Skip to main content
tiered.tv
ShowsThe Amazing RaceSeason 8
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
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

The experiment nobody repeated.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #13 slot.

Slot #13 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Family Edition sits at the bottom of the canon because the format does not run cleanly in the configuration this season delivers. 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 teams crowded the vans and slowed the airport-to-airport rhythm the audience had come to expect, and the domestic route gave up the geographic argument the show relies on. Phil Keoghan hosts with care. The canon places it thirteenth because the experiment never returned — and the franchise's reluctance to retry it is the verdict.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
04Also appears in

Cross-references.

The cast outgrew the formatlist · 16 entriesThe Amazing Race: the roster was the twistlist · 13 entriesWhen age became the casting brieflist · 11 entriesWhen the cast was already relatedlist · 15 entriesThe Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #13