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Samantha Brown's Great Weekends

Samantha Brown's Great Weekends

Description: Samantha Brown's "Passport" series of programs has become a mainstay of the Travel Channel lineup, and this latest series is built around the growing trend among American families to take weekend trips in lieu of the traditional one- or two-week vacations. Samantha visits popular weekend destinations ranging from San Francisco, New York and Orlando, Fla., to Paris, with each trip built around a theme (a Washington, D.C., visit that de-emphasizes the usual historical monuments and museums, for example).
Genre: Special Interest
Year Released: 2008
First episode air date: 2008
Genre: Special Interest
Cast: Samantha Brown
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