2x1 - The Rita Keeley Story

September 28, 1955

A burlesque performer hounded by her brother's underworld pals uses her million to return to college in her hometown where she falls in love with a medical student but gossip about her past might wreck her happiness.

2x2 - The Robert Croft Story

October 5, 1955

An antisocial writer of a lone successful novel unable to produce further work engages in self destructive and reckless behavior which intensifies with receipt of the million dollars until an accident changes his course.

2x3 - The Joe Seaton Story

October 12, 1955

A couple who have traded identify with a man who has done so to pay for medical care for his ailing wife plan to kill the man and his wife to keep the million dollars they have falsely accepted under the man's identity.

2x4 - The Iris Millar Story

October 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.

2x5 - The Ralph McKnight Story

October 26, 1955

Ralph McKnight use his money to hire a detective to track for sworn payback several fellow soldiers who made his military service nearly unbearable but the outcome is something other than he imagined.

2x6 - The Tom Bryan Story

November 2, 1955

Tom Bryan returns home after five years in prison for a crime of which he is innocent to be hounded by an unconvinced police inspector and troubled by the need to tell his young son the real story of his absence.

2x7 - The Peggy Demos Story

November 9, 1955

A soldier in Korea agonizes over the source of his wife's fortune because he believes that she is receiving money from her parents whose support she swore to eschew when her father disapproved of her marriage.

2x8 - The Jerome Wilson Story

November 16, 1955

Jerome Wilson crashes the plane he has bought with some of his million while returning to an old life but loses his memory and cannot explain the large amount of cash he carries to the suspicious local sheriff.

2x9 - The Nora Paul Story

November 23, 1955

Nora desperately seeks the son she gave for adoption so when she gets her million she uses to the money to find the son and gain a job as governess with the adoptive parents.

2x10 - The Steve Carey Story

November 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.

2x11 - The Don Lewis Story

December 7, 1955

A struggling newspaper ad salesman, who is deeply involved with a dishonest aspiring actress, takes a job as a chauffeur for the paraplegic heiress to seek upward mobility in business and develops profound feelings for the heiress.

2x12 - The Jeff Ellis Story

December 14, 1955

Jeff Ellis puts his pending marriage in jeopardy to find and thank the man who saved his life during the Korean War but finds the man who saved him is less than heroic.

2x13 - The Wilbur T. Gerrold Story

December 21, 1955

2x14 - The Philip Sargent Story

December 28, 1955

While on the honeymoon ride, Philip Sargent's new wife thinks he is a bank robber because she hears a news bulletin on the radio and finds a valise full of cash from the million.

2x15 - The Chris Hall Story

January 4, 1956

Botanist Hall, hired by Branch, the sadistic and controlling manger of a Brazilian rubber plantation whose owner he controls by financial duress, falls in love with the owner's daughter who is also the reluctant fiancée of Branch.

2x16 - The Reverend John Hardin Story

January 11, 1956

Reverend Hardin wants to improve the attitude of his disbelieving future son-in-law who is working on a vaccine for viral pneumonia so when he receives his check he buys Ted lab equipment and funds a foundation when the trials fail.

2x17 - The Cindy Bowen Story

January 18, 1956

A salesgirl while working as a hospital volunteer alongside society girls draws the romantic interest of the young board chairman and the unbridled envy of one of the society girls.

2x18 - The Jean Griffith Story

January 25, 1956

A husband who is aggrieved over his wife's extreme jealousy concerning business meetings with women has to face his own feelings when the wife begins having similar meetings using money from her million to help close his business deal.

2x19 - The Larry Evans Story

February 1, 1956

Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.

2x20 - The Brian Hendricks Story

February 8, 1956

Brian Hendricks framed for fraud by a partner hires a man to kill him so his family can receive funds from life insurance but learns the man he hired has subcontracted the task when Hendricks tries to cancel after receiving his million.

2x21 - The Arthur Darner Story

February 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.

2x22 - The Victor Volante Story

February 22, 1956

An aerialist long distraught over the performance death of his wife descends into gambling and irresponsible behavior until transformed by love of the circus owner's sister and love for a boy with an elephant.

2x23 - The Candy Caldwell Story

February 29, 1956

A beautiful model scarred in an automobile accident uses a portion of her money for plastic surgery to restore her looks and then plans revenge on the photographer who was the driver and her beau but shunned her while she was scarred.

2x24 - The Rip Matson Story

March 7, 1956

An abnormally fearless test pilot eschews depth in personal relationships until he meets a beautiful psychologist while she is conducting a psychological study.

2x25 - The Rita Hanley Story

March 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.

2x26 - The Eric Vincent Story

March 21, 1956

Eric and Helen Vincent are about to lose the orphanage they have been running for war orphans. The gift of a million dollars seems to solve their problems at first, but soon they find it has created another.

2x27 - The Bedelia Buckley Story

March 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.

2x28 - The Tom Mead Story

April 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.

2x29 - The Lucky Swanson Story

April 11, 1956

A man receives the million-dollar check returns to a small village in France to repay the kindness that the villagers showed him during the war.

2x30 - The Jane Costello Story

April 18, 1956

Jane Costello uses her money to send her daughter away to separate the daughter from her boyfriend because Jane believes they are too young to be so serious but the couple elopes and are caught in the path of a hurricane.

2x32 - The Louise Williams Story

May 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.

2x33 - The Todd Burke Story

May 9, 1956

A man's jealous, anxious and suspicious mother attempts to sabotage a new bride's simple appeal and the marriage.

2x34 - The Captain John Carroll Story

May 16, 1956

A military bomb disposal expert receives his million dollar check just as he is ready to separate from the service but is forced to disarm ordinance one last time because his replacement is not quite prepared.

2x35 - The Sally Delaney Story

May 23, 1956

Sally Delaney, an assistant to an overbearing fashion designer, uses her million to open her own fashion business but much to her remorse she creates a work culture similar to her former boss.

2x36 - The Olivia Grainger Story

May 30, 1956

A dispassionate and extremely focused doctor tries to pay a disreputable mariner to forget his romance with her sister but feels her dispassion waning in the presence of the man while guilty over a betrayal of her sister.

2x37 - The Jill Mayfield Story

June 6, 1956

Michael Anthony delivers the million dollar check to Jill Mayfield, an aspiring actress, who decides to use the gift to further her career.