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Season 2

Eleven teams left from the dust of Pahrump, Nevada, and the route ran across the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, and southern Asia. CBS slotted the second outing into a Monday hour and let the format breathe for a full thirteen legs. The casting widens its archetypes — sibling pairs, dating couples, lifelong friends. Phil Keoghan settles into the throughline. The hour finds its editing grammar.

Filmed
Global route, starting Pahrump, Nevada
Premiered
Mar 11, 2002
CBS · Monday 9/8c
Episodes
13
Format
11 teams of 2 · standard
Cast size
22 players
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 format's grammar arrives.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #07 slot.

Slot #07 of 38 in the Amazing Race Editor's Canon. Season 2 is the cement on the foundation Season 1 poured. CBS slotted the second outing into a Monday hour and let the format breathe for a full thirteen legs from Pahrump, Nevada across the Mediterranean, the Horn of Africa, and southern Asia. The casting widens its archetypes — sibling pairs, dating couples, lifelong friends — and the editing grammar starts producing the show at a sustained tempo. Phil Keoghan settles into the throughline. The canon places it seventh because the season validates the experiment and consolidates the format vocabulary without quite leaving its own distinctive mark on what the race would later attempt to be.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

Twice in one yearlist · 17 entriesWhen the cast was already relatedlist · 15 entriesThe Amazing Race — Editor's CanonEditor's Canon · #07