The Millionaire

The Millionaire

1955
The Millionaire
The Millionaire

The Millionaire

7.8 | en | 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.

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EP36  The Patricia Collins Story
Jun. 07,1960
The Patricia Collins Story

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EP35  The Maggie Dalton Story
May. 31,1960
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.

EP34  The Peter Longman Story
May. 24,1960
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.

EP33  The Vance Ludlow Story
May. 10,1960
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.

EP32  The Dixon Cooper Story
May. 03,1960
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.

EP31  The Mara Robinson Story
Apr. 26,1960
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.

EP30  The Katherine Boland Story
Apr. 19,1960
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.

EP29  The Nancy Cortez Story
Apr. 12,1960
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.

EP28  The Susan Johnson Story
Apr. 05,1960
The Susan Johnson Story

Teenager Susan Johnson's use of her money to promote her boyfriend's recording career has unforeseen consequences.

EP27  The Tony Rogers Story
Mar. 29,1960
The Tony Rogers Story

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EP26  The Julie Sherman Story
Mar. 22,1960
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.

EP25  The Jessica March Story
Mar. 15,1960
The Jessica March Story

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EP24  The Karen Summers Story
Mar. 08,1960
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.

EP23  The Larry Maxwell Story
Mar. 01,1960
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.

EP22  The Sandy Newell Story
Feb. 16,1960
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.

EP21  The Jerry Mitchell Story
Feb. 09,1960
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.

EP20  The Margaret Stoneham Story
Feb. 02,1960
The Margaret Stoneham Story

Public defender Margaret Stoneham makes use of her sudden fortune to prove the innocence of a client sentenced to death.

EP19  The Janie Harris Story
Jan. 26,1960
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.

EP18  The Whitney Ames Story
Jan. 19,1960
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.

EP17  The Sylvia Merrick Story
Jan. 12,1960
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.

EP16  The Elizabeth Tander Story
Jan. 05,1960
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.

EP15  The Timothy Mackail Story
Dec. 29,1959
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.

EP14  The Jackson Greene Story
Dec. 22,1959
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.

EP13  The Nancy Pearson Story
Dec. 15,1959
The Nancy Pearson Story

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EP12  The Andrew C. Cooley Story
Dec. 08,1959
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.

EP11  The Mitchell Gunther Story
Dec. 01,1959
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.

EP10  The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
Nov. 24,1959
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.

EP9  The Tom Hampton Story
Nov. 18,1959
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.

EP8  The Jeff Mercer Story
Nov. 10,1959
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

EP7  The Maureen Reynolds Story
Nov. 03,1959
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.

EP6  The Jim Hayes Story
Oct. 27,1959
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.

EP5  The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
Oct. 20,1959
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.

EP4  The Phillip Burnell Story
Oct. 06,1959
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.

EP3  The Lorraine Daggett Story
Sep. 29,1959
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.

EP2  The Harry Brown Story
Sep. 22,1959
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.

EP1  The Mark Fleming Story
Sep. 15,1959
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.

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Released: 1955-01-19 | Released Producted By: , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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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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Marvin Miller , Paul Frees

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dmecca-2 A fellow was desperate for money and was driving a truck loaded with liquid explosives. He was crossing an old bridge that seemed destined to break somewhere on an isolated road. I cannot remember after that. I've thought of it often. Just being so afraid he would not make it and wishing he had known they were looking for him with the money.By chance, does anyone remember this episode? I can't recall if they all had happy endings. I was so young. Evidently it made an impression that I remember this so vividly years later. (I was born 1952)It is odd how these old programs stay with us.
MisterChandu Counting up the episodes, I figure Mr. Tipton gave away 208 million dollars over 6 years. Who was this guy, J Paul Getty? Howard Hughes? There were multi millionaires at the time with Hughes becoming the first billionaire in the 60's but no way would that have happened had he done what the make believe Tipton did. Even with that bottomless Hollywood wallet of his, I bet the imaginary Tipton thanked God that the show was finally canceled. Heck, maybe he went bankrupt! Better yet, maybe it wasn't even his money and he was stealing it form an imaginary bank!I have fond memories of this show. I really liked the classy man servant Mr. Anthony who would deliver the check to some person simply going thru another day in their life. He had a nice smile and was very dignified but once he was gone, a crazy story would begin.(I wonder what the show would have been like in Rod Serling was the one handing out the money because that was this show was kind of like, a "Twilight Zone" where instead of entering another dimension the Serling way, the characters enter it in a financial way. The results could be similar I believe.) I do remember some episodes but I have not seen this since it was re run in the 60's.Episode 1: Their was this couple who had been named in the will of a relative. He left them money for their honeymoon. He receives the check and, as he was going to his lawyers to change his will, has a heart attack in the taxi on the way there. The couple, because the will leaves the unused money to someone else, then takes off on a honeymoon that costs a million dollars.Episode 2: Their were these two old friends since childhood both of whom had ended up in the same old folks home. One of them receives a million. He goes and buys a big house where he sets up a Christmas tree (in July) and says to his friend (whom he intends to share his good fortune with) "everyday will be Christmas around here from now on!" His friend then dies on the spot. Now remember that this is in the fifties and that these guys grew up during the worst years of the 20th century and you see the pathos involved.I do not know the names of these episodes and since the show is out of print I may never see them again but I think you get the idea. This is still a good concept for a show and it might be nice to have a reprise of the show as many of the actors/actresses (Vera Miles, Mary Tyler Moore) are still alive and some of the original audience is still around. We could see what they did with their million over the years.In this day of lottery game winners who blow it all, some of the story might get lost in translation but with todays multi billionaires it still could make for a good TV movie or mini series.Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, and Ross Perot; Where are you?
f-sledge I remember "The Millionaire" well, as it was a family favorite throughout its run. I agree with the posted comment, with one significant exception. Even as a child, I couldn't help but notice that the "Money can't buy happiness" message of the show was very contrived. The Millionaire candidates in most of the episodes were losers, malcontents, people with real and serious social interaction problems, who suddenly turned into bubbling fountains of happiness and rectitude once they got the money. Maybe money couldn't buy happiness, but it's mere possession evidently conferred instant morality and wisdom. The final "Lessons learned" scenes between Anthony and Tipton were invariably of the "Well, now this benighted yahoo has seen the light and is back on his/her right path" variety. It was a VERY 1950's sort of "message." Yes, my family watched the show regularly - and laughed our cookies off every week! Two nits: Tipton was "seen", but only from the rear. Also, another "condition" was that the subject never reveal the exact amount of the gift. I never understood why revealing a nice round number like $1M would cause any problems. I guess I'm too benighted.
Gene Bivins (gayspiritwarrior) Nobody seems to remember that it wasn't actually random people to whom the million dollars was given. At the beginning of each show Tipton would send for his secretary, Michael Anthony. Tipton would say something pertaining to the person he'd decided to give the gift to, and say "Here's another Millionaire." He always knew some reason why the person needed the money or the lesson the money might teach. Anthony would fold the check into his portfolio and head out to deliver it. One episode I still remember had the money going to the young daughter of a contentious couple who needed the money. They found the million dollars notation in her bankbook and told her she shouldn't pretend and write things in the book. At the end of the show they hadn't yet discovered the money was real. It was a good show, fondly remembered.