Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (US)

This game is based on the British version of the same name. This game is simple, but in a hard way: Be the first to answer a question correctly, get up on stage to answer 15 more questions correctly, and you win $1 million. But the hard parts are these: Be the first to answer a "fastest finger question" (a question with 4 answers to be placed in a certain order) correctly. The person who does this gets up on stage and into the "hot seat", where s/he will answer 15 multiple choice questions. The second hard part is the multiple choice questions get tougher as they go along: for that reason, 3 "Lifelines" (types of aid) are there to help: once one lifeline is used, it cannot be used again. These Lifelines are: 1. Ask the audience, usually used in one of the first 7 or 8 questions. The audience uses the keypad in front of their seats to vote on what they think the answer is, and the results are shown to the player on his/her computer screen in bar graph form. 2.

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General

Seasons

TheTVDB.com Series ID 78236
Status Ended
First Aired August 16, 1999
Recent February 15, 2019
Airs Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday,
Network ABC (US)
Production Company Distributed by Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Average Runtime 45 minutes
Genres Game Show
Original Country United States of America
Original Language English
Geographic Location New York City
On Other Sites Facebook IMDB Official Website TMS (Zap2It) TheMovieDB.com
Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
Award Nominations Daytime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Game Show, 2000 (winner) Daytime Emmy Awards, Outstanding Game Show, 2001 (winner)
Favorited This series has been favorited by 6 people.
Created February 4, 2008 by
Kenneth the Page
Modified July 9, 2024 by
AliceNikkiTV

Season	From	To	Episodes
All Seasons
Specials	September 2018		1
Season 1	August 1999	July 2000	102
Season 2	September 2000	September 2001	150
Season 3	March 2001	September 2001	3
Season 4	February 2002	February 2004	12
Season 5	February 2004	May 2004	20
Season 6			0
Season 7			0
Season 8			0
Season 9	September 2010	November 2010	40
Season 10			0
Season 11			0
Season 12			0
Season 13	September 2014	September 2014	15
Season 14	November 2015	April 2017	88
Season 15	September 2016	September 2016	30
Season 16	January 2017	June 2018	125
Season 17	September 2017	February 2019	126
Unassigned Episodes			89