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Aired fall 2005 · Four-person family teams · One-time format

Family Edition

The season the show tried something different and pulled back from. Ten teams of four — parents with their kids — ran an eleven-leg route that stayed almost entirely within the continental US, with short detours into Mexico, Costa Rica, and Canada. The four-person format crowded the vans and slowed the airport-to-airport rhythm the audience had come to expect. Phil Keoghan hosts with care. The experiment never returned.

Filmed
Mostly US route, with detours into Mexico, Costa Rica, and Canada
Premiered
Sep 27, 2005
CBS · Tuesday 10/9c
Episodes
11
shortened 11-leg run
Format
10 teams of 4 · families
the one-time family format
Cast size
40 players
10 families of 4
Host
Phil Keoghan
01The take

Family Edition.

The season the show tried something different and pulled back from. Ten teams of four — parents with their kids — ran an eleven-leg route that stayed almost entirely within the continental US, with short detours into Mexico, Costa Rica, and Canada. The four-person format crowded the vans and slowed the airport-to-airport rhythm the audience had come to expect. Phil Keoghan hosts with care. The experiment never returned.

03Where it sits in the canon

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