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The Millionaire
1955 - 1960 5.0 (3 votes) 6 Seasons
Genres
Drama
Networks
CBS

The Millionaire

Overview

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.

Key Crew

Producer: Don Fedderson

Top Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1955)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Amy Moore Story
1955-01-19

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

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Episode 2: The Carl Nelson Story
1955-01-26

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

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Episode 3: The Joe Iris Story
1955-02-02

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.

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Episode 4: The Dan Mulcahy Story
1955-02-09

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

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Episode 5: The Emily Short Story
1955-02-16

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.

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Episode 6: The Margaret Browning Story
1955-02-23

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.

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Episode 7: The Harvey Blake Story
1955-03-02

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.

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Episode 8: The Nancy Marlborough Story
1955-03-09

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

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Episode 9: The Betty Jane Ryan Story
1955-03-16

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.

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Episode 10: The Charles Lomar Story
1955-03-23

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.

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Episode 11: The Ken Fowler Story
1955-03-30

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

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Episode 12: The Pev Johnson Story
1955-04-06

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.

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Episode 13: The Quentin Harwood Story
1955-04-13

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.

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Episode 14: The Fred Malcolm Story
1955-04-20

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.

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Episode 15: The Luke Fortune Story
1955-04-27

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.

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Episode 16: The Jack Martin Story
1955-05-04

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.

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Episode 17: The Walter Carter Story
1955-05-11

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.

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Episode 18: The Merle Roberts Story
1955-05-18

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.

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Episode 19: The Uncle Robby Story
1955-05-25

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.

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Episode 20: The Sam Donovan Story
1955-06-01

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

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Episode 21: The Vickie Lawson Story
1955-06-08

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.

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Episode 22: The Cobb Marley Story
1955-06-15

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.

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Episode 23: The Mildred Milliken Story
1955-06-22

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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Season 2 (1955)

No overview available.

37 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Rita Keeley Story
1955-09-28

A burlesque performer hounded by her brother's underworld pals uses her million to return to college in her hometown where she falls in love with a medical student but gossip about her past might wreck her happiness.

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Episode 2: The Robert Croft Story
1955-10-05

An antisocial writer of a lone successful novel unable to produce further work engages in self destructive and reckless behavior which intensifies with receipt of the million dollars until an accident changes his course.

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Episode 3: The Joe Seaton Story
1955-10-12

A couple who have traded identify with a man who has done so to pay for medical care for his ailing wife plan to kill the man and his wife to keep the million dollars they have falsely accepted under the man's identity.

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Episode 4: The Iris Millar Story
1955-10-19

A selfish career woman thinks her million will allow her to marry a dedicated young doctor whose attention she has cynically accepted and whose work she has disrespected.

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Episode 5: The Ralph McKnight Story
1955-10-26

Ralph McKnight use his money to hire a detective to track for sworn payback several fellow soldiers who made his military service nearly unbearable but the outcome is something other than he imagined.

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Episode 6: The Tom Bryan Story
1955-11-02

Tom Bryan returns home after five years in prison for a crime of which he is innocent to be hounded by an unconvinced police inspector and troubled by the need to tell his young son the real story of his absence.

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Episode 7: The Peggy Demos Story
1955-11-09

A soldier in Korea agonizes over the source of his wife's fortune because he believes that she is receiving money from her parents whose support she swore to eschew when her father disapproved of her marriage.

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Episode 8: The Jerome Wilson Story
1955-11-16

Jerome Wilson crashes the plane he has bought with some of his million while returning to an old life but loses his memory and cannot explain the large amount of cash he carries to the suspicious local sheriff.

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Episode 9: The Nora Paul Story
1955-11-23

Nora desperately seeks the son she gave for adoption so when she gets her million she uses to the money to find the son and gain a job as governess with the adoptive parents.

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Episode 10: The Steve Carey Story
1955-11-30

A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker and also neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss from whom the female coworker desires attention as the two avoid their mutual feelings.

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Episode 11: The Don Lewis Story
1955-12-07

A struggling newspaper ad salesman, who is deeply involved with a dishonest aspiring actress, takes a job as a chauffeur for the paraplegic heiress to seek upward mobility in business and develops profound feelings for the heiress.

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Episode 12: The Jeff Ellis Story
1955-12-14

Jeff Ellis puts his pending marriage in jeopardy to find and thank the man who saved his life during the Korean War but finds the man who saved him is less than heroic.

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Episode 13: The Wilbur T. Gerrold Story
1955-12-21

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Episode 14: The Philip Sargent Story
1955-12-28

While on the honeymoon ride, Philip Sargent's new wife thinks he is a bank robber because she hears a news bulletin on the radio and finds a valise full of cash from the million.

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Episode 15: The Chris Hall Story
1956-01-04

Botanist Hall, hired by Branch, the sadistic and controlling manger of a Brazilian rubber plantation whose owner he controls by financial duress, falls in love with the owner's daughter who is also the reluctant fiancée of Branch.

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Episode 16: The Reverend John Hardin Story
1956-01-11

Reverend Hardin wants to improve the attitude of his disbelieving future son-in-law who is working on a vaccine for viral pneumonia so when he receives his check he buys Ted lab equipment and funds a foundation when the trials fail.

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Episode 17: The Cindy Bowen Story
1956-01-18

A salesgirl while working as a hospital volunteer alongside society girls draws the romantic interest of the young board chairman and the unbridled envy of one of the society girls.

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Episode 18: The Jean Griffith Story
1956-01-25

A husband who is aggrieved over his wife's extreme jealousy concerning business meetings with women has to face his own feelings when the wife begins having similar meetings using money from her million to help close his business deal.

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Episode 19: The Larry Evans Story
1956-02-01

Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.

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Episode 20: The Brian Hendricks Story
1956-02-08

Brian Hendricks framed for fraud by a partner hires a man to kill him so his family can receive funds from life insurance but learns the man he hired has subcontracted the task when Hendricks tries to cancel after receiving his million.

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Episode 21: The Arthur Darner Story
1956-02-15

A diffident travel agent who dislikes children because his wife died in pregnancy as they were about to take a world trip opts to take the trip with the money and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife who changes his life.

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Episode 22: The Victor Volante Story
1956-02-22

An aerialist long distraught over the performance death of his wife descends into gambling and irresponsible behavior until transformed by love of the circus owner's sister and love for a boy with an elephant.

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Episode 23: The Candy Caldwell Story
1956-02-29

A beautiful model scarred in an automobile accident uses a portion of her money for plastic surgery to restore her looks and then plans revenge on the photographer who was the driver and her beau but shunned her while she was scarred.

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Episode 24: The Rip Matson Story
1956-03-07

An abnormally fearless test pilot eschews depth in personal relationships until he meets a beautiful psychologist while she is conducting a psychological study.

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Episode 25: The Rita Hanley Story
1956-03-14

A modest, thrifty and handy woman must repay funds embezzled by a domineering, social climbing husband after the man's accidental death to gain custody of the man's daughter who she adores.

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Episode 26: The Eric Vincent Story
1956-03-21

Eric and Helen Vincent are about to lose the orphanage they have been running for war orphans. The gift of a million dollars seems to solve their problems at first, but soon they find it has created another.

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Episode 27: The Bedelia Buckley Story
1956-03-28

A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.

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Episode 28: The Tom Mead Story
1956-04-04

An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company because he has evidence the accused woman for which he has fallen is innocent but the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.

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Episode 29: The Lucky Swanson Story
1956-04-11

A man receives the million-dollar check returns to a small village in France to repay the kindness that the villagers showed him during the war.

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Episode 30: The Jane Costello Story
1956-04-18

Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

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Episode 31: The Ed Murdock Story
1956-04-25

Detective Ed Murdock 's wife pleads with him to leave the force after they receive the million but Murdock is determined to bring to justice the man who critically wounded his former partner before he leaves the force.

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Episode 32: The Louise Williams Story
1956-05-02

The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.

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Episode 33: The Todd Burke Story
1956-05-09

A man's jealous, anxious and suspicious mother attempts to sabotage a new bride's simple appeal and the marriage.

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Episode 34: The Captain John Carroll Story
1956-05-16

A military bomb disposal expert receives his million dollar check just as he is ready to separate from the service but is forced to disarm ordinance one last time because his replacement is not quite prepared.

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Episode 35: The Sally Delaney Story
1956-05-23

Sally Delaney, an assistant to an overbearing fashion designer, uses her million to open her own fashion business but much to her remorse she creates a work culture similar to her former boss.

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Episode 36: The Olivia Grainger Story
1956-05-30

A dispassionate and extremely focused doctor tries to pay a disreputable mariner to forget his romance with her sister but feels her dispassion waning in the presence of the man while guilty over a betrayal of her sister.

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Episode 37: The Jill Mayfield Story
1956-06-06

Michael Anthony delivers the million dollar check to Jill Mayfield, an aspiring actress, who decides to use the gift to further her career.

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Season 3 (1956)

No overview available.

39 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Kathy Munson Story
1956-09-12

Kathy 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
1956-09-19

After 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
1956-09-26

A 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
1956-10-03

Charles 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
1956-10-10

Fred 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
1956-10-17

Hamburger 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
1956-10-24

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Episode 8: The Joey Diamond Story
1956-10-31

A 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
1956-11-07

A 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
1956-11-14

Butler 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
1956-11-21

After 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
1956-11-28

Harvey 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
1956-12-05

When 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
1956-12-12

A 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
1956-12-19

When 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
1956-12-26

Betty 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
1957-01-02

Nick 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
1957-01-09

Widow 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
1957-01-16

Michael 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
1957-01-23

Charles 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
1957-01-30

Charles Wyatt uses his money to search for his son, reported missing during the War.

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Episode 22: The Jim Driskill Story
1957-02-06

Deep sea diver and adventurer Jim Driskill finds more than he was looking for.

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Episode 23: The Professor Amberson Adams Story
1957-02-13

Professor 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
1957-02-20

An 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
1957-02-27

Jerry 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
1957-03-06

Pete 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
1957-03-13

Jimmy 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
1957-03-27

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Episode 29: The Doctor Alan March Story
1957-04-03

Dr. 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
1957-04-10

A waitress in love with a philandering Airline pilot finds true love with his brother.

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Episode 31: The Maggie Sheeler Story
1957-04-17

Widow Maggie Sheeler is perplexed by her son who won't accept her new boyfriend.

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Episode 32: The Carol Wesley Story
1957-04-24

Actress Carol Wesley falls in love with a producer.

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Episode 33: The Hub Grimes Story
1957-05-01

Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

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Episode 34: The Chris Daniels Story
1957-05-08

A 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
1957-05-15

Tortured 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
1957-05-22

Ted 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
1957-05-29

Dan 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
1957-06-05

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Episode 39: The Bob Fielding Story
1957-06-12

Hotel 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.

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Season 4 (1957)

No overview available.

35 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Matt Kirby Story
1957-09-18

A newspaper man who ruthlessly embellishes the misdeeds of others in his stories uses his million to buy controlling interest in his paper but a female reporter could have unsavory and damaging details about the man's past.

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Episode 2: The Pete Marlowe Story
1957-09-25

After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.

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Episode 3: The Roy Delbridge Story
1957-10-02

An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.

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Episode 4: The Carl Bronson Story
1957-10-09

A former show business star, who has fallen on hard times, is tracked down by Michael Anthony to a seedy hotel and presented with the million dollar check.

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Episode 5: The Laura Hunter Story
1957-10-16

A policewoman uses her million in an attempt to prove that her policeman boyfriend was framed by whom she believes is an unscrupulous fur dealer in a robbery scheme executed to collect insurance.

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Episode 6: The Larry Parker Story
1957-10-23

Larry Parker pines for a French woman he met in the war so much that he takes for granted a loving wife but is able to resolve the conflict when the money allows Parker and his wife to take a European trip with a stop in France.

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Episode 7: The Ruth Ferris Story
1957-10-30

Ruth Ferris' envious sister's engages in campaign to drive a wedge between Ruth and her new husband by suggesting the man has married Ruth for her money and will kill her for it as the sister thinks he did to his first wife.

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Episode 8: The Hap Connolly Story
1957-11-13

Drifter Hap Connolly harbors a runaway orphan boy for whose parents he worked prior to their deaths and comes into conflict with a young teacher over her intense educational schedule for the boy.

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Episode 9: The Frank Keegan Story
1957-11-20

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Episode 10: The Steve Logan Story
1957-11-27

Steve Logan uses his money to start a construction business with his Korean War buddy Larry who has been crippled by a job accident saving Steve's life which condition makes Larry feel unworthy to compete for a woman the two men love.

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Episode 11: The Anitra Dellano Story
1957-12-04

Seamstress Anitra Dellano meets a socialite at the Mardi Gras and is ashamed to tell him about her occupation.

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Episode 12: The Hugh Waring Story
1957-12-11

Anthony's research concerning the story of man on death row who he just gave a million that is wife is alive and framed him for her murder convinces Anthony that the man's story is true.

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Episode 13: The Barbara Lydon Story
1957-12-18

Barbara Lydon forsakes her longtime hometown love and uses her million to travel to Switzerland where she becomes romantically involved with a count caught up in a live and death struggle over a World War II grudge.

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Episode 14: The Regina Wainwright Story
1957-12-25

Wheelchair bound and of faded fortune, Regina Wainwright of southern aristocratic heritage hides her million to make her daughter think that the mother is dependent on her and to spoil the daughter's relationship with a Yankee suitor.

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Episode 15: The Rod Matthews Story
1958-01-01

To give the million Anthony traces Rod Matthews to a secluded island where he hides after being unjustly court marshaled and disowned by family and Matthews decides to use the money return to the United States and exact revenge.

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Episode 16: The Marjorie Martinson Story
1958-01-08

An actress ' misguided effort to use her money to revive a long faded career is interrupted when the demands of an old love forces to her reconsider her plans.

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Episode 17: The Peter Barkley Story
1958-01-15

Peter Bartley wants to use his money to find and help his two younger brothers who were separated from him by adoption from a Catholic orphanage where Pete grew to adulthood.

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Episode 18: The Jonathan Bookman Story
1958-01-22

An art dealer uses his million to start an island artists' colony while dealing with an uncooperative and shrewish wife and becoming increasingly enamored of a young model and dancer.

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Episode 19: The Doris Winslow Story
1958-01-29

After Elliot Smith marries nurse Doris Winslow who is unaware of Smith's great family wealth, another jealous nurse jeopardizes the marriage by causing Smith to believe that Winslow has married him for his money.

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Episode 20: The Michael Holm Story
1958-02-05

When Michael Holm receives his million, he decides to leave his meager and unrewarding law practice to become a man of leisure until his girlfriend introduces him to a man in a shaky legal situation and he sees the good he can now do.

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Episode 21: The Martha Crockett Story
1958-02-12

Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.

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Episode 22: The John Richards Story
1958-02-26

A high school principal, the check recipient , must guide his son in dealing with a group of young hoodlums who beat his friend to death and now threaten the son.

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Episode 23: The Johanna Judson Story
1958-03-05

Johanna Judson abruptly leaves her employment as a companion for a grumpy woman but asks the woman's charming nephew to enter into a marriage of convenience because she wants a companion to share her travels funded with her money.

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Episode 24: The Raymond Dupar Story
1958-03-12

After acquiring his million dollar cheque, quiet librarian Raymond DuPar is followed around by gangsters. He's also a bit deaf, and hadn't heard them plotting in the library, though they think he did. When DuPar begs the police for help, they get suspicious of his new, unexplainable wealth.

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Episode 25: The Neal Bowers Story
1958-03-19

An American medical student in Paris losing in his rivalry for an American art student to a French composer due to her sympathy for the man after he loses sight in an accident uses his check to restore the rivals sight to even the odds.

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Episode 26: The John Smith Story
1958-03-26

A man who has suffered amnesia in a hotel fire uses his money to search his identity and discovers his involvement in a romantic triangle which led to murder.

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Episode 27: The Susan Birchard Story
1958-04-02

Childhood sweethearts meet up later in life by accident and fall in love all over again.

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Episode 28: The Tony Drummond Story
1958-04-09

Young architect Tony Drummond insists he must make a success of himself before he'll marry his rich heiress fiancée. She offers to finance a his housing development plans so they can marry sooner, but he refuses. When Michael Anthony presents him with the Tipton cheque, Drummond assumes it, too is one of her schemes.

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Episode 29: The Thorne Sisters Story
1958-04-16

Three spinster sisters receive jointly the million and start a spending spree that draws suspicion, particularly of busybody Atwood, on sister Tessie of embezzlement of government funds in her duties as town clerk.

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Episode 30: The Rafe Peterson Story
1958-04-23

A big game hunter in Africa has an encounter with a rogue elephant that nearly kills him. The incident scares him so much he loses his nerve. But after receiving the Tipton cheque, his confidence is restored and returns to hunt the elephant and pursue his boss's daughter, who he's fallen in love with.

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Episode 31: The Andrew Sterling Story
1958-04-30

The recipient this week is a retired widower who has just been joined by his son, a recent graduate of law school but not ready to start his own office. Upon getting the million dollars, the old man buys a two luxury apartments for his son and himself, and starts an affair with a far younger manicure girl. The son tries to stop it, but falls for her instead.

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Episode 32: The Wally Bannister Story
1958-05-07

Wally Banister is shunned and even fired from his job for hanging a jury in a murder trial so when he gets his million he uses the money to prove the innocence of the defendant in that trial.

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Episode 33: The Jack Garrison Story
1958-05-14

Because Phil Williams sees Garrison kiss Helen Rawlings to whom Williams is engaged, Phil threatens to kill Garrison while on an Air Force assignment at the North Pole so Garrison balks at a rescue when Williams is trapped in a crevice.

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Episode 34: The Paul Taylor Story
1958-05-21

Paul Naylor believes that his wife and daughter value him only for the things he provides for them so when he receives his million he withdraws from his all consuming business and pretends to be broke to assess their reaction.

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Episode 35: The Russ White Story
1958-05-28

When Russ White goes to thank and offer financial help to the family of the man who gave White his cornea, he is initially rebuffed because of a scandal of which he is unaware and which becomes more complex upon investigation.

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Season 5 (1958)

No overview available.

37 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Betty Hawley Story
1958-09-03

After graduation from college, John Hawley (Richard Jaeckel) takes a job in Mexico for a mining company. John's wife Betty (Lisa Daniels) is pregnant and desperate to have their child in a hospital and in America. Hence, John agrees to accept $1,000 to drive over rutted dirt roads in an old rickety truck loaded with nitroglycerin to a mine cave-in many miles off.

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Episode 2: The Norman Conover Story
1958-09-10

Grocer Norman Conover starts a chain of stores with his million which draws a visit from his first wife, who has formerly agreed to stay away.

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Episode 3: The Fred Morgan Story
1958-09-17

Before they use the money for corrective surgery, Rita Morgan implores her husband to take her to place she was crippled in her husband's boating accident where they are intercepted by an run away convict but Fred devises an escape.

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Episode 4: The Ken Leighton Story
1958-09-24

Earnest, but gullible Ken Leighton is barely making it just to pay bills but is always is falling for his co-worker's grand money gambling schemes. His marriage is taking a strain now because he has no money to pay the bills.

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Episode 5: The David Barrett Story
1958-10-01

Struggling young writer David Barrett takes a laborer job on a farm owned by a tough old Scotsman. He's told to stay away from the main house, but circumstances bring him there and he meets the owner's daughter. They fall in love, but when the Farmer finds out, he fights him and orders him away until he can provide for the girl.

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Episode 6: The Martin Scott Story
1958-10-08

Martin Scott's boy is in trouble at school for running a lottery scam on his classmates. He wanted the cash to buy a car. So he's given an earnest talk about money, and why he can't use any in a college fund his parents save for him,yet unbeknownst to everyone else, Scott has gotten himself in debt to a bookie and must nearly drain the account.

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Episode 7: The Ellen Curry Story
1958-10-15

Ellen Curry is grief stricken when she loses her husband and terrified when he returns.

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Episode 8: The William Vaughan Story
1958-10-22

William Eliot Vaughan is a millionaire who finds out he is completely broke.

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Episode 9: The Cat Story
1958-10-29

Soon after an old spinster lady becomes a "Tipton-made Millionaire", she dies, leaving her estate to her cat, Ralph. The old woman's nephew Freddie Howard is to take care of the feline at a fabulous annual stipend allotted. Freddie's fiancée dislikes Ralph though, who suddenly runs away. Without him, the rest of the inheritance will go to a cat hospital.

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Episode 10: The Dan Howell Story
1958-11-05

Anthony's meeting with detective Dan Howell on a train on which Howell is returning an escaped convict who wishes revenge on Howell gives the convict an opportunity to free himself and run loose on the train.

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Episode 11: The Newman Johnson Story
1958-11-12

Meek clerk Newman Johnson who deals with an intrusive sister-in-law, a critical wife, a conniving coworker and a dismissive and grumpy employer gains confidence with his million and turns the tables as he buys his company.

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Episode 12: The Lee Randolph Story
1958-11-19

Check recipient Lee Randolph suffers brain trauma which condition his brother uses to make him Lee appear insane so he might commit Lee and have the money.

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Episode 13: The Frank Harrigan Story
1958-12-03

Stickler Frank Harrigan overhears his friends plan a gag to teach him a lesson about his hard nosed attitude so he thinks Anthony is acting when Anthony says he is giving him a million with almost disastrous consequences for the fortune.

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Episode 14: The Pete Hopper Story
1958-12-10

Hopper, a young insurance accountant, learns that a client is guilty of fraud. Pete refuses a bribe and intends to divulge his findings to the police. When the check for a million dollars is presented to him, Pete thinks the bribe offer has been renewed.

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Episode 15: The Eric Lodek Story
1958-12-17

Eric Lodek, a man devoted to helping others, receives the million-dollar check shortly before he suffers a fatal heart attack. Nick Slade, an escaped convict, comes across Lodek's body and decides to impersonate him.

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Episode 16: The William Courtney Story
1959-01-07

William Courtney is unable to pay the back taxes on an old castle he bought, until his check arrives.

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Episode 17: The Terrence Costigan Story
1959-01-14

Terrence Costigan receives someone else's check and tries to find the real recipient.

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Episode 18: The Irene Marshall Story
1959-01-21

Irene Marshall refuses to believe that her husband committed suicide.

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Episode 19: The Julia Conrad Story
1959-01-28

Julia Conrad and Gilbert Patterson each believe the other is wealthy.

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Episode 20: The Emily Baker Story
1959-02-04

A career bachelor and world traveler meets the perfect girl. He leaves her because he is sure that he is not ready to settle down, but she thinks it's because she's a simple country girl.

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Episode 21: The John Rackham Story
1959-02-11

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Episode 22: The Father Gilhooley Story
1959-02-18

A priest provides for great and small needs in his poor parish.

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Episode 23: The Hank Butler Story
1959-02-25

Judy Butler feels unneeded when her husband fills her role in their business with new employees, plus hires an efficient household staff.

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Episode 24: The Charlie Weber Story
1959-03-04

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Episode 25: The Angela Temple Story
1959-03-11

Rumors and a husband's secrets add suspicion to his behavior, leading to a crisis with his millionaire wife.

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Episode 26: The Alicia Osante Story
1959-03-18

Michael has a hard time finding Alicia Osante because she's trying to avoid immigration officials, with the help of sailor William Williams, who is on leave from San Diego.

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Episode 27: The Marcia Forrest Story
1959-03-25

New millionaires Marsha Forrest and her police lieutenant husband try to find out the truth about a man he arrested who has been convicted of theft and murder.

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Episode 28: The Henry Banning Story
1959-04-01

Henry Banning who lives with his sister's family and has no visible means is known as a teller of tall tales so when he receives his million he has trouble making himself and others believe he has wealth.

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Episode 29: The Sally Simms Story
1959-04-08

When mother and daughter Susan and Sally Simms jointly receive the million dollars, Sally uses the opportunity to find her mother a husband but the man she has picked on a cruise for her mother falls in love with Sally and she with him.

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Episode 30: The Ann Griffin Story
1959-04-15

Newlywed to her college sweetheart Ann Griffin secretly uses her money to successfully promote an acting career for her husband while the husband grows frustrated that an agent requires them to be apart for the sake of publicity.

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Episode 31: The Karl Miller Story
1959-04-22

Refugee Karl Miller uses his money to post a reward for assistance in finding his lost daughter and draws the help of a reporter who wants to write a story about the search.

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Episode 32: The Gilbert Burton Story
1959-04-29

Country boy Gilbert Burton spends money on a dancer with which he has become infatuated as a dishwasher in a nightclub but the woman cuts him off when her feelings grow because she feels she and her partner brother are using Gilbert.

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Episode 33: The Susan Ballard Story
1959-05-06

Small town teacher Susan Ballard flees from a wild party.

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Episode 34: The Bill Franklin Story
1959-05-13

Editor Bill Franklin's wife sees the million as way to escape the couples workaday town and thoughts of aging and so loses herself and consideration for husband in the bustle of New York City.

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Episode 35: The Louise Benson Story
1959-05-20

Artist Louise Benson falls in love with a sailor who was injured while rescuing her from a mugging as she sketched on the San Francisco waterfront but there love can go no further until the man faces murders charges in his hometown.

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Episode 36: The Martha Halloran Story
1959-05-27

Clint Halloran diverts an advance received to fuel his plane to take a boy to a hospital out of his way and has to fraudulently mortgage his plane to return because he did not receive funds his wife sent and is unaware of the million.

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Episode 37: The Charles Bradwell Story
1959-06-10

Charles Bradwell works as a janitor for a school, but has no family to call his own. After getting his million dollars, decides to go out and find a family to claim as his own.

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Season 6 (1959)

No overview available.

36 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: The Mark Fleming Story
1959-09-15

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.

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Episode 2: The Harry Brown Story
1959-09-22

A 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
1959-09-29

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.

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Episode 4: The Phillip Burnell Story
1959-10-06

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.

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Episode 5: The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
1959-10-20

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.

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Episode 6: The Jim Hayes Story
1959-10-27

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.

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Episode 7: The Maureen Reynolds Story
1959-11-03

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.

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Episode 8: The Jeff Mercer Story
1959-11-10

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

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Episode 9: The Tom Hampton Story
1959-11-18

Millionaire 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
1959-11-24

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.

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Episode 11: The Mitchell Gunther Story
1959-12-01

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.

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Episode 12: The Andrew C. Cooley Story
1959-12-08

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.

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Episode 13: The Nancy Pearson Story
1959-12-15

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Episode 14: The Jackson Greene Story
1959-12-22

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.

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Episode 15: The Timothy Mackail Story
1959-12-29

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.

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Episode 16: The Elizabeth Tander Story
1960-01-05

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.

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Episode 17: The Sylvia Merrick Story
1960-01-12

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.

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Episode 18: The Whitney Ames Story
1960-01-19

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.

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Episode 19: The Janie Harris Story
1960-01-26

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.

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Episode 20: The Margaret Stoneham Story
1960-02-02

Public 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
1960-02-09

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.

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Episode 22: The Sandy Newell Story
1960-02-16

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.

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Episode 23: The Larry Maxwell Story
1960-03-01

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.

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Episode 24: The Karen Summers Story
1960-03-08

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.

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Episode 25: The Jessica March Story
1960-03-15

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Episode 26: The Julie Sherman Story
1960-03-22

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.

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Episode 27: The Tony Rogers Story
1960-03-29

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Episode 28: The Susan Johnson Story
1960-04-05

Teenager 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
1960-04-12

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.

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Episode 30: The Katherine Boland Story
1960-04-19

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.

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Episode 31: The Mara Robinson Story
1960-04-26

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.

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Episode 32: The Dixon Cooper Story
1960-05-03

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.

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Episode 33: The Vance Ludlow Story
1960-05-10

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.

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Episode 34: The Peter Longman Story
1960-05-24

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.

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Episode 35: The Maggie Dalton Story
1960-05-31

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.

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Episode 36: The Patricia Collins Story
1960-06-07

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