Top Gear titles December 2000 - May 2002

[SuperStig1992]

I miss Old Top Gear. Near to the end, the time slots started changing and I used miss some episodes. I would rather watch these episodes, rather than the ones aired now when Jeremy came back in 2003-06.

[Nextra6]

was this used when jeremy, james, and richard done it but at the start and if you catch the old episodes on the telly will this be shown?

[AidanLunn]

@Nextra6 Nope, this is right at the end of "old Top Gear". No, BBC Worldwide have not licensed these episodes to be shown.

[dwibs93]

This is when I first started watching Top Gear. But it was in its last year by then...

[wearethebronies]

FIAT MULTIPLA!



[thomgohan]

trop classe

[MrStefb1969]

00:09  lol

[rubenick]

omg.... Is that a Fiat Multipla at 0:12??!?!?!?

[edwas]

the B E S T intro! Energy!! Power!!!

[death555ful]

@edwas I agree this was by far the best intro to TOP GEAR ever i wish they brought this tune back i really do miss it.

[Chrizman3]

The "devil" looks a bit like Anthony Ainley - The Master of "old" Doctor Who.

[AidanLunn]

The 4th actually, after Roger Delgado, Peter Pratt and Geoffrey Beevers

[Chrizman3]

I believe Anthony Ainley's incarnation first made an appearence in 1981 until cancelation in 1989.

[AidanLunn]

yep - January 1981 - December 1989 although he first played the part in October/November 1980 as that is when his first appearance was recorded

[AlbinoCaterpillar]

hahahahahhahahahahahahahahahah­ahahahaha!!!!!!! Nothing truer could ever be said!

[Hodmox]

Not a abd arrangement of the theme tune either :)

[Chrizman3]

TVR Tuscan! Audi TT! Two of my most favourite cars in the world!

[Chrizman3]

In one episode of New Top Gear, you can see the end of the title sequence (The Part that looks like Richard Hammond's "OLIVER") playing on a screen. This was then followed by a commercial break on the channel Dave.

[AidanLunn]

which episode was this in?

[Chrizman3]

The one in which James May creates the Top Gear theme tune from car engine noises.

[Kohntarkosz]

The funny thing about that episode was that Jeremy apologized to Duane Allman, who he cites as the composer of Jessica. It was actually written by Dickey Betts!

[Kohntarkosz]

So exactly what is Dave? I know there was one episode where Jeremy made reference to it, but it somehow doesn't translate across the Atlantic, don't I think.

[AidanLunn]

"Dave" is a popular satellite TV channel here in Britain, a channel owned by BBC Worldwide. One of the progr is Top Gear, so Jeremy makes reference to that.

I know calling a channel "Dave" is stupid, but it's to make the station seem cool as "everyone knows someone called Dave". It's like calling BBC-1 "sarah" or ITV "Joe" - stupid idea

[Kohntarkosz]

OK, I was confused because there's one episode where Jeremy says something like "This is a new episode, unless you're watching Dave". Then I think at the end of the episode he says something like "See you next week, unless you're watching Dave, in which case, see you in just a couple minutes".

[michaelfergusonuk]

@Kohntarkosz To be Exact it's Called "UKTV-Dave" (Originally "UKTV-Bright Idea's"

[U.K.T.V. Short For "United Kingdom Tele-Vision" Which is Part Owned by the BBC]),

In The T.G. Episode with a Mock Camping trip Hammond Make's a Joke Reference to the camp Saying it's called "Dave" when asked it's Name by Clarkson. That Episode Pre-Date's

UKTV-Dave so maybe Someone got the Channel Name from that, Who Know's?,

"Dave" Abridges T.G. Episode's Though so Not that Usefull for much.

[DarthJedi2005]

What have horses and rhinos got to do with cars?

[AidanLunn]

Well I didn't make it so I don't know. But I'm guessing that the horses repesent horsepower (and to show its manly, it's mimicking the Guiness adverts that were around the same time) and I think the rhinos fit in with the bit in the titles where it's a 4x4 - as 4x4s are often used on expeditions to africa.

[Chrizman3]

This looks so fake! But seens as it has come from you, I know it is real! GOD! Did you see that man in the car? He is sooooooooo scary! By the way, didn't Top Gear finish around February 2002?

[AidanLunn]

No, this is actually genuine!!!

I suggest you look in my favourites for proof this was a real title sequence for Top Gear.

I know, that man in the car looks like the Devil to me!

I know the original Top Gear finished sometime in 2002 and the new format of TG launched sometime later the same year.

[4642eb]

Old Top Gear finished in 2000/2001, IIRC, and New Top Gear followed around a year afterwards.

[AidanLunn]

I know but this was the one still in people's minds till the new one started, hence "December 2000 - May 2002"

[Chrizman3]

I do have one reference that matches your statement. It says that the last ever episode of old top gear was on the 17th December 2001, but I still believe that it finished in 2002 (Sometime around February), and new top gear started late 2002.

[ChrizmanUK]

And I was right, the last episode of Old Top Gear airing on BBC Two on the 4th February 2002, presented solely by Jason Barlow and featuring coverage of the Birmingham Motorshow. A year late, but I got there in the end...