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The Best Episodes of The Millionaire

Every episode of The Millionaire ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Millionaire!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 21 - The Arthur Darner Story
    9.4/10(13 votes)

    #1 - The Arthur Darner Story

    S2:E21

    A diffident travel agent who dislikes children because his wife died in pregnancy as they were about to take a world trip opts to take the trip with the money and meets a woman that reminds him of his lost wife who changes his life.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 25 - The Rita Hanley Story
    9.2/10(13 votes)

    #2 - The Rita Hanley Story

    S2:E25

    A modest, thrifty and handy woman must repay funds embezzled by a domineering, social climbing husband after the man's accidental death to gain custody of the man's daughter who she adores.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 27 - The Bedelia Buckley Story
    9.1/10(13 votes)

    #3 - The Bedelia Buckley Story

    S2:E27

    A woman placed in a decrepit old women's home at the behest of her daughter-in-law over the woman's permissiveness toward the granddaughter draws accusations of incompetence when she uses her money to elaborately remake the home.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Millionaire Season 5 Episode 3 - The Fred Morgan Story
    9.1/10(15 votes)

    #4 - The Fred Morgan Story

    S5:E3

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 10 - The Steve Carey Story
    8.8/10(11 votes)

    #5 - The Steve Carey Story

    S2:E10

    A boorish bakery truck driver spends some of his money to make over a dowdy coworker and also neighbor to prove the shallowness of their boss from whom the female coworker desires attention as the two avoid their mutual feelings.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 3 - The Anna Hartley Story
    8.8/10(12 votes)

    #6 - The Anna Hartley Story

    S3:E3

    A loyal wife believes so much in her artist husband despite her mother's protestations that the husband is a freeloader and a pretend artist that she will spend her fortune for the husband's credibility and fame.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 28 - The Tom Mead Story
    8.7/10(15 votes)

    #7 - The Tom Mead Story

    S2:E28

    An insurance investigator uses his million to investigate the robbery of a finance company because he has evidence the accused woman for which he has fallen is innocent but the woman is unusually ambiguous about the evidence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 32 - The Louise Williams Story
    8.7/10(16 votes)

    #8 - The Louise Williams Story

    S2:E32

    The use by a charismatic secretary of her money at the same time a man comes to ready the office to function in absence of the ill boss draws the suspicion of her exceptionally jealous husband to be and endangers the engagement.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Millionaire Season 5 Episode 17 - The Terrence Costigan Story
    8.7/10(10 votes)

    #9 - The Terrence Costigan Story

    S5:E17

    Terrence Costigan receives someone else's check and tries to find the real recipient.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 1 - The Kathy Munson Story
    8.6/10(15 votes)

    #10 - The Kathy Munson Story

    S3:E1

    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.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 11 - The Jay Powers Story
    8.6/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Jay Powers Story

    S3:E11

    After serving time in prison for embezzlement and receiving the million dollars, Jay Powers sets out to prove his innocence.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 33 - The Hub Grimes Story
    8.6/10(14 votes)

    #12 - The Hub Grimes Story

    S3:E33

    Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Millionaire Season 5 Episode 26 - The Alicia Osante Story
    8.6/10(18 votes)

    #13 - The Alicia Osante Story

    S5:E26

    Michael has a hard time finding Alicia Osante because she's trying to avoid immigration officials, with the help of sailor William Williams, who is on leave from San Diego.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Millionaire Season 6 Episode 24 - The Karen Summers Story
    8.6/10(14 votes)

    #14 - The Karen Summers Story

    S6:E24

    A small town librarian with aspirations to be a writer is mistaken as the secretive writer of racy romance novels by town folk and the fact she cannot dissuade their talk becomes more complicated when a reporter comes to do her story.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Millionaire Season 5 Episode 37 - The Charles Bradwell Story
    8.5/10(10 votes)

    #15 - The Charles Bradwell Story

    S5:E37

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 4 - The Iris Millar Story
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #16 - The Iris Millar Story

    S2:E4

    A selfish career woman thinks her million will allow her to marry a dedicated young doctor whose attention she has cynically accepted and whose work she has disrespected.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Millionaire Season 2 Episode 30 - The Jane Costello Story
    8.4/10(11 votes)

    #17 - The Jane Costello Story

    S2:E30

    Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 25 - The Jerry Bell Story
    8.4/10(25 votes)

    #18 - The Jerry Bell Story

    S3:E25

    Jerry Bell believes that he is unloved because he is ugly but finds love with a blind woman and uses his million to cure her blindness although he thinks she will reject him once able to see.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Jerry Adelman

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  19. The Millionaire Season 5 Episode 1 - The Betty Hawley Story
    8.4/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Betty Hawley Story

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jerry Adelman

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  20. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 5 - The Fred Graham Story
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    #20 - The Fred Graham Story

    S3:E5

    Fred Graham editor of the Surfside Sun, decides to do good and ends up falling for a gangster's daughter.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writers:Mary C. McCall, Jr.

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  21. The Millionaire Season 4 Episode 19 - The Doris Winslow Story
    8.3/10(12 votes)

    #21 - The Doris Winslow Story

    S4:E19

    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.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 16 - The Jack Martin Story
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #22 - The Jack Martin Story

    S1:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 20 - The Sam Donovan Story
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #23 - The Sam Donovan Story

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 10 - The Waldo Francis Turner Story
    8.2/10(11 votes)

    #24 - The Waldo Francis Turner Story

    S3:E10

    Butler Waldo Francis Turner receives the million dollars and helps out his employer and his son unaware that everyone thinks he is in love with Wainwright's daughter.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Seeleg Lester

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  25. The Millionaire Season 3 Episode 19 - The Russell Herbert Story
    8.2/10(9 votes)

    #25 - The Russell Herbert Story

    S3:E19

    Michael Anthony can't believe that a hermit could be the correct recipient of the check.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"The Arthur Darner Story" is the best rated episode of "The Millionaire". It scored 9.4/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Gerald Mayer and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/15/1956. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Rita Hanley Story".