The boys on every comprehensive breakdown cover provider's blacklist are back, this time in Myanmar.

If you know anything about this country and its rather authoritarian ruling regime, it's surprising that the Top Gear team were permitted entry at all. In fact, previous exploits of the globally-popular Top Gear circus must have passed the authorities by completely!

But the first episode of the trio's Myanmar expedition was successfully filmed (so we can only assume that the second part was too).

Just as well really, as it was pretty entertaining stuff! It didn't depart too much from the formula mind you, with Clarkson providing the controversial comments (insisting that Myanmar, the nation’s modern name, be called Burma, for example), Hammond providing the string vest and shorts (which were enough to get the production team thrown in jail all by themselves, surely?), and May representing silent, solemn petrol heads everywhere.

It's good old fashioned boy's-own stuff – complete with a school-boyish sense of history and geography when the three were given the mission of building a bridge over the River Kwai (even though that structure was actually built a long way away in Thailand).

We'll find out next week if Clarkson and Co manage to complete the bridge, or indeed if they end up in prison.

One thing's for sure though, if Mr C lost Top Gear a few cyclist or Scottish fans - both were sniped at by Clarkson - it could have encouraged thousands of people to visit Myanmar (which did look sensational on screen, replete as it was with Buddhist shrines and verdant countryside).