Top Gear - 'The Botswana Special'
British iTunes Chart Performance
"The Botswana Special": Chart Statistics
- Release date: 22 Jun 2009
- Chart debut: #97 (20 Dec 2013)
- Highest Position: #1 (24 Sep 2024)
- Most recent chart position: #31 (05 Jul 2025)
- Days on UK TV Episodes Chart: 165
'The Botswana Special' has charted in the following countries:
United Kingdom, United States, Germany and Australia.
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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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The Botswana Special: Chart Progress Graph
Chart performance: 07 Sep 2024 to 30 Jan 2025.
Detailed Chart Progress for "The Botswana Special" (Top Gear)
UK TV Episodes chart performance history for The Botswana Special
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Homeland Big Man in Tehran |
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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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Keeping Up With the Kardashians And All That Jazzzzzzz |
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Suits The Arrangement |
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The Bridge Episode 10 |
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians A Surprise Engagement Pt. 1 |
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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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Keeping Up With the Kardashians The Vienna Incidents |
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Homeland Long Time Coming |
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Keeping Up With the Kardashians Somewhere Over the Cuckoo's Nest |
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Top Gear The Botswana Special |
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Miami Vice Pilot |
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Top Gear The Botswana Special |
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Top Gear The Botswana Special |
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Top Gear The Botswana Special |
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The White Lotus Season 3, Episode 8: Amor Fati |
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The White Lotus Same Spirits, New Forms |
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Other Episodes of Top Gear
- Series 14, Episode 2
- Series 14, Episode 1
- Polar Special
- Series 14, Episode 3
- The Botswana Special
- Series 13, Episode 2
- Series 14, Episode 4
- Winter Olympics Special
- The Vietnam Special
- Series 14, Episode 5
- The Bolivia Special
- Series 14, Episode 7
- Series 13, Episode 1
- Series 13, Episode 3
- Series 13, Episode 4
- Series 13, Episode 5
- Series 13, Episode 6
- Series 13, Episode 7
- Series 9, Episode 5
- Series 9, Episode 1
- Series 9, Episode 4
- Series 6, Episode 6
- Season 7, Episode 3
- Series 6, Episode 2
- US Road Trip Special
- Series 15, Episode 1
- Series 12, Episode 1
- Series 15, Episode 2
- Series 9, Episode 3
- Series 15, Episode 3
- Series 12, Episode 2
- Series 12, Episode 4
- Series 12, Episode 3
- Series 12, Episode 5
- Series 15, Episode 4
- Series 15, Episode 5
- Series 15, Episode 6
- Episode 2
- Episode 3
- Episode 4
- Cobra Attack
- Series 10, Episode 1
- USA Super Car Road Trip
- Series 16, Episode 1
- Series 16, Episode 2
- Middle East Special
- Series 16, Episode 3
- Series 16, Episode 4
- Series 16, Episode 5
- Series 16, Episode 6
- Episode 1
- Episode 5
- Episode 6
- USA Supercar Road Trip
- India Special
- Episode 7
- Fifty Years of Bond Cars
- Africa Special, Pt. 1
- Africa Special, Pt. 2
- Burma Special, Pt.1
- Burma Special, Pt.2
- Burma Special Extended Edition
- Pt. 1
- Pt. 2
- Episode 2 - Australian Road Trip
- Episode 8
- Extra Gear, Episode 1
- Series 10, Episode 2
- Season 8, Episode 3
- Season 7, Episode 5
- Nepal Special
- Season 8, Episode 6
- Series 10, Episode 6
- Series 10, Episode 8
- Series 12, Episode 6
- Series 10, Episode 7
- Season 8, Episode 1
- Series 10, Episode 4
- Season 7, Episode 4
- Top Gear - Motors, Mischief and Mayhem
- Season 8, Episode 7
- Series 6, Episode 8
- Season 8, Episode 8
- Series 6, Episode 7
- Series 10, Episode 9
- Driving Home for Christmas
- Christmas Special 2022
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