Episode notes
A host named Dan D. Lyons. A wheel of wild animals. A rule: wherever it lands, you spend 24 hours locked in a box with that beast. Survive and win $1,000,000. That’s the legend of a “TV show” from the late 1890s—a time when television didn’t exist, legal on-screen disclaimers didn’t, and a million dollars was an era-breaking fortune. The story insists the animals were kept hungry, the contestants were told they were just actors in suits, and a card reading “All events are fictional” flashed before every episode.
In 1899, the tale names Moe Degrasse as the first to survive—a cage with a grizzly
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