20/20: In an Instant

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.

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	Maria Awes Andy Awes
Running time	80-83 minutes
Production companies	Committee Films Lincoln Square Productions
Original release
Network	ABC
Release	March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06) – August 4, 2018 (2018-08-04)

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]

Series overview

Season	Episodes		Originally released
			First released	Last released
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)

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
1	1	"Flying Blind"	March 6, 2015 (2015-03-06)	4.39[4]
A family survives a plane crash that killed two in the Alaskan wilderness.
2	2	"Rush Hour Disaster"	March 13, 2015 (2015-03-13)	4.36[5]
In 2007, an interstate bridge holding hundreds of people in Minneapolis gives way.
3	3	"Grizzly Bear Attack"	March 20, 2015 (2015-03-20)	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 (2015-03-27)	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 (2015-04-03)	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 (2015-04-10)	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 (2015-04-17)	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.

Season 2 (2016)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
8	1	"Tragedy in Tornado Alley"[11]	June 18, 2016 (2016-06-18)	N/A
A catastrophic tornado hits the town of Moore, Oklahoma.
9	2	"Murder in the Maternity Ward"[12]	June 25, 2016 (2016-06-25)	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 (2016-07-02)	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 (2016-07-09)	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 (2016-07-16)	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 (2016-07-23)	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.

Season 3 (2017-2018)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	U.S. viewers (millions)
14	1	"Whiteout"	June 3, 2017 (2017-06-03)	2.52[14]
While traveling to Idaho, a couple gets stranded in white out conditions with their infant child after their pickup truck gets stuck in the snow in rural Nevada.
15	2	"Deliver Us from Evil"	June 10, 2017 (2017-06-10)	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 (2017-06-17)	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 (2017-06-24)	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 (2017-07-01)	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 (2017-07-08)	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 (2017-07-15)	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 (2017-12-29)	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 (2018-08-04)	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.