Road Rules

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Road Rules
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Genre	Reality show
Running time	30 minutes
Creator(s)	Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray
Starring	Revolving cast
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	MTV
Original run	1995–

MTV's Road Rules, MTV's second reality show, debuted on July 19, 1995. The series followed six strangers between the ages of 18 and 24 (five strangers in the first four seasons) and stripped them of all of their money and threw them on an RV traveling from location to location only guided by a set of clues and a mission to complete at each location. It was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2001.

The ground-breaking series was a pioneer in travel/adventure/reward reality television (aside from Mark Burnett's Eco-Challenge). Road Rules was created by Jonathan Murray and Mary-Ellis Bunim of Bunim/Murray Productions. Mary-Ellis lost her battle with cancer in early 2004, the last year of the show's series.

The show was spawned from its sister show The Real World. The idea of Road Rules came to mind, when Real World castmates Jon, Tami and Dominic traveled in an RV across the United States to get to their The Real World: Los Angeles house in the first two episodes of the second season. Bunim-Murray began working on the show soon after the third San Francisco season, and finally debuted in 1995. The show garnered a spin-off (media) series, still in production today, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

Road Rules returns to MTV in January 2007 as announced on Monday, October 23rd, 2006. [1]

There was also a 1998 mini-series, Road Rules: The Real World All-Stars, in which 5 former stars from The Real World go on a short Road Rules course managed by infamous former Real World housemate Puck, who, until the very end of the series, was disguising his identity with the alias "Mr. Big". However, this is generally considered the first season of Road Rules' own spin-off, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

[edit] Road Rules Seasons:

Season	Title	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Road Rules: USA - The First Adventure (1995)	Kit Hoover	Mark Long	Allison Jones	Carlos "Los" Jackson	Shelly Spottedhorse	N/A
2	Road Rules: USA - The Second Adventure (1996)	Devin Elston	Emily Bailey	Christian Breivik	Tim Beggy	Effie Perez	N/A
3	Road Rules: Europe (1997)	Chris Melling	Michelle Parma	Antoine de Bouverie	Patrice Boudibela	Belou Den Tex	N/A
4	Road Rules: Islands (1997)	Jake Bronstein	Erika Ruen	Oscar Hernandez	Vince Forcier	Kalle Dedolph	N/A
5	Road Rules: Northern Trail (1998)	Noah Rickun	Dan Setzler	Tara McDaniel	Anne Wharton	Roni Martin	Jon Holmes
6	Road Rules: Down Under (Australia) (1998)	Susie Meister	Chadwick Pelletier	Shayne McBride	Christina Pazsitzky	Kefla Hare	Piggy Thomas
7	Road Rules Latin America (1999)	Brian Lancaster	Sarah Martinez	Gladys Sanabria	Josh Florence	Holly Shand	Abe Ingersoll
8	Road Rules: Semester at Sea (1999)	Veronica Portillo	Yes Duffy	Pua Medieros	Pawel Litwinski	Ayanna Mackins	Shawn Sealy
9	Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour (2000)	Laterrian Wallace	Kathryn	Holly Brentson	James Orlando	Msaada Nia	Theo Vonkurnatowski
10	Road Rules: The Quest (2001)	Jisela Delgado *Katie Doyle	Sophia Pasquis	Adam Larson	Blair Herter	Steve Meinke	Ellen Cho
11	Road Rules: Campus Crawl (2002)	Kendal Sheppard	Shane Landrum	Rachel Robinson	Darrell Taylor	Sarah Greyson *Raquel Duran	Eric Jones
12	Road Rules: South Pacific (2003)	Cara Zavaleta *Tina Barta	Dave Giuntoli	Christena Pyle	Abram Boise *Chris Graebe	Mary Beth Decker	Donell Langham *Jeremy Blossom
13	Road Rules: X-Treme (2004)	Jodi Weatherton	Danny Dias *Nick Haggart	Kina Dean *Angela Trimbur	Derrick Kosinski	Ibis Nieves *Jillian Zoboroski	Patrick Maloney
14	Road Rules 14 (2007)