Marvin Miller
Michael Anthony
The Millionaire (1955)
Season 2
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.
Released Jan. 19, 1955
Episode 25 min
None+
Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.anthology, tmdb.millionaire, tmdb.philanthropist, tmdb.sudden-wealth, imdb.breaking-the-fourth-wall, imdb.multibillionaire, imdb.millionaire + 2 more, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.anthology
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Rita Keeley Story
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.
Sept. 28, 1955, midnight
S2E2 - The Robert Croft Story
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.
Oct. 5, 1955, midnight
S2E3 - The Joe Seaton Story
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.
Oct. 12, 1955, midnight
S2E4 - The Iris Millar Story
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.
Oct. 19, 1955, midnight
S2E5 - The Ralph McKnight Story
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.
Oct. 26, 1955, midnight
S2E6 - The Tom Bryan Story
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.
Nov. 2, 1955, midnight
S2E7 - The Peggy Demos Story
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.
Nov. 9, 1955, midnight
S2E8 - The Jerome Wilson Story
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.
Nov. 16, 1955, midnight
S2E9 - The Nora Paul Story
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.
Nov. 23, 1955, midnight
S2E10 - The Steve Carey Story
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.
Nov. 30, 1955, midnight
S2E11 - The Don Lewis Story
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.
Dec. 7, 1955, midnight
S2E12 - The Jeff Ellis Story
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.
Dec. 14, 1955, midnight
S2E13 - The Wilbur T. Gerrold Story
Dec. 21, 1955, midnight
S2E14 - The Philip Sargent Story
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.
Dec. 28, 1955, midnight
S2E15 - The Chris Hall Story
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.
Jan. 4, 1956, midnight
S2E16 - The Reverend John Hardin Story
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.
Jan. 11, 1956, midnight
S2E17 - The Cindy Bowen Story
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.
Jan. 18, 1956, midnight
S2E18 - The Jean Griffith Story
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.
Jan. 25, 1956, midnight
S2E19 - The Larry Evans Story
Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.
Feb. 1, 1956, midnight
S2E20 - The Brian Hendricks Story
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.
Feb. 8, 1956, midnight
S2E21 - The Arthur Darner Story
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.
Feb. 15, 1956, midnight
S2E22 - The Victor Volante Story
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.
Feb. 22, 1956, midnight
S2E23 - The Candy Caldwell Story
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.
Feb. 29, 1956, midnight
S2E24 - The Rip Matson Story
An abnormally fearless test pilot eschews depth in personal relationships until he meets a beautiful psychologist while she is conducting a psychological study.
March 7, 1956, midnight
S2E25 - The Rita Hanley Story
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.
March 14, 1956, midnight
S2E26 - The Eric Vincent Story
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.
March 21, 1956, midnight
S2E27 - The Bedelia Buckley Story
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.
March 28, 1956, midnight
S2E28 - The Tom Mead Story
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.
April 4, 1956, midnight
S2E29 - The Lucky Swanson Story
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.
April 11, 1956, midnight
S2E30 - The Jane Costello Story
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.
April 18, 1956, midnight
S2E31 - The Ed Murdock Story
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.
April 25, 1956, midnight
S2E32 - The Louise Williams Story
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.
May 2, 1956, midnight
S2E33 - The Todd Burke Story
A man's jealous, anxious and suspicious mother attempts to sabotage a new bride's simple appeal and the marriage.
May 9, 1956, midnight
S2E34 - The Captain John Carroll Story
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.
May 16, 1956, midnight
S2E35 - The Sally Delaney Story
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.
May 23, 1956, midnight
S2E36 - The Olivia Grainger Story
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.
May 30, 1956, midnight
S2E37 - The Jill Mayfield Story
Michael Anthony delivers the million dollar check to Jill Mayfield, an aspiring actress, who decides to use the gift to further her career.
June 6, 1956, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 25 min.
Season Runtime: 25 min.
Released: Jan. 19, 1955
Last Air Date: June 7, 1960, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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