1 Vs. 100 [TV Series] on AllMovie

Packaged by the same production firm responsible for Deal or No Dea, NBC's weekly, hour-long 1 vs. 100 was based on an internationally popular TV game show originally seen in Holland. The series pitted a single contestant against a "mob" of 100 people, wearing a variety of offbeat costumes and sporting a plethora of colorful "personalities" (some of the 100 were champion players from other game shows). The lone contestant was expected to answer increasingly difficult trivia questions, which of course were also tackled by the "mob." For every correct answer given by the contestant, one or more of those who'd responded incorrectly would be eliminating from the 100 other players. The single player could quit at any time or risk losing all of his accumulated prize money to the remaining "mob" members (catch phrase: "The money--or the mob?"); whatever the case, the grand prize was a cool million dollars. Emceed by the peripatetic Bob Saget, 1 vs. 100 premiered October 13, 2006.