8.5/21
In this special Clarkson, Hammond and May don’t just buy three knackered old lorries and drive miles through the beautiful landscapes of Burma. Oh dea...
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Top Gear: The Burma Special
2007
The Jeremy Clarkson Collection
0/0
This three-disc collection allows Jeremy Clarkson to follow his wildest fantasies as he drives a high-speed, heart-stopping collection of some of the...
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The Jeremy Clarkson Collection
2006
Top Gear: Winter Olympics Special
7.3/15
The Top Gear team hit Norway for a Winter Olympics special in which they attempt Olympic events, but with cars. In a world first, the team fire a rock...
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Top Gear: Winter Olympics Special
2011
Top Gear: Cars with Soul
9/2
Some cars have a million horsepower, others have twinkly lights and big shiny wheels. But a rare few have something else; soul. It's found in funny pl...
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Top Gear: Cars with Soul
2013
Top Gear: The Great African Adventure
8.5/17
Another expedition for Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. This time around, our intrepid explorers take on the task of finding the source...
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Top Gear: The Great African Adventure
2014
Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip 2
7/45
In 2013 Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond embarked on what they hoped would be the perfect road trip. It started well and ended, quite frankly, very...
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Top Gear: The Perfect Road Trip 2
2007
Top Gear: The Challenges
8/3
Featuring the most ludicrous stunts ever undertaken on TV. Top Gear doesn't do things by halves, which is completely apparent in Top Gear: The Challe...
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Top Gear: The Challenges
2013
Top Gear Festival: Sydney
0/1
Top Gear: Festival Sydney was a special episode of the BBC motoring show Top Gear, featuring the regular presenters Jeremy Clarkson and James May alon...
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Top Gear Festival: Sydney
2009
Top Gear: The Challenges 3
7.5/2
Jeremy, Richard and James embark on yet more ill-advised attempts to out-do each other in a stinky cloud of tyre smoke, rust and over-ambitious muckin...
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Top Gear: The Challenges 3
2011
Making Qi
0/0
Behind the scenes documentary on British panel show Qi.
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Making Qi
2012
Top Gear: The Great Adventures 5
8/28
The gang embarks on a trade mission to India. Equipped with three old British cars and a range of uniquely British products, they set off on an epic r...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures 5
2011
Top Gear: The Great Adventures 4
8.4/30
The film predates the Syrian Civil War and involves a 1,200-mile (1,900 km) road-trip from Erbil International Airport in Iraqi Kurdistan to Bethlehem...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures 4
2003
Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane
6.5/4
A special containing all the best bits from the brand new first and second series of the nation’s favourite motoring show presented by outspoken pundi...
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Top Gear: Back in the Fast Lane
2007
Top Gear: Polar Special
8.5/27
Clarkson and May, in a seriously modified Toyota, take on Hammond and his dog sled in a 450 mil race to the North pole as they drive over thin ice to...
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Top Gear: Polar Special
2010
Top Gear: The Challenges 4
7.5/2
Hot places! Cold places! Places where the temperature is quite pleasant! There's nowhere Top Gear hasn't been in the name of temperature based enterta...
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Top Gear: The Challenges 4
2011
Top Gear: The Challenges 5
7.5/2
Allow us to present yet another challenges bonanza crammed with volcanoes, World speed records, flying caravans, unstable Reliant Robins, jaw dropping...
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Top Gear: The Challenges 5
2012
Top Gear: The Challenges 6
7/1
Top Gear THE CHALLENGES 6 combines all the meaty goodness of incredible car-based endeavours with all the tasty treats of brilliant star guests and a...
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Top Gear: The Challenges 6
2008
Top Gear - Planes, Rockets & Automobiles
0/0
Trains have a place in this world, but no on this DVD, thanks.
'Rockets' it is. Rockets are far more interesting than trains, anyway, especially when...
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Top Gear - Planes, Rockets & Automobiles
2007
Top Gear: US Special
8/18
The Top Gear team go on a US adventure. Its the ultimate road trip and finds the guys driving $1000 wrecks over 700 stifling miles to New Orleans. In...
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Top Gear: US Special
1998
Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines
5/1
BBC's 'Top Gear' presenter Jeremy Clarkson takes another sideways look at the world of high speed transport and high explosives. Along the way in his...
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Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines
2018
Top Gear: Winter Blunderland
8.5/2
Oh, the weather outside is frightful... so get out there and start doing some stupid stuff in cars. Yes, whether it's racing a rally car against a bo...
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Top Gear: Winter Blunderland
2017
Top Gear: The Best of the Specials
8.8/4
Welcome to Top Gear, The Best of the Specials. All the wildest, funniest, exciting-est bits from all the legendary Top Gear Specials, combined into o...
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Top Gear: The Best of the Specials
2008
Top Gear: The Challenges 2
8/2
Races, chases and things on fire; treat yourself to a bucketload of Top Gear's attempts to get melted, hurt or drowned. To more cries of "How hard ca...
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Top Gear: The Challenges 2
2008
Top Gear: The Great Adventures 2
8.9/11
The boys headed to Vietnam for epic road trip across the country. Each of them were given 15 million dong (about US$ 1000) to spend on buying some whe...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures 2
2007
Top Gear - Best of the Challenges
0/0
Can a rocket propelled Mini take on an Olympic ski jump and survive? Can an Italian supercar be bought for just £10k and driven round a track without...
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Top Gear - Best of the Challenges
2014
Top Gear: Patagonia Special
8.6/10
The 11th Top Gear Special is a glorious celebration of the V8 engine, or at least, it was supposed to be. In it, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and...
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Top Gear: Patagonia Special
2019
Top Gear - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
8/1
Top Gear - Planes, Trains & Automobiles is a collection of classic moments featuring Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, in a celebration...
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Top Gear - Planes, Trains and Automobiles
2010
Top Gear: The Great Adventures 3
8.7/25
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May are dropped deep in the Bolivian rainforest armed only with three 4x4s which they bought from the local...
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Top Gear: The Great Adventures 3
2008
Top Ground Gear Force
8/6
As part of Sports Relief 2008, the Top Gear crew tries to revive the TV show "Ground Force" and revamp the garden of Olympian legend Sir Steve Redgrav...
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Top Ground Gear Force
2005
Top Gear: Revved Up
9.5/1
Highlights from series three through five of the popular motoring show, alongside out-takes and unbroadcast material. A preview disc, entitled "The Be...
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Top Gear: Revved Up
2010
Top Gear: Romania Special
8/4
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May take an Aston DBS Volante, a Ferrari California and a Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder to Romania in search...
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Top Gear: Romania Special
2011
Top Gear: The U.S. Special
8.2/4
In their not quite biggest adventures yet, the boys visit the good old US of A and former Eastern Bloc Albania for two action packed road trips. In Am...
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Top Gear: The U.S. Special
2012
Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy
8/8
Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy
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Top Gear: Supercars Across Italy
2015
Top Gear: Greatest Hits
8/1
Collection of the best moments from the BBC motoring show presented by Jeremy Clarkson, James May and Richard Hammond.
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Top Gear: Greatest Hits
1994
Top Gear: Super Cars
0/0
Jeremy Clarkson and Tiff Needell showcase and review a number of high-performance cars including the McLaren F1, Jaguar XJ220, Lamborghini Diablo, Fer...
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Top Gear: Super Cars
2006
Top Gear: Supercars
8/1
Top Gear: Supercars
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Top Gear: Supercars
2015
Top Gear: The Big Send Off Special
8.2/9
Hammond and May host a special episode featuring two films that had been completed prior to the dismissal of their absent colleague. In the first film...
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Top Gear: The Big Send Off Special
2021
Top Gear: A Tribute to Sabine Schmitz
9/5
Top Gear will pay tribute to Queen of the Nürburgring Sabine Schmitz, who died last month aged 51, with a half-hour special reuniting current and form...
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Top Gear: A Tribute to Sabine Schmitz
2006
Top Gear: The Races
0/0
Le Mans? Not gruelling enough. Indy 500? Too slow. Monaco? No glamour. Forget them all - here are the three greatest races ever filmed. Somebody made...
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Top Gear: The Races
2024
Joan Rivers at the BBC
0/0
Katherine Ryan presents a celebration of one of the biggest comedy talents to ever appear on the small screens – the razor-sharp-tongued first lady of...
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Joan Rivers at the BBC
2015
Top Gear: Australian Road Trip
10/1
The presenters travel to Australia's Northern Territory for a road trip across the outback in three GT cars. On their trip they deal with crocodile in...
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Top Gear: Australian Road Trip
2002
When Hippies Ruled The World
5/1
When Hippies Ruled The World takes a trip back to the end of the psychedelic Sixties - the dreams, trips, movies, and music - to a time that love was...
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When Hippies Ruled The World
2018
David Souffle
0/0
He likes a pastry
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David Souffle
2011
Top Gear - Albania Special
0/0
As Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May head to Albania to test the super luxurious Rolls-Royce Ghost and Mercedes S65 AMG, they hit a spot...
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Top Gear - Albania Special
2011
The Interceptors
10/1
It’s a time of peace, love and karate kicks as the lads try out the reborn Jensen Interceptor in a love letter to the ITC detective shows of the 70s.
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The Interceptors
2015
Top Gear: From A-Z
0/0
From A-Z incorporates a wealth of footage and incredible facts from the past 13 years of Top Gear. Viewers get to see the greatest moments from the pa...
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Top Gear: From A-Z
2006
Full Length & Fabulous: The Beckhams' World Cup Party
0/0
Go behind the scenes as the Beckhams throw a star-studded World Cup send-off party. This 2002 ITV documentary showcases the preparations, including a...
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Full Length & Fabulous: The Beckhams' World Cup Party
2011
Jeremy Clarkson: War Stories
8/1
Jeremy Clarkson presents two fascinating and informative documentaries focusing on some of the bravest actions of World War II. THE VICTORIA CROSS: F...
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Jeremy Clarkson: War Stories
2014
International Buffoons' Vacation
0/0
"International Buffoons' Vacation" is The Grand Tour season 3, episode 8, where the hosts take an RV holiday in the Southwestern US, but quickly ditch...
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