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 October 20th, 2008. The extended version included scenes of frostbitten extremities during the training in Resolute, and Clarkson and May discovering the abandoned Isachsen weather station (left vacant since 1978), among others.
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