The Mole TV Series Details:
| Also known as | The Mole: The Next Betrayal (2002) Celebrity Mole: Hawaii (2003) Celebrity Mole: Yucatán (2004) |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Reality game show Adventure Mystery |
| Season | 5 |
| Episodes | 50 |
| Release date | January 9, 2001 – August 11, 2008 |
| Running time | 1hr |
| Age rating | TV-MA |
| Presented by | Anderson Cooper Ahmad Rashad Jon Kelley |
| Directed by | Sean Travis Craig Borders Paul Morzella |
| Created by | Jill Dickerson Sandi Johnson Derrick Speight Brian Szot |
| Produced by | Tim Bock Matt O’Brien Teri Weideman Rich Meehan Sue Langham |
| Cinematography by | Mark Jungjohann John Gumina Matt Sohn |
| Edited by | Amy Barbour Barry Zetlin Jason Groothuis Casey O’Brien Heidi Scharfe Devin Lovelace James Gavin Bedford Stacy Goldate Jeff Linnartz Sean Travis Joe Shugart David R. Finkelstein Chris Jones Greg Katz Kevin McGuinness George D. Brown III Robert Claridge Michael Fendler Dan Golding Charles Kramer Paul Morzella Michael E. Polakow Azin Samari Bob Sarles |
| Music by | David Michael Frank |
| Production Company | American Broadcasting Company (ABC) Stone Stanley Productions |
| Original Network | ABC |
About The Mole TV Series:
The Mole is an American reality game show originally broadcast on ABC from 2001 to 2008 and reintroduced on Netflix in 2022. It is based on other versions of the original Belgian TV series De Mol broadcast in many countries. Stone Stanley Entertainment produced the Mole for its first four seasons. It was canceled but was later picked up again after a four-year hiatus. The fifth season was produced by Stone & Co. Entertainment. Netflix picked up the show after a fourteen-year hiatus. The sixth season premiered on October 7, 2022, and was produced by Eureka Productions.
The series is a reality competition in which the contestants work as a group to add money to a pot that only one of them will eventually win. Among the contestants is one person secretly designated “the Mole” by the producers, tasked with sabotaging the group’s money-making efforts. At the end of each episode, the contestant who knows the least about the mole, as determined by the results of a multiple-choice quiz, is eliminated from the game. The last contestant standing wins the game and the money in the pot.
News reporter Anderson Cooper first hosted the series; for the third season, Ahmad Rashad replaced Cooper, and Jon Kelley in turn replaced Rashad for the fifth season. Alex Wagner hosted the show’s reboot sixth season. The third and fourth seasons featured celebrity contestants instead of average citizens.
Format:
Players working as a team complete a series of difficult physical and psychological tests, each worth a set amount of money. One of the players, however, is a “Mole” or saboteur, whose goal is to foil the efforts of the other players without revealing his or her identity. At the end of each episode, the group is given a quiz on The Mole’s identity. The player who knows the least information about The Mole is then immediately sent home. In the final episode, The Mole is revealed and the one remaining player wins the jackpot, up to $1,000,000.
The Mole TV Series Season Overview:
| Season | Episodes | Title | Premiere | Finale | Network | Host | The Mole | Winner | Runner-up | Amount won | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9 | — | January 9, 2001 | February 28, 2001 | ABC | Anderson Cooper | Kathryn Price | Steven Cowles | Jim Morrison | $510,000 | France, Monaco, Spain |
| 2 | 13 | The Mole: The Next Betrayal | September 28, 2001 | August 6, 2002 | ABC | Anderson Cooper | Bill McDaniel | Dorothy Hui | Heather Campbell | $636,000 | Switzerland, Italy |
| 3 | 10 | Celebrity Mole: Hawaii | January 8, 2003 | February 12, 2003 | ABC | Ahmad Rashad | Frederique van der Wal | Kathy Griffin | Erik von Detten | $233,000 | Hawaii |
| 4 | 7 | Celebrity Mole: Yucatán | January 7, 2004 | February 18, 2004 | ABC | Ahmad Rashad | Angie Everhart | Dennis Rodman | Mark Curry | $222,000 | Mexico |
| 5 | 11 | — | June 2, 2008 | August 11, 2008 | ABC | Jon Kelley | Craig Slike | Mark Lambrecht | Nicole Williams | $420,000 | Chile, Argentina |
