''The Un-Road Trip'' is an American

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series featuring Boaz Frankel, a

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resident, as he travels 12,000 miles across North America using 101 non-gas powered modes of transportation. Most of the show was filmed over a ten-week period beginning in April 2009. It was first aired as a weekly series on

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, beginning on April 22, 2011.

Production

The basis for the series was a two-month trip Boaz Frankel took in spring 2009. While involved in other projects, Frankel kept in touch "with executives or producers" at cable networks including the

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, 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." When Frankel became aware of

, 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. 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

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and Tammy Bakker's

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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."

List of episodes

The following is a list of episodes:

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Un-Road Trip, The 2010s American reality television series American travel television series 2011 American television series debuts