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.
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Episodes
23 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
S1:E1 The Amy Moore Story
Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E2 The Carl Nelson Story
Carl Nelson becomes obsessed with money, which jeopardizes his relationships.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 The Joe Iris Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 The Dan Mulcahy Story
Bessie Mulcahy wants to spend her husband's gift of $1,000,000. to get a rich society husband for their eligible daughter.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E5 The Emily Short Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E6 The Margaret Browning Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 The Harvey Blake Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 The Nancy Marlborough Story
An English teacher's use of her money to invest in a boxer puts her in conflict with school administration and crooked promoters.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 The Betty Jane Ryan Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E10 The Charles Lomar Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 The Ken Fowler Story
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
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 The Pev Johnson Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 The Quentin Harwood Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 The Fred Malcolm Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 The Luke Fortune Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 The Jack Martin Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 The Walter Carter Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 The Merle Roberts Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 The Uncle Robby Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 The Sam Donovan Story
Unassuming Sam Donovan seems to spend his million frivolously without abandon much to the consternation of his controlling parsimonious fiancée.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 The Vickie Lawson Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 The Cobb Marley Story
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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 The Mildred Milliken Story
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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