Around the World in 80 Days (2009 TV series)

Around the World in 80 Days is a British travel documentary series made to support the annual BBC Children in Need charity appeal in 2009. It sees twelve celebrities attempt to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days without using air transport, recreating the journey of Phileas Fogg and Michael Palin. Like Fogg and Palin, the journey begins and ends at the Reform Club in London. It was first shown on BBC One and BBC HD in October and November 2009.

Production
The challenge for the celebrities was to travel around the globe in eighty days, starting and ending at the Reform Club in London, re-enacting the challenge made to Phileas Fogg in the 1873 Jules Verne novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Around the World in 80 Days with Michael Palin. In each episode, a pair of celebrities travels a single leg of the round-the-world journey, trying to meet the next pair at a handover point in sufficient time, in relay race fashion. The journey could be completed by any means except by flight. At the handover, they pass to the succeeding team a carpet bag containing, amongst other items, a journal and a phone. Each of the celebrity pairs contributed to the journal as their leg of the journey progressed, and ahead of the trip Palin wrote an entry containing advice for the travellers.

Throughout the journey, the celebrities collected various items on their leg of the journey. These were then auctioned to raise money for Children in Need, as was the journal completed by the travellers at the end of the trip.

Auction items
UK to Turkey
 * Ukulele played by Frank Skinner
 * Pudsey bear signed by Frank Skinner
 * Pudsey bear signed by Lee Mack

Turkey to Kazakhstan
 * Pudsey bear signed by Nick Hewer
 * Pudsey bear signed by Saira Khan

Kazakhstan to Mongolia
 * Pudsey bear signed by Julia Bradbury
 * Pudsey bear signed by Matt Baker

Mongolia to USA
 * Selection of paintings by Louise Minchin
 * Pudsey bear signed by Bill Turnbull
 * Pudsey bear signed by Louise Minchin

USA (California) to USA (Memphis)
 * Pink tutu
 * Pair of Around the World in 80 Days Boots
 * Pudsey bear signed by John Barrowman
 * Pudsey bear signed by Myleene Klass

USA to UK
 * Shane Ritchie's Outfit from 'Cargo'
 * Josie Lawrence's Outfit from 'Cargo'
 * Pudsey bear signed by Shane Ritchie
 * Pudsey bear signed by Josie Lawrence
 * Silver Harmonica

Other
 * Around the World in 80 Days Journal
 * Around the World in 80 Days Carpet Bag