DVD and Blu-Ray Release
In 2008, the BBC packaged an extended version of the Polar Challenge, along with a cut-down version of the American East Coast Challenge on a twin DVD box set entitled Top Gear - The Great Adventures (also known as The Great Adventures: Polar and U.S. Special). This "Director's Cut" includes an extra ten minutes of previously unseen footage and various other changes, including new voice-overs and an alternative soundtrack to the original BBC broadcast release.
The BBC released the extended Polar Special as a stand-alone Blu-ray disc on 20 October 2008. The extended version included scenes of frostbitten extremities during the training in Resolute, and Clarkson & May discovering the abandoned Isachsen weather station (left vacant since 1978), among others.
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