20/20: In an Instant
In an Instant (or 20/20: In an Instant) is an American documentary series on ABC. The show premiered on March 6, 2015, before moving to its regular timeslot on Fridays at 9:00 pm.[1] The show follows people who have gone through life changing events as they come to terms and relive the moments.
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| Also known as | 20/20: In an Instant |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 21 |
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| Running time | 80-83 minutes |
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| Original network | ABC |
| Original release | March 6, 2015 – July 29, 2017 |
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On May 24, 2016, the show was renewed for a second season, which premiered on June 18, 2016, and ran for six consecutive weeks.[2] The season finale aired on July 23, 2016. On May 19, 2017, the show was renewed for a third season, which premiered on June 3, 2017.[3]
Series overview
| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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| First aired | Last aired | |||
| 1 | 7 | March 6, 2015 | April 11, 2015 | |
| 2 | 6 | June 18, 2016 | July 23, 2016 | |
| 3 | 8 | June 3, 2017 | December 29, 2017 | |
Episodes
Season 1 (2015)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | "Flying Blind" | March 6, 2015 | 4.39[4] | |
| A family survives a plane crash that killed two in the Alaskan wilderness. | |||||
| 2 | 2 | "Rush Hour Disaster" | March 13, 2015 | 4.36[5] | |
| In 2007, an interstate bridge holding hundreds of people in Minneapolis gives way. | |||||
| 3 | 3 | "Grizzly Bear Attack" | March 20, 2015 | 3.62[6] | |
| A man protects his daughter when a grizzly bear attacks the two during a celebratory hike in rural Montana. | |||||
| 4 | 4 | "Left for Dead" | March 27, 2015 | 4.41[7] | |
| In a Milwalkee suburb, a woman is beaten unconscious and left in a garbage bin locked in a storage unit in Illinois by her abusive ex-husband. | |||||
| 5 | 5 | "Bad Guys at the Good Guys" | April 3, 2015 | 3.38[8] | |
| A group of gunmen holds employees and shoppers hostage at an electronics store in Sacramento, California. | |||||
| 6 | 6 | "Buried Alive" | April 10, 2015 | 4.05[9] | |
| A man is trapped when a shelf in a silo collapses, burying him beneath several feet of rotten corn in Eldora, Iowa. | |||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Shootout" | April 17, 2015 | 2.89[10] | |
| In Jacksonville, Florida police officer Pete Soulis had no way of knowing that the suspicious guy in the parking lot was likely a killer from Georgia on the run. When the ex-con took aim at him, Pete found himself in one of the most epic gun battles a cop has ever survived. | |||||
Season 2 (2016)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 8 | 1 | "Tragedy in Tornado Alley"[11] | June 18, 2016 | N/A | |
| A catastrophic tornado hits the town of Moore, Oklahoma. | |||||
| 9 | 2 | "Murder in the Maternity Ward"[12] | June 25, 2016 | N/A | |
| A gunman holds a maternity ward hostage, seeking the doctor who performed a tubal ligation surgery on his wife two years earlier in Salt Lake City, Utah. | |||||
| 10 | 3 | "Desert Dog Rescue" | July 2, 2016 | 3.16[13] | |
| When a woman falls 60 feet off a canyon wall while running with her dog and shatters her pelvis in Moab, Utah, she must fight to stay alive as temperatures drop. | |||||
| 11 | 4 | "He Picked the Wrong Girl"[12] | July 9, 2016 | N/A | |
| Ashley Ware bravely fights against an attacker after being abducted from her home in Fargo, North Dakota. | |||||
| 12 | 5 | "Hanging in the Balance"[12] | July 16, 2016 | N/A | |
| Just outside Buellton, California on Highway 101, A woman and her two daughters become trapped in their crushed car, dangling over the edge of a ravine, when a high truck driver crashes into them on the highway, his own vehicle exploding and going over the edge. | |||||
| 13 | 6 | "Buried By Bonfire"[12] | July 23, 2016 | N/A | |
| College students get trapped when stacks of logs collapse during the construction of a massive bonfire at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. | |||||
Season 3 (2017)
| No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 14 | 1 | "Whiteout" | June 3, 2017 | 2.52[14] | |
| While traveling to Idaho, a couple gets stranded in white out conditions with their infant child after their pickup truck gets stuck in the snow in rural Nevada. | |||||
| 15 | 2 | "Deliver Us from Evil" | June 10, 2017 | 2.27[15] | |
| A young woman endures years of abuse in a rural Minnesota cult before escaping and helping put the cult's charismatic leader behind bars. | |||||
| 16 | 3 | "Lost in Snow" | June 17, 2017 | 2.75[16] | |
| When two boys go missing the night before Thanksgiving in Newburgh, New York, no one guesses that a plow buried them in a snow fort. | |||||
| 17 | 4 | "Terror in the Library" | June 24, 2017 | 2.73[17] | |
| A US Veteran holds 10 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library, one of which is a Salt Lake City police officer. | |||||
| 18 | 5 | "Match Made in Hell" | July 1, 2017 | 2.61[18] | |
| A Las Vegas Realtor using online dating meets a man who tries to kill her. The man escapes and does kill another of his previous love connections. | |||||
| 19 | 6 | "Frozen on the Mountain" | July 8, 2017 | 2.66[19] | |
| An army veteran uses his U.S. flag to protect himself, his service dog and a fellow hiker after becoming trapped on a Californian mountain in an unexpected blizzard. | |||||
| 20 | 7 | "Home Invasion Horror" | July 15, 2017 | 2.81[20] | |
| In Ontario, Ohio, a banker's family is held hostage by a gunman determined to rob a bank without ever setting foot inside. | |||||
| 21 | 8 | "The Woman Who Refused to Die" | July 22, 2017 | 3.75[21] | |
| In Clearwater, Florida, a young woman is violently stabbed to the death by her contumelious boyfriend, who at first was kind and gentle. | |||||
| 22 | 9 | "Fire on the Mountain" | July 29, 2017 | N/A | |
| The Valley Fire eviscerates Northern California in 2015 forcing residents to become their own heroes in their desperate attempts to escape and survive. | |||||
References
- "In An Instant – About the show". ABC. Retrieved May 17, 2015.
- ""20/20: In an Instant" - Two-Hour Docudrama Series Returns for Second Season, Premieres June 18 on ABC". The Futon Critic. May 24, 2016. Retrieved May 27, 2016.
- "Gripping Stories of Survival and Triumph on the Season Premiere of ABC News' "In an Instant," June 3". The Futon Critic. May 19, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
- Baron, Steve (March 9, 2015). "Friday Final Ratings: No Adjustment for 'Glee', 'Hawaii Five-0' or 'Shark Tank'". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
- Baron, Steve (March 8, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: Boxing Wins Night, '48 Hours' & 'In An Instant' Down". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 10, 2015. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
- Kondolojy, Amanda (March 15, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: '48 Hours' Rises at 10PM, 'In an Instant' Dips + '20/20′ Flat". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 16, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- Bibel, Sara (March 22, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: NCAA Tournament Wins Night, '48 Hours' Up, 'In An Instant' Flat". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on March 25, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- Kondolojy, Amanda (March 29, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: World Figure Skating Championships Soft + 'In an Instant' Rises". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- Bibel, Sara (April 5, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: 'In An Instant' Steady, '48 Hours' Down". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on April 9, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- Kondolojy, Amanda (April 12, 2015). "TV Ratings Saturday: '48 Hours' Rises, 'In an Instant' Falls as NASCAR Tops Night". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on April 16, 2015. Retrieved May 28, 2015.
- "Listings - IN AN INSTANT on ABC". The Futon Critic. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- "Shows A-Z - In an Instant on abc". The Futon Critic. Retrieved June 18, 2016.
- Porter, Rick (July 3, 2016). "TV Ratings Saturday: NASCAR drives NBC to an easy win". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on July 4, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
- Mitch Metcalf (June 6, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals: 6.3.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (June 13, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals: 6.10.2017". Retrieved June 13, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (June 20, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals: 6.17.2017". Retrieved June 20, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (June 27, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals". Retrieved June 27, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (July 5, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals". Retrieved July 5, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (July 11, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals & Network Finals". Retrieved July 11, 2017.
- Metcalf, Mitch (July 18, 2017). "Top 150 Saturday Cable Originals: 7.15.2017". Showbuzz Daily. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- Porter, Rick (December 30, 2017). "TV Ratings Friday: 'Dateline' is the best of a rerun-heavy bunch". TV By the Numbers. Archived from the original on December 30, 2017. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
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