James May: My Sisters' Top Toys is a British

United Kingdom

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 television documentary. Presented by James May

James May

James Daniel May is an English television presenter, journalist and writer. He is best known for his role as co-presenter of the award-winning motoring programme Top Gear alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond....

, it was first broadcast on 23 December 2007 on BBC Two

BBC Two

BBC Two is the second television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tending towards more 'highbrow' programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio...

. The show was a spin-off from the 2005 documentary James May's Top Toys

James May's Top Toys

James May's Top Toys is a BBC documentary in which James May explored and celebrated his favourite toys, including Etch-A-Sketch, Airfix model aeroplanes, Lego, Meccano, Top Trumps, Scalextric, model cars, and Hornby model trains....

, and was first shown as one of three shows which made up the "Top Gear Night In".

The show focused on the toys loved by his elder and younger sisters, including dolls, dolls' houses, dolls' prams, Girls' World, Ladybird Books

Ladybird Books

Ladybird Books is a London-based publishing company, trading as a stand-alone imprint within the Penguin Group of companies. The Ladybird imprint publishes mass-market children's books.-History:...

, Spirograph

Spirograph

Spirograph is a geometric drawing toy that produces mathematical curves of the variety technically known as hypotrochoids and epitrochoids. The term has also been used to describe a variety of software applications that display similar curves, and applied to the class of curves that can be produced...

, and a Palitoy

Palitoy

Palitoy was the name of a British toy company.It manufactured some of the most popular toys in Britain, some original items and others under licence...

 (Kenner) Tree Tots Family House. May speaks about how he often played with them as they were hand-me-downs.

During the show, May sets up a race as a girls' school (Skipton Girls' High School

Skipton Girls' High School

Skipton Girls' High School, founded in 1886 by the Petyt Trust, is an all girls selective grammar school situated in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. The school recently became a foundation school. Around 800 girls aged 11 to 18 are educated at the school, of which 190 are in the sixth form. The...

) and a boys' school (Ermysted's Grammar School

Ermysted's Grammar School

Ermysteds Grammar School is a LEA-funded selective boys' Grammar School in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, teaching over 800 pupils.It is the seventh oldest state school in Britain and was founded by Peter Toller in the 15th century. The first official record of the school was seen in Peter...

) battle it out in a go-kart time trial, using their own converted Silver Cross

Silver Cross (pram)

Silver Cross is a British manufacturer of wheeled baby transport, and is traditionally associated with large, four-wheel baby carriages that featured wooden bodies and leaf spring suspension....

prams. May gets his own made by the pram factory. He tests it out, battling for first place alongside the girls and the boys.