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Season 1
10 episodes
Premiered Jul 13, 1978
Season 2
10 episodes
Premiered May 1, 1979
Season 3
6 episodes
Premiered Apr 1, 1980
Season 4
6 episodes
Premiered Sep 2, 1980
Season 5
8 episodes
Premiered Apr 21, 1981
Season 6
7 episodes
Premiered Nov 3, 1981
Season 7
8 episodes
Premiered Apr 13, 1982
Season 8
6 episodes
Premiered Sep 7, 1982
Season 9
9 episodes
Premiered Jan 29, 1983
Season 10
8 episodes
Premiered Sep 6, 1983
Season 11
8 episodes
Premiered Feb 28, 1984
Season 12
7 episodes
Premiered Oct 23, 1984
Season 13
9 episodes
Premiered Mar 5, 1985
Season 14
8 episodes
Premiered Sep 3, 1985
Season 15
10 episodes
Premiered Apr 8, 1986
Season 16
8 episodes
Premiered Sep 9, 1986
Season 17
8 episodes
Premiered Apr 7, 1987
Season 18
11 episodes
Premiered Sep 10, 1987
Season 19
8 episodes
Premiered Apr 7, 1988
Season 20
8 episodes
Premiered Sep 29, 1988
Season 21
8 episodes
Premiered Mar 21, 1989
Season 22
10 episodes
Premiered Sep 14, 1989
Season 23
8 episodes
Premiered Mar 27, 1990
Season 24
10 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 1990
Season 25
10 episodes
Premiered Feb 28, 1991
Season 26
14 episodes
Premiered Sep 19, 1991
Season 27
11 episodes
Premiered Feb 27, 1992
Season 28
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 24, 1992
Season 29
17 episodes
Premiered Feb 18, 1993
Season 30
16 episodes
Premiered Sep 9, 1993
Season 31
11 episodes
Premiered Mar 3, 1994
Season 32
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 22, 1994
Season 33
13 episodes
Premiered Feb 16, 1995
Season 34
14 episodes
Premiered Sep 21, 1995
Season 35
14 episodes
Premiered Feb 15, 1996
Season 36
14 episodes
Premiered Sep 5, 1996
Season 37
20 episodes
Premiered Jan 2, 1997
Season 38
16 episodes
Premiered Sep 4, 1997
Season 39
13 episodes
Premiered Feb 19, 1998
Season 40
15 episodes
Premiered Sep 10, 1998
Season 41
12 episodes
Premiered Mar 18, 1999
Season 42
14 episodes
Premiered Sep 9, 1999
Season 43
18 episodes
Premiered Jan 20, 2000
Season 44
15 episodes
Premiered Sep 7, 2000
Season 45
36 episodes
Premiered Feb 22, 2001
Episode 1
The big holiday rush begins this weekend and many drivers plan to travel through Friday night. How dangerous is this practice? What are the stress factors and what are the signs of fatigue? Angela finds out for herself by night driving to the West Country. Twenty people are killed and over 200 seriously injured each week yet these figures could be cut to one tenth if we used our seat belts. Should we leave it to persuasion or is compulsion the final answer?
Episode 2
The training of a British police driver is said to be the best in the world, but what makes it so good? Angela becomes a pupil of the Police Training Centre at Hendon and discovers rather more than she expected about her own driving standards. The Scottish Six-day Trial. The world's top trials riders spend a week in the mountains around Fort William in fierce and punishing competition.
Episode 3
The MOT test continues to be controversial. Is the interpretation consistent from station to station and does the motorist get a fair deal? Angela makes a comparison between the British system and the way it is done in Belgium, where they have been testing longer than anywhere else in Europe. Motor Caravans Reporter Mike Woodhead and family have their first experience of this fast-expanding do-it-yourself type of holiday.
Episode 4
Tonight Angela Rippon reports from Northern Ireland where to park your car can cost £600, a taxi fare is cheaper than a bus ride and where you are twice as likely to be killed in a road accident as in the rest of the UK. Driven to Drink. How much alcohol can you take and still drive safely? Mike Dornan reports on a special test day at Brands Hatch.
Episode 5
Tonight Angela Rippon climbs into the cab to report on the latest situation about tachographs in lorries. Colin Chapman talks to Barrie Gill about this season's Formula One motor racing scene.
Episode 6
Angela attends the finals of a nationwide search to find a girl rally driver who can take her place beside international stars Roger Clark and Russell Brookes. Predictably she takes a turn at the rally wheel herself. Rust and corrosion cost the British motorist £200-million a year. But savings could be made. Barrie Gill reports.
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