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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!

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...
Genre:Drama
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"The Arthur Darner Story" is the best rated episode of "The Millionaire". It scored 9/10 based on 12 votes. Directed by Gerald Mayer and written by N/A, it aired on 2/15/1956. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Steve Carey Story".

  • The Arthur Darner Story
    9.0/1012 votes
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    #1 - The Arthur Darner Story

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/15/1956

    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: N/A

  • The Steve Carey Story
    8.6/1011 votes
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    #2 - The Steve Carey Story

    Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/30/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bedelia Buckley Story
    8.5/1013 votes
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    #3 - The Bedelia Buckley Story

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 3/28/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jay Powers Story
    8.5/1015 votes
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    #4 - The Jay Powers Story

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1956

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

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fred Morgan Story
    8.5/1015 votes
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    #5 - The Fred Morgan Story

    Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1958

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Rita Hanley Story
    8.4/1013 votes
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    #6 - The Rita Hanley Story

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/14/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Louise Williams Story
    8.3/1016 votes
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    #7 - The Louise Williams Story

    Season 2 Episode 32 - Aired 5/2/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Hub Grimes Story
    8.3/1013 votes
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    #8 - The Hub Grimes Story

    Season 3 Episode 33 - Aired 5/1/1957

    Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: N/A

  • The Terrence Costigan Story
    8.3/1010 votes
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    #9 - The Terrence Costigan Story

    Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Iris Millar Story
    8.2/1013 votes
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    #10 - The Iris Millar Story

    Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Tom Mead Story
    8.2/1015 votes
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    #11 - The Tom Mead Story

    Season 2 Episode 28 - Aired 4/4/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Jerry Bell Story
    8.2/1025 votes
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    #12 - The Jerry Bell Story

    Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 2/27/1957

    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

  • The Doctor Alan March Story
    8.2/1014 votes
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    #13 - The Doctor Alan March Story

    Season 3 Episode 29 - Aired 4/3/1957

    Dr. Alan March lets down a very good friend who dies on the operating table, holding himself responsible he quits his practice and searches for an old love.

    Director: Alfred E. Green

    Writer: N/A

  • The Alicia Osante Story
    8.2/1018 votes
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    #14 - The Alicia Osante Story

    Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 3/18/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Anna Hartley Story
    8.1/1012 votes
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    #15 - The Anna Hartley Story

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Fred Graham Story
    8.1/1012 votes
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    #16 - The Fred Graham Story

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/10/1956

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

    Director: Alfred E. Green

    Writer: Mary C. McCall, Jr.

  • The Peter Barkley Story
    8.1/1014 votes
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    #17 - The Peter Barkley Story

    Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/15/1958

    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.

    Director: Robert Altman

    Writer: N/A

  • The Doris Winslow Story
    8.1/1012 votes
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    #18 - The Doris Winslow Story

    Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/29/1958

    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: N/A

  • The Merle Roberts Story
    8.0/108 votes
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    #19 - The Merle Roberts Story

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 5/18/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Ed Murdock Story
    8.0/109 votes
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    #20 - The Ed Murdock Story

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 4/25/1956

    Detective Ed Murdock 's wife pleads with him to leave the force after they receive the million but Murdock is determined to bring to justice the man who critically wounded his former partner before he leaves the force.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Barbara Lydon Story
    8.0/109 votes
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    #21 - The Barbara Lydon Story

    Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/18/1957

    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.

    Director: R.G. Springsteen

    Writer: N/A

  • The Regina Wainwright Story
    8.0/1023 votes
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    #22 - The Regina Wainwright Story

    Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/25/1957

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Betty Hawley Story
    8.0/1012 votes
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    #23 - The Betty Hawley Story

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 9/3/1958

    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: N/A

    Writer: Jerry Adelman

  • The Emily Baker Story
    8.0/108 votes
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    #24 - The Emily Baker Story

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 2/4/1959

    A career bachelor and world traveler meets the perfect girl. He leaves her because he is sure that he is not ready to settle down, but she thinks it's because she's a simple country girl.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Charles Bradwell Story
    8.0/1010 votes
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    #25 - The Charles Bradwell Story

    Season 5 Episode 37 - Aired 6/10/1959

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A