Escape the Night season 1

The first season of Escape the Night premiered on June 22, 2016, through YouTube Red. The premiere season showcased a total of ten guests invited to The Savant's party and required them to act and dress as various personas from the Roaring Twenties.^[1] Once there, isolated from the outside world and tasked with surviving the night and escaping the historical era.^[2]

Escape the Night
Season 1
Promotional poster for season one.
No. of contestants	11
Winners	Joey Graceffa Eva Gutowski Oli White
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	YouTube Red
Original release	June 22 (2016-06-22) – August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)
Season chronology

Production

In October 2015, the subscription service formerly known as YouTube Red, revealed upcoming projects such as Fight of the Living Dead, A Trip to Unicorn Island (2016), Single by 30, and Scare PewDiePie. This also includes an untitled Joey Graceffa project that involves a murder mystery.^[3] A year later, the subscription service teased clips of their upcoming murder mystery series.^[4] Sam Gutelle, a writer from Tubefilter, described the potential series as "the board game Clue" which turns the party "into a whodunit, with each guest transformed into a suspect."^[5] Joey Graceffa, the creator of the series, revealed in a Teen Vogue interview that "the idea for the project has been in the works for two years, and that he most looked forward to collaborating" with other YouTubers.^[6]

Guests

Guests from the first season of Escape the Night and their backgrounds

Guest	Role	Outcome
Joey Graceffa	The Savant	Escaped
Eva Gutowski	The Journalist
Oli White	The Big Game Hunter
Lele Pons	The Hustler	4th place
Timothy DeLaGhetto	The Mobster	5th place
Matt Haag	The Professor	6th place
Sierra Furtado	The Heiress	7th place
GloZell Green	The Jazz Singer	8th place[a]
Justine Ezarik	The Gambler	9th place
Andrea Brooks	The Fixer	10th place
Shane Dawson	The Renegade	11th place[b]

Notes:

1. The death of GloZell was scripted due to a leg injury she sustained in the series.
2. The death of Shane was scripted due to filming schedule constraints.

Guest progress

Legend:

  Joey, Eva, and Oli escaped the first season of Escape the Night.

  WIN indicates the guest was voted into a challenge and won.

  WIN indicates the guest was selected as a partner for a challenge competitor and won, saving their partner.

  SAFE indicates the guest was selected as a partner for a challenge competitor and lost, causing their partner to die.

  SAFE indicates the guest was voted into a challenge and remained safe.

  SAFE indicates the guest was declared safe from the challenge.

  DEAD indicates the guest wasn't voted into a challenge but died.

  DEAD indicates the guest was not voted into a challenge but instead voted to die.

  DEAD indicates the guest was voted into a challenge and died.

Progress of guests including rank/position in each episode

Guest	Episode
	1[7]	2[8]	3[9]	4[10]	5[11]	6[12]	7[13]	8[14]	9[15]	10[16]
Joey	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	Escaped
Eva	SAFE	WIN	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	WIN
Oli	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE
Lele	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	DEAD
Timothy	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	DEAD
Matt	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	WIN	DEAD
Sierra	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	DEAD
GloZell	SAFE	SAFE	SAFE	DEAD
Justine	SAFE	SAFE	DEAD
Andrea	SAFE	DEAD

Challenges

Legend:

  The guest was eliminated but was never voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their first time being voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their second time being voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their third time being voted for a challenge.

Episode	Guest(s)			Challenge	Eliminated	Cause of Death
1	Everyone			Everyone had to complete a series of impossible tasks to gain the cure to the poison that Shane Dawson had ingested.	Shane Dawson	Poisoned by the Evil of the House.
2	Andrea Brooks	vs.	Lele Pons	Their chosen partners had to complete a series of tasks involving the wiring and piping with the first to finish causing their partner to escape, but the other's tank to be filled with poisonous gas.	Andrea Brooks	Inhaled noxious gas produced by the Ungodly Machine.
3	Everyone			The guests had to vote for one of their friends to be buried alive and then be the ones to bury them.	Justine Ezarik	Buried alive to reverse the Claws Ritual.
4	Joey Graceffa	vs.	Lele Pons	They had to do tasks involving mannequins to get keys to open a drawer which was revealed to contain a Murder Journal in which they had to write one name.	GloZell Green	Choked on her own blood after Joey wrote her name in the Murder Journal.
5	Oli White	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Need to perform in a circus show and receive points for whoever did better and whoever got the least points would supposedly die.	None	The Ring Master spared their lives.
6	Matt Haag	vs.	Sierra Furtado	Sierra had to hold down a possessed girl and recite a prayer whilst Matt needed to perform a ritual around them. Unbeknownst to either, a rosary involved in Matt's task would kill the person who wore it.	Sierra Furtado	Demonically possessed and convulsed to death.
7	Matt Haag	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Needed to organize a doll house correctly to get the vials. Winner got to choose which vial they drank, one was poisoned, the other was not.	Matt Haag	Ingested poison twice.
8	Eva Gutowski	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	They had to take part in a game, which was a hybrid of Battleship and Russian Roulette.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Shot himself in the head while playing Russian Roulette.
9	Lele Pons	vs.	Oli White	Their chosen partners had to throw rings. However, with every miss their partner would be electrocuted, and whoever's partner finished last would have their chair overloaded with electricity.	Lele Pons	Electrocuted by the Learning Chair.

Episodes

Season 1 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"An Invitation"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
2	2	"The Ungodly Machine"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
3	3	"Buried Alive"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29)
4	4	"Mannequins"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 6, 2016 (2016-07-06)
5	5	"Freak Show"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13)
6	6	"Did Someone Call For An Exorcist?"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 20, 2016 (2016-07-20)
7	7	"Mermaid Tails"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27)
8	8	"All Out War"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03)
9	9	"Wicked Hallucinations"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 10, 2016 (2016-08-10)
10	10	"Betrayal At The House On The Hill"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
Streamy Awards	2016	Best Costume Design	Olivia Hines	Nominated	[17]
		Best Ensemble Cast	Escape the Night	Won