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Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ7078964 ↗
Source-derived summary

Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt is a game show that airs on The History Channel. Contestants attempt to evade Kevin Reeve, an expert in surveillance, fugitive tracking, and classified government technologies. If they can succeed in performing simple tasks, for one day, and avoid detection, they win $1 million.

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“Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt” enters the record as television series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Grid, Million and Dollar can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 50-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Grid, Million and Dollar.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7078964. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Off the Grid: Million Dollar Manhunt” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.