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The Millionaire

The Millionaire

★ 5.8/10•1955•30m•Drama
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An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.

StatusEnded
Runtime30m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 19, 1955

Episodes

E1

The Amy Moore Story

Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.

Jan 19, 1955

E2

The Carl Nelson Story

Carl Nelson becomes obsessed with money, which jeopardizes his relationships.

Jan 26, 1955

E3

The Joe Iris Story

When he spends some of his million, low level criminal and ex-convict Joe Iris has difficulty convincing the police and former higher level associates that he has not returned to his old ways.

Feb 2, 1955

E4

The Dan Mulcahy Story

Bessie Mulcahy wants to spend her husband's gift of $1,000,000. to get a rich society husband for their eligible daughter.

Feb 9, 1955

E5

The Emily Short Story

When Emily Short receives the million dollar cheque she flies over to Paris. Oh the flight she meets Mark Ryan. Falling head over heels for Mark she doesn't realize that he is smuggling diamonds.

Feb 16, 1955

E6

The Margaret Browning Story

The widow of a renowned actor uses her million to produce a screenplay of her future son-in-law and hopes to propel her daughter from a minor to a lead actress but the daughter struggles with the task.

Feb 23, 1955

E7

The Harvey Blake Story

Three hobos make what money they can by selling pamphlets in the local park, decrying the evils of worshiping money. When one of them, Harvey Blake, is picked by Mr. Tipton to receive the $1 million, the condition is that he cannot reveal to anyone how he got the money. His two pals begin to think that he came by the money through some illegal means. So, when they find out about it, do the police.

Mar 2, 1955

E8

The Nancy Marlborough Story

An English teacher's use of her money to invest in a boxer puts her in conflict with school administration and crooked promoters.

Mar 9, 1955

E9

The Betty Jane Ryan Story

A private detective hired by Anthony to find a missing nurse of exemplary character engaged to a doctor discovers a past possibly very much less respectable than the nurse's present image suggests.

Mar 16, 1955

E10

The Charles Lomar Story

Charles Lamar is in service to his old country employers from nobility for whom he struggles to have live within their means while maintaining a job in an importing business and seeking a path to marriage.

Mar 23, 1955

E11

The Ken Fowler Story

A couple, who live clandestinely to protect custody of a child adopted outside the regular channels, seek legal help with their million just as the child's biological father contacts them

Mar 30, 1955

E12

The Pev Johnson Story

Bill Bartlett gets slothful Pev Johnson a job in his bank because his daughter does not feel she can marry Bill until Pev has means but suspicion of embezzlement threatens the bank and the marriage when Pev starts spending his million.

Apr 6, 1955

E13

The Quentin Harwood Story

Tightwad Quentin Harwood does not adjust his excessively frugal habits even after receiving his million much to the chagrin of his deprived wife who then issues an ultimatum to change those ways.

Apr 13, 1955

E14

The Fred Malcolm Story

Life threatening events cause Fred Malcolm to believe that his much younger wife is planning his murder to gain the entire million because he is unaware that others know of his good fortune.

Apr 20, 1955

E15

The Luke Fortune Story

Rodeo champion Luke Fortune must on their wedding day explain to his new bride a month's long period of absence with no contact as relates to suggestive photographs of him with a rich international socialite or face immediate divorce.

Apr 27, 1955

E16

The Jack Martin Story

A man facing imminent execution for a murder he was framed of doing uses his million to buy evidence that he hopes will prove his innocence.

May 4, 1955

E17

The Walter Carter Story

Walter Carter has had mental care and has had hallucinations about receiving a fortune since a business failure has broke him hurting his partners so those associates and his family believe that his million is imaginary.

May 11, 1955

E18

The Merle Roberts Story

A young woman who lives with an abusive mother and a detached and selfish step family meets a young scientist who wants to marry her but the man is loathe to wait for her much anticipated meeting with her long absent father.

May 18, 1955

E19

The Uncle Robby Story

Uncle Robby dies just after receiving his million before he can change his will that forces his favorite niece and her husband to spend every penny on a honeymoon or surrender the balance to another scheming materialistic niece.

May 25, 1955

E20

The Sam Donovan Story

Unassuming Sam Donovan seems to spend his million frivolously without abandon much to the consternation of his controlling parsimonious fiancée.

Jun 1, 1955

E21

The Vickie Lawson Story

A personal secretary use her million to mock sophistication for and compatibility with a hero writer who she hopes to marry but who is also cynically pursued by her former self-absorbed boss.

Jun 8, 1955

E22

The Cobb Marley Story

When Cobb Morley's wife is killed by a burglar just prior to his receiving the million, the money cast more suspicion on him as the already prime suspect.

Jun 15, 1955

E23

The Mildred Milliken Story

Millie who makes a meager living renting rooms is incautiously desperate to marry when she receives her million so she can adopt a group of orphans.

Jun 22, 1955

Actors

Marvin Miller

Marvin Miller

Michael Anthony

Paul Frees

Paul Frees

John Beresford Tipton

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