The Millionaire
1955
📺 6 Seasons
🎬 207 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 30 min/episode
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.
Seasons
Season 1
Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.
Season 2
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.
Season 3
Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications unsue when Marion falls for her sister Kathy's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.
Season 4
A newspaper man who ruthlessly embellishes the misdeeds of others in his stories uses his million to buy controlling interest in his paper but a female reporter could have unsavory and damaging details about the man's past.
Season 5
After graduation from college, John Hawley (Richard Jaeckel) takes a job in Mexico for a mining company. John's wife Betty (Lisa Daniels) is pregnant and desperate to have their child in a hospital and in America. Hence, John agrees to accept $1,000 to drive over rutted dirt roads in an old rickety truck loaded with nitroglycerin to a mine cave-in many miles off.
Season 6
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.
Crew
Producer
Don Fedderson, Fred Henry
Network
CBS
Keywords
anthologymillionairephilanthropistsudden wealth