"Millionaire" Lives Up to Its Name
"I do," a Connecticut IRS worker will answer on tonight's installment of ABC's runaway hit.
John Carpenter will become the first contestant to win the $1 million jackpot when he tells Regis Philbin that former President Richard Nixon was the only president to appear on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
"Dad, I'm about to win a million dollars," he told his father (his "phone a friend" lifeline) before answering the question correctly.
"He said it before I did," Philbin told his talk-show cohort Kathie Lee Gifford this morning on their syndicated show.
"I bet he didn't get any sleep last night," Gifford replied.
The cool and collected contestant made it through the entire 15-minutes of questioning without using his other lifelines and joined the show's host and the crowd in celebration after he got his check.
Thus marks another milestone in the record-setting run of the show. Just last week, Millionaire led the alphabet network to a No. 1 ratings win for the week and bested NBC's Must-See TV for the first time since Too Close for Comfort beat Gimme a Break 17 years ago.
This is the second $1 million quiz show payoff this season. Last week, Fox's Greed made television history when a team of three contestants won the biggest jackpot ever handed out on a game show.
Millionaire will wrap its nightly, limited run on November 24. Producers reportedly are being pressured to make the show a permanent fixture on ABC's lineup.





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