Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines (partially found BBC Two television series; 1998)

The title card for the show.

Status: Partially Found

Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines was the second of Clarkson's five television series he produced during Top Gear's intermission period, and aired during the beginning of 1998 on BBC Two, when he was still working for the latter program. The basic premise of Extreme Machines was that it entailed Clarkson discussing and testing out various pieces of powerful machinery both inside and outside the world of automobiles, a topic he would revisit for his 2001 series Speed.

History

Originally, six episodes of Extreme Machines aired on BBC Two in January and February of 1998. Each episode was approximately 30 minutes long, totaling in a series length of 3 hours. The episodes were repeated a few times in the following years. Some of these BBC2 airings were recorded.

When the series was released for the home video market, namely VHS (and later transferred to DVD), it was reduced to a "Best of" compilation, removing over 2 hours of footage in the process.

During later years, the series was re-aired in a cut 23-minute form on BBC World (only episode 4 recorded) internationally, and on the UKTV network, namely the channel UKTV People (24-minute cuts, only episodes 1-4 recorded), in the UK.

In around 2010, the series was aired on BBC Knowledge in a 25 minute form (except for episode 4, which was aired in full), at least in Australia and Poland. The last two episodes of the former, and everything of the latter recording (however dubbed over) is available).

Episode Guide

Episode	Airdate	Synopsis	Footage Available	Footage Lost	Description of missing content
1	01/08/1998	Reno Air Races, hydroplanes, private jets	27:24	~1:30	Part of the private jet segment
2	01/15/1998	Class One powerboats, space shuttle, Jahre Viking supertanker, hot air balloon world record	27:39	~1:00	Unknown
3	01/22/1998	F15 jet fighter, snowmobiles, combine-harvester banger racing	28:32	None	N/A
4	01/29/1998	Snow-traversing vehicles, Riva Aquarama luxury speedboat, hovercrafts, private train, Apache Helictoper Gunship	29:02	None	N/A
5	02/05/1998	Zorball, supercharged speedboat, B52 bombers, model Ferrari PB312, abandoned air force base	28:53	None	N/A
6	02/12/1998	Racing swamp buggies, Swedish stealth warship, mechanical elephant, superyachts, airboats	28:55	None	N/A