The Millionaire

The Millionaire

  • 1955
  • 6 Seasons
  • 207 Episodes
  •  5  (3)
  •   Ended

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.

The Millionaire
Seasons
The Patricia Collins Story
36. The Patricia Collins Story
June 07, 1960
The Maggie Dalton Story
35. The Maggie Dalton Story
May 31, 1960
Maggie searches New York and Paris for a Frenchman she met at the top of the Empire State Building to thank him for the words he said that brought her out of despair which helped her be in a place where she could receive the million.
The Peter Longman Story
34. The Peter Longman Story
May 24, 1960
Locksmith Peter Longman falls for a woman for whom he unlocks a door from which she is locked out but when he goes to later see the woman he discovers the body of another woman to whom the police say the apartment actually belongs.
The Vance Ludlow Story
33. The Vance Ludlow Story
May 10, 1960
A locksmith gets his million dollar check and takes an armful of gifts to the apartment of a pretty client, but he finds someone else there.
The Dixon Cooper Story
32. The Dixon Cooper Story
May 03, 1960
Dixon Cooper tries to court a widow who wants more financial security for her two children than she thinks he can provide as a milkman.
The Mara Robinson Story
31. The Mara Robinson Story
April 26, 1960
A Gypsy woman uses her million dollars to pursue a man who has shown an attraction to her at party where he assumed she was guest while unaware of her background.
The Katherine Boland Story
30. The Katherine Boland Story
April 19, 1960
A woman uses her check in an attempt to capture her youth and lost social standing by planning a cotillion for her ward niece although the niece has already chosen her future husband.
The Nancy Cortez Story
29. The Nancy Cortez Story
April 12, 1960
Newlywed Nancy Cortez believes her million dollars is a means to remove her famous matador husband from the dangers of the bullring but faces obstacles of cultural honor and masculine pride.
The Susan Johnson Story
28. The Susan Johnson Story
April 05, 1960
Teenager Susan Johnson's use of her money to promote her boyfriend's recording career has unforeseen consequences.
The Tony Rogers Story
27. The Tony Rogers Story
March 29, 1960
The Julie Sherman Story
26. The Julie Sherman Story
March 22, 1960
Gallery secretary Julie Sherman falls for aspiring artist Adam Spencer who cancels his proposal when Julie's boss determines Spencer is not ready for a gallery so when Julie receives the million she buys a gallery and Spencer's paintings.
The Jessica March Story
25. The Jessica March Story
March 15, 1960
The Karen Summers Story
24. The Karen Summers Story
March 08, 1960
A small town librarian with aspirations to be a writer is mistaken as the secretive writer of racy romance novels by town folk and the fact she cannot dissuade their talk becomes more complicated when a reporter comes to do her story.
The Larry Maxwell Story
23. The Larry Maxwell Story
March 01, 1960
Because Larry Maxwell receives an unacceptable contract, the million is used to buy the pitcher's baseball team under his wife's maiden name so no one knows Larry's ownership status but Connie Maxwell acts like the usual management.
The Sandy Newell Story
22. The Sandy Newell Story
February 16, 1960
After receiving his check, Sandy Newell who has gone to Alaska to make a fortune to marry the woman he loves returns home to discover why the woman has sent him a rejection letter and finds that she is blind.
The Jerry Mitchell Story
21. The Jerry Mitchell Story
February 09, 1960
Korean veteran Mitchell learns that family business has collapsed so promises to pay all the debts even though not legally bound but when he receives his million he struggles with his promise since it will take almost the entire check.
The Margaret Stoneham Story
20. The Margaret Stoneham Story
February 02, 1960
Public defender Margaret Stoneham makes use of her sudden fortune to prove the innocence of a client sentenced to death.
The Janie Harris Story
19. The Janie Harris Story
January 26, 1960
When Janie Harris reconnects in France with the Lothario who once breached his promise of marriage to her, she devises a plan for revenge that goes awry.
The Whitney Ames Story
18. The Whitney Ames Story
January 19, 1960
Whitney Ames' daughter Linda returns from college to find her father has a big new house and a new bride which leads her to anxiously think that the woman has married her father for the benefits of the fortune her father must now have.
The Sylvia Merrick Story
17. The Sylvia Merrick Story
January 12, 1960
Adopted daughter Sylvia Merrick, hated by the biological son of a father whose fortune the brother has squandered, is the victim just before her check arrives of a failed murder attempt planned by the brother to appear a suicide.
The Elizabeth Tander Story
16. The Elizabeth Tander Story
January 05, 1960
New York file clerk Elizabeth Tander after receiving her check vacations in Los Angeles where she meets a hotel clerk and aspiring actor David Stevens who she is warned is after her money but Stevens thinks she is struggling city girl.
The Timothy Mackail Story
15. The Timothy Mackail Story
December 29, 1959
A cab driver feeling generous after receiving his money offers a ride gratis to a pretty woman but the woman does not return from the house where the driver discovers a murdered man causing police scrutiny for him.
The Jackson Greene Story
14. The Jackson Greene Story
December 22, 1959
Bohemian Jackson Greene wants his money to build a beatnik artists' colony on land a citizens committee wants to add a wing to a children's hospital so the committee sends to negotiate a woman to which Greene is cautiously attracted.
The Nancy Pearson Story
13. The Nancy Pearson Story
December 15, 1959
The Andrew C. Cooley Story
12. The Andrew C. Cooley Story
December 08, 1959
Andrew Cooley who has unsuccessfully worked a gold mine for years spends money freely when he receives his check and is pressured by devious business men to sell his worthless mine because the men believe his spending means its valuable.
The Mitchell Gunther Story
11. The Mitchell Gunther Story
December 01, 1959
Mitchell Gunther uses his million in a plan to make it appear that his partner Ray Wilson murdered him because he wants revenge for a ruinous fatal construction accident that he thinks Wilson caused by used of inferior materials.
The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
10. The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
November 24, 1959
Matthew Brogan secretly makes it financially possible for Jim Phillips, the man who saved his life in Korea, to marry his long term sweetheart but is surprised that he must first disrupt Phillips romance with a nightclub singer.
The Tom Hampton Story
9. The Tom Hampton Story
November 18, 1959
Millionaire Tom Hampton is afraid to tell his wife about the million dollar check because she's known to constantly spill secrets.
The Jeff Mercer Story
8. The Jeff Mercer Story
November 10, 1959
A responsible young boy with a desire to help his financially challenged family is the recipient of the million dollar check but cannot persuade his parents that their fortune is re
The Maureen Reynolds Story
7. The Maureen Reynolds Story
November 03, 1959
Maureen Reynolds upon receiving letters from her engineer husband of short duration marked deceased goes to South America and discovers the husband is a much despised man who stole company supplies in the midst of a revolution.
The Jim Hayes Story
6. The Jim Hayes Story
October 27, 1959
Jim Hayes' wife is fed up with her husband bringing home unannounced guests leaving her with a mess every morning and treating her as an employee so she withdraws as wife and formally takes to an extreme extent a job as housekeeper.
The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
5. The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
October 20, 1959
A doctor and his nurse wife are kidnapped by a murderous bank robber to heal the robber's wounded partner on pain of death and the doctor uses his just received check to barter for his wife's life when the partner dies.
The Phillip Burnell Story
4. The Phillip Burnell Story
October 06, 1959
Phillip Burnell maintains a summer house seemingly as a shrine to his deceased wife to the chagrin of his insecure new wife Cathy and when Phillip receives the check , Cathy's insecurity intensifies.
The Lorraine Daggett Story
3. The Lorraine Daggett Story
September 29, 1959
A woman is only shortly married to a man who fakes his death to avoid the wrath of his gangster pal and then is suspected of complicity in a scheme because she suddenly has a lot of money although she did not know the husband's past.
The Harry Brown Story
2. The Harry Brown Story
September 22, 1959
A bickering couple with a child can't afford a divorce, until Michael Anthony delivers a millionaire dollar check to the husband.
The Mark Fleming Story
1. The Mark Fleming Story
September 15, 1959
When Mark Fleming uses his check to travel to Vienna to search for his sister who might have survived a WWII death camp that his parents did not, he falls in love with a woman who might turn out to be the sister.
Description
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.
  • Premiere Date
    January 19, 1955
  • Rating
    5  (3)