*** Top Gear Fans Beware – Top Gear has been cut! ***

Top Gear's latest manifestation is an Emmy Award and BAFTA winning BBC television series about motor vehicles particularly cars. The program is estimated to have over 350 million viewers worldwide. Top Gear is presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May. It also features The Stig, an anonymous test driver, who is also listed as a presenter in the credits. Every episode has comedy, challenges, stunts and beautiful cars and memorable scenery.

Top Gear episodes are being cut by approximately 8 to 10 minutes on programs shown worldwide from their original broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom just so that other TV stations can fill the timeslot with advertisements. TV stations like SBS in Australia and BBC Knowledge Channel on Pay TV show only edited episodes. Original running times should be about 1 hour with no advertisements but most people only get to see 50 odd minute episodes. One 58 minute episode was shown on BBC Knowledge as a 45 minute episode! Australians:- note that all episodes shown on SBS are cut by at least 8 minutes. This is even though SBS Australia has government funding and Top Gear is its top rated program. See my full DVD’s below to get the real complete episodes and not the butchered ones – what have you been missing in those missing 8 minutes?

All of the 13 seasons that I have offered for sale are the most complete episodes available with no advertisements and are available in full widescreen DVD format [PAL] from Season 4 onwards and also as high quality Divx [.avi] files. I also have the most complete collection of Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson and James May specials anywhere.

If you think Top Gear is merely some British motoring show you haven't seen one of the greatest pieces of entertainment on TV today. I have watched all of the 111 episodes and all their specials many times before offering this material for sale and I still laugh out loud at some of the antics on these shows. Top Gear has moments of slapstick mixed in with useful information and great scenery and a variety of wonderful cars. Don't watch this show to get your favorite cars reviewed or if you are looking for advice in buying a new car - this show is pure fun and entertainment. Should you drive at 300 kph on a motorway or drive in a bus lane....watch the show!

Some people would call this show a documentary or a reality show but it has more story, excitement and fun than the producers of most of the current material on TV could ever dream of. This show is a must buy for all men and most normal women! Even my wife won't miss an episode and complains when I play repeats without her! Whatever you do, please don’t miss the ‘boys’ one and only ‘gardening’ show which is included in the specials on both my DVD’s and AVI files. Doing their own imitation of the Ground Force Specials they manage to destroy a country estate with their unique brand of humor and ‘incompetence’.

The cheapest way to buy Top Gear is on DVD’s containing high quality DIVX files. Divx files are compressed video files and are the video equivalent of the MP3 format used for music. Divx files can be played on all computers and nowadays on many other media devices and are region free and unencrypted. My standard Sony DVD player will play a DVD containing Divx files just as if they were in actual DVD format and with the same quality as standard DVDs. AVI files can be converted easily into standard DVD format. All of my AVI files are full length and are of excellent quality – they look just like playing DVDs.

*** Top Gear AVI Special – Season 1 to 13 --- the cheapest and best way to get the complete set of Top Gear!

All 111 episodes of the first 13 seasons compressed onto 18 DVD's as high quality AVI files for $64.00 including free postage to almost everywhere.

Just select BUY NOW and I will send you an invoice.

*** Top Gear Complete Divx Special Set – containing all of Season 1 to 13 plus ALL the specials listed on this page.

This is a 25 DVD set of the first 13 seasons plus all the listed specials [including the ‘Gardening Special’] for only $86.00   [that is an extra 7 DVDs for just $22.00 extra and includes some of the best moments of television of this century].

Just select BUY NOW and request the TOP GEAR COMPLETE DIVX SPECIAL SET !!!

All files are tested and working and have clear sound and pictures and are all in the original higher quality PAL format originally broadcast in standard digital quality. All files from Season 4 onwards are of approx 700mb and are full length uninterrupted episodes. This is about the only place where you will find the rare Season 2 Episode 2 without subtitles.

Downloading and checking files will take you hundreds of hours so this is a very cheap way to own the series. Buy the Top Gear Complete Divx Set and you will also receive the fantastic Sports Relief Top Gear Gardening Ground Force Special which is the funniest and most disturbing thing the guys have ever done!

All episodes from Season 1 to Season 13 are also available as normal DVD’s at excellent quality in PAL format on quality, region free and uncompressed DVD's. Two 1 hour episodes per DVD [with no compression] plus free postage – 111 episodes are on 57 DVDs. Quality is excellent. I have watched every episode at least twice on an LG 181cm HDTV and it looks absolutely terrific. Don't settle for poor quality from elsewhere.

Ask me for an invoice or select your own combination and ask for a special price.

Please just select ‘BUY NOW’ and tell me what you want and I will send you an offer at a special price. Prices include free postage to almost everywhere!!!

*** Bargain Bulk DVD Special - for a complete set of 57 @ approximately 2 hour PAL DVD's containing the complete thirteen seasons and 111 episodes for $175.00   including free postage to almost everywhere [package is almost 2kg/4 pounds].

Please just select ‘BUY NOW’ and advise me that you want Top Gear in standard DVD format and I will send you an invoice.  

I can’t send you an invoice until you select ‘BUY NOW’.

Or you can request the Complete Top Gear DVD Pack which contains all 57 DVD’s of Season 1 to 13 plus 25 DVD’s of all of the Top Gear etc specials – an amazing 82 DVD’s for only $219.00 --- that’s around $2.50 per DVD with free airmail delivery to your door.

Please note that I also have all the Top Gear Specials so ask about those also in either format [DVD or AVI]. The Polar Special [2008] is brilliant and one of the all-time great journeys [to the North Pole] while their ‘gardening’ show is one of the funniest programs of the past decade!

DVD 1           Season 1 - Episodes 1 To 10    +    Bloopers + Stig

DVD 2           Season 2 - Episodes 1 To 10    +    Top Gear Of The Pops Comic Relief Special 2007 Unedited

DVD 3           Season 3 - Episodes 1 To 9    +     Season 4 - Episode 1

DVD 4           Season 4 - Episodes 2 To 7

DVD 5           Season 4 - Episodes 8 To 10    +    Season 5 - Episodes 1 To 3

DVD 6           Season 5 - Episodes 4 To 9

DVD 7           Season 5 - Episode 10    +    Season 6 - Episodes 1 To 5

DVD 8           Season 6 - Episodes 6 To 11

DVD 9           Season 7 - Episodes 1 To 6

DVD 10          Season 8 - Episodes 1 To 6

DVD 11          Season 8 - Episodes 7 To 8    +    Season 9 - Episodes 1 To 4

DVD 12          Season 9 - Episodes 5 To 6    +    Season 10 - Episodes 1 To 4

DVD 13          Season 10 - Episodes 5 To 10

DVD 14          Season 11 - Episodes 1 To 6

DVD 15          Season 12 - Episodes 1 To 5    +    Planes, Rockets & Automobiles

DVD 16          Season 12 - Episodes 6 To 8    +    Vietnam Extras   +    Jeremy Clarkson - Greatest Raid of All    +    James May - My Sisters Top Toys

DVD 17          Season 13 - Episodes 1 To 5   +    Best of the Stig   

DVD 18          Season 13 - Episodes 6 To 7    +    Clarkson – At Full Throttle   +   Stig – The 24 Hour Race   +    Vietnam Special Commentary

DVD 19          Back in Fastlane + Revved Up + Winter Olympics + Polar Special + Jeremy Clarkson - Speed

DVD 20          Ground Force Sports Relief Gardening + Challenges 1 + Challenges 2 + Motor Sport Mayhem

DVD 21          Clarkson - Good Bad Ugly + Thriller + Apocalypse

DVD 22          Supercar Showdown + Extreme Machines + Motorworld + Clarkson Meets the Neighbours

DVD 23          Unleashed On Cars + Shootout 2003 + Hot Metal + No Limits + Top 100 Cars 2001

DVD 24          Head to Head + Most Outrageous + Heaven and Hell + James May – Twentieth Century

DVD 25          Top Gear - Challenges - Vol 3   +   Top Gear Of The Pops Comic Relief Special 2007   +   Inventions That Changed the World

Please also note that I only use quality DVD's that I have tested extensively.

Also I set Nero to verify each disk and finally I test play each DVD on a separate drive to my DVD Burner.

The quality of some parts of Jeremy Clarkson Meets the Neighbors are only of VHS standard, however it’s the best quality that I could find.

TOP GEAR              REVVED UP

TOP GEAR              BACK IN FASTLANE

TOP GEAR              WINTER OLYMPICS

TOP GEAR              POLAR SPECIAL

TOP GEAR              PLANES, ROCKETS and AUTOMOBILES

TOP GEAR              CHALLENGES – Vol 1     [2 DVD’s]

TOP GEAR              CHALLENGES - Vol 2     [2 DVD’s]

TOP GEAR              CHALLENGES - Vol 3     [2 DVD’s]

SPORTS RELIEF TOP GEAR      GARDEN GROUND GEAR FORCE SPECIAL

TOP GEAR OF THE POPS          COMIC RELIEF SPECIAL 2007

JEREMY CLARKSON                 VERY BEST OF MOTORWORLD

JEREMY CLARKSON                  EXTREME MACHINES

JEREMY CLARKSON                  VERY BEST OF SPEED

JEREMY CLARKSON                  NO LIMITS

JEREMY CLARKSON                  GOOD BAD AND THE UGLY

JEREMY CLARKSON                  THRILLER

JEREMY CLARKSON                  MEETS THE NEIGHBORS        [2 DVD’s]

JEREMY CLARKSON                  HEAD TO HEAD

JEREMY CLARKSON                  HOT METAL

JEREMY CLARKSON                  HEAVEN AND HELL

JEREMY CLARKSON                  NO LIMITS

JEREMY CLARKSON                  SHOOTOUT 2003

JEREMY CLARKSON                  SUPERCAR SHOWDOWN

JEREMY CLARKSON                  TOP 100 CARS

JEREMY CLARKSON                  MOTORSPORT MAYHEM

JEREMY CLARKSON                  UNLEASHED ON CARS

JEREMY CLARKSON                  MOST OUTRAGEOUS

JAMES MAY                               20 ^th CENTURY        [2 DVD’s]

JAMES MAY                               MY SISTERS TOP TOY

JAMES MAY                               ON THE MOON AND AT THE EDGE OF SPACE

5TH GEAR -                                SUPERCAR COLLECTION    

STIG                                             BEST OF THE STIG

Also available upon request…..

TOP GEAR AUSTRALIA - SERIES 1 and 2

NTSC and PAL   

PAL and NTSC are both standards for the encoding of colour television signals. They were developed in the 1950s and have remained unchanged ever since. Although they both do the same job, there are some significant differences in the way they do it. There are technical descriptions available on the web that can be found very easily that describe the encoding systems in great detail. The United States favours a format called NTSC, which is short for National Television Standards Committee, while Europe, Australia and parts of Asia use a competing format called PAL, or Phase Alternating Line.          

PAL television broadcasts contain 625 lines of resolution, compared to NTSC's 525. More lines usually means more visual information, which equals better picture quality and resolution.    When the NTSC format was first adopted in 1941, there was little discussion of colour transmissions. When the technology for colour television arrived, engineers had to create a broadcast method which would still allow owners of monochrome television sets to receive a picture. Colour signals on the NTSC format are still not considered ideal by electronics experts. The PAL system, on the other hand, was created after the advent of colour broadcasting, so colour signals are much truer to the original image.          

A multi-system ( PAL to NTSC / NTSC to PAL) DVD player can read any region and any picture system signal in which the DVD is encoded and then convert it into the signal required by your TV monitor (NTSC or PAL). That is the processor of such a DVD player can convert the PAL signal from a PAL DVD into NTSC signal and output it to your NTSC TV monitor. All computer drives are also multi-system, so nowadays almost everyone should be able to play both NTSC and PAL DVDs [using software like PowerDVD]. Multi-system players are widely available worldwide and cost the same or similar to standard players. Stores like Wal-Mart and Amazon in the USA commonly sell multi-system players at very cheap prices.                           

Important :-       

Make sure your equipment will play PAL disks [most will – including all computer DVD drives and many modern DVD players which are mostly made in China nowadays]. Multi-system players will play both NTSC and PAL format disks. All DVD’s sold from this store are both unencrypted and region free so they will be able to play on almost all DVD players especially all multi region players and computer drives worldwide.. No refunds but I will replace any faulty disks [replacement postage cost of $5.00 applies]. I verify and test all disks before shipping so all DVD's are shipped in perfect, brand new condition. Only quality DVD’s are used.  

Because I offer free shipping and packaging I will ship the disks safely using either cases or bubble wrap or padded envelopes. Please note that I do not print or write on the disks [no cover art]. This reduces my costs and yours as well. I only mark disk numbers on each disk for your convenience. I try to stay with airmail letter post and its tight restrictions to save you from Customs inspections and charges etc and also from paying higher postage costs. Safe delivery to you at a reasonable postage cost is my first priority. I have a perfect Paypal and Ebay record. Payments are by Paypal. Alternative postage options including insurance may be available at cost on request from you.   You will love this material and it may never be available again elsewhere. However I hope my actions prod the producers to finally release all material properly to DVD or online for download.   

****************************************************************     Legal Disclaimer: ALL SALES ARE FINAL. Shipping Costs are included in the final sale price - NO HIDDEN COSTS OR FEES. I verify all items sold. This DVD is region free and will play on PAL compatible DVD systems worldwide. No transfer of copyright is given or implied. Limited licenses attribution available under as-is fair use policy. Seller makes no warranties and disclaims liability. Nothing in this listing is intended to reduce, limit, or restrict any rights arising from fair use, first sale or other limitations on exclusive rights.   

These Items are sold as collector’s item only. Items come without case on writable disks. Items are sold as is, no returns, no refunds. By purchasing you maintain that you have read all information, properly understood it (all your questions have been answered) and agree to this sale and its terms. If you do not agree, please do not order.   

*Please note that you are not purchasing a regular studio release of this show.

Please contact me if you have a question before you order - Thank you. Your bid is a contract - Place an order only if you're serious about buying the item. If you order, you will enter into a legally binding contract to purchase the item from the seller.