Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
Season 42
5 listed hours · 1999–present · ABC
From the desk
How this season is filed
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.
TV Flash files Season 42 of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (1999–present) on ABC as the last listed season of 42 — 5 listed hours, 2026-04-26–2026-06-07 from “Episode 1” (S42E01) to “Episode 5” (S42E05). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
Desk essentials in this season
- S42E05 Episode 5
Catalog-latest filing: mega-run trivia still on the air, the mortgage fantasy now a franchise window.
More from the 1990s.