Marvin Miller
Michael Anthony
The Millionaire (1955)
Season 6
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
S6E1 - The Mark Fleming Story
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.
Sept. 15, 1959, midnight
S6E2 - The Harry Brown Story
A bickering couple with a child can't afford a divorce, until Michael Anthony delivers a millionaire dollar check to the husband.
Sept. 22, 1959, midnight
S6E3 - The Lorraine Daggett Story
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.
Sept. 29, 1959, midnight
S6E4 - The Phillip Burnell Story
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.
Oct. 6, 1959, midnight
S6E5 - The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
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.
Oct. 20, 1959, midnight
S6E6 - The Jim Hayes Story
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.
Oct. 27, 1959, midnight
S6E7 - The Maureen Reynolds Story
Maureen Reynolds upon receiving letters from her engineer husband of short duration marked deceased goes to South America and discovers the husband is a much despised man who stole company supplies in the midst of a revolution.
Nov. 3, 1959, midnight
S6E8 - The Jeff Mercer Story
A responsible young boy with a desire to help his financially challenged family is the recipient of the million dollar check but cannot persuade his parents that their fortune is re
Nov. 10, 1959, midnight
S6E9 - The Tom Hampton Story
Millionaire Tom Hampton is afraid to tell his wife about the million dollar check because she's known to constantly spill secrets.
Nov. 18, 1959, midnight
S6E10 - The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
Matthew Brogan secretly makes it financially possible for Jim Phillips, the man who saved his life in Korea, to marry his long term sweetheart but is surprised that he must first disrupt Phillips romance with a nightclub singer.
Nov. 24, 1959, midnight
S6E11 - The Mitchell Gunther Story
Mitchell Gunther uses his million in a plan to make it appear that his partner Ray Wilson murdered him because he wants revenge for a ruinous fatal construction accident that he thinks Wilson caused by used of inferior materials.
Dec. 1, 1959, midnight
S6E12 - The Andrew C. Cooley Story
Andrew Cooley who has unsuccessfully worked a gold mine for years spends money freely when he receives his check and is pressured by devious business men to sell his worthless mine because the men believe his spending means its valuable.
Dec. 8, 1959, midnight
S6E13 - The Nancy Pearson Story
Dec. 15, 1959, midnight
S6E14 - The Jackson Greene Story
Bohemian Jackson Greene wants his money to build a beatnik artists' colony on land a citizens committee wants to add a wing to a children's hospital so the committee sends to negotiate a woman to which Greene is cautiously attracted.
Dec. 22, 1959, midnight
S6E15 - The Timothy Mackail Story
A cab driver feeling generous after receiving his money offers a ride gratis to a pretty woman but the woman does not return from the house where the driver discovers a murdered man causing police scrutiny for him.
Dec. 29, 1959, midnight
S6E16 - The Elizabeth Tander Story
New York file clerk Elizabeth Tander after receiving her check vacations in Los Angeles where she meets a hotel clerk and aspiring actor David Stevens who she is warned is after her money but Stevens thinks she is struggling city girl.
Jan. 5, 1960, midnight
S6E17 - The Sylvia Merrick Story
Adopted daughter Sylvia Merrick, hated by the biological son of a father whose fortune the brother has squandered, is the victim just before her check arrives of a failed murder attempt planned by the brother to appear a suicide.
Jan. 12, 1960, midnight
S6E18 - The Whitney Ames Story
Whitney Ames' daughter Linda returns from college to find her father has a big new house and a new bride which leads her to anxiously think that the woman has married her father for the benefits of the fortune her father must now have.
Jan. 19, 1960, midnight
S6E19 - The Janie Harris Story
When Janie Harris reconnects in France with the Lothario who once breached his promise of marriage to her, she devises a plan for revenge that goes awry.
Jan. 26, 1960, midnight
S6E20 - The Margaret Stoneham Story
Public defender Margaret Stoneham makes use of her sudden fortune to prove the innocence of a client sentenced to death.
Feb. 2, 1960, midnight
S6E21 - The Jerry Mitchell Story
Korean veteran Mitchell learns that family business has collapsed so promises to pay all the debts even though not legally bound but when he receives his million he struggles with his promise since it will take almost the entire check.
Feb. 9, 1960, midnight
S6E22 - The Sandy Newell Story
After receiving his check, Sandy Newell who has gone to Alaska to make a fortune to marry the woman he loves returns home to discover why the woman has sent him a rejection letter and finds that she is blind.
Feb. 16, 1960, midnight
S6E23 - The Larry Maxwell Story
Because Larry Maxwell receives an unacceptable contract, the million is used to buy the pitcher's baseball team under his wife's maiden name so no one knows Larry's ownership status but Connie Maxwell acts like the usual management.
March 1, 1960, midnight
S6E24 - The Karen Summers Story
A small town librarian with aspirations to be a writer is mistaken as the secretive writer of racy romance novels by town folk and the fact she cannot dissuade their talk becomes more complicated when a reporter comes to do her story.
March 8, 1960, midnight
S6E25 - The Jessica March Story
March 15, 1960, midnight
S6E26 - The Julie Sherman Story
Gallery secretary Julie Sherman falls for aspiring artist Adam Spencer who cancels his proposal when Julie's boss determines Spencer is not ready for a gallery so when Julie receives the million she buys a gallery and Spencer's paintings.
March 22, 1960, midnight
S6E27 - The Tony Rogers Story
March 29, 1960, midnight
S6E28 - The Susan Johnson Story
Teenager Susan Johnson's use of her money to promote her boyfriend's recording career has unforeseen consequences.
April 5, 1960, midnight
S6E29 - The Nancy Cortez Story
Newlywed Nancy Cortez believes her million dollars is a means to remove her famous matador husband from the dangers of the bullring but faces obstacles of cultural honor and masculine pride.
April 12, 1960, midnight
S6E30 - The Katherine Boland Story
A woman uses her check in an attempt to capture her youth and lost social standing by planning a cotillion for her ward niece although the niece has already chosen her future husband.
April 19, 1960, midnight
S6E31 - The Mara Robinson Story
A Gypsy woman uses her million dollars to pursue a man who has shown an attraction to her at party where he assumed she was guest while unaware of her background.
April 26, 1960, midnight
S6E32 - The Dixon Cooper Story
Dixon Cooper tries to court a widow who wants more financial security for her two children than she thinks he can provide as a milkman.
May 3, 1960, midnight
S6E33 - The Vance Ludlow Story
A locksmith gets his million dollar check and takes an armful of gifts to the apartment of a pretty client, but he finds someone else there.
May 10, 1960, midnight
S6E34 - The Peter Longman Story
Locksmith Peter Longman falls for a woman for whom he unlocks a door from which she is locked out but when he goes to later see the woman he discovers the body of another woman to whom the police say the apartment actually belongs.
May 24, 1960, midnight
S6E35 - The Maggie Dalton Story
Maggie searches New York and Paris for a Frenchman she met at the top of the Empire State Building to thank him for the words he said that brought her out of despair which helped her be in a place where she could receive the million.
May 31, 1960, midnight
S6E36 - The Patricia Collins Story
June 7, 1960, 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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