The WORST episodes of Race Across the World
Every episode of Race Across the World ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Race Across the World!
In a frenetic race across the world, travellers can choose any route they like - but no flights or phones are allowed. On the trip of a lifetime, which pair will finish first?
#1 - The Reunion
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/10/2023
With a thrilling third series of the Bafta-winning adventure, Race Across the World, now over, our five pairs return to reflect on the adventure of a lifetime.
#2 - Revealed
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/3/2020
The five teams reunite for the first time to reveal fascinating insights into their different strategies and individual experiences - from their highest highs to their lowest lows.
#3 - Episode 2
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/30/2025
The teams race to reach the second checkpoint – Sanya, one of China's most southerly cities. As well as choosing the best route to get there, they have a typhoon to contend with.
#4 - Episode 4
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/2019
The global travel series reaches another level this week as the four remaining teams enter the People’s Republic of China. After nearly a month on the road together, relationships are coming under increasing pressure in what is the most challenging leg of the race to date. With vast distances to cover to the checkpoint - the ancient village of Huangyao - budgets are running low and emotions are high.
#5 - The Reunion
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/2024
The five intrepid teams reunite in London to look back at their 51-day thrilling adventure through some of the most beautiful, populous and remote places on the planet.
#6 - Episode 1
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/8/2020
Five teams set off from Mexico City – a gargantuan metropolis and the largest Spanish speaking city in the world - in a race to reach the most southerly city in the world, Ushuaia in Argentina.
#7 - Episode 4
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/29/2020
As the 25,000-km race to Ushuaia approaches the half-way mark, the four teams compete not just with each other but with the extreme altitudes of Peru.
#8 - Episode 2
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/15/2020
The teams head out of Copan Ruinas in western Honduras to their next checkpoint – Panama City. Having raced hard in the previous leg, leaders Jo and Sam are keen to experience more this time.
#9 - Episode 3
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/2019
The four remaining teams leave Azerbaijan and head across the deserts, mountains and Silk Road cities of Central Asia in the third leg of the challenge. Along the way, they meet a stuntman with a high-octane car, get the chance to watch a grisly 13th-century Kazakh sport played between horse riders and using the carcass of a dead goat, and brave a storm on the Caspian sea.
#10 - Episode 2
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/29/2023
The race to St John’s continues as the five teams leave Haida Gwaii and head into the heart of the Yukon towards the second checkpoint, the former gold rush boom town Dawson City.
#11 - Episode 1
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/2019
Five pairs of travellers travel from Greenwich to Singapore without getting on a plane or using mobile phones or credit cards. Their first port of call is Delphi.
#12 - Episode 2
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/2019
The five teams head to their next checkpoint - Baku in Azerbaijan - a journey that will see them leave behind the familiarity of the West for the exotic and unknown of the East.
#13 - Episode 3
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2024
The teams enter south east Asia, starting the third leg from Vietnamese capital Hanoi. They must race over 2,000km through Vietnam and into the Kingdom of Cambodia to reach Phnom Penh.
#14 - Episode 4
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/1/2024
The teams are starting from the third checkpoint in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and must travel 1,400 kilometres through Thailand, one of the most visited countries in the world.
#15 - Episode 4
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/14/2025
After reaching Shangri-La in China, the teams discover where they’re headed next – one of the world’s oldest living cities, Varanasi.
#16 - Episode 5
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/8/2024
The teams must navigate the full length of Thailand to reach the next checkpoint - Koh Phi Phi - an archipelago of islands immortalised by the Hollywood blockbuster movie The Beach.
#20 - Episode 6
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/12/2020
With three teams at the checkpoint at Cafayate in Argentina, one team is yet to arrive. Dom and Lizzie are over 24 hours behind their competitors and after a disastrous last leg, they must rely on all their ingenuity to claw their way back into the race.
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#22 - Episode 5
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/5/2020
The four teams have reached the halfway mark in the 25,000km race to Ushuaia, and with only eight and a half hours between them, the race is on. To reach the next checkpoint - Cafayate in Argentina - teams must choose to travel through either Bolivia or Chile, but an unstable political climate in both countries puts everyone’s journeys at risk. With half the race still to complete, emotions are pushed to breaking point.
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