'The Botswana Special' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Australia.
Episode Synopsis: In a Top Gear special, the team travel to Africa where they are challenged to buy a second hand car costing no more than £1, 500 and in no way designed to go off road and drive across the wilds of Botswana. Along the way they must negotiate salt pans, rivers and reserves full of animals while facing sweltering heat and suffocating dust.
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UK TV Episodes chart performance history for The Botswana Special
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2013 | Dec | 20 Fri | 97 | re-entry |
Homeland Big Man in Tehran |
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Made In Chelsea Episode 11 |
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Homeland The Star |
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Made In Chelsea Episode 12 |
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Sherlock The Reichenbach Fall |
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Doctor Who The Time of the Doctor |
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Sherlock The Empty Hearse |
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians Loving and Letting Go |
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26 Sun | 100 | re-entry | |||
30 Thu | 66 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians And All That Jazzzzzzz |
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2014 | Feb | 5 Wed | 72 | re-entry |
Suits The Arrangement |
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The Bridge Episode 10 |
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17 Mon | 91 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians A Surprise Engagement Pt. 1 |
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians A Surprise Engagement Pt. 2 |
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2014 | Mar | 24 Mon | 94 | re-entry |
Top Gear Burma Special, Pt.2 |
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The Valleys 305 |
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Top Gear Burma Special, Pt.2 |
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2014 | Apr | 8 Tue | 97 | re-entry |
The Worricker Trilogy Page Eight |
2014 | Jun | 24 Tue | 72 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians Doggy Blu's |
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2014 | Jul | 3 Thu | 70 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians The Vienna Incidents |
2014 | Dec | 29 Mon | 86 | re-entry |
Homeland Long Time Coming |
2015 | Mar | 27 Fri | 98 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians Somewhere Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
2016 | Jun | 23 Thu | 85 | re-entry |
Keeping Up With the Kardashians Snow You Didn’t! |
2016 | Jul | 28 Thu | 75 | re-entry |
Suits Accounts Payable |
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Rick and Morty The Jerrick Trap |
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Gavin and Stacey Gavin and Stacey: Christmas Special 2008 |
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