The Millionaire (1955)
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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Episode 1 - The Kathy Munson Story
Release Date: 1956-09-12Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications unsue when Marion falls for her sister Kathy's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.
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Episode 2 - The Jane Carr Story
Release Date: 1956-09-19After receiving her check, a woman goes undercover at a trucking company that her reporter husband was investigating in connection with a narcotics ring to find clues in the husband's car bomb murder.
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Episode 3 - The Anna Hartley Story
Release Date: 1956-09-26A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.
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Episode 4 - The Charles Hartford Simpson Story
Release Date: 1956-10-03Charles Simpson uses his money to move from a home for indigent World War I veterans whose residents he dislikes to luxurious surroundings bringing his friend Stony with him but 'Stony' misses the home's camaraderie.
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Episode 5 - The Fred Graham Story
Release Date: 1956-10-10Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.
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Episode 6 - The Virginia Lennart Story
Release Date: 1956-10-17Hamburger waitress Virginia Lennart receives the million and takes her best friend Emmy and they go through Europe looking for romance and find it in a Palazzo in Italy with a certain count.
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Episode 7 - The Denny Havens Story
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Episode 8 - The Joey Diamond Story
Release Date: 1956-10-31A no-good punk gets a chance to make something of his life and ends up endangering his girl, via ""The Wild One"" rip-off street race.
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Episode 9 - The David Tremayne Story
Release Date: 1956-11-07A young lawyer becomes politically active and runs against the political crooks who try to destroy his character.
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Episode 10 - The Waldo Francis Turner Story
Release Date: 1956-11-14Butler Waldo Francis Turner receives the million dollars and helps out his employer and his son unaware that everyone thinks he is in love with Wainwright's daughter.
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Episode 11 - The Jay Powers Story
Release Date: 1956-11-21After serving time in prison for embezzlement and receiving the million dollars, Jay Powers sets out to prove his innocence.
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Episode 12 - The Harvey Borden Story
Release Date: 1956-11-28Harvey Borden the savior of the underdogs comes to the aide of an orphan against his wife's wishes.
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Episode 13 - The Valerie Hunt Story
Release Date: 1956-12-05When a woman's first husband believed killed in war returns after years in a prison camp, the woman must choose between the brusque first husband and more sedate second husband.
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Episode 14 - The Salvatore Michelangelo Buonarotti Story
Release Date: 1956-12-12A struggling immigrant shoemaker uses his entire check to buy the painting of his dreams which he must exchange for a copy to use the money to further dreams of his family.
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Episode 15 - The Mildred Kester Story
Release Date: 1956-12-19When Henry Denson deduces that his sister-in-law Mildred has a great sum of money, he plots the murder of Mildred and her husband to be Fred so that his wife will inherit the money.
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Episode 16 - The Betty Perkins Story
Release Date: 1956-12-26Betty moves to Miami to find love and excitement instead she finds a switchboard operator job and snobs.
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Episode 17 - The Nick Cannon Story
Release Date: 1957-01-02Nick Cannon secretly uses his money and openly his time to rehabilitate a boy that in his reckless youth he has injured in a hit and run and develops feelings for the boy and his mother.
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Episode 18 - The Nancy Wellington Story
Release Date: 1957-01-09Widow Nancy Wellington who has made due after her husband's death longs for romance from a man from her past. Her daughter feels her mother has sacrificed enough for her and runs away.
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Episode 19 - The Russell Herbert Story
Release Date: 1957-01-16Michael Anthony can't believe that a hermit could be the correct recipient of the check.
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Episode 20 - The Anton Bohrman Story
Release Date: 1957-01-23Charles Korvin portrays a renowned Polish pianist whose fingers were damaged during World War II by the Nazis for refusing to divulge information on insurgents in the underground, thus ruining his career. Then Michael Anthony delivers to him the million dollar check.
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Episode 21 - The Charles Wyatt Story
Release Date: 1957-01-30Charles Wyatt uses his money to search for his son, reported missing during the War.
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Episode 22 - The Jim Driskill Story
Release Date: 1957-02-06Deep sea diver and adventurer Jim Driskill finds more than he was looking for.
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Episode 23 - The Professor Amberson Adams Story
Release Date: 1957-02-13Professor Adams has his hands full when he falls for one of his students and sets his friend out to woo her.
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Episode 24 - The Judge William Westholme Story
Release Date: 1957-02-20An ex-con goes after the judge who sentenced him and his target is the Judge's family.
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Episode 25 - The Jerry Bell Story
Release Date: 1957-02-27Jerry Bell believes that he is unloved because he is ugly but finds love with a blind woman and uses his million to cure her blindness although he thinks she will reject him once able to see.
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Episode 26 - The Jerry Patterson Story
Release Date: 1957-03-06Pete Hill starts a stalking campaign against Jerry Patterson who was his best friend and business partner because Pete believes Jerry's apparent good fortune is evidence that Jerry has cheated him out of his share of a uranium find.
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Episode 27 - The Jimmy Reilly Story
Release Date: 1957-03-13Jimmy Reilly uses his check to look for an Italian girl he met during the War.
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Episode 28 - The Rose Russell Story
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Episode 29 - The Doctor Alan March Story
Release Date: 1957-04-03Dr. Alan March lets down a very good friend who dies on the operating table, holding himself responsible he quits his practice and searches for an old love.
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Episode 30 - The Crystal Sands Story
Release Date: 1957-04-10A waitress in love with a philandering Airline pilot finds true love with his brother.
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Episode 31 - The Maggie Sheeler Story
Release Date: 1957-04-17Widow Maggie Sheeler is perplexed by her son who won't accept her new boyfriend.
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Episode 32 - The Carol Wesley Story
Release Date: 1957-04-24Actress Carol Wesley falls in love with a producer.
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Episode 33 - The Hub Grimes Story
Release Date: 1957-05-01Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.
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Episode 34 - The Chris Daniels Story
Release Date: 1957-05-08A horse trainer buys after receiving his check a horse being sought by a wealthy stable owner whose daughter he courts so is accused by the owner of conspiring with a criminal element to acquire the funds for the purchase.
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Episode 35 - The Josef Marton Story
Release Date: 1957-05-15Tortured by his conscience, a revolutionary refugee from a failed rebellion uses his money to find and provide for a small boy whose parents he killed in the war.
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Episode 36 - The Ted McAllister Story
Release Date: 1957-05-22Ted McAllister, a parole officer for juvenile deliquents, helps them take a trip around the world - against his wife's wishes to just let them rot in jail.
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Episode 37 - The Dan Larsen Story
Release Date: 1957-05-29Dan Larsen. head supermarket cashier of extreme punctuality and regimentation, is robbed of a sizable deposit despite a complicated system to disguise the exact date on which the actual deposit will occur.
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Episode 38 - The Diane Loring Story
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Episode 39 - The Bob Fielding Story
Release Date: 1957-06-12Hotel desk clerk Bob Fielding gets into a poker game and his so-called friends take advantage of him after they learn he has money to burn.