Episode 1
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.
Episode 2
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.
Episode 3
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.
Episode 4
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.
Episode 5
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.
Episode 6
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.
Episode 7
The Maureen Reynolds Story
Nov 3, 1959
Maureen Reynolds upon receiving letters from her engineer husband of short duration marked deceased goes to South America and discovers the husband is a much despised man who stole company supplies in the midst of a revolution.
Episode 8
The Jeff Mercer Story
Nov 10, 1959
A responsible young boy with a desire to help his financially challenged family is the recipient of the million dollar check but cannot persuade his parents that their fortune is re
Episode 9
The Tom Hampton Story
Nov 18, 1959
Millionaire Tom Hampton is afraid to tell his wife about the million dollar check because she's known to constantly spill secrets.
Episode 10
The Sergeant Matthew Brogan Story
Nov 24, 1959
Matthew Brogan secretly makes it financially possible for Jim Phillips, the man who saved his life in Korea, to marry his long term sweetheart but is surprised that he must first disrupt Phillips romance with a nightclub singer.
Episode 11
The Mitchell Gunther Story
Dec 1, 1959
Mitchell Gunther uses his million in a plan to make it appear that his partner Ray Wilson murdered him because he wants revenge for a ruinous fatal construction accident that he thinks Wilson caused by used of inferior materials.
Episode 12
The Andrew C. Cooley Story
Dec 8, 1959
Andrew Cooley who has unsuccessfully worked a gold mine for years spends money freely when he receives his check and is pressured by devious business men to sell his worthless mine because the men believe his spending means its valuable.
Episode 13
The Nancy Pearson Story
Dec 15, 1959
Episode 14
The Jackson Greene Story
Dec 22, 1959
Bohemian Jackson Greene wants his money to build a beatnik artists' colony on land a citizens committee wants to add a wing to a children's hospital so the committee sends to negotiate a woman to which Greene is cautiously attracted.
Episode 15
The Timothy Mackail Story
Dec 29, 1959
A cab driver feeling generous after receiving his money offers a ride gratis to a pretty woman but the woman does not return from the house where the driver discovers a murdered man causing police scrutiny for him.
Episode 16
The Elizabeth Tander Story
Jan 5, 1960
New York file clerk Elizabeth Tander after receiving her check vacations in Los Angeles where she meets a hotel clerk and aspiring actor David Stevens who she is warned is after her money but Stevens thinks she is struggling city girl.
Episode 17
The Sylvia Merrick Story
Jan 12, 1960
Adopted daughter Sylvia Merrick, hated by the biological son of a father whose fortune the brother has squandered, is the victim just before her check arrives of a failed murder attempt planned by the brother to appear a suicide.
Episode 18
The Whitney Ames Story
Jan 19, 1960
Whitney Ames' daughter Linda returns from college to find her father has a big new house and a new bride which leads her to anxiously think that the woman has married her father for the benefits of the fortune her father must now have.
Episode 19
The Janie Harris Story
Jan 26, 1960
When Janie Harris reconnects in France with the Lothario who once breached his promise of marriage to her, she devises a plan for revenge that goes awry.
Episode 20
The Margaret Stoneham Story
Feb 2, 1960
Public defender Margaret Stoneham makes use of her sudden fortune to prove the innocence of a client sentenced to death.
Episode 21
The Jerry Mitchell Story
Feb 9, 1960
Korean veteran Mitchell learns that family business has collapsed so promises to pay all the debts even though not legally bound but when he receives his million he struggles with his promise since it will take almost the entire check.
Episode 22
The Sandy Newell Story
Feb 16, 1960
After receiving his check, Sandy Newell who has gone to Alaska to make a fortune to marry the woman he loves returns home to discover why the woman has sent him a rejection letter and finds that she is blind.
Episode 23
The Larry Maxwell Story
Mar 1, 1960
Because Larry Maxwell receives an unacceptable contract, the million is used to buy the pitcher's baseball team under his wife's maiden name so no one knows Larry's ownership status but Connie Maxwell acts like the usual management.
Episode 24
The Karen Summers Story
Mar 8, 1960
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.
Episode 25
The Jessica March Story
Mar 15, 1960
Episode 26
The Julie Sherman Story
Mar 22, 1960
Gallery secretary Julie Sherman falls for aspiring artist Adam Spencer who cancels his proposal when Julie's boss determines Spencer is not ready for a gallery so when Julie receives the million she buys a gallery and Spencer's paintings.
Episode 27
The Tony Rogers Story
Mar 29, 1960
Episode 28
The Susan Johnson Story
Apr 5, 1960
Teenager Susan Johnson's use of her money to promote her boyfriend's recording career has unforeseen consequences.
Episode 29
The Nancy Cortez Story
Apr 12, 1960
Newlywed Nancy Cortez believes her million dollars is a means to remove her famous matador husband from the dangers of the bullring but faces obstacles of cultural honor and masculine pride.
Episode 30
The Katherine Boland Story
Apr 19, 1960
A woman uses her check in an attempt to capture her youth and lost social standing by planning a cotillion for her ward niece although the niece has already chosen her future husband.
Episode 31
The Mara Robinson Story
Apr 26, 1960
A Gypsy woman uses her million dollars to pursue a man who has shown an attraction to her at party where he assumed she was guest while unaware of her background.
Episode 32
The Dixon Cooper Story
May 3, 1960
Dixon Cooper tries to court a widow who wants more financial security for her two children than she thinks he can provide as a milkman.
Episode 33
The Vance Ludlow Story
May 10, 1960
A locksmith gets his million dollar check and takes an armful of gifts to the apartment of a pretty client, but he finds someone else there.
Episode 34
The Peter Longman Story
May 24, 1960
Locksmith Peter Longman falls for a woman for whom he unlocks a door from which she is locked out but when he goes to later see the woman he discovers the body of another woman to whom the police say the apartment actually belongs.
Episode 35
The Maggie Dalton Story
May 31, 1960
Maggie searches New York and Paris for a Frenchman she met at the top of the Empire State Building to thank him for the words he said that brought her out of despair which helped her be in a place where she could receive the million.
Episode 36
The Patricia Collins Story
Jun 7, 1960
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