Prior to that, a 'mini-special' set in Mozambique, served as the finale to the second series due to Hammond's accident and Clarkson's near-fatal bout of pneumonia. A second special, set in Colombia, originally intended to air in between Series 2 and Series 3, ended up as two-parter episodes for the latter, increasing its episode total to 14. Special episodes were revived in the presenters' successive show, The Grand Tour, with a two-part special set in Namibia, entitled The Beach (Buggy) Boys, having aired in late December 2016. Typically, the specials were one-off episodes but later the format changed - in the Africa, Burma, and Patagonia Specials, which were broadcast in two parts. The show's final special, the Patagonia Special, aired in 2014, as a prelude to Top Gear's twenty-second series. This special was different from the others as it did not feature a road trip, with the first of the familiarly-formatted specials being the USA Special in 2007.

Though often disputed, there were eleven specials broadcast over nine separate years, the first one being the Winter Olympics Special which aired in 2006 as the finale for Series 7. Generally, these specials aired at Christmas time during each Winter series. These specials differed from regular episodes insofar that they were longer than the standard sixty minute episodes the Top Gear studio is only used at the beginning of the episodes and there are no power tests or SIARPC segments. Specials, originally, were episodes of Top Gear in which the show's three presenters at the time, Jeremy Clarkson, James May, and Richard Hammond, head to an international location for a road trip.

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