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The Millionaire

Season 1 1955

  • 1955-01-19T05:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 9h 35m (23 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
What would you do if someone gave you a million dollars and it was all tax free? That was the premise of this 1955-60 CBS series in which unseen millionaire John Beresford Tipton each week gave away a million bucks to a needy person. Marvin Miller played Tipton's secretary, Michael Anthony, who was the man who handed out the checks to the lucky beneficiaries. Paul Frees provided the voice of the unseen millionaire Tipton.

23 episodes

Series Premiere

1955-01-19T05:00:00Z

1x01 Millionaire Amy Moore

Series Premiere

1x01 Millionaire Amy Moore

  • 1955-01-19T05:00:00Z25m

Amy Moore, trying to raise her invalid son on a clerk's wages, thinks the check will solve all her problems.

1955-01-26T05:00:00Z

1x02 Millionaire Carl Nelson

1x02 Millionaire Carl Nelson

  • 1955-01-26T05:00:00Z25m

Carl Nelson becomes obsessed with money, which jeopardizes his relationships.

1955-02-02T05:00:00Z

1x03 Millionaire Joe Iris

1x03 Millionaire Joe Iris

  • 1955-02-02T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-02-09T05:00:00Z

1x04 Millionaire Dan Mulcahy

1x04 Millionaire Dan Mulcahy

  • 1955-02-09T05:00:00Z25m

Bessie Mulcahy wants to spend her husband's gift of $1,000,000. to get a rich society husband for their eligible daughter.

1955-02-16T05:00:00Z

1x05 Millionaire Emily Short

1x05 Millionaire Emily Short

  • 1955-02-16T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1x06 The Story of Margaret Browning

  • 1955-02-23T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-03-02T05:00:00Z

1x07 The Story of Harvey Blake

1x07 The Story of Harvey Blake

  • 1955-03-02T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1x08 The Story of Nancy Marlborough

  • 1955-03-09T05:00:00Z25m

An English teacher's use of her money to invest in a boxer puts her in conflict with school administration and crooked promoters.

1x09 The Story of Betty Jane Ryan

  • 1955-03-16T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1x10 The Story of Charles Lamar

  • 1955-03-23T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-03-30T05:00:00Z

1x11 The Story of Ken Fowler

1x11 The Story of Ken Fowler

  • 1955-03-30T05:00:00Z25m

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

1955-04-06T05:00:00Z

1x12 The Story of Pev Johnson

1x12 The Story of Pev Johnson

  • 1955-04-06T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1x13 The Story of Quentin Harwood

  • 1955-04-13T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-04-20T05:00:00Z

1x14 The Story of Fred Malcolm

1x14 The Story of Fred Malcolm

  • 1955-04-20T05:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-04-27T04:00:00Z

1x15 The Story of Luke Fortune

1x15 The Story of Luke Fortune

  • 1955-04-27T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-05-04T04:00:00Z

1x16 The Story of Jack Martin

1x16 The Story of Jack Martin

  • 1955-05-04T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1x17 The Story of Walter Carter

  • 1955-05-11T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1x18 The Story of Merle Roberts

  • 1955-05-18T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-05-25T04:00:00Z

1x19 The Story of Uncle Robby

1x19 The Story of Uncle Robby

  • 1955-05-25T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-06-01T04:00:00Z

1x20 The Story of Sam Donovan

1x20 The Story of Sam Donovan

  • 1955-06-01T04:00:00Z25m

Unassuming Sam Donovan seems to spend his million frivolously without abandon much to the consternation of his controlling parsimonious fiancée.

1x21 The Story of Vickie Lawson

  • 1955-06-08T04:00:00Z25m

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.

1955-06-15T04:00:00Z

1x22 The Story of Cobb Marley

1x22 The Story of Cobb Marley

  • 1955-06-15T04:00:00Z25m

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.

Season Finale

1955-06-22T04:00:00Z

1x23 The Story of Mildred Milliken

Season Finale

1x23 The Story of Mildred Milliken

  • 1955-06-22T04:00:00Z25m

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.

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