| 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 |
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| Running time | 80-83 minutes |
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| Network | ABC |
| Release | March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06) – August 4, 2018 (2018-08-04) |
20/20: In an Instant (orIn 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 | ||
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| 1 | 7 | March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06) | April 11, 2015 (2015-04-11) | |
| 2 | 6 | June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18) | July 23, 2016 (2016-07-23) | |
| 3 | 9 | June 3, 2017 (2017-06-03) | August 4, 2018 (2018-08-04) | |
| No. overall | No.in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 1 | 1 | "Flying Blind" | March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06) | 4.39[4] | |
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A family survives a plane crash that killed two in the Alaskan wilderness.
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| 2 | 2 | "Rush Hour Disaster" | March 13, 2015 (2015-03-13) | 4.36[5] | |
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In 2007, an interstate bridge holding hundreds of people in Minneapolis gives way.
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| 3 | 3 | "Grizzly Bear Attack" | March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20) | 3.62[6] | |
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A man protects his daughter when a grizzly bear attacks the two during a celebratory hike in rural Montana.
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| 4 | 4 | "Left for Dead" | March 27, 2015 (2015-03-27) | 4.41[7] | |
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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.
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| 5 | 5 | "Bad Guys at the Good Guys" | April 3, 2015 (2015-04-03) | 3.38[8] | |
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A group of gunmen holds employees and shoppers hostage at an electronics store in Sacramento, California.
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| 6 | 6 | "Buried Alive" | April 10, 2015 (2015-04-10) | 4.05[9] | |
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A man is trapped when a shelf in a silo collapses, burying him beneath several feet of rotten corn in Eldora, Iowa.
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| 7 | 7 | "The Shootout" | April 17, 2015 (2015-04-17) | 2.89[10] | |
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InJacksonville, 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.
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| 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 (2016-06-18) | N/A | |
| 9 | 2 | "Murder in the Maternity Ward"[12] | June 25, 2016 (2016-06-25) | N/A | |
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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.
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| 10 | 3 | "Desert Dog Rescue" | July 2, 2016 (2016-07-02) | 3.16[13] | |
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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.
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| 11 | 4 | "He Picked the Wrong Girl"[12] | July 9, 2016 (2016-07-09) | N/A | |
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Ashley Ware bravely fights against an attacker after being abducted from her home in Fargo, North Dakota.
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| 12 | 5 | "Hanging in the Balance"[12] | July 16, 2016 (2016-07-16) | N/A | |
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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.
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| 13 | 6 | "Buried By Bonfire"[12] | July 23, 2016 (2016-07-23) | N/A | |
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College students get trapped when stacks of logs collapse during the construction of a massive bonfireatTexas A&M UniversityinCollege Station, Texas.
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| No. overall | No.in season | Title | Original air date | U.S. viewers (millions) | |
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| 14 | 1 | "Whiteout" | June 3, 2017 (2017-06-03) | 2.52[14] | |
| 15 | 2 | "Deliver Us from Evil" | June 10, 2017 (2017-06-10) | 2.27[15] | |
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A young woman endures years of abuse in a rural Minnesota cult before escaping and helping put the cult's charismatic leader behind bars.
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| 16 | 3 | "Lost in Snow" | June 17, 2017 (2017-06-17) | 2.75[16] | |
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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.
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| 17 | 4 | "Terror in the Library" | June 24, 2017 (2017-06-24) | 2.73[17] | |
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A US Veteran holds 10 people hostage in the Salt Lake City Public Library, one of which is a Salt Lake City police officer.
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| 18 | 5 | "Match Made in Hell" | July 1, 2017 (2017-07-01) | 2.61[18] | |
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ALas 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.
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| 19 | 6 | "Frozen on the Mountain" | July 8, 2017 (2017-07-08) | 2.66[19] | |
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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.
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| 20 | 7 | "Home Invasion Horror" | July 15, 2017 (2017-07-15) | 2.81[20] | |
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InOntario, Ohio, a banker's family is held hostage by a gunman determined to rob a bank without ever setting foot inside.
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| 21 | 8 | "The Woman Who Refused to Die" | December 29, 2017 (2017-12-29) | 3.75[21] | |
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InClearwater, 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.
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| 22 | 9 | "Fire on the Mountain" | August 4, 2018 (2018-08-04) | N/A | |
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The Valley Fire eviscerates northern California in 2015 forcing residents to become their own heroes in their desperate attempts to escape and survive.
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