The Millionaire
Total Seasons :6Total Episodes : 207
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(23)
1. 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.
Air Date : 1955-01-19
2. The Carl Nelson Story
Carl Nelson becomes obsessed with money, which jeopardizes his relationships.
Air Date : 1955-01-26
3. 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.
Air Date : 1955-02-02
4. 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.
Air Date : 1955-02-09
5. 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.
Air Date : 1955-02-16
6. 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.
Air Date : 1955-02-23
7. 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.
Air Date : 1955-03-02
8. 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.
Air Date : 1955-03-09
9. 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.
Air Date : 1955-03-16
10. 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.
Air Date : 1955-03-23
11. 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
Air Date : 1955-03-30
12. 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.
Air Date : 1955-04-06
13. 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.
Air Date : 1955-04-13
14. 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.
Air Date : 1955-04-20
15. 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.
Air Date : 1955-04-27
16. 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.
Air Date : 1955-05-04
17. 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.
Air Date : 1955-05-11
18. 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.
Air Date : 1955-05-18
19. 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.
Air Date : 1955-05-25
20. The Sam Donovan Story
Unassuming Sam Donovan seems to spend his million frivolously without abandon much to the consternation of his controlling parsimonious fiancée.
Air Date : 1955-06-01
21. 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.
Air Date : 1955-06-08
22. 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.
Air Date : 1955-06-15
23. 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.
Air Date : 1955-06-22
Cast
Marvin Miller
(Michael Anthony)
Paul Frees
(John Beresford Tipton)
Roy Gordon
(Andrew V. McMahon)
Robert Quarry
(Andy Murray)
John Alvin
(Defense Atty. Bill Irvin)
Howard McNear
(Smitty)
Richard Jaeckel
(Joey Saxon)
Ann Codee
(Madam Genet)
Edward Brophy
(Preliminary Feeney)
Jean Byron
(Betty Jane Ryan / Bea Ryan)
Jess Barker
(Felix Lombard)
Nan Leslie
(Carol Browning Schofield)
Coleen Gray
(Jean Smith Fortune)
Donald Woods
(Cobb Marley)
Hillary Brooke
(Jane Murdock)
Edmund Gwenn
(Walter Clinton Carter)
Barbara Bates
(Marian Curtis)
Irene Tedrow
(Countess Lili Turec)
Arthur Shields
(J. Peveril 'Pev' Johnson)
Harry Browne
(Sgt. Dunn)
Herbert Heyes
(Dr. Christy)
Barbara Bestar
(Janet Johnson)
Joe Besser
(Chester Pips)
William Forrest
(Quimby)
Del Moore
(Sam Smith)
Marjorie Reynolds
(Louise Malcolm)
Carolyn Jones
(Emily Short)
Arthur Franz
(Carl Nelson)
Richard Deacon
(Jeweler)
Barbara Pepper
(Fat Woman)
John Howard
(Edward Harper)
William Haade
(Tim)
Rand Brooks
(Allan Carter)
Lamont Johnson
(Charles Lomar)
Lloyd Corrigan
(James Dickingson)
Jack Rice
(Room Clerk)
Russ Conway
(Prison Chaplain (uncredited))
Olaf Hytten
(Hakes - Butler)
Phyllis Coates
(Alice Sands)
Vera Miles
(Merle Roberts)
Percy Helton
(Robert P. Chesley - Uncle Robby)
Harry Lauter
(Andrew Stevens)
Liam Sullivan
(Allan Malcolm)
Beverly Garland
(Clara Nelson)
Jay Novello
(Harvey Blake)
Rachel Ames
(Georgette French)
Robert B. Williams
(Lou Borders)
Addison Richards
(H. H. Hungerford)
Paul Langton
(John 'Jack' Martin)
John Archer
(Tom Williams)
Hildy Parks
(Mildred 'Millie' Milliken)
Paul Cavanagh
(Dean Cosgrove)
John Wengraf
(Count Victor Turec)
Veda Ann Borg
(Flo Sullivan)
Gilman Rankin
(Man)
Stafford Repp
(Willy Grayson)
James Flavin
(Dan Mulcahy)
Les Tremayne
(Fred Malcolm)
Lester Dorr
(Court Clerk)
Selmer Jackson
(Dr. Jim O'Toole)
Virginia Carroll
(Fur Saleswoman)
Joseph Mell
(Deli Mgr. Levy)
Ellen Corby
(Nancy Marlborough)
Eleanor Audley
(Cynthia Semple)
Olan Soule
(Teller)
Harry Tyler
(Ownie - Laborer)
William Fawcett
(Charlie the Janitor)
John Bryant
(Richard Curtis)
Nora Marlowe
(Bessie Mulcahy)
Kim Charney
(Martin)
John Dehner
(Prof. Ridgely)
John Harmon
(Hotel Desk Clerk)
Don C. Harvey
(Detective Brophy)
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