The Un-Road Trip | |
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Created by | Boaz Frankel |
Written by | Boaz Frankel, Todd Lewis |
Directed by | Todd Lewis |
Starring | Boaz Frankel, Caroline Avery Granger, Paul Gude, Peter McKay |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 1 |
No. of episodes | 10 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Marshall Nord, Becky Henderson |
Producer | Todd Lewis |
Cinematography | David Temple |
Editors | Cliff McGinnis, Todd Lewis |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Halogen TV |
Release | April 22 – June 24, 2011 |
The Un-Road Trip is an American reality television series featuring Boaz Frankel, a Portland, Oregon resident, as he travels 12,000 miles across North America using 101 non-gas powered modes of transportation. [1] Most of the show was filmed over a ten-week period beginning in April 2009. [2] It was first aired as a weekly series on Halogen TV, beginning on April 22, 2011. [3]
The basis for the series was a two-month trip Boaz Frankel took in spring 2009. [4] While involved in other projects, Frankel kept in touch "with executives or producers" at cable networks including the Discovery Channel, hoping to turn the video footage from the trip into a series; executives at the latter "wouldn’t quite commit, but were ...eager to keep in touch." [4]
When Frankel became aware of Halogen TV, a secular channel owned by The Inspiration Networks, he contacted them. Marshall Nord, Halogen's program director, had him flown to North Carolina to meet with staff producer Todd Lewis; as a result, Halogen licensed the video footage Frankel had made during his spring 2009 trip, and "signed him to produce, co-write and host a 10-episode series of 30-minute" episodes. [4] In late July 2010, Frankel returned to North Carolina where intro segments he wrote for the series were recorded; the segments were set in a "rustic wood cabin that once served as a general store in Jim and Tammy Bakker's Heritage USA amusement park" and featured Frankel, two of his friends and an actress playing a third friend, ...pretending to listen to Frankel as he describes slides he has taken on the real trip depicted in the video footage he licensed to them. Their "(often-sarcastic) responses lead into actual video vignettes, which then form the core of the series." [4]
The following is a list of episodes: [5] [6]
No. | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | "Onward from Oregon" | April 22, 2011 | |
Boaz begins a car-free cross-country journey on a motorized cooler, traveling through Lodi on an agricultural helicopter and sailing around Santa Barbara on a catamaran. | |||
2 | "From Cali to Camels" | April 29, 2011 | |
3 | "Cruisin' to the Capitol" | May 8, 2011 | |
Boaz is in Chicago with a walking rickshaw and a wine bike, then in Washington D.C. for a ride on a secret subway. | |||
4 | "Caloosahatchee or Bust!" | May 13, 2011 | |
5 | "Escape from Punta Gorda" | May 20, 2011 | |
6 | "Bike the Big Apple" | May 27, 2011 | |
Boaz is in New York City on a cargo bike, sees the future at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the past in a 1920s barnstormer. | |||
7 | "Boaz’s Bike Bonanza" | June 3, 2011 | |
In New England, Boaz travels 30 miles on a Segway PT, rides a bike through the New Hampshire hills, and gets airborne on a paraglider. | |||
8 | "Canada on Couch Bike" | June 10, 2011 | |
Boaz covering many kilometers on Couch Bike, then returned stateside for a rollercoaster ride at the Mall of America. | |||
9 | "Westward Bound" | June 17, 2011 | |
Boaz heads west, through Minneapolis on a Pedal Pub, Idaho on a seaplane and hitchhiking in Seattle. | |||
10 | "The End of The Un-Road Trip?" | June 24, 2011 | |
Following a wipeout in Seattle, a jug band jam on a seven-man bike, Boaz ends his journey back in Portland on a Velomobile. |
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