Top Gear: Jaguar E Type


4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Tuesday, March 24 on U&Dave ja vu (74)

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Jaguar E Type
Season 17, Episode 1

In an episode originally shown in 2011, Jeremy Clarkson celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Jaguar E-type by driving a modern-day interpretation of the classic sports car, and throws a typically low-key party involving live music, fighter planes and the Royal Marines. Richard Hammond is in South Africa, where he tests the Marauder, a bigger, more rugged alternative to the Humvee, and James May enlists the help of 2010 Winter Olympic skeleton gold medallist Amy Williams and former Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion Kris Meeke to try out a Mini rally car. Plus, the Stig takes the BMW 1 Series M Coupe around the test track and Alice Cooper gets behind the wheel of the Reasonably Priced Car


HD subtitles 16x9 audio-description
Leisure Hobbies Motoring

Cast & Crew

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James May (Presenter)
Richard Hammond (Presenter)
Jeremy Clarkson (Presenter)
Kris Meeke (Guest)
Andy Wilman (Executive producer)

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James May (Presenter)
Born: January 16, 1963 in Bristol
Best Known For: Being Captain Slow on Top Gear.
Early-life: James Daniel May was born on January 16, 1963, in Bristol. He has a brother and two sisters. He attended school in Rotherham with Life on Mars star Dean Andrews before heading to Lancaster University to study music. After graduating, May made ends meet in a series of jobs, including working in a hospital. During a stint with an engineering company, he produced a leaflet and liked what it involved, so applied for a job as a magazine sub-editor. He then worked for Autocar, but was fired after inserting a 'secret' message in the text.
Career: May's TV career began in 1998 with the Channel 4 series Driven, which ran for four years. In 1999, he landed a presenting role on BBC's Top Gear before it was axed due to low ratings. He rejoined the revamped version of the show in its second series. Other projects for the BBC have included Oz and James's Big Wine Adventure, James May's 20th Century, James May's Big Ideas, James May's Man Lab, and James May's Toy Stories.
Quote: On his sex-symbol status: 'Perhaps they look at me in the way that I might look at a slightly tacky Jaguar XJS, and think 'that's potentially not bad, maybe I could improve that'.'
Trivia: Away from TV, he has written columns for several publications and penned the books May on Motors and Notes from the Hard Shoulder.
Richard Hammond (Presenter)
Born: December 19, 1969 in Solihull
Best Known For: Co-hosting Top Gear, alongside Jeremy Clarkson and James May.
Early-life: Richard Mark Hammond was born in Birmingham on December 19, 1969. His mum Eileen, father Alan and younger brothers Andrew and Nicholas moved to Ripon where his father ran a probate business. After attending Harrogate College of Art and Technology, Richard decided not to pursue a degree and instead took a series of part-time jobs, including working behind the bar of a pub and being a 'chicken chaser' at a local farm.
Career: His broadcasting career began on local radio, before he got his big TV break hosting a number of daytime shows on Men & Motors. In 2002, he landed a slot on BBC's Top Gear, where he was given the nickname Hamster. Other series Richard has presented include Crufts, the British Parking Awards, Should I Worry About…?, The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding the Legend, Time Commanders, and Sky One's Brainac: Science Abuse. He was also a team captain on the quiz show Petrolheads and narrated the BBC series Last Man Standing. In recent years, he has started presenting serious documentaries on such subjects as warfare and engineering, and secured a world exclusive interview with his hero, Evel Knievel. He is the current face of the rather silly but very enjoyable Total Wipeout.
Quote: On his Top Gear colleagues: 'Of course we get on - the show wouldn't work if we didn't get on. The arguments you see on-screen are for real and often carry on off-screen as well.'
Trivia: He has published books on motoring and science.
Jeremy Clarkson (Presenter)
Born: April 11, 1960 in Doncaster
Best Known For: Presenting Top Gear.
Early-life: Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson was born on April 11th, 1960, and claims he could say 'Maserati' before he could say 'mummy'. He was the only son of affluent parents who manufactured Paddington Bear dolls. His passion for cars began as a child, but he admits to losing interest during his teens when he discovered girls and punk rock. Jeremy attended public school for five years, but was expelled shortly before he was due to take his A-levels. His first car was a Ford Cortina.
Career: Jeremy was employed as a trainee journalist on the Rotherham Advertiser, but he quit while reporting on a local agricultural show because he grew tired of the marrow-growers and Pony Club mums. He joined the family firm as a salesman and moved to London, where he found a new career as a motoring writer. In 1987, he met a Top Gear producer at a car launch and was invited on to the show. He quickly became one of its most popular presenters, but left the programme in 1998 to concentrate on other projects. Other series he has fronted include Speed, Meet The Neighbours and his own chat show, Clarkson. However, he missed talking about cars and returned to a revamped Top Gear, which is now one of the world's most-watched shows.
Quote: 'It's amazing how easily people are upset. When I said that a car snapped knicker elastic at 50 paces, I couldn't believe the furore that was created.'
Trivia: He lent his vocals to the first Cars movie, and the Forza 5 video game.
Kris Meeke (Guest)
Amy Williams (Guest)
Born: September 29, 1982 in Cambridge
Best Known For: Winning a gold medal in the skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Early-life: Amy Joy Williams was born in Cambridge on September 29, 1982. Her father is a professor at the University of Bath and her mother is a former midwife. Amy has a twin sister and an older brother. She was brought up in Bath and went on to study at the university there.
Career: After failing to make an impact as a 400m runner, Williams began competing in skeleton in 2002. She won a silver medal at her first major event, the 2009 World Championships in Lake Placid. A year later at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, she won a gold medal in the women's skeleton, breaking the track record twice along the way. She became the first Briton to win a gold medal in an individual event at the Winter Olympics for 30 years. Injuries led to her retirement from the sport in 2012. Since then, Williams has been a co-presenter on Ski Sunday and taken up rally driving. She was a contestant in the second series of 71 Degrees North and in early 2014, she was one of the celebrities competing in Channel 4's reality series The Jump. A year later, Williams was a coach on The Jump.
Quote: 'There is still a big part of me that would love to compete. I still feel that I could definitely get another Olympic medal, but I had to listen to what my body was telling me.'
Trivia: Williams was awarded an OBE in 2010. In the same year, she was installed as an Honorary Freeman of the City of Bath.
Alice Cooper (Guest)
Born: February 04, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan
Best Known For: Hit single School's Out.
Early-life: Born Vincent Damon Furnier in Detroit, Michigan, on February 4, 1948. His father was a car salesman and an electrical engineer, but was a lay preacher in his spare time. He suffered from asthma as a child and the family moved to Phoenix, Arizona when he was 10 because the drier climate was considered better for his health. His condition improved and he became a marathon runner in high school. He also loved rock music and formed his first band, the Earwigs, for a school concert in 1965.
Career: In 1969, the group were renamed Alice Cooper after a 17th-century witch. They were spotted by Frank Zappa, who signed them to his record label and built up a cult following due to their outrageous live shows. In 1972, they scored a massive hit with School's Out. The band split three years later but Furnier continued to use the name Alice Cooper for his solo recordings. His sales waned during the early 1980s, but he made a comeback with the single Poison in 1989. He continues to tour and record, and has dabbled in acting, appearing in such films as Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) and Dark Shadows (2012). He also played himself in Wayne's World (1992).
Quote: 'I'm about as all-American as it gets. I'm more Jimmy Stewart than Bela Lugosi.'
Trivia: Cooper is a keen golfer.
Andy Wilman (Executive producer)

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