The Amazing Race 7 is the seventh season of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. It premiered on March 1, 2005 with a two-hour premiere and ended on May 10, 2005 on CBS. The entire season was released on DVD on December 20, 2005.[1]
Development
The seventh season of The Amazing Race was filmed between November and December 2004, for which they traveled 40,000 miles (64,000 km), spanning 10 different countries in five continents.
Travelocity, Toyota, and JVC were the official sponsors of the seasons and would provide the prizes awarded to first place teams on certain legs.
Teams
Uchenna & Joyce
Married |
Rob & Amber
Engaged |
Ron & Kelly
Former POW/Pageant Queen |
Meredith & Gretchen
Married/Retired |
Lynn & Alex
Boyfriends |
Brian & Greg
Brothers |
Ray & Deana
Dating On and Off |
Susan & Patrick
Mother/Son |
Debbie & Bianca
Lifelong Friends |
Megan & Heidi
Roommates |
Ryan & Chuck
Best Friends |
Episodes
| Episode | Air Date | Leg | Destination | First Place | Last Place | Finish | Viewership (millions)[2] |
Ratings/Share (18-49)[2] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Courteous? This Is a Race!" | March 1, 2005 | 1 | United States → Peru | Debbie & Bianca | Ryan & Chuck | 1st Eliminated 11th Place |
11.76 | 4.9/12 |
| 2 | "The Whole Country Hates Me" | March 8, 2005 | 2 | Peru → Chile | Rob & Amber | Megan & Heidi | 2nd Eliminated 10th Place |
11.69 | 4.8/12 |
| 3 | "Do You Need Some Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation?" | March 15, 2005 | 3 | Chile → Argentina | Lynn & Alex | Debbie & Bianca | 3rd Eliminated 9th Place |
12.71 | 5.0/12 |
| 4 | "What a Gaucho You Are!" | March 22, 2005 | 4 | Argentina | Rob & Amber | Susan & Patrick | 4th Eliminated 8th Place |
12.43 | 4.6/11 |
| 5 | "I've Been Wanting a Face-Lift for a Long Time" | March 29, 2005 | 5 | Argentina → South Africa | Ray & Deana | Meredith & Gretchen | Non-Elimination Leg |
13.18 | 5.5/14 |
| 6 | South Africa → Botswana | Ron & Kelly | Ray & Deana | 5th Eliminated 7th Place | |||||
| 6 | "Houston, We Have an Elephant" | April 5, 2005 | 7 | Botswana | Rob & Amber | Brian & Greg | 6th Eliminated 6th Place |
12.28 | 5.1/13 |
| 7 | "They Saved the Eyeball" | April 6, 2005 | None | Recap Episode | |||||
| 8 | "Mow'em Down Like Grass" | April 12, 2005 | 8 | Botswana → India | Rob & Amber | Meredith & Gretchen | Ordered to Continue Racing |
12.97 | 5.1/12 |
| 9 | "We Have a Bad Elephant" | April 19, 2005 | Uchenna & Joyce | Lynn & Alex | 7th Eliminated 5th Place |
12.34 | 5.1/13 | ||
| 10 | "We Got a Gnome! We Got a Gnome!" | April 26, 2005 | 9 | India → Turkey | Uchenna & Joyce | Ron & Kelly | Non-Elimination Leg |
13.27 | 5.2/12.5 |
| 11 | "The Devil Made Me Do It" | May 3, 2005 | 10 | Turkey → United Kingdom | Rob & Amber | Meredith & Gretchen | 8th Eliminated 4th Place |
12.84 | 5.2/13 |
| 12 | "Five Continents, 25 Cities, and More Than 40,000 Miles" | May 10, 2005 | 11 | United Kingdom → Jamaica | Ron & Kelly | Uchenna & Joyce | Non-Elimination Leg |
16.01 | 6.8/17 |
| 12 | Jamaica → Puerto Rico → United States | Uchenna & Joyce | Ron & Kelly | 3rd Place | |||||
| Rob & Amber | 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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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Uchenna & Joyce | 8 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1► | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3.17 | 6-5 |
| 2 | Rob & Amber | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1> | 2 | 2 | 2.42 | 6-6 |
| 3 | Ron & Kelly | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2< | 1 | 3 | 3.08 | 6-6 |
| 4 | Meredith & Gretchen | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 5.40 | 6-4 | ||
| 5 | Lynn & Alex | 5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4.13 | 4-4 | ||||
| 6 | Brian & Greg | 4 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 4.71 | 3-3 | ||||||
| 7 | Ray & Deana | 7 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1► | 7 | 5.00 | 2-2 | |||||||
| 8 | Susan & Patrick | 2 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 6.50 | 1-2 | |||||||||
| 9 | Debbie & Bianca | 1 | 6 | 9 | 5.33 | 2-0 | ||||||||||
| 10 | Megan & Heidi | 9 | 10 | 9.50 | 1-0 | |||||||||||
| 11 | Ryan & Chuck | 11 | 11.00 | 0-0 | ||||||||||||
| Notes | [1] | [2][3] | [4] | [5] | ||||||||||||
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Records
Franchise
- First season not to circumnavigate the globe.
- First-time visits to Peru, Chile, Botswana, Turkey, Jamaica, and the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico.
- First season to implement the penalty for the last team to arrive at a Non-Elimination Leg being forced to surrender all of their possessions (except for their passports and the clothes they were wearing, for the remainder of the race).
- This was in addition to already being stripped of all their accumulated money and not receive any money on the next leg.
- Teams were also not allowed to beg for money prior to the start of the next leg.
- This was in addition to already being stripped of all their accumulated money and not receive any money on the next leg.
- Third consecutive season where all the final three teams are co-ed teams.
- Coincidentally again, all the final three teams were involved in a romantic relationship.
Reception
- Maureen Ryan at Chicago Tribune (03/01/2005): "Amazing Race picking up speed"
External links
| The Amazing Race Season Index | |
|---|---|
| United States | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 · 9 · 10 · 11 · 12 · 13 · 14 · 15 · 16 · 17 · 18 · 19 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 23 · 24 · 25 · 26 · 27 · 28 · 29 · 30 · 31 · 32 · 33 |
| Asia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Australia | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 |
| Brazil | 1 |
| Canada | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 · 5 · 6 · 7 · 8 |
| Central Europe | Cancelled |
| China | 1 · 2 · 3 · 4 |
| China Rush | 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 |
