The Millionaire

30min

Drama

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.

Episodes

Cast

The Amy Moore Story

1. The Amy Moore Story

19th Jan 1955

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

The Carl Nelson Story

2. The Carl Nelson Story

26th Jan 1955

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

The Joe Iris Story

3. The Joe Iris Story

2nd Feb 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.

The Dan Mulcahy Story

4. The Dan Mulcahy Story

9th Feb 1955

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

The Emily Short Story

5. The Emily Short Story

16th Feb 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.

The Margaret Browning Story

6. The Margaret Browning Story

23rd Feb 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.

The Harvey Blake Story

7. The Harvey Blake Story

2nd Mar 1955

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.

The Nancy Marlborough Story

8. The Nancy Marlborough Story

9th Mar 1955

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

The Betty Jane Ryan Story

9. The Betty Jane Ryan Story

16th Mar 1955

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.

The Charles Lomar Story

10. The Charles Lomar Story

23rd Mar 1955

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.

The Ken Fowler Story

11. The Ken Fowler Story

30th Mar 1955

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

The Pev Johnson Story

12. The Pev Johnson Story

6th Apr 1955

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.

The Quentin Harwood Story

13. The Quentin Harwood Story

13th Apr 1955

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.

The Fred Malcolm Story

14. The Fred Malcolm Story

20th Apr 1955

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.

The Luke Fortune Story

15. The Luke Fortune Story

27th Apr 1955

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.

The Jack Martin Story

16. The Jack Martin Story

4th May 1955

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.

The Walter Carter Story

17. The Walter Carter Story

11th May 1955

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.

The Merle Roberts Story

18. The Merle Roberts Story

18th May 1955

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.

The Uncle Robby Story

19. The Uncle Robby Story

25th May 1955

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.

The Sam Donovan Story

20. The Sam Donovan Story

1st Jun 1955

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

The Vickie Lawson Story

21. The Vickie Lawson Story

8th Jun 1955

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.

The Cobb Marley Story

22. The Cobb Marley Story

15th Jun 1955

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.

The Mildred Milliken Story

23. The Mildred Milliken Story

22nd Jun 1955

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.

First air date

19th Jan 1955

Last air date

7th Jun 1960

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks