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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.
Episode 35 : The Russ White Story
May. 28,1958
When Russ White goes to thank and offer financial help to the family of the man who gave White his cornea, he is initially rebuffed because of a scandal of which he is unaware and which becomes more complex upon investigation.
Episode 34 : The Paul Taylor Story
May. 21,1958
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 33 : The Jack Garrison Story
May. 14,1958
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 32 : The Wally Bannister Story
May. 07,1958
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 31 : The Andrew Sterling Story
April. 30,1958
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 30 : The Rafe Peterson Story
April. 23,1958
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 29 : The Thorne Sisters Story
April. 16,1958
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 28 : The Tony Drummond Story
April. 09,1958
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 27 : The Susan Birchard Story
April. 02,1958
Childhood sweethearts meet up later in life by accident and fall in love all over again.
Episode 26 : The John Smith Story
March. 26,1958
A man who has suffered amnesia in a hotel fire uses his money to search his identity and discovers his involvement in a romantic triangle which led to murder.
Episode 25 : The Neal Bowers Story
March. 19,1958
An American medical student in Paris losing in his rivalry for an American art student to a French composer due to her sympathy for the man after he loses sight in an accident uses his check to restore the rivals sight to even the odds.
Episode 24 : The Raymond Dupar Story
March. 12,1958
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 23 : The Johanna Judson Story
March. 05,1958
Johanna Judson abruptly leaves her employment as a companion for a grumpy woman but asks the woman's charming nephew to enter into a marriage of convenience because she wants a companion to share her travels funded with her money.
Episode 22 : The John Richards Story
February. 26,1958
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 21 : The Martha Crockett Story
February. 12,1958
Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.
Episode 20 : The Michael Holm Story
February. 05,1958
When Michael Holm receives his million, he decides to leave his meager and unrewarding law practice to become a man of leisure until his girlfriend introduces him to a man in a shaky legal situation and he sees the good he can now do.
Episode 19 : The Doris Winslow Story
January. 29,1958
After Elliot Smith marries nurse Doris Winslow who is unaware of Smith's great family wealth, another jealous nurse jeopardizes the marriage by causing Smith to believe that Winslow has married him for his money.
Episode 18 : The Jonathan Bookman Story
January. 22,1958
An art dealer uses his million to start an island artists' colony while dealing with an uncooperative and shrewish wife and becoming increasingly enamored of a young model and dancer.
Episode 17 : The Peter Barkley Story
January. 15,1958
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 16 : The Marjorie Martinson Story
January. 08,1958
An actress ' misguided effort to use her money to revive a long faded career is interrupted when the demands of an old love forces to her reconsider her plans.
Episode 15 : The Rod Matthews Story
January. 01,1958
To give the million Anthony traces Rod Matthews to a secluded island where he hides after being unjustly court marshaled and disowned by family and Matthews decides to use the money return to the United States and exact revenge.
Episode 14 : The Regina Wainwright Story
December. 25,1957
Wheelchair bound and of faded fortune, Regina Wainwright of southern aristocratic heritage hides her million to make her daughter think that the mother is dependent on her and to spoil the daughter's relationship with a Yankee suitor.
Episode 13 : The Barbara Lydon Story
December. 18,1957
Barbara Lydon forsakes her longtime hometown love and uses her million to travel to Switzerland where she becomes romantically involved with a count caught up in a live and death struggle over a World War II grudge.
Episode 12 : The Hugh Waring Story
December. 11,1957
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 11 : The Anitra Dellano Story
December. 04,1957
Seamstress Anitra Dellano meets a socialite at the Mardi Gras and is ashamed to tell him about her occupation.
Episode 10 : The Steve Logan Story
November. 27,1957
Steve Logan uses his money to start a construction business with his Korean War buddy Larry who has been crippled by a job accident saving Steve's life which condition makes Larry feel unworthy to compete for a woman the two men love.
Episode 9 : The Frank Keegan Story
November. 20,1957
Episode 8 : The Hap Connolly Story
November. 13,1957
Drifter Hap Connolly harbors a runaway orphan boy for whose parents he worked prior to their deaths and comes into conflict with a young teacher over her intense educational schedule for the boy.
Episode 7 : The Ruth Ferris Story
October. 30,1957
Ruth Ferris' envious sister's engages in campaign to drive a wedge between Ruth and her new husband by suggesting the man has married Ruth for her money and will kill her for it as the sister thinks he did to his first wife.
Episode 6 : The Larry Parker Story
October. 23,1957
Larry Parker pines for a French woman he met in the war so much that he takes for granted a loving wife but 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 5 : The Laura Hunter Story
October. 16,1957
A policewoman uses her million in an attempt to prove that her policeman boyfriend was framed by whom she believes is an unscrupulous fur dealer in a robbery scheme executed to collect insurance.
Episode 4 : The Carl Bronson Story
October. 09,1957
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 3 : The Roy Delbridge Story
October. 02,1957
An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.
Episode 2 : The Pete Marlowe Story
September. 25,1957
After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.
Episode 1 : The Matt Kirby Story
September. 18,1957
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.
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