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5th Gear

The Fifth Gear Logo
Format Motoring and motorsports
Starring Tiff Needell
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Tom Ford
Jason Plato
Jonny Smith
Tim Shaw
Country of origin United Kingdom
No. of episodes 132
Production
Running time 46 minutes currently
23 minutes originally
Production
company(s)		 North One
Broadcast
Original channel Five
Original run 8 April 2002 – present
External links
IMDb profile

Fifth Gear (formerly 5th Gear) is a motoring television magazine from the United Kingdom. The programme started its fourteenth series in August 2008. Originally shown on Five, Fifth Gear has also aired on the SPEED Channel in the USA for a short period in 2006 to early 2007. Repeats of Fifth Gear also started airing on UKTV channel, Dave in April 2008.

Fifth Gear first aired in 2002 as a replacement to the original incarnation of the BBC show Top Gear, which was cancelled in 2001 due to low ratings. Five originally wanted to carry on using the Top Gear name, but the BBC refused. Several of Top Gear's ex-presenters, including Quentin Willson, Tiff Needell and Vicki Butler-Henderson were hired by Five to present Fifth Gear.[1]

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[edit] Show format

The original format consisted of a 30 minute programme, including approximately 7 minutes of adverts.[2] The eighth series returned in the autumn of 2005 in a longer format of 45 minutes, and the ninth series (which went to a 13-week run) was increased to a one hour airtime slot (approximately 46 minutes excluding adverts).

[edit] Location

At the start of series 10 the show introduced between-feature links filmed at the Ace Cafe in London. In previous series these links were filmed at the production company offices in Birmingham. Originally produced by Chrysalis Television, the Birmingham offices were situated on the top floor of the headquarters of 100.7 Heart FM (also, at that time, a Chrysalis Radio company), near Birmingham's Five Ways area. The team moved out when Chrysalis sold their Television Division to All3Media in September 2003 (the section which currently produces Fifth Gear is now known as North One Television, part of the All3Media group).

In series 14, a location change from the Ace Cafe meant link sequences were filmed instead at the Millbrook Proving Ground, along with some of the vehicle testing features.

[edit] Presenter Line-up

For series 10 Tim Lovejoy was introduced as a main presenter, this was shortlived when longtime presenter, Tom Ford replaced Lovejoy alongside Vicki Butler-Henderson for series 11 onwards. Ford and Butler-Henderson join regular presenters Jason Plato, Jonny Smith and Tiff Needell. Needell and Plato are predominantly used in performance car features where Smith and Ford cover lifestyle and general motoring issues. Previous presenters have included ex-Top Gear presenters Quentin Willson and Adrian Simpson as well as ex-Top Gear editor (and Fifth Gear producer) Jon Bentley who presented safety and scientific features. Tim Shaw was added to the line-up for the 14 series starting in the August 2008.

[edit] Canadian version

Fifth Gear started Canadian broadcast on Discovery Channel Canada in 2008, began with 2006 series. This version ran in half-hour format.

[edit] Accidents

During series 12[3] two accidents took place during filming.

  • Episode 7: Tom Ford broke his foot and several toes[4] when he crashed a modified Bedford Rascal van. Ford was recording a piece about drifting. He and co-host Jonny Smith were racing each other in a D1 Grand Prix style around a private track. After winning the event, Ford was performing a victory drift that went wrong, put his van (painted to resemble the A-Team GMC Van) up on two wheels and sent him into a safety barrier.
  • Episode 8: BTCC driver Jason Plato suffered multiple burns when a Caparo T1 he was driving at Bruntingthorpe proving ground burst into flames[5]. The car, capable of 200mph, burst into flames at an estimated 150mph. Plato said: "There was a slight loss of power, I looked in the mirror and saw some smoke, there was a slight smell of oil and then suddenly there was this intense heat. The car spontaneously erupted into a ball of flames and I was sat in the middle of a fireball." The presenter was initially taken to Market Harborough and District Hospital by former BTCC driver Phil Bennett before being treated at Kettering General Hospital. He later received specialist burns treatment at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

[edit] The Fifth Gear awards

Each year, the programme gives out various awards:

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] Shoot outs

Fifth Gear claims to be 'world renowned' for their 'infamous' shoot outs, between similarly priced, similarly powerful cars, or, recently, cars versus bikes. These shoot outs take place at the Anglesey Circuit on the Isle of Anglesey close to Aberffraw. During the refurbishment of Anglesey, shoot-outs were switched to Castle Combe Circuit.

[edit] 2002 (Series 1 and 2)

[edit] 2003 (Series 3 and 4)

[edit] 2004 (Series 5 and 6)

[edit] 2005 - Series 7

[edit] 2005 - Series 8

[edit] 2006 - Series 9

[edit] 2006 - Series 10

[edit] 2007 - Series 11

[edit] 2007 - Series 12

[edit] 2008 - Series 13

[edit] 2008 - Series 14

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  • Week 2:
  • Week 3:
  • Week 4:
  • Week 5:
  • Week 6:

[edit] Series guide

  • Series 1:11 editions - First shown 8 April - 17 June 2002
  • Series 2:10 editions - First shown 7 October - 16 December 2002
  • Series 3:8 editions
  • Series 4:10 editions
  • Series 5:10 editions
  • Series 6:10 editions
  • Series 7:10 editions
  • Series 8:10 editions
  • Series 9:13 editions
  • Series 10:13 editions
  • Series 11:10 editions
  • Series 12:8 editions
  • Series 13:10 editions
  • Series 14:8 editions
  • Special "The Super Car Collection" 1x60'

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Top Gear team switch lanes". BBC News Online. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2001-11-15. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/1657807.stm. 
  2. ^ Gallagher, William (2002-04-09). "Top Gear finds a new home". BBC News Online. British Broadcasting Corporation. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/reviews/1918330.stm. 
  3. ^ Fifth Gear: Behind the scenes Accessed 28 May 2008
  4. ^ Fifth Gear star Tom Ford hurt in crash Autotrader.co.uk News - Accessed 10 October 2007
  5. ^ Plato injured as Caparo T1 bursts into flames Crash.net News - Accessed 10 October 2007

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