The Amazing Race
The world is waiting for you.
This reality competition sees teams embark on a trek around the world to amazing destinations where they must compete in a series of challenges, some mental and some physical. Only when the tasks are completed will they learn of their next location. Teams who are the farthest behind will gradually be eliminated as the contest progresses, with the first team to arrive at the final destination winning the race and the $1 million prize.
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Season 1
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 5, 2001
Season 2
11 episodes
Premiered Mar 11, 2002
Season 3
11 episodes
Premiered Oct 2, 2002
Season 4
13 episodes
Premiered May 29, 2003
Season 5
12 episodes
Premiered Jul 6, 2004
Season 6
13 episodes
Premiered Nov 16, 2004
Season 7
12 episodes
Premiered Mar 1, 2005
Family Edition
11 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2005
Season 9
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 28, 2006
Season 10
13 episodes
Premiered Sep 17, 2006
All-Stars
13 episodes
Premiered Feb 18, 2007
Season 12
11 episodes
Premiered Nov 4, 2007
Season 13
11 episodes
Premiered Sep 28, 2008
Season 14
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 15, 2009
Season 15
11 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2009
Season 16
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 14, 2010
Season 17
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 26, 2010
Unfinished Business
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 20, 2011
Season 19
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2011
Season 20
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 19, 2012
Season 21
11 episodes
Premiered Sep 30, 2012
Season 22
11 episodes
Premiered Feb 17, 2013
Season 23
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 29, 2013
All-Stars
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 23, 2014
Season 25
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 26, 2014
Season 26
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 25, 2015
Season 27
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2015
Season 28
12 episodes
Premiered Feb 12, 2016
Season 29
12 episodes
Premiered Mar 30, 2017
Season 30
12 episodes
Premiered Jan 3, 2018
Season 31
11 episodes
Premiered Apr 17, 2019
Season 32
12 episodes
Premiered Oct 14, 2020
Season 33
11 episodes
Premiered Jan 5, 2022
Season 34
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 21, 2022
Season 35
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 27, 2023
Season 36
10 episodes
Premiered Mar 13, 2024
Season 37
12 episodes
Premiered Mar 5, 2025
Season 38
12 episodes
Premiered Sep 25, 2025
Season 39
1 episodes
Premiered Sep 30, 2026
Ep 1The Race Begins
The teams begin in New York. They need to travel to Johannesburg, South Africa. Cooperation problems surface early on with a few of the couples. The teams have to decide which airport to take to the destination. Once they arrive in South Africa, they must take yet another flight. Before ultimately get to Songwe Village, they must find beautiful Victoria Falls. From there, they must get to Knife's Edge, a cliff. There, they must bungee jump and glide across a rope, eventually getting to the other side. The Pit Stop is located in Songwe Village. Rob and Brennan obtain the Fast Forward near Victoria Falls, allowing them to avoid all other tasks and go straight to the Pit Stop. Matt and Ana are the last to arrive and are eliminated.
Ep 2Divide and Conquer
The teams start out in Songwe Village,Zameia. When the times depart from the pit stop they must find the Songwe Museum in the village without any signs to indicate where it is located. They must use the help of the villagers. The first to leave are Rob and Brennan but they decide to wait for the members of their newly formed alliance with Frank, Margarita, Joe and Bill. Once locating the museum, the teams must decide in a detour to do one of two tasks involving photography. Then they have to bring the pictures to a chief in another village. Pat and Brenda decide not to do the tasks after failing to find the museum and decide to go for the Fast Forward. They complete this with ease and head to the next pit stop, the Arch de Triomphe in Paris. At the airport, some problems surface between Kim/Leslie and Paul/Amie. Once in Paris,the teams must find a monument through a telescope. For some of the teams this is easy but for others, proves extremely difficult. Kim and Leslie are the last to
Ep 3Home for Some
At the Arc de Triomphe, at departure times the teams are told to find La Grande Rue, a ferris wheel located somewhere in the city. They will have to get the route marker when the ferris wheel opens. When they get there, they are to do a detour. An ""Easy Walk"" where they must find Foucault's pendulum. There are two nearby, but you must chose the right one .Unfortunately for Pat and Brenda, they do chose the wrong one which puts them far behind the others. The second is ""Tough Climb"" in which the teams must climb to the top of Notre Dame and ring Quasimodo's bell. Kevin and Drew decide to go for the Fast Forward, where they have to retrieve it from a local coffee shop. Then they must head directly to the pit stop which is located in Chateau Les Baux. In the Roadblock, one of the team members must travel through the Paris sewers. Pat and Brenda are the last to arrive and are eliminated, going from 1st in Leg #2 to last in Leg #3.
Ep 4Colossal Showdown
The teams start off at the Chateau Les Baux in Paris, France. The first task is to find a man in a red hat, standing under a miniature Arc de Triomphe. All they have to discover where the man is located, is a flag and a picture of the man. It seems clear that the alliance between Frank/Margarita, Rob/Brennan and Joe/Bill has officially crumbled. The teams discover that the flag is from Tunisia. Before this discovery, some guess Turkey or Morocco. Paul/Amie at departure, notice the cab they had previously ordered the night before is not there. This causes some anger and Paul debates quitting. All the teams must get to Tunisia. Most take plane but some take boat. When they find the man, they are given a Detour. They must take a ""Full Body Massage"" or ""Full Body Brew"", involving coffee. They must with the given map find one of these two places in busy crowded streets. When these tasks are completed they must get to El Jem Coliseum. There they must run around the coliseum and most find a s
Ep 5Desert Storm
The seven remaining teams start off in El Jem Coliseum, the pit stop for the fourth leg. Upon departure they are given a route marking which tells them they must find a monument known as the Tataouine which is 300 miles away. Although Paul and Amie arrived fifth in the last leg, production problems cause them to move ahead one place in front of Frank and Margarita. When the teams arrive at the Tataouine, they are given a Detour. They must chose between an easy and a difficult game. The easy game is at a hard to find location and the hard game is at an easy to find location. The games are called ""Puzzle"" and ""Listening"" .All the teams chose Listening in which they must find the clue using a walkie talkie and find where the other one is. There they will find the clue. The clue says that must find a ""yellow and white flag"" in the middle of the Sahara Desert and that there are rocks to guide them there. Some teams are a little bit confused as to how the rocks guide them there. But eventual
Ep 6Whatever it Takes to Win
The teams start out in the Sahara desert. Kevin and Drew are the first to depart. The clue reads that they must get to the Palace Hotel in Tunis,300 miles away. Joe and Bill are the first to arrive at the clue. They must get to a spot outside the famous Coliseum in Rome. The teams head to the Tunisian airport. Tensions are high at the airport. At one point, Drew ask Team Guido if they want to have one of their legs broke. Joe and Bill laugh at this and don't see it as a threat. Drew then tells the team he was joking. Joe and Bill are the first of the teams to get tickets on the plane and are the last tickets on that flight. When the other teams arrive at the airport, the Guido's (all ready to go) decide to spy on the other teams and at one point, decide to eavesdrop. Teams are getting extremely frustrated when they learn of the air strike in Rome. They are having serious trouble getting tickets. With ""charm,"" Kevin and Drew get tickets for themselves and two other teams (Nancy/Emily an
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