The Amazing Race - Season 12 - Eps 1: Donkeys Have Souls, Too
The teams take off from the Pit Stop at the Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills, California and are instructed to fly to Shannon, Ireland. A flight delay leaves teams that thought they were ahead scrambling to catch up. The teams travel to the world's smallest church and then sign up for one of the three ferries departing the next morning. They're then directed to drive 42 miles to Cleggan farm where they must ride a tandem bike to a clue. One member of each team then completes a task that involves more biking -- highwire bicycling while their teammate rides below. Many teams are then frustrated by a task that requires them to fill a basket with fifteen pieces of peat and then transport it using a donkey. Controlling the donkeys proves more difficult for some teams than others and once again some leading teams take a plunge. Ultimately, one team is unable to recover from poor performance on this task and is eliminated from the race.
About The Amazing Race
Title: The Amazing Race
First Air Date: 2001-09-05
Last Air Date: 2025-05-15
Status: Returning Series
Rating: 6.873/10 (from 153 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 38
Total Episodes: 437
Network: CBS
Genres: Reality
Production Companies: Worldrace Productions, Neue Vitaskop Film, ABC Studios, Jerry Bruckheimer Television, CBS Productions, CBS Studios, ABC Signature, Touchstone Television
Synopsis
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.
Cast
Phil Keoghan
Self - Host
