4x1 - The Matt Kirby Story

September 18, 1957

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.

4x2 - The Pete Marlowe Story

September 25, 1957

After spending 20 years in prison Pete Marlowe tries to reconnect with the family he left behind.

4x3 - The Roy Delbridge Story

October 2, 1957

An ex-GI is unable to dance due to his war wounds.

4x4 - The Carl Bronson Story

October 9, 1957

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.

4x5 - The Laura Hunter Story

October 16, 1957

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.

4x6 - The Larry Parker Story

October 23, 1957

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.

4x7 - The Ruth Ferris Story

October 30, 1957

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.

4x8 - The Hap Connolly Story

November 13, 1957

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.

4x9 - The Frank Keegan Story

November 20, 1957

4x10 - The Steve Logan Story

November 27, 1957

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.

4x11 - The Anitra Dellano Story

December 4, 1957

Seamstress Anitra Dellano meets a socialite at the Mardi Gras and is ashamed to tell him about her occupation.

4x12 - The Hugh Waring Story

December 11, 1957

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.

4x13 - The Barbara Lydon Story

December 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.

4x14 - The Regina Wainwright Story

December 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.

4x16 - The Marjorie Martinson Story

January 8, 1958

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.

4x17 - The Peter Barkley Story

January 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.

4x18 - The Jonathan Bookman Story

January 22, 1958

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.

4x19 - The Doris Winslow Story

January 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.

4x20 - The Michael Holm Story

February 5, 1958

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.

4x21 - The Martha Crockett Story

February 12, 1958

Martha decides to use her check to sponsor her husband's violin recital at Carnegie Hall.

4x22 - The John Richards Story

February 26, 1958

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.

4x23 - The Johanna Judson Story

March 5, 1958

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.

4x24 - The Raymond Dupar Story

March 12, 1958

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.

4x25 - The Neal Bowers Story

March 19, 1958

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.

4x26 - The John Smith Story

March 26, 1958

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.

4x27 - The Susan Birchard Story

April 2, 1958

Childhood sweethearts meet up later in life by accident and fall in love all over again.

4x28 - The Tony Drummond Story

April 9, 1958

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.

4x29 - The Thorne Sisters Story

April 16, 1958

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.

4x30 - The Rafe Peterson Story

April 23, 1958

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.

4x31 - The Andrew Sterling Story

April 30, 1958

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.

4x32 - The Wally Bannister Story

May 7, 1958

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.

4x33 - The Jack Garrison Story

May 14, 1958

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.

4x34 - The Paul Taylor Story

May 21, 1958

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.

4x35 - The Russ White Story

May 28, 1958

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.