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The Millionaire Season 5

September. 03,1958
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The Millionaire

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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The Millionaire

1955

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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The Millionaire Season 5 Full Episode Guide

Episode 37 - The Charles Bradwell Story
First Aired: June. 10,1959

Charles Bradwell works as a janitor for a school, but has no family to call his own. After getting his million dollars, decides to go out and find a family to claim as his own.

Episode 36 - The Martha Halloran Story
First Aired: May. 27,1959

Clint Halloran diverts an advance received to fuel his plane to take a boy to a hospital out of his way and has to fraudulently mortgage his plane to return because he did not receive funds his wife sent and is unaware of the million.

Episode 35 - The Louise Benson Story
First Aired: May. 20,1959

Artist Louise Benson falls in love with a sailor who was injured while rescuing her from a mugging as she sketched on the San Francisco waterfront but there love can go no further until the man faces murders charges in his hometown.

Episode 34 - The Bill Franklin Story
First Aired: May. 13,1959

Editor Bill Franklin's wife sees the million as way to escape the couples workaday town and thoughts of aging and so loses herself and consideration for husband in the bustle of New York City.

Episode 32 - The Gilbert Burton Story
First Aired: April. 29,1959

Country boy Gilbert Burton spends money on a dancer with which he has become infatuated as a dishwasher in a nightclub but the woman cuts him off when her feelings grow because she feels she and her partner brother are using Gilbert.

Episode 31 - The Karl Miller Story
Episode 30 - The Ann Griffin Story
First Aired: April. 15,1959

Newlywed to her college sweetheart Ann Griffin secretly uses her money to successfully promote an acting career for her husband while the husband grows frustrated that an agent requires them to be apart for the sake of publicity.

Episode 29 - The Sally Simms Story
First Aired: April. 08,1959

When mother and daughter Susan and Sally Simms jointly receive the million dollars, Sally uses the opportunity to find her mother a husband but the man she has picked on a cruise for her mother falls in love with Sally and she with him.

Episode 28 - The Henry Banning Story
First Aired: April. 01,1959

Henry Banning who lives with his sister's family and has no visible means is known as a teller of tall tales so when he receives his million he has trouble making himself and others believe he has wealth.

Episode 27 - The Marcia Forrest Story
Episode 26 - The Alicia Osante Story
Episode 23 - The Hank Butler Story
Episode 20 - The Emily Baker Story
First Aired: February. 04,1959

A career bachelor and world traveler meets the perfect girl. He leaves her because he is sure that he is not ready to settle down, but she thinks it's because she's a simple country girl.

Episode 15 - The Eric Lodek Story
First Aired: December. 17,1958

Eric Lodek, a man devoted to helping others, receives the million-dollar check shortly before he suffers a fatal heart attack. Nick Slade, an escaped convict, comes across Lodek's body and decides to impersonate him.

Episode 14 - The Pete Hopper Story
First Aired: December. 10,1958

Hopper, a young insurance accountant, learns that a client is guilty of fraud. Pete refuses a bribe and intends to divulge his findings to the police. When the check for a million dollars is presented to him, Pete thinks the bribe offer has been renewed.

Episode 13 - The Frank Harrigan Story
First Aired: December. 03,1958

Stickler Frank Harrigan overhears his friends plan a gag to teach him a lesson about his hard nosed attitude so he thinks Anthony is acting when Anthony says he is giving him a million with almost disastrous consequences for the fortune.

Episode 12 - The Lee Randolph Story
Episode 11 - The Newman Johnson Story
First Aired: November. 12,1958

Meek clerk Newman Johnson who deals with an intrusive sister-in-law, a critical wife, a conniving coworker and a dismissive and grumpy employer gains confidence with his million and turns the tables as he buys his company.

Episode 10 - The Dan Howell Story
First Aired: November. 05,1958

Anthony's meeting with detective Dan Howell on a train on which Howell is returning an escaped convict who wishes revenge on Howell gives the convict an opportunity to free himself and run loose on the train.

Episode 9 - The Cat Story
First Aired: October. 29,1958

Soon after an old spinster lady becomes a "Tipton-made Millionaire", she dies, leaving her estate to her cat, Ralph. The old woman's nephew Freddie Howard is to take care of the feline at a fabulous annual stipend allotted. Freddie's fiancée dislikes Ralph though, who suddenly runs away. Without him, the rest of the inheritance will go to a cat hospital.

Episode 6 - The Martin Scott Story
First Aired: October. 08,1958

Martin Scott's boy is in trouble at school for running a lottery scam on his classmates. He wanted the cash to buy a car. So he's given an earnest talk about money, and why he can't use any in a college fund his parents save for him,yet unbeknownst to everyone else, Scott has gotten himself in debt to a bookie and must nearly drain the account.

Episode 5 - The David Barrett Story
First Aired: October. 01,1958

Struggling young writer David Barrett takes a laborer job on a farm owned by a tough old Scotsman. He's told to stay away from the main house, but circumstances bring him there and he meets the owner's daughter. They fall in love, but when the Farmer finds out, he fights him and orders him away until he can provide for the girl.

Episode 4 - The Ken Leighton Story
First Aired: September. 24,1958

Earnest, but gullible Ken Leighton is barely making it just to pay bills but is always is falling for his co-worker's grand money gambling schemes. His marriage is taking a strain now because he has no money to pay the bills.

Episode 3 - The Fred Morgan Story
First Aired: September. 17,1958

Before they use the money for corrective surgery, Rita Morgan implores her husband to take her to place she was crippled in her husband's boating accident where they are intercepted by an run away convict but Fred devises an escape.

Episode 2 - The Norman Conover Story
Episode 1 - The Betty Hawley Story
First Aired: September. 03,1958

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.

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