The Millionaire: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Millionaire Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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The Rita Keeley Story
Sep 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
The Robert Croft Story
Oct 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 dolla
The Joe Seaton Story
Oct 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 fal
The Iris Millar Story
Oct 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.
The Ralph McKnight Story
Oct 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 oth
The Tom Bryan Story
Nov 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 so
The Peggy Demos Story
Nov 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
The Jerome Wilson Story
Nov 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 Nora Paul Story
Nov 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.
The Steve Carey Story
Nov 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
The Don Lewis Story
Dec 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 busin
The Jeff Ellis Story
Dec 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.
The Philip Sargent Story
Dec 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.
The Chris Hall Story
Jan 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 dau
The Reverend John Hardin Story
Jan 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 eq
The Cindy Bowen Story
Jan 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
The Jean Griffith Story
Jan 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
The Larry Evans Story
Feb 1, 1956
Dr. Larry Evans learns that he has only six months to live. Then he gets his check for a million dollars.
The Brian Hendricks Story
Feb 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 whe
The Arthur Darner Story
Feb 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 tha
The Victor Volante Story
Feb 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 lov
The Candy Caldwell Story
Feb 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 driv
The Rip Matson Story
Mar 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.
The Rita Hanley Story
Mar 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 sh
The Eric Vincent Story
Mar 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 f
The Bedelia Buckley Story
Mar 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 s
The Tom Mead Story
Apr 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 wom
The Lucky Swanson Story
Apr 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.
The Jane Costello Story
Apr 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 a
The Ed Murdock Story
Apr 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 form
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 jea
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.
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 repla
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
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 wh
The Jill Mayfield Story
Jun 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.