The Amazing Race Canada
2013–CTVDocumentary
The format run entirely inside one country, which turns out to be quite large enough for it.
The Amazing Race Canada opens with a main title sequence of 46 seconds.
It arrived on CTV in 2013, when Degrassi: The Next Generation was also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
46sFan upload of the first season's intro. The same uploader has later seasons, but a single frame could not separate them from this one.
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