Britain's Best Drives(2009)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2009-02-19
Average Runtime: 30m
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Britain's Best Drives is a six-part 2009 British television series in which Richard Wilson travels across the UK in reviewing the best driving roads from a motoring guide of the 1950s. In each episode he drives a different car of the period. There was also a seventh episode where Wilson learns how to drive a manual transmission car again.
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Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
North Yorkshire Moors
Air Date: 2009-05-08
In a classic Morris Minor Traveller, he drives from Scarborough to Whitby via the Yorkshire moors. He learns about th...
E02
North Wales
Air Date: 2009-05-15
Richard takes the wheel of Ford Zodiac to drive the circular route from Caernarfon that loops through some of Snowdon...
E03
North Cornish Coast
Air Date: 2009-05-22
Richard struggles to get to grips with a retro VW camper van as he drives the coast road from St Ives to Lands End. ...
E04
Lake District
Air Date: 2009-05-29
Richard drives a sporty, convertible Triumph TR3A around some of the Lake District's most famous roads. He gets the l...
E05
The Wye Valley and Forest of Dean
Air Date: 2009-06-05
Using an Austin Cambridge to explore an area that claims to be the birthplace of British tourism, Richard learns abou...
E06
The Trossachs
Air Date: 2009-06-12
For his final drive, Richard returns to the country of his birth in a splendid 1950s Bentley. He drops in on his sist...
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