The Amazing Race 6 is the sixth season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on November 16, 2004 and ended on February 5, 2005 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD on April 24, 2012.
Synopsis[]
The next 11 teams ready to globe-trot the world are at the starting gate awaiting the official start of the sixth edition of the Emmy Award-winning THE AMAZING RACE .[1]
Production[]
In May 2004, CBS ordered the sixth installment of the show, despite the fact that The Amazing Race 5 had not yet aired. Early renewal was attributed to the success of the changes made in season 5. Applications for The Amazing Race 6 were due on April 13, 2004. Semi-finalist interviews were held in May 2004 and final casting interviews were selected at Los Angeles in June 2004.[2]
Filming began on August 13, 2004 and concluded on September 12, 2004. This season traveled a total of 40,000 miles (64,000 km), across ten countries on four continents.
The show moved to a new timeslot of Tuesdays at 9 pm. CBS also delayed the airing of this season until late in the fall and moved it out of its proposed Saturday time-slot, to create a "cool down" period between seasons, in the hopes that this would help continue the newfound ratings success.[3]
American Airlines and Royal Caribbean were the official sponsors during this season and would provide the prizes awarded to first place teams on certain legs.
This season featured a visit to Sri Lanka, where filming occurred just a few months before the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The episodes aired after the earthquake had devastated the country and all of the sights and locations the teams had visited. A special message was narrated by host Phil Keoghan at the beginning of the episodes featuring Sri Lanka, dedicating them to the victims and to those helping the recovery.
Twists/Changes[]
- Roadblock Limits: Following criticism of how previous seasons had male-female teams reach the final leg after performing a supermajority of their team's Roadblocks, this season instituted a new rule mandating team members to split their Roadblock performances equally. This season featured 12 Roadblocks, leaving for a maximum Roadblock split of 6-6.
- Intersection: A task in the second leg required the ten remaining teams to divide themselves into two groups of five and work together to complete a Route Info task. Though not yet billed as such, this task provided the basis for the Intersection, which was formally introduced in The Amazing Race 10.
- Yield Reduction: Beginning with this season, Yields are now only available on certain legs of the Race.
- Superleg: This season was intended to have the standard 13 legs. However, after production arrived in Hungary for the sixth leg, they realized that begging was illegal in the country. As the leg was intended to be a Non-Elimination Leg with the last place team subject to the Surrender Money penalty, production realized that this would have virtually made it impossible for that team to accumulate any money. They thus quickly redesigned the leg to be combined with the intended seventh leg, creating the first double-length leg of the series.[4]
- Surrender Money: A team that comes in last place on a Non-Elimination Leg must relinquish all accumulated money in their possession and would not receive any money at the start of the next leg. However, beginning with this season, that team would also not be allowed to attempt to accumulate any money prior to being released from the Pit Start in the following leg.
- Rules and Penalties: The following rules and penalties were revealed on this season:
- A team that takes more than one clue from a Clue Box would incur a 30-minute penalty.
- A team that mistakenly takes another other team's production-provided vehicle would incur a 30-minute penalty, which would be applied at the start of the next leg.
- A team that quits a Roadblock or fails to complete it due to hours of operation would incur a 4-hour penalty.
Teams[]
Freddy & Kendra
Engaged Models |
Kris & Jon
Dating Long-Distance |
Adam & Rebecca
Formerly Dating |
Hayden & Aaron
Dating Actors |
Lori & Bolo
Married Pro Wrestlers |
Jonathan & Victoria
Married Entrepreneurs |
Gus & Hera
Father/Daughter |
Don & Mary Jean
Grandparents |
Lena & Kristy
Sisters |
Meredith & Maria
Best Friends |
Avi & Joe
High School Buddies |
Episodes[]
| Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions)[5] |
Ratings/Share (18-49)[5] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The Game's Afoot" | November 16, 2004 | 1 | United States → Iceland | Hayden & Aaron | Avi & Joe | 1st Eliminated 11th Place |
11.80 | 5.0/12 |
| 2 | "I'm Not His Wife, He Doesn't Need to Scream at Me" | November 23, 2004 | 2 | Iceland → Norway | Kris & Jon | Meredith & Maria | 2nd Eliminated 10th Place |
11.50 | 4.7/12 |
| 3 | "Counting Bears Is Not Rocket Science" | November 30, 2004 | 3 | Norway → Sweden | Hayden & Aaron | Lena & Kristy | 3rd Eliminated 9th Place |
11.84 | 4.8/12 |
| 4 | "What If It Isn't Sanitary" | December 7, 2004 | 4 | Sweden → Senegal | Kris & Jon | Don & Mary Jean | Non-Elimination Leg |
11.72 | 4.6/12 |
| 5 | "Quit Following Us" | December 14, 2004 | 5 | Senegal → Germany | Freddy & Kendra | Don & Mary Jean | 4th Eliminated 8th Place |
10.70 | 4.1/10 |
| 6 | "They Should Probably Have Some Counseling" | December 21, 2004 | 6 | Germany → Hungary | Freddy & Kendra | Lori & Bolo | Ordered to Continue Racing |
10.70 | 4.0/12 |
| 7 | "Phil Is a Choo-Choo Charlie" | December 28, 2004 | None | Recap Episode | 10.10 | 3.8/10 | |||
| 8 | "One of You, I'm Gonna Break in Half" | January 4, 2005 | 6 | Hungary | Lori & Bolo | Gus & Hera | 5th Eliminated 7th Place |
10.66 | 4.4/10 |
| 9 | "Tell My Mom I Love Her" | January 11, 2005 | 7 | Hungary → France | Adam & Rebecca | Hayden & Aaron | Non-Elimination Leg |
11.07 | 4.3/10 |
| 10 | "Are There Instructions on Donkey Handling?" | January 18, 2005 | 8 | France → Ethiopia | Hayden & Aaron | Jonathan & Victoria | 6th Eliminated 6th Place |
10.61 | 4.1/9 |
| 11 | "It Always Comes Down to Details" | January 25, 2005 | 9 | Ethiopia → Sri Lanka | Kris & Jon | Lori & Bolo | 7th Eliminated 5th Place |
12.03 | 4.7/11 |
| 12 | "You Deal with This Before I Hyperventilate" | February 1, 2005 | 10 | Sri Lanka → China | Hayden & Aaron | Adam & Rebecca | Non-Elimination Leg |
12.01 | 4.6/11 |
| 13 | "4 Continents, 24 Cities, 40,000 Miles" | February 8, 2005 | 11 | China | Kris & Jon | Hayden & Aaron | 8th Eliminated 4th Place |
12.62 | 5.2/13 |
| 12 | China → United States | Freddy & Kendra | Adam & Rebecca | 3rd Place | |||||
| Kris & Jon | 2nd Place | ||||||||
Leaderboard[]
This chart shows each teams ranking per leg according to their official check in at the Pit Stop. However, time penalties issued before the start of the next leg due to improperly performed tasks are not reflected here.
| Place | Team | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | Leg 4 | Leg 5 | Leg 6 | Leg 7 | Leg 8 | Leg 9 | Leg 10 | Leg 11 | Leg 12 | Average | 
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st Half | 2nd Half | |||||||||||||||
| 1 | Freddy & Kendra | 4 | 8^ | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4< | 3 | 2> | 2 | 1 | 3.67 | 6-6 |
| 2 | Kris & Jon | 2 | 1~ | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2.17 | 6-6 |
| 3 | Adam & Rebecca | 7 | 6~ | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1► | 5> | 4 | 4< | 3 | 3 | 4.58 | 6-5 |
| 4 | Hayden & Aaron | 1 | 4~ | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2.82 | 5-6 | |
| 5 | Lori & Bolo | 6 | 5~ | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 1► | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4.33 | 5-3 | |||
| 6 | Jonathan & Victoria | 5 | 2^ | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3.63 | 4-4 | ||||
| 7 | Gus & Hera | 10 | 3^ | 3 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 5.83 | 3-3 | ||||||
| 8 | Don & Mary Jean | 9 | 7^ | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8.00 | 2-2 | ||||||||
| 9 | Lena & Kristy | 3 | 9~ | 9 | 7.00 | 1-1 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Meredith & Maria | 8 | 10^ | 9.00 | 0-1 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Avi & Joe | 11 | 11.00 | 0-0 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | [1][2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | [7] | ||||||||||
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Trivia[]
Franchise Records[]
- First time visits to Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Senegal, Hungary, Ethiopia, and Sri Lanka.
- First season to feature a superleg.
- Least amount of all-male teams, 1 (tied with The Amazing Race 5, The Amazing Race 12, and The Amazing Race 29).
- First season to award a prize to the first place team on every leg.
- Introduced the rule on Roadblock limits.
- First season to have all same-gender teams eliminated in the first three legs.
- This was the first time that the final eight teams were co-ed teams.
- Second season (after The Amazing Race 5) where all the final three teams are co-ed teams.
- Coincidentally in both seasons, all the final three teams were in romantic relationships.
- This season set a record that seven out of 11 teams were in romantic relationships.
US Records[]
- One of two standard-format seasons to have no teams returning in The Amazing Race: All-Stars (2007).
- Season with the most couples in romantic relationships, 7 (tied with The Amazing Race 15).
- Second season in which the Race began and ended in the same city (after The Amazing Race 1).
Reception[]
- Korey Karnes at Chicago Tribune (12/03/2004): "Smart 'Race' continues to amaze"
- Scott D. Pierce at Deseret News (02/15/2005): "Amazing couple seeks Phil's help"
External links[]
References[]
- ↑ http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2004/10/20/eleven-teams-await-the-starting-gun-as-the-next-the-amazing-race-is-about-to-begin-17116/20041020cbs01/
- ↑ CBS orders sixth The Amazing Race edition | Reality TV World
- ↑ CBS delays The Amazing Race until late October or November | Reality TV World
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20071012194022/http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3120482&st=750&p=2697047&entry2697047
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 http://www.spottedratings.com/2011/12/spotvault-amazing-race-cbs-fall-2004.html
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| Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 |
| Central Europe | Cancelled |
| China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| China Rush | 1 · 2 · 3 |
| Finland | 1 · 2 · 3 |
| France | 1 |
| Israel | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Latin America | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |
| Norway | 1 · 2 |
| Philippines | 1 · 2 |
| Ukraine | 1 |
| Vietnam | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 |