Up to Speed (2012)

Biography · Comedy

Tour guide, historian and flaneur "Speed" Levitch travels the nation visiting those monuments that rarely make it into travel guides, from the shoe gardens of San Francisco to the luckiest subway grate in New York City.

IMDb rating: 6.6 (179 votes)
Episode average: 7.0 +0.4 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Streaming (US): Hulu
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

Cast

Timothy "Speed" Levitch Self

Seasons

Season 1 (2012)

6.97 avg 6 episodes 6.5 → 7.3 26 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	San Francisco: A City Shaped by Earthquakes	6.5	11
2	Chicago: To Conjure a Lost Neighborhood	6.8	10
3	Kansas & Missouri: In the Middle of the Middle of the Midwest	6.3	13
4	Virginia: The Many Flavors of Thomas Jefferson	7.9	11
5	New York City: The Beauty of Randomness	7.0	7
6	The Tour Guide Convention	7.3	6