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The Best Episodes of The Millionaire Season 1

Every episode of The Millionaire Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Millionaire Season 1!

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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
    The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 1 - The Amy Moore Story
    6.1/10(25 votes)

    #1 - The Amy Moore Story

    S1:E1

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

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

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  2. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 2 - The Carl Nelson Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - The Carl Nelson Story

    S1:E2

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 3 - The Joe Iris Story
    6.9/10(17 votes)

    #3 - The Joe Iris Story

    S1:E3

    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.

    Director:William A. Seiter
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 4 - The Dan Mulcahy Story
    5.7/10(11 votes)

    #4 - The Dan Mulcahy Story

    S1:E4

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

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

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  5. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 5 - The Emily Short Story
    7.2/10(14 votes)

    #5 - The Emily Short Story

    S1:E5

    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.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 6 - The Margaret Browning Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - The Margaret Browning Story

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 7 - The Harvey Blake Story
    5.7/10(18 votes)

    #7 - The Harvey Blake Story

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Edward Bernds
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 8 - The Nancy Marlborough Story
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    #8 - The Nancy Marlborough Story

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 9 - The Betty Jane Ryan Story
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #9 - The Betty Jane Ryan Story

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 10 - The Charles Lomar Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Charles Lomar Story

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 11 - The Ken Fowler Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - The Ken Fowler Story

    S1:E11

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 12 - The Pev Johnson Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Pev Johnson Story

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 13 - The Quentin Harwood Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - The Quentin Harwood Story

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 14 - The Fred Malcolm Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Fred Malcolm Story

    S1:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 15 - The Luke Fortune Story
    6.9/10(15 votes)

    #15 - The Luke Fortune Story

    S1:E15

    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.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #16 - 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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  17. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 17 - The Walter Carter Story
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #17 - The Walter Carter Story

    S1:E17

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 18 - The Merle Roberts Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - The Merle Roberts Story

    S1:E18

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 19 - The Uncle Robby Story
    7.6/10(13 votes)

    #19 - The Uncle Robby Story

    S1:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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

    #20 - 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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  21. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 21 - The Vickie Lawson Story
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Vickie Lawson Story

    S1:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 22 - The Cobb Marley Story
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #22 - The Cobb Marley Story

    S1:E22

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Millionaire Season 1 Episode 23 - The Mildred Milliken Story
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    #23 - The Mildred Milliken Story

    S1:E23

    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.

    Director:Alfred E. Green
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Amy Moore Story" is the best rated episode of "The Millionaire" season 1. It scored 6.1/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Alfred E. Green and written by Mary C. McCall, Jr., it aired on 1/19/1955. This episode is rated 6.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Carl Nelson Story".