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.
6 seasons · 207 episodes
The Mark Fleming Story
Sep 15, 1959
When Mark Fleming uses his check to travel to Vienna to search for his sister who might have survived a WWII death camp that his parents did not, he falls in love with a woman who might turn out to be the sister.
The Harry Brown Story
Sep 22, 1959
A bickering couple with a child can't afford a divorce, until Michael Anthony delivers a millionaire dollar check to the husband.
The Lorraine Daggett Story
Sep 29, 1959
A woman is only shortly married to a man who fakes his death to avoid the wrath of his gangster pal and then is suspected of complicity in a scheme because she suddenly has a lot of money although she did not know the husband's past.
The Phillip Burnell Story
Oct 6, 1959
Phillip Burnell maintains a summer house seemingly as a shrine to his deceased wife to the chagrin of his insecure new wife Cathy and when Phillip receives the check , Cathy's insecurity intensifies.
The Doctor Joseph Frye Story
Oct 20, 1959
A doctor and his nurse wife are kidnapped by a murderous bank robber to heal the robber's wounded partner on pain of death and the doctor uses his just received check to barter for his wife's life when the partner dies.
The Jim Hayes Story
Oct 27, 1959
Jim Hayes' wife is fed up with her husband bringing home unannounced guests leaving her with a mess every morning and treating her as an employee so she withdraws as wife and formally takes to an extreme extent a job as housekeeper.
Marvin Miller
Michael Anthony
Paul Frees
John Beresford Tipton
Roy Gordon
Andrew V. McMahon
Russ Conway
Prison Chaplain (uncredited)
Joan Vohs
Patricia Collins
Diane Brewster
Sylvia Whitfield Merrick
Amzie Strickland
Amy Taylor
Nora Marlowe
Mrs. Gallager
Robert Quarry
Myles (uncredited)
Howard McNear
Mayor Tom Palen
John Alvin
Prosecuting Attorney
Leif Erickson
Brian Hendricks
