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.
Guest Stars:
Jeff Morrow, Howard Wendell, Carolyn Jones
After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.
Guest Stars:
Whitney Blake, Regis Toomey, Roy Barcroft, Gilman Rankin
An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.
Guest Stars:
Celia Lovsky, Harry Guardino, Jeanne Cooper
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.
Guest Stars:
Philip Abbott, Christopher Olsen
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.
Guest Stars:
Mari Blanchard, John Vivyan
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.
Guest Stars:
Jean Del Val
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.
Guest Stars:
Bethel Leslie, Joan Banks, Joe Maross
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.
Guest Stars:
Royal Dano
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.
Seamstress Anitra Dellano meets a socialite at the Mardi Gras and is ashamed to tell him about her occupation.
Guest Stars:
Keith Larsen
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.
Guest Stars:
Dick Foran, Russ Conway
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.
Guest Stars:
George Dolenz, Louis Mercier, Louis Jean Heydt, Diane Brewster, Amzie Strickland
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.
Guest Stars:
Frieda Inescort, David Janssen, Hanley Stafford
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.
Guest Stars:
Richard Anderson, Lee Meriwether, Lawrence Dobkin
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.
Guest Stars:
Frank Albertson, Russ Conway, Virginia Grey, Eleanor Audley
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.
Guest Stars:
Johnny Washbrook, Jeanette Nolan, Kaye Elhardt, John Ericson
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.
Guest Stars:
Gloria Talbott
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.
Guest Stars:
Joanna Moore, Larry Pennell, Rebecca Welles, Tyler McVey, Dick Ryan
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.
Guest Stars:
Terry Becker, Harry Bellaver
Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.
Guest Stars:
Margaret Lindsay, Jay Novello
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.
Guest Stars:
Patrick McVey
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.
Guest Stars:
Florence Marly, Reta Shaw, Richard Long
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.
Guest Stars:
Nora Marlowe
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.
Guest Stars:
Joyce Meadows, Martin Milner, Peter Hansen
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.
Guest Stars:
Carole Mathews
Childhood sweethearts meet up later in life by accident and fall in love all over again.
Guest Stars:
Luana Patten, Brett Halsey, Barbara Woodell
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.
Guest Stars:
Fay Spain, Jon Lormer, Tom Tryon
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.
Guest Stars:
Howard McNear, Lillian Bronson, Lurene Tuttle
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.
Guest Stars:
Ron Randell, Al Freeman Jr., Edmon Ryan, May Wynn
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.
Guest Stars:
Dean Harens, Ernest Truex
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.
Guest Stars:
Jeanne Carmen, Skip Homeier, Mark Roberts, S. John Launer, John Alvin
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.
Guest Stars:
Joan Marshall, Rick Jason, Carl Betz
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.
Guest Stars:
John Beal, Judi Meredith, Herbert Anderson
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.
Guest Stars:
Virginia Christine, David Lewis, Robert B. Williams, Joseph Mell, Andra Martin