Somewhere in Yorkshire, a then 17 year old Jeremy Clarkson sat up and took notice. In Birmingham, a then 7 year old Richard Hammond did the same and in Bristol, so did a then 14 year old James May. Just over 25 years later, they all came together and made this the biggest car show... in the world.
Hmmmm. Three over privileged school boys who never grew up. I liked this old school Top Gear as much as, ironically, I liked the three silly rsoles doing silly things in silly cars . . .
Jeremy joined Original Top Gear in 1988; he was quite different to the Jeremy you'd be familiar with in the 2002-2015 iteration of the program, but there's plenty in his 1988-1999 work you'd recognise in the revival. James May also very briefly presented original Top Gear for all of one season as Clarkson's replacement in 1999; again, not quite "Captain Slow" yet but still recognisable. Neither Jason Dawe or Richard Hammond ever presented the original Top Gear; Jason was a stand-in for James as the latter was hesitant and only with the success of Season 1 did he change his mind.
When Angela Rippon took part in the great children's programme 'Star Turn' - one round involved passages of speech with hidden car names - I remember her saying: "We can't afford capriciousness such as that".
I'd like to see the episode filmed in a quarry by the top gear crew with Angela Ripon seeing Ford rs2000s rallying around, one of the drivers was my Dad, who sadly is no longer with us due to cancer. II would love to see that episode.
@@carlbirtles4518 mmm I guess so... but fr?? I mean outside of London the transport must have been more horrible than now right? Wouldn't they rely on the cars more?
so much has went on in the car infotainment industry, you could see how roughly made this was, from the shaky camera car, to the sound man clearly sitting in the back seat, no visual effects or background music, no stylized camera work. i mean you gotta appreciate the advancement.
It seemed to be a theme of these sorts of BBC programmes back then, have a couple of items which sound quite interesting... then a long, boring monotonous discussion with a parliamentary minister.
The pace needs to step up a gear, I found myself glazing over a couple of minutes into Angela's monologue. It would be quite a few years before Clarkson & co came along and shook things up. I have an old episode of TG on VHS where Chris Goffey and William Woolard spend exactly one third of the programme discussing the rear leg room in a Passat! 🥱
are you mad? this actually gave almost 0 car information, we all know that cars or that capri in particular, have mirrors without her telling us about it. she even did not put much thought in what she said either, those mirrors clearly does not give her 365 degrees vision that's for sure. and she said nothing about the capri's power figures, the handling, the fuel economy, the reliability and so on, where is the car information?? at least in clarkson's era the lads actually did gave some information as well as, entertainment.
Wow! Great video. I reckon we multiply the money by 10. So £3.49 is £34.90 in today’s money. When she said 365 degree vision, where do the extra 5 degrees come from?
This begs the question: Why didn't the BBC revamp the show again after the departure of Clarkson &Co instead of trying to recreate exactly the same format??
Agreed, a retro 'revamp' back to basics like this would've been good. Not trying to replicate the trio, and changing course back to consumer priorities
Apparently by the late 1990s the audience level was falling. I think that the show was actually officially cancelled in 2000... but Jeremy Clarkson managed to convince the BBC that a change of format might rejuvenate its flagging ratings.
I was bored with TG by the time Clarkson and crew were sacked, the formula had become predictable. Fun and excitement is fine but when you know what the punch line is every time, it's time to change. As for what replaced them, less said the better!
Good point, YET. As a kid of the 70s, remember tv advert / public information film "Klink Klunk Every Trip" with .... Oh my god, Jimmy Savile..... Jeeeesus...... what's worse, Angela Rippon not wearing a seat belt or Jimmy Savile warning people to wear a seat belt. ?!?!??????!??!?!??
@@fd5927 Jimmy was a perv and the BBC knew. Hard to get your head around it. They let him die with his name intact laughing up his sleeve at the world.
2:15 I can't stand that. Men do it as well. It's fine talking in a car but when you're behind and can see them repeatly looking at the person in the passenger seat. Why? You don't need to look at the person. Keep your eyes on the pissing road!
9 to 3 😋😋😋 1:50 💯💯💯 factss, most of them are men let's be real and the road rage 😭 men men men men menly men hoo-hoo-hoooooo ho men men men men menly men men ah-hhaaaaaaaa MEEEEEEENNN! Also £2 meal😭😭 SIGH. I'm not doing this anymore. I mean the meal is ass lets be so real but still. 😭😭😭 "A pound, it's not exactly cheap is it??" aHHHHHHHHHHHHH i am fainting currently. FAINTING.
What misandrist language? You mean the bit where she says men can also be bad drivers? Oh God, how awful! Better find yourself a safe space in the corner and have a good cry about some reasonable comments made in a 46 year old video.
Somewhere in Yorkshire, a then 17 year old Jeremy Clarkson sat up and took notice. In Birmingham, a then 7 year old Richard Hammond did the same and in Bristol, so did a then 14 year old James May. Just over 25 years later, they all came together and made this the biggest car show... in the world.
Bread and circuses.
Biggest r.soles in the world.
Hmmmm. Three over privileged school boys who never grew up. I liked this old school Top Gear as much as, ironically, I liked the three silly rsoles doing silly things in silly cars . . .
Jeremy joined Original Top Gear in 1988; he was quite different to the Jeremy you'd be familiar with in the 2002-2015 iteration of the program, but there's plenty in his 1988-1999 work you'd recognise in the revival.
James May also very briefly presented original Top Gear for all of one season as Clarkson's replacement in 1999; again, not quite "Captain Slow" yet but still recognisable.
Neither Jason Dawe or Richard Hammond ever presented the original Top Gear; Jason was a stand-in for James as the latter was hesitant and only with the success of Season 1 did he change his mind.
Jeremy took notice, not sure about the other two! And then, Jeremy found the other two!
When Angela Rippon took part in the great children's programme 'Star Turn' - one round involved passages of speech with hidden car names - I remember her saying: "We can't afford capriciousness such as that".
"Egg & Chips and a cup of coffee, a pound! That's not exactly cheap is it?" - Love how direct people were in the 70s.
Looked it up and it would be the equivilent of £5.60 today, so she's got a point. :D
Great mirrors on her capri, 365 degrees visibility!
I’m wondering if the fact the motorway services manager used the phrase “365 days a year” three times lodged that number in her head 😂
Overlap!
What a TV delight Angela Rippon. I would gladly go back to those days in a flash.
I can’t believe the first car ever shown on screen in Top Gear was a brown Austin Allegro 😂
And it had 2 doors, like the Allegro Estate Hammond’s dad bought.
I had one of those. Same colour, too. Bloody thing dropped an exhaust valve going round the Coventry ring road 🤬
I was 5 in 1977 and i was well established with cars and motorsport, i was already a regular passenger in a MK1 Capri.
This is TV gold. Thank you
3:23 £4 in 1977 = £22.46 in 2023
5:10 4 star petrol in 1977, 91p per gallon = 20p a litre!! 😱; 83p per gallon = 18p a litre!! 😱
I came here for this.
Breakfast for three for £22.46. Bargain.
Four star petrol... haven't heard that in a long time.
Blimey, AR 46 years ago! She still looks fantastic today.
She's still working?
Thank you so much for starting all this, Angela! 🤗
I'd like to see the episode filmed in a quarry by the top gear crew with Angela Ripon seeing Ford rs2000s rallying around, one of the drivers was my Dad, who sadly is no longer with us due to cancer. II would love to see that episode.
The restaurant looks like something out of the Shining.
As a driving instructor, Angela Rippon is a very sensible lass on the roads. I wonder what she thinks of most drivers these days.
I like the fact that she is looking at the road and not glancing over at the camera every few seconds as presenters often do, being sensible.
Can you release all of classic top gear ?
Tom Coyne. Wow, that takes me back.
Devon to London was probably an easier drive in 77 than it is now
Yh probably
Less cars back then.
@@carlbirtles4518 mmm I guess so... but fr?? I mean outside of London the transport must have been more horrible than now right? Wouldn't they rely on the cars more?
It was a cakewalk,then.
And £1, for breakfast was expensive than...wow😮
Tax on that Capri expired in 1991. Be great if it's still around. Imagine having a car bought new by Angela Rippon and it being on the first Top Gear
The very first dashcam in that car. I am impressed!
Angela has 365 degree vision :)
Angela has always had a little bit more of most things than everyone else.
She looks all around, and then double checks the first bit :)
Angela Rippon was the only Top Gear presenter to fail a drugs test.
In 1977 she was also contributing pieces to the AA's 'Drive' magazine.
She ate some poppy seeds off a loaf.
@@raftonpounder6696yes she did
@@CricketEngland yes.
365 degrees vision? That's impressive!
That's inflation for you. Lucky if we get 360 degrees these days. ;)
She's still a class act, Angela :)
That 2 ltr capri last changed hands in 91, I wonder if its been crushed or if its languishing in someone's shed?
Have to get Jonny Smith to find out.
I hope they release the rest of the footage of this episode.
Loving that Capri!!
I’m watching this without a TV licence 😮
Freeloader, have you even paid taxes 😊
so much has went on in the car infotainment industry, you could see how roughly made this was, from the shaky camera car, to the sound man clearly sitting in the back seat, no visual effects or background music, no stylized camera work. i mean you gotta appreciate the advancement.
Well, I feel entertained by that. Petrol Forecourt price discrepancies and the efficacy of mirrors. 👏👏👏
Expensive motorway services back then, thankfully things have changed now 😂
It seemed to be a theme of these sorts of BBC programmes back then, have a couple of items which sound quite interesting... then a long, boring monotonous discussion with a parliamentary minister.
The pace needs to step up a gear, I found myself glazing over a couple of minutes into Angela's monologue.
It would be quite a few years before Clarkson & co came along and shook things up.
I have an old episode of TG on VHS where Chris Goffey and William Woolard spend exactly one third of the programme discussing the rear leg room in a Passat! 🥱
Actual car information : ) - So much better than the infantile Clarkson years ! ! : )
are you mad? this actually gave almost 0 car information, we all know that cars or that capri in particular, have mirrors without her telling us about it. she even did not put much thought in what she said either, those mirrors clearly does not give her 365 degrees vision that's for sure.
and she said nothing about the capri's power figures, the handling, the fuel economy, the reliability and so on, where is the car information??
at least in clarkson's era the lads actually did gave some information as well as, entertainment.
365 Degree vision? Does she use 1 degree per day? Where did the extra 5 degrees come from? Did the Capri have special mirrors? 😅
I remember Ton Coyne hosting Midlands today
When ever you think of a Capri you always think of the tv series Minder
Or The Professionals..
Yes SLE51R
SLE 71R 😂
Or young guys called Dave or Gary or something like that from Essex
@@Stairway1976 whoops! Nearly right.
RIPPOOOOOOON!!!!!!!!!!!
0:38 - An Allegro in the classic BL ‘Poo Brown’.
Wow! Great video.
I reckon we multiply the money by 10. So £3.49 is £34.90 in today’s money.
When she said 365 degree vision, where do the extra 5 degrees come from?
I thought the exact same thing about her 365º comment
She has the power of sight every day of the year? 1977 wasn't a leap year.
Love this
Those seats in her Capri looked like nice comfy Armchairs. I wonder what spec she had.
Ghia spec capri
Yeah looks like a Ghia
No seat belts though, or if it had any she wasn't wearing one 🙄
This begs the question: Why didn't the BBC revamp the show again after the departure of Clarkson &Co instead of trying to recreate exactly the same format??
Agreed, a retro 'revamp' back to basics like this would've been good. Not trying to replicate the trio, and changing course back to consumer priorities
Apparently by the late 1990s the audience level was falling. I think that the show was actually officially cancelled in 2000... but Jeremy Clarkson managed to convince the BBC that a change of format might rejuvenate its flagging ratings.
Such a relaxed world then
The 1977 Top Gear series was infomative and intelligent compared to burge from Clarkson to Harris. Recent got cancelled dunno why
Such an icon.
"The past is a foreign country" - this may as well be Mars ...
Life on Mars.
She was and is a class act
Tom Coyne !
Over 40000 miles a year was a lot then. Must have been a lot of oil changes for the Capri 😂
Probably about one a month!
Nice Ford Capri…. I had a 1979 model….
6:36 might try driving in the left hand lane a bit more
Yes, she's clearly a member of the Middle Lane Owners' Club!
Just checked the inflation. 91p is £5.10 in todays money. Don't know if it was gallon or litre though.
It would have been for a gallon. I think it changed to litres in about the mid 1980s.
R.I.P
Top Gear
1977 - 2022
(the only way it could return is if it reverted back to the consumer format used upto and including 2001)
I bet those steel servery trays are still in use today
1977, Year of the Silver Jubilee, death of Elvis and Charlie Chaplin, Fleetwood Mac release rumours
1977
@@barrymorris7856 mistyped, whoops
Never mind the bollocks here's the Sex Pistols
And Sting meets Stewart Copeland
I'd move to London, problem sorted.
6:16 she has a 365° vision 😂
People spoke so differently !
Better, properly, clearly !
Yeah, they spoke properly, not the slang ridden, bad grammer, mispronounced nonsense that passes for speech now!
@@turboslag GrammAr, not grammEr! Silly Slag!
Capri and NO SEAT BELT basics even then plus 5 pints of mild thanks and one for the road
365 degrees....???
Getting confused with days in a year I think!
I’d love to know what Peter King three manager is doing now Id like to see how he is after decades of 12 hour night shifts.
❤
365degrees of vision while sat in the middle lane 🫣
I was bored with TG by the time Clarkson and crew were sacked, the formula had become predictable. Fun and excitement is fine but when you know what the punch line is every time, it's time to change. As for what replaced them, less said the better!
£4 in 1970 is £52.43
It's about £23.
It’s £22.46.
Sorry according to the Bank of England inflation calculator it’s actually £52.43
So I don’t know how you 2 worked it out incorrectly
It’s 1977 not 1970.
My calculator thingy online said £30.65
'With my 3 mirrors I have 365° of vision' 😂?
I think her journalistic hyperbole got the better of her there...
A mysterious hand on the backseat at approx 0:59.
It's called "camera crew". They had that back in the 70's.
No seat belt
Good point, YET. As a kid of the 70s, remember tv advert / public information film "Klink Klunk Every Trip" with .... Oh my god, Jimmy Savile..... Jeeeesus...... what's worse, Angela Rippon not wearing a seat belt or Jimmy Savile warning people to wear a seat belt. ?!?!??????!??!?!??
@@fd5927
Jimmy was a perv and the BBC knew.
Hard to get your head around it.
They let him die with his name intact laughing up his sleeve at the world.
6:16 - How did she manage to obtain an extra five degrees of vision?
Overlap!
very attractive lady then and now !
Not enough car journos wear cravats.
Or seat belts.
And she wasn't wearing a seat belt, either.
4 quid 😂 dinner. Lol
Haha, I better Angela dished up terrible meals to her family, as she was too busy nattering to plan a decent dish. 😂
Isn’t the presentation flat by today’s standards
I didn’t realize it had the same theme song since the very beginning!
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I don't think she's wearing a seat belt.
Why would she be?
They weren't made compulsory until 1983.
I thought the same at first, but she is…you can see it at 7:08 over her shoulder.
@@mrjdsworld80 she had no requirement to be wearing it. It wasn’t law for another six years.
@@raftonpounder6696 Why isn't she should be the question.
The guy with the pipe hahah ruining the shot
Angela the middle lane hogger!
Nag, nag, nag 😁
I much prefer the older Top Gear- up until Quentin Wilson for me, couldn't stand Clarkon and what it turned into!
2:39 What have you never seen a woman putting on her makeup while driving, strange that…
ThickieEngland. Get some literacy lessons.
@@heraldeventsandfilms5970idiot
A pound for breakfast what a outrage !😜 crap be lucky to get a ketchup packet for that today !
2:15 I can't stand that. Men do it as well. It's fine talking in a car but when you're behind and can see them repeatly looking at the person in the passenger seat. Why? You don't need to look at the person. Keep your eyes on the pissing road!
9 to 3 😋😋😋
1:50 💯💯💯 factss, most of them are men let's be real and the road rage 😭 men men men men menly men hoo-hoo-hoooooo ho men men men men menly men men ah-hhaaaaaaaa MEEEEEEENNN!
Also £2 meal😭😭 SIGH. I'm not doing this anymore. I mean the meal is ass lets be so real but still. 😭😭😭
"A pound, it's not exactly cheap is it??" aHHHHHHHHHHHHH i am fainting currently. FAINTING.
Are you OK? Do you want me to call someone?
@@Jayfive276the fact the comment is edited also 😅
I’m surprised top gear became a huge hit. I was bored watching this. Thought it was about 🚘
Typical woman sitting in the middle lane on the motorway at her steady pace.
That was a jolly good whinge
4m56s Poor guy didn't looked 'not long for this world'.
Oh dear. There's no warning at the beginning of today's video about offensive misandrist language.
What misandrist language? You mean the bit where she says men can also be bad drivers? Oh God, how awful! Better find yourself a safe space in the corner and have a good cry about some reasonable comments made in a 46 year old video.