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Aired spring 2011 · All-returnee cast

Unfinished Business

The franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to take another swing at the route, with the editing room leaning into the histories the audience already had with them.

Filmed
Global route, starting Palm Springs, California, finishing in Miami, Florida
Premiered
Feb 20, 2011
CBS · Sunday 8/7c
Episodes
12
Format
Returnees · 11 teams
Cast size
22 players
11 returning teams
Host
Phil Keoghan
eighteenth season at the helm
01The take

Unfinished Business.

The franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to take another swing at the route, with the editing room leaning into the histories the audience already had with them.

A second test of the all-stars argument — the template re-pressured by a different generation of returnees.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

The franchise's second full returnee outing, four years after All-Stars. Eleven teams from prior seasons came back to a spring route through Australia, Japan, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, India, and Brazil before finishing in Miami. CBS held the Sunday hour and the editing leaned hard into the histories the audience already had with the field. Phil Keoghan hosts a returnee season that re-tests the all-stars template against a different generation of teams.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #14 slot.

Slot #14 of 23 in the The Amazing Race Editor's Canon. The neighbors below frame what we ranked above and below it.

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06Also appears in

Cross-references.

Also appears in
The Amazing Race S18 — Unfinished Business — tiered.tv