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Sun 28th Jan 8pm. 15 questions are all that stand between six contestants and £1 million. Sat 8th Oct 9.30pm. Six eager quizzers have their fastest fingers at the ready and are all hoping to win...
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The fourth series of the UK version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? ran for twelve consecutive nights on ITV, from 3 to 14 September 1999. It was hosted by Chris Tarrant.
The series featured thirteen episodes, with two airing on 11 September 1999 to coincide with the premiere of the second series of Cilla Black's game show The Moment of Truth. It was the first series to be broadcast in the widescreen (16:9) format. The episode of 4 September 1999 (coincidentally, the show's first anniversary) saw Jonathan Green become the first contestant to win £250,000.
•Episode 1 (3rd September 1999)
•Episode 2 (4th September 1999)
•Episode 3 (5th September 1999)
•Episode 4 (6th September 1999)
•Episode 5 (7th September 1999)
•Episode 6 (8th September 1999)
•In a change to the studio set-up, the case of money that had been attached to the podium since the show's premiere was removed, leaving only the monitors and chairs. Chris Tarrant has explained that in the event there was a jackpot win, he would have had to open the briefcase, yet it was feared that, potentially, £50 notes could have gone everywhere if he did it wrongly, possibly giving money to the audience and not the contestant.
•From this series until end of year, certain music tracks had a more bassy tone to them. This may have been caused by the move from Fountain Studios to Elstree, as the sound tones were corrected in the New Year for subsequent series.
The first ever episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? was transmitted on September 4, 1998 on ITV1 in the UK, hosted by Chris Tarrant. The show can now been seen in over 120...
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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? is a British television quiz show, created by David Briggs, Steven Knight and Mike Whitehill for the ITV network. The programme's format has contestants taking on multiple-choice questions based upon general knowledge , winning a cash prize for each question they answer correctly, with the amount offered ...
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