Road Rules
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| Created by | Mary-Ellis Bunim Jonathan Murray |
| Starring | Revolving cast |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | MTV |
| Release | 1995 – -2004 |
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.
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 series, still in production today, The Real World/Road Rules Challenge.
In March 2006, M Theory Entertainment, a production company that is an off-shoot of Bunim/Murray Productions, mentioned that they are re-tooling the series in an attempt to get it picked up by MTV once again by adding some fan interaction into the series.
Road Rules Seasons:
| SEASON # | SEASON TITLE |
|---|---|
| #1 | Road Rules: USA - The First Adventure (1995) |
| #2 | Road Rules: USA - The Second Adventure (1996) |
| #3 | Road Rules: Europe (1997) |
| #4 | Road Rules: Islands (1997) |
| #5 | Road Rules: Northern Trail (1998) |
| #6 | Road Rules: Down Under (Australia) (1998) |
| #7 | Road Rules Latin America (1999) |
| #8 | Road Rules: Semester at Sea (1999) |
| #9 | Road Rules: Maximum Velocity Tour (2000) |
| #10 | Road Rules: The Quest (2001) |
| #11 | Road Rules: Campus Crawl (2002) |
| #12 | Road Rules: South Pacific (2003) |
| #13 | Road Rules: X-Treme (2004) |
| #14 | Road Rules: Season 14 (Asia) (2007) (More info TBA the week of 17-23 2006) |
| FYI | 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"
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