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 Mark Fleming Story
Release Date: 1959-09-15When 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.
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Episode 2 - The Harry Brown Story
Release Date: 1959-09-22A bickering couple with a child can't afford a divorce, until Michael Anthony delivers a millionaire dollar check to the husband.
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Episode 3 - The Lorraine Daggett Story
Release Date: 1959-09-29A 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.
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Episode 4 - The Phillip Burnell Story
Release Date: 1959-10-06Phillip 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.
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Episode 5 - The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
Release Date: 1959-10-20A 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.
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Episode 6 - The Jim Hayes Story
Release Date: 1959-10-27Jim 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.
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Episode 7 - The Maureen Reynolds Story
Release Date: 1959-11-03Maureen 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.
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Episode 8 - The Jeff Mercer Story
Release Date: 1959-11-10A 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
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Episode 9 - The Tom Hampton Story
Release Date: 1959-11-18Millionaire Tom Hampton is afraid to tell his wife about the million dollar check because she's known to constantly spill secrets.
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Episode 10 - The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
Release Date: 1959-11-24Matthew 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.
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Episode 11 - The Mitchell Gunther Story
Release Date: 1959-12-01Mitchell 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.
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Episode 12 - The Andrew C. Cooley Story
Release Date: 1959-12-08Andrew 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.
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Episode 13 - The Nancy Pearson Story
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Episode 14 - The Jackson Greene Story
Release Date: 1959-12-22Bohemian 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.
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Episode 15 - The Timothy Mackail Story
Release Date: 1959-12-29A 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.
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Episode 16 - The Elizabeth Tander Story
Release Date: 1960-01-05New 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.
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Episode 17 - The Sylvia Merrick Story
Release Date: 1960-01-12Adopted 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.
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Episode 18 - The Whitney Ames Story
Release Date: 1960-01-19Whitney 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.
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Episode 19 - The Janie Harris Story
Release Date: 1960-01-26When 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.
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Episode 20 - The Margaret Stoneham Story
Release Date: 1960-02-02Public defender Margaret Stoneham makes use of her sudden fortune to prove the innocence of a client sentenced to death.
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Episode 21 - The Jerry Mitchell Story
Release Date: 1960-02-09Korean 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.
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Episode 22 - The Sandy Newell Story
Release Date: 1960-02-16After 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.
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Episode 23 - The Larry Maxwell Story
Release Date: 1960-03-01Because 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.
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Episode 24 - The Karen Summers Story
Release Date: 1960-03-08A 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.
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Episode 25 - The Jessica March Story
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Episode 26 - The Julie Sherman Story
Release Date: 1960-03-22Gallery 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.
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Episode 27 - The Tony Rogers Story
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Episode 28 - The Susan Johnson Story
Release Date: 1960-04-05Teenager Susan Johnson's use of her money to promote her boyfriend's recording career has unforeseen consequences.
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Episode 29 - The Nancy Cortez Story
Release Date: 1960-04-12Newlywed 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.
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Episode 30 - The Katherine Boland Story
Release Date: 1960-04-19A 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.
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Episode 31 - The Mara Robinson Story
Release Date: 1960-04-26A 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.
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Episode 32 - The Dixon Cooper Story
Release Date: 1960-05-03Dixon Cooper tries to court a widow who wants more financial security for her two children than she thinks he can provide as a milkman.
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Episode 33 - The Vance Ludlow Story
Release Date: 1960-05-10A 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.
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Episode 34 - The Peter Longman Story
Release Date: 1960-05-24Locksmith 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.
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Episode 35 - The Maggie Dalton Story
Release Date: 1960-05-31Maggie 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.
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Episode 36 - The Patricia Collins Story
Release Date: 1960-06-07