Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Episode 11
TV Flash files “Episode 11” as hour 22 of 450 in the TV Flash guide — Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–present) on ABC, season 2, episode 11, aired 1999-01-11, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E11: listed hour 22 of 450 in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire guide, hour 11 of 13 in season 2. It aired 1999-01-11 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Episode 10” (S02E10). Next is “Episode 12” (S02E12). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Episode 11 sit in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire guide?
S02E11 is listed hour 22 of 450 — hour 11 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 11.
When did Who Wants to Be a Millionaire S02E11 air?
Episode 11 aired 1999-01-11 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Is this the British show or the U.S. one?
U.S. primetime, hosted by Regis Philbin from August 1999, adapted from the British format that debuted in 1998.
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Why this series still plays
Regis in the hot seat, a pulsing soundtrack, and a nation screaming answers at the set. Quiz-show architecture rebuilt as primetime siege warfare — lifelines, dramatic lights, and the fantasy that trivia could pay the mortgage. The format that hijacked ABC’s schedule at decade’s end and taught networks that a game could be an event again.
Calendar first: **August 16, 1999**. ABC drops a British quiz format into primetime and treats weeknights like a siege window. Rex can toast the golden-age podium until the ice melts; this is inventory that hijacked a schedule, not a museum hour with a nicer lamp. Contestants climb a cash ladder with lifelines while America yells answers at the screen. The metric is not nostalgia for a bell. The metric is **multi-night airings** at the turn of the millennium — a game stacked like a sports series, not parked as a…
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- Regis Philbin as Host
Regis Philbin hosted Who Wants to Be a Millionaire from the hot seat — 1990s quiz-show architecture rebuilt as primetime siege warfare, a pulsing soundtrack, a nation screaming answers at the set. Lifelines, dramatic lights, the fantasy…