20/20: In an Instant | |
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Also known as | In an Instant |
Genre | Documentary |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Production | |
Executive producers |
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Running time | 80-83 minutes |
Production companies |
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Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 6, 2015 August 4, 2018 | –
20/20: In an Instant (or 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.
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]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 7 | March 6, 2015 | April 11, 2015 | |
2 | 6 | June 18, 2016 | July 23, 2016 | |
3 | 9 | June 3, 2017 | August 4, 2018 |
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
Milwaukee 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. |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 semi truck driver crashes into them, 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. |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
14 | 1 | "Whiteout" | June 3, 2017 | 2.52 [14] | |
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 mountain in California during 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" | December 29, 2017 | 3.75 [21] | |
In
Clearwater, Florida, a young woman is violently stabbed to the death by her abusive boyfriend, but finds true love with one of the paramedics who rescues her. | |||||
22 | 9 | "Fire on the Mountain" | August 4, 2018 | 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. |
20/20: In an Instant | |
---|---|
Also known as | In an Instant |
Genre | Documentary |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 3 |
No. of episodes | 22 |
Production | |
Executive producers |
|
Running time | 80-83 minutes |
Production companies |
|
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | March 6, 2015 August 4, 2018 | –
20/20: In an Instant (or 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.
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]
Season | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 7 | March 6, 2015 | April 11, 2015 | |
2 | 6 | June 18, 2016 | July 23, 2016 | |
3 | 9 | June 3, 2017 | August 4, 2018 |
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
Milwaukee 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. |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
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 semi truck driver crashes into them, 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. |
No. overall |
No. in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
14 | 1 | "Whiteout" | June 3, 2017 | 2.52 [14] | |
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 mountain in California during 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" | December 29, 2017 | 3.75 [21] | |
In
Clearwater, Florida, a young woman is violently stabbed to the death by her abusive boyfriend, but finds true love with one of the paramedics who rescues her. | |||||
22 | 9 | "Fire on the Mountain" | August 4, 2018 | 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. |