Petrolheads

Petrolheads is a BBC television panel game presented by Neil Morrissey, with team captains Richard Hammond and Chris Barrie. The show pitted motoring wits against each other and included car stunts shot on location. There were two guests each episode. The show was produced by Brian Klein (Top Gear), directed by John L Spencer and executive producers were Marie-Claire Walton and Steve Ayres. The theme music was by British composer Leigh Haggerwood. It was created and scripted by prolific author Norman Giller, with input from Top Gear writer Richard Porter and comedy scriptwriter Ged Parsons.

Petrolheads
GenrePanel show
Created byNorman Giller
Presented byNeil Morrissey
StarringChris Barrie
Richard Hammond
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original language(s)English
No. of series1
No. of episodes6 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location(s)Fountain Studios[1]
Running time30 minutes
Production company(s)Scarlet Television
On The Box
Release
Original networkBBC Two
Picture format16:9
Original release12 February (2006-02-12) 
19 March 2006 (2006-03-19)

Despite being well received, the show was a victim of the BBC's change of programming personnel, as it was considered 'too laddish' yet some aspects of the format are used in A League of Their Own.

Episode list

The coloured backgrounds denote the result of each of the shows:

     – Indicates Chris' team won
     – Indicates Richard's team won
Episode Guests Original air date
Chris' guestRichard's guest
1
Philip GlenisterHugo Speer12 February 2006 (2006-02-12)
2
Ronan KeatingEamonn Holmes19 February 2006 (2006-02-19)
3
John Gordon SinclairEdith Bowman26 February 2006 (2006-02-26)
4
Murray WalkerJames May5 March 2006 (2006-03-05)
5
Ricky TomlinsonJames Martin12 March 2006 (2006-03-12)
6
John ThomsonFearne Cotton19 March 2006 (2006-03-19)
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