Join or Sign In
Sign in to customize your TV listings
By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.
35 Episodes 1957 - 1958
Episode 1
Wed, Sep 18, 195730 mins
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.
Episode 2
Wed, Sep 25, 195730 mins
Peter Marlowe, just out of prison, uses his million to bankroll his son in a restaurant to keep him from criminal activity. As manager, he appoints Dan Carson, who adopted and raised Marlowe's son; but Carson is involved with crooks.
Episode 3
Wed, Oct 2, 195730 mins
An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.
Episode 4
Wed, Oct 9, 195730 mins
A former show business star, who has fallen on hard times, is tracked down by Michael Anthony to a seedy hotel and presented with the million dollar check.
Episode 5
Wed, Oct 16, 195730 mins
A policewoman uses her million to try to prove that her policeman boyfriend was framed by a man she believes to be an unscrupulous fur dealer in a robbery scheme to collect insurance.
Episode 6
Wed, Oct 23, 195730 mins
Larry Parker pines so much for a French woman he met in the war, that he takes for granted a loving wife. He is able to resolve the conflict when the money allows Parker and his wife to take a European trip with a stop in France.
Episode 7
Wed, Oct 30, 195730 mins
Ruth Ferris' envious sister engages in a campaign to drive a wedge between Ruth and her new husband. She suggests that the man married Ruth for her money and will kill her for it, which the sister says he did to his first wife.
Episode 8
Wed, Nov 13, 195730 mins
Drifter Hap Connolly harbors a runaway orphan boy whose parents he worked for prior to their deaths. He comes into conflict with a young teacher over her intense educational schedule for the boy.
Episode 9
Wed, Nov 20, 195730 mins
Episode 10
Wed, Nov 27, 195730 mins
Steve Logan uses his money to start a construction business with his Korean War buddy Larry, who has been crippled by a job accident as he saved Steve's life. His condition makes Larry feel unworthy to compete for a woman the two men love.
Episode 11
Wed, Dec 4, 195730 mins
Seamstress Anitra Dellano meets a socialite at the Mardi Gras and is ashamed to tell him about her occupation.
Episode 12
Wed, Dec 11, 195730 mins
Anthony's research concerning the story of man on death row who he just gave a million that is wife is alive and framed him for her murder convinces Anthony that the man's story is true.
Episode 13
Wed, Dec 18, 195730 mins
Barbara Lydon forsakes her longtime hometown love and uses her million to travel to Switzerland. She becomes romantically involved with a count caught up in a life-and-death struggle over a World War II grudge.
Episode 14
Wed, Dec 25, 195730 mins
Wheelchair bound and of faded fortune, Regina Wainwright, of southern aristocratic heritage, initially hides her million to make her daughter think mother is dependent on her and to spoil the daughter's relationship with a Yankee suitor.
Episode 15
Wed, Jan 1, 195830 mins
Anthony traces Rod Matthews to a secluded island, where he hides after being unjustly court- martialed and disowned by family. Matthews decides to use the money return to the United States and exact revenge.
Episode 16
Wed, Jan 8, 195830 mins
An actress's misguided effort to use her money to revive a long-faded career is interrupted when the demands of an old love force to her reconsider her plans.
Episode 17
Wed, Jan 15, 195830 mins
Peter Bartley wants to use his money to find and help his two younger brothers, who were separated from him by adoption from a Catholic orphanage, where Pete grew to adulthood.
Episode 18
Tue, Jan 21, 195830 mins
An art dealer uses his million to start an island artists' colony, while dealing with an uncooperative and shrewish wife. He becomes increasingly enamored of a young model and dancer.
Episode 19
Tue, Jan 28, 195830 mins
Elliot Smith marries nurse Doris Winslow, who is unaware of Smith's great family wealth. A jealous nurse jeopardizes the marriage by making Smith believe that Winslow married him for his money.
Episode 20
Wed, Feb 5, 195830 mins
When Michael Holm receives his million, he decides to leave his meager and unrewarding law practice to become a man of leisure. But his girlfriend introduces him to a man in a shaky legal situation, and he sees the good he can now do.
Episode 21
Wed, Feb 12, 195830 mins
When Martha Crockett receives her million, she is prepared to make her husband dream of performing with his violin at Carnegie Hall come true, despite evidence that his skill is not equal to the caliber required.
Episode 22
Wed, Feb 26, 195830 mins
A high school principal, the check recipient , must guide his son in dealing with a group of young hoodlums who beat his friend to death and now threaten the son.
Episode 23
Wed, Mar 5, 195830 mins
When Johanna Judson receives her money, she abruptly leaves her employment as a companion for a grumpy woman. She also asks the woman's charming nephew to marry her so she can have a companion to share her travels.
Episode 24
Wed, Mar 12, 195830 mins
After acquiring his million dollar cheque, quiet librarian Raymond DuPar is followed around by gangsters. He's also a bit deaf, and hadn't heard them plotting in the library, though they think he did. When DuPar begs the police for help, they get suspicious of his new, unexplainable wealth.
Episode 25
Wed, Mar 19, 195830 mins
An American student in Paris is losing in his rivalry for an American art student to a French composer, due to her sympathy for him after he loses sight. The American uses his check to restore the rival's sight to even the odds.
Episode 26
Wed, Mar 26, 195830 mins
A man suffering from amnesia after hotel fire uses his money to search his identity. He discovers his involvement in a romantic triangle, which led to murder.
Episode 27
Wed, Apr 2, 195830 mins
Susan Birchard has long been away from her small town origins, but thinks of how things were when she was a child, and the boy she loved. When she gets the million dollars, she decides to return to her home town and seek out the boy once again, but finds many changes.
Episode 28
Wed, Apr 9, 195830 mins
Young architect Tony Drummond insists he must make a success of himself before he'll marry his rich heiress fiancée. She offers to finance a his housing development plans so they can marry sooner, but he refuses. When Michael Anthony presents him with the Tipton cheque, Drummond assumes it, too is one of her schemes.
Episode 29
Wed, Apr 16, 195830 mins
Three spinster sisters receive jointly the million and start a spending spree that draws suspicion, particularly of busybody Atwood, on sister Tessie of embezzlement of government funds in her duties as town clerk.
Episode 30
Wed, Apr 23, 195830 mins
A big game hunter in Africa has an encounter with a rogue elephant that nearly kills him. The incident scares him so much he loses his nerve. But after receiving the Tipton cheque, his confidence is restored and returns to hunt the elephant and pursue his boss's daughter, who he's fallen in love with.
Episode 31
Wed, Apr 30, 195830 mins
The recipient this week is a retired widower who has just been joined by his son, a recent graduate of law school but not ready to start his own office. Upon getting the million dollars, the old man buys a two luxury apartments for his son and himself, and starts an affair with a far younger manicure girl. The son tries to stop it, but falls for her instead.
Episode 32
Wed, May 7, 195830 mins
Wally Banister is shunned and even fired from his job for hanging a jury in a murder trial so when he gets his million he uses the money to prove the innocence of the defendant in that trial.
Episode 33
Wed, May 14, 195830 mins
Because Phil Williams sees Garrison kiss Helen Rawlings to whom Williams is engaged, Phil threatens to kill Garrison while on an Air Force assignment at the North Pole so Garrison balks at a rescue when Williams is trapped in a crevice.
Episode 34
Wed, May 21, 195830 mins
Paul Naylor believes that his wife and daughter value him only for the things he provides for them so when he receives his million he withdraws from his all consuming business and pretends to be broke to assess their reaction.
Episode 35
Wed, May 28, 195830 mins
When Russ White goes to thank the family of the man who gave White his corneas, he is initially rebuffed because of a scandal of which he is unaware and which becomes more complex upon investigation.