Petrolheads

This article is about the TV panel game. For the album, see Petrolhead.

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 author Norman Giller, with input from Top Gear writer Richard Porter and comedy scriptwriter Ged Parsons.

Petrolheads
Genre	Panel show
Created by	Norman Giller
Presented by	Neil Morrissey
Starring	Chris Barrie Richard Hammond
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location	Fountain Studios
Running time	30 minutes
Production companies	Scarlet Television On The Box
Original release
Network	BBC Two
Release	12 February (2006-02-12) – 19 March 2006 (2006-03-19)

Episode list

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

  – Indicates Chris's team won

  – Indicates Richard's team won

Episode	Guests		Original air date
	Chris' guest	Richard's guest
1	Philip Glenister	Hugo Speer	12 February 2006 (2006-02-12)
2	Ronan Keating	Eamonn Holmes	19 February 2006 (2006-02-19)
3	John Gordon Sinclair	Edith Bowman	26 February 2006 (2006-02-26)
4	Murray Walker	James May	5 March 2006 (2006-03-05)
5	Ricky Tomlinson	James Martin	12 March 2006 (2006-03-12)
6	John Thomson	Fearne Cotton	19 March 2006 (2006-03-19)

External links

• Petrolheads at IMDb
• Petrolheads at British Comedy Guide
• Petrolheads at UKGameshows.com