Millionaire-a-thon today 1/11

[HSquares2003]

I can't find this info. on the old abc site, so what was the complete list of millionaires and the dates they won. GSN is advertising 6 million dollars being given away today, but I thought it was more like 8 winners on the Regis version.


Thanks in advance!!!!

[TV Favorites]

AFAIK, GSN still doesn't have the rights to every episode produced of Regis's Millionaire.  Maybe some of the episodes being withheld are those GSN doesn't have the rights to.

[Kevin Prather]

11/19/99 = John Carpenter
1/18/00 = Dan Blonsky
3/23/00 = Joe Trela
6/13/00 = Bob House
7/??/00 = Kim Hunt
7/??/00 = David Goodman
4/21/01 = Kevin Olmstead
4/26/01 = Bernie Cullen
?/??/01 = Ed Toutant

That's about as accurate as I can get.

[Timsterino]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 04:14 PM\'] 11/19/99 = John Carpenter
1/18/00 = Dan Blonsky
3/23/00 = Joe Trela
6/13/00 = Bob House
7/??/00 = Kim Hunt
7/??/00 = David Goodman
4/21/01 = Kevin Olmstead
4/26/01 = Bernie Cullen
?/??/01 = Ed Toutant

That's about as accurate as I can get. [/quote]
 Ed Toutant was 9/7/01 (When he came back anyway).

Tim :-)

[inturnaround]

Kim House won on 7/6/2000.

David Goodman won on 7/11/2000.

Ed Toutant was originally on the Superbowl show on 1/31/2001 and brought back 9/7/01.

[Kevin Prather]

I'm pretty sure he wasn't on the Super Bowl show. They said the remaining questions he got were from the stack he got on his first appearance, and they had nothing to do with football. Also, I think he was the one who lost on the question about the glowing potato.

[itiparanoid13]

i will say 1 thing.  With the amount of lights on the Millionaire set, you think they would have a more impressive win celebration.  The $100K RR win is more impressive.  However, thats just something tiny and insignificant i noticed.  this marathon is just wonderful.

[Kevin Prather]

I think the win celebration is great. The confetti takes a long time to fall, which is good. (I hate the confetti on Pyramid.) The lights go in a good pattern, and certainly the win cue COULD be longer, but I think it's just fine.

[inturnaround]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 05:28 PM\'] I'm pretty sure he wasn't on the Super Bowl show. They said the remaining questions he got were from the stack he got on his first appearance, and they had nothing to do with football. Also, I think he was the one who lost on the question about the glowing potato. [/quote]
Ed started playing on the 1/28/01 show that aired after the Superbowl. He got to the $200 question when the horn sounded and he returned Wednesday 1/31/01 where he struck out on the potato/tomato glowing veggie/fruit question at the $16000 level.

The Superbowl show that year didn't have all football questions. The Millionaire that aired on Saturday, January 29th, 2000 was the all football edition of WWTBAM, the year before.

[gameshowguy2000]

Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant (The LATTER contestant hailing from my home state of Texas) were both on the Mega-Jackpot version of Millionaire.

When the show started up again in 2001, after going 71 shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.

Kevin won $2.18 million, and Ed won $1.86 million.

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 08:37 PM\'] Kevin Olmstead and Ed Toutant (The LATTER contestant hailing from my home state of Texas) were both on the Mega-Jackpot version of Millionaire.

When the show started up again in 2001, after going maybe a thousand shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.

Kevin won $2.18 million, and Ed won $1.86 million. [/quote]
 They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point)

[gameshowguy2000]

Thanks for correcting my mistake on the "# of shows" thing, Zach!

(See edited post.)

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 06:55 PM\'] They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point) [/quote]
 Yeah! What he said! That'll teach you to dare to use hyperbole around here! Hah!

(good lord....)

[zachhoran]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 10:35 PM\'] [quote name=\'zachhoran\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 06:55 PM\'] They went 71 shows without a million(they started the jackpot at that amount, 1 Million plus $10K for each of the 71 shows they'd gone without a winner at that point) [/quote]
Yeah! What he said! That'll teach you to dare to use hyperbole around here! Hah!

(good lord....) [/quote]
 As an atheist would say, the Lord is not Good sometimes.

[Don Howard]

[quote name=\'gameshowguy2000\' date=\'Jan 11 2004, 08:37 PM\'] When the show started up again in 2001, after going 71 shows without a winner, they decided to do a progressive jackpot that began at $1.71 million, and went up $10,000 for each of the next shows until it was won.

 [/quote]
Yes, the Mega-Millionaire era. I liked that. Too bad they discontinued it after Kevin broke the jackpot. Ah, well. That's show biz. I still enjoy the show very much.