TV Show

The Millionaire

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.

TV Show Stats +8%

6 seasons

207 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1955

Rating

TV Show

5.0/10

3 votes • HD

Season 1

23 episodes
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The Amy Moore Story
Episode 1

The Amy Moore Story

Episode 1 • Jan 19, 1955

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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The Carl Nelson Story
Episode 2

The Carl Nelson Story

Episode 2 • Jan 26, 1955

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

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The Joe Iris Story
Episode 3

The Joe Iris Story

Episode 3 • Feb 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 his old ways.

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The Dan Mulcahy Story
Episode 4

The Dan Mulcahy Story

Episode 4 • Feb 09, 1955

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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The Emily Short Story
Episode 5

The Emily Short Story

Episode 5 • Feb 16, 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 smuggling diamonds.

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The Margaret Browning Story
Episode 6

The Margaret Browning Story

Episode 6 • Feb 23, 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 struggles with the task.

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Season 2

37 episodes
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The Rita Keeley Story
Episode 1

The Rita Keeley Story

Episode 1 • Sep 28, 1955

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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The Robert Croft Story
Episode 2

The Robert Croft Story

Episode 2 • Oct 05, 1955

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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The Joe Seaton Story
Episode 3

The Joe Seaton Story

Episode 3 • Oct 12, 1955

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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The Iris Millar Story
Episode 4

The Iris Millar Story

Episode 4 • Oct 19, 1955

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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The Ralph McKnight Story
Episode 5

The Ralph McKnight Story

Episode 5 • Oct 26, 1955

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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The Tom Bryan Story
Episode 6

The Tom Bryan Story

Episode 6 • Nov 02, 1955

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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Season 3

39 episodes
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The Kathy Munson Story
Episode 1

The Kathy Munson Story

Episode 1 • Sep 12, 1956

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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The Jane Carr Story
Episode 2

The Jane Carr Story

Episode 2 • Sep 19, 1956

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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The Anna Hartley Story
Episode 3

The Anna Hartley Story

Episode 3 • Sep 26, 1956

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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The Charles Hartford Simpson Story
Episode 4

The Charles Hartford Simpson Story

Episode 4 • Oct 03, 1956

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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The Fred Graham Story
Episode 5

The Fred Graham Story

Episode 5 • Oct 10, 1956

Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.

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The Virginia Lennart Story
Episode 6

The Virginia Lennart Story

Episode 6 • Oct 17, 1956

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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Season 4

35 episodes
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The Matt Kirby Story
Episode 1

The Matt Kirby Story

Episode 1 • Sep 18, 1957

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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The Pete Marlowe Story
Episode 2

The Pete Marlowe Story

Episode 2 • Sep 25, 1957

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

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The Roy Delbridge Story
Episode 3

The Roy Delbridge Story

Episode 3 • Oct 02, 1957

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

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The Carl Bronson Story
Episode 4

The Carl Bronson Story

Episode 4 • Oct 09, 1957

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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The Laura Hunter Story
Episode 5

The Laura Hunter Story

Episode 5 • Oct 16, 1957

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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The Larry Parker Story
Episode 6

The Larry Parker Story

Episode 6 • Oct 23, 1957

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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Season 5

37 episodes
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The Betty Hawley Story
Episode 1

The Betty Hawley Story

Episode 1 • Sep 03, 1958

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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The Norman Conover Story
Episode 2

The Norman Conover Story

Episode 2 • Sep 10, 1958

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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The Fred Morgan Story
Episode 3

The Fred Morgan Story

Episode 3 • Sep 17, 1958

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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The Ken Leighton Story
Episode 4

The Ken Leighton Story

Episode 4 • Sep 24, 1958

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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The David Barrett Story
Episode 5

The David Barrett Story

Episode 5 • Oct 01, 1958

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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The Martin Scott Story
Episode 6

The Martin Scott Story

Episode 6 • Oct 08, 1958

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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Season 6

36 episodes
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The Mark Fleming Story
Episode 1

The Mark Fleming Story

Episode 1 • Sep 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.

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The Harry Brown Story
Episode 2

The Harry Brown Story

Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1959

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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The Lorraine Daggett Story
Episode 3

The Lorraine Daggett Story

Episode 3 • Sep 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.

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The Phillip Burnell Story
Episode 4

The Phillip Burnell Story

Episode 4 • Oct 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.

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The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
Episode 5

The Doctor Joseph Frye Story

Episode 5 • Oct 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.

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The Jim Hayes Story
Episode 6

The Jim Hayes Story

Episode 6 • Oct 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.

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