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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!

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...

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  1. Background image for The Arthur Darner Story
    9.1/10(13 votes)

    #1 - The Arthur Darner Story

    S2:E21

    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:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The Steve Carey Story
    8.6/10(11 votes)

    #2 - The Steve Carey Story

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for The Bedelia Buckley Story
    8.5/10(13 votes)

    #3 - The Bedelia Buckley Story

    S2:E27

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The Jay Powers Story
    8.5/10(15 votes)

    #4 - The Jay Powers Story

    S3:E11

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

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for The Hub Grimes Story
    8.5/10(14 votes)

    #5 - The Hub Grimes Story

    S3:E33

    Football player Hub Grimes has been crippled by polio.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Fred Morgan Story
    8.5/10(15 votes)

    #6 - The Fred Morgan Story

    S5:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Rita Hanley Story
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #7 - The Rita Hanley Story

    S2:E25

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Louise Williams Story
    8.3/10(16 votes)

    #8 - The Louise Williams Story

    S2:E32

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for The Terrence Costigan Story
    8.3/10(10 votes)

    #9 - The Terrence Costigan Story

    S5:E17

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  11. Background image for The Iris Millar Story
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #10 - The Iris Millar Story

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Tom Mead Story
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #11 - The Tom Mead Story

    S2:E28

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for The Jerry Bell Story
    8.2/10(25 votes)

    #12 - The Jerry Bell Story

    S3:E25

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Doctor Alan March Story
    8.2/10(14 votes)

    #13 - The Doctor Alan March Story

    S3:E29

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for The Alicia Osante Story
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #14 - The Alicia Osante Story

    S5:E26

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for The Kathy Munson Story
    8.1/10(15 votes)

    #15 - The Kathy Munson Story

    S3:E1

    Kathy Munson becomes ill and her twin sister Marion takes her place in order to keep the family business afloat. Complications unsue when Marion falls for her sister Kathy's beau, who doesn't know there is a twin.

    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for The Anna Hartley Story
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #16 - The Anna Hartley Story

    S3:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  18. Background image for The Fred Graham Story
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #17 - The Fred Graham Story

    S3:E5

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

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  19. Background image for The Peter Barkley Story
    8.1/10(14 votes)

    #18 - The Peter Barkley Story

    S4:E17

    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:Unknown
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  20. Background image for The Doris Winslow Story
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Doris Winslow Story

    S4:E19

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for The Merle Roberts Story
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #20 - 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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  22. Background image for The Ed Murdock Story
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #21 - The Ed Murdock Story

    S2:E31

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for The Barbara Lydon Story
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #22 - The Barbara Lydon Story

    S4:E13

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  24. Background image for The Regina Wainwright Story
    8.0/10(23 votes)

    #23 - The Regina Wainwright Story

    S4:E14

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  25. Background image for The Betty Hawley Story
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #24 - The Betty Hawley Story

    S5:E1

    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:Unknown
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  26. Background image for The Emily Baker Story
    8.0/10(8 votes)

    #25 - The Emily Baker Story

    S5:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Arthur Darner Story" is the best rated episode of "The Millionaire". It scored 9.1/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Gerald Mayer and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/15/1956. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Steve Carey Story".