# Help me with this extinct reality TV show

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**Created:** [September 18, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-extinct-reality-tv-show/464141 "2008-09-18T14:04:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-extinct-reality-tv-show/464141/1 "2008-09-18T14:04:10Z")

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I want to say it was called Lost (no relationship to Lost), but googling says no.

It was a bunch of couples dropped in some faraway place (the only season I am aware of was in Mongolia) and they had to find their way to NYC, however they made it happen.

I found it very creative and interesting (better than The Amazing Race, sorry for the sacrilege) but I don’t think it got a second season.

I never got to see the end, and would love to track this down (go ahead, be a jerk and spoil it, my memory sucks).

Was I really the only one who enjoyed it?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-extinct-reality-tv-show/464141/2 "2008-09-18T14:06:06Z")

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> [@Sapo](#):
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> I want to say it was called Lost (no relationship to Lost), but googling says no.

Google says [yes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(2001_TV_series)).

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**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-extinct-reality-tv-show/464141/3 "2008-09-18T14:21:52Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> Google says [yes](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_(2001_TV_series)).

That answers all my questions:

Did I make it up? No  
Was I misremembering the name? No  
Was I the only one watching? Pretty much, yes.  
Why didn’t I watch it to the end? 9-11

And now I know there is a whole lot more of it around, apparently. Will have to search for it.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@McDeath\_the\_Mad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McDeath_the_Mad)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-with-this-extinct-reality-tv-show/464141/4 "2008-09-18T18:20:52Z")

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I remember watching that show, I thought there were 2 seasons of it (I never checked the google link).

I thought it was a pretty cool premise: “okay here you are with someone you’ve never met before, somewhere in the world (I think one season they started out in some dessert in Mongolia) with no money. Now get to New York!”.

It reminded me of the Amazing Race, but not quite the production value.

MtM