The Millionaire
TV ShowEnded

The Millionaire

5.0 / 10
1955
6 seasons
207 episodes
Drama

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.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.The Amy Moore Story

    19-01-1955

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

  • Ep 2

    2.The Carl Nelson Story

    26-01-1955

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

  • Ep 3

    3.The Joe Iris Story

    02-02-1955

    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 h...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Dan Mulcahy Story

    09-02-1955

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

  • Ep 5

    5.The Emily Short Story

    16-02-1955

    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 smug...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Margaret Browning Story

    23-02-1955

    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 str...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Harvey Blake Story

    02-03-1955

    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 rece...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Nancy Marlborough Story

    09-03-1955

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

  • Ep 9

    9.The Betty Jane Ryan Story

    16-03-1955

    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 presen...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Charles Lomar Story

    23-03-1955

    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 se...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Ken Fowler Story

    30-03-1955

    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 contac...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Pev Johnson Story

    06-04-1955

    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...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Quentin Harwood Story

    13-04-1955

    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 cha...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Fred Malcolm Story

    20-04-1955

    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 goo...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Luke Fortune Story

    27-04-1955

    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 r...

  • Ep 16

    16.The Jack Martin Story

    04-05-1955

    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.

  • Ep 17

    17.The Walter Carter Story

    11-05-1955

    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 famil...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Merle Roberts Story

    18-05-1955

    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 anti...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Uncle Robby Story

    25-05-1955

    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...

  • Ep 20

    20.The Sam Donovan Story

    01-06-1955

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

  • Ep 21

    21.The Vickie Lawson Story

    08-06-1955

    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-abs...

  • Ep 22

    22.The Cobb Marley Story

    15-06-1955

    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.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Mildred Milliken Story

    22-06-1955

    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.

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