Clarkson's Car Years

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Clarkson's Car Years

Genre	Documentary/Motoring
Directed by	Ewan Keil
Presented by	Jeremy Clarkson
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer(s)	Richard Pearson
Running time	29 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC Birmingham
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC Two
Picture format	576i, anamorphic 16:9
Original run	June 1, 2000 – July 6, 2000

Clarkson's Car Years was a television series presented by Jeremy Clarkson and first shown during June and July 2000 on BBC Two. Over the series, Clarkson discusses six different topics relating to motoring, looking at the defining moments of each. The show was produced by BBC Birmingham and the series producer was Richard Pearson.

Car Years was the first of two series involving Clarkson which were filmed during his hiatus from Top Gear,^[1] and his third documentary series for the BBC, following Motorworld and Extreme Machines. The show was first shown on UK television channel BBC Two, before being shown to an international audience on BBC World and as of 2008 is regularly repeated on various UKTV channels.

[edit] List of episodes

#	Episode	Airdate
1	The Rise and Fall of the Supercar	1 June 2000


2	How Japan Took Over the World... And Then Lost It	8 June 2000


3	Why Do People Like British Sports Cars?	15 June 2000


4	Who Killed the British Car Industry?	22 June 2000


5	The New Romantics	29 June 2000


6	Family Car 2000	6 July 2000