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Stars in Fast Cars
Stars in Fast Cars rare appearance on New Top Gear from Fifth Gear’s Tiff
Needell.
Format Comedy game show Results:
Starring Dougie Anderson • 1st = : Jodie Kidd
• 1st = : Jeremy Clarkson
Country of origin United Kingdom
• 3rd = : Alan Davies
Language(s) English • 4th = : Jimmy "Carrnage" (Carr)
• 4th = : Darren Jordon
No. of episodes 10 (plus pilot)
• 6th = : Patrick Kielty
Production
Running time 30 minutes Episode one
This episode introduced the regular presenter, Dougie
Broadcast
Anderson.
Original channel BBC Three Competitors:
Pilot: BBC Two • Sarah Cawood
Original run 2005 (2005) – 2006 (2006) • Jon Culshaw
• Sir Steve Redgrave
Stars in Fast Cars was a humorous motoring-themed • Gina Yashere
celebrity game show, in which celebrities competed at This episode recreated stunts from movies, and featured
motoring challenges, including recreating movie stunts racing in modified armchairs and towing a bath full of
and racing modified armchairs. The series was first water with a Ferrari. The two highest scorers after three
broadcast on BBC Three, in 2005, and repeated on BBC rounds used the "Car Catapult" to hurl the car of their
One in 2006. choice at giant coconuts.
Among some of the more notable moments were Car
Skittles; a stunt where the guests had to drive on to the Episode two
back of a moving lorry, before letting them all drive a Competitors:
Ferrari – with a bathtub of water attached to the back • David Dickinson
which they were not allowed to spill. They were asked • Jenny Frost
to race in a variety of motor-esque machines, from the • Nina Wadia
aforementioned armchairs to Formula 1 cars. • Tommy Walsh
The final round of each show, between the two top-
ranking guests, features the use of the car cannon in at- Other participants
tempts to hit various things. The following notable people are included amongst those
The show originated as a one-off special of the pop- who took part in other episodes: Edwina Currie, Ben
ular BBC Two show, Top Gear, and was produced, as were Fogle, Jilly Goolden, Ainsley Harriott, Jake Maskall, Nell
a number of other television specials, in aid of charity McAndrew, Leanne Wilson, Reggie Yates, Trevor Nelson,
Comic Relief for Sport Relief in 2004. It was later turned Jennie Bond, Beverly Turner, Shane Lynch, Will Mellor
into a series, presented by Dougie Anderson. and Rowland Rivron
Episodes and participants References
Pilot
The Top Gear special feature for Sport Relief, first broad-
External links
cast on 10 July 2004. • BBC press release, 8th August 2005 — about new
The pilot was presented by Top Gear presenters programming for that season
Richard Hammond and James May, with Jeremy Clarkson • Stars in Fast Cars at the Internet Movie Database
amongst the "stars" competing. The special featured a • Stars in Fast Cars at UKGameshows.com
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Stars in Fast Cars
Categories:
• Top Gear
• BBC television game shows
• 2000s British television series
• 2005 television series debuts
• 2006 television series endings
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