Series · CBS · 1955
Pass it on
The Millionaire
48Watch it awake.
The check looks like mercy until you stay and see what the money does.
The review
A man who works for an unseen millionaire hands an ordinary person a cashier's check and leaves. The camera stays to see what the money does. It was a top-ten show, which tells me the wish was already in the living room before anyone knocked. I felt it too. A million dollars, and the man who brought it does not stay to watch you spend it.
Sometimes it frees someone. Sometimes it ruins the house. I won't invent an episode to prove either one. The giver is gone either way, and that is the part I would not shrug off. Money that arrives without the work can open a door or eat the rooms people already had. If you turn it off at the check, you only watched the wish.
Journal
Keep The Millionaire in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.
The glance
Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.
Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
The eight
- 5Industry
A hired man delivers the check; the money can replace real work.
- 7Household
Sometimes the million frees a person, and sometimes it ruins the house.
- 6Piety
What they do with the gift is a conscience the giver does not stay for.
- 5Courage
Taking the check risks the ordinary life they would miss if it ruins them.
- 3Republic
A hidden rich man alters private lives and answers to no town.
- 3Temperance
The weekly fortune feeds the wish, even in the weeks it wrecks a house.
- 5Truth
The check is real, and so is the ruin when the money does harm.
- 4Stewardship
He leaves, and the house has to live with whatever the money became.
Where to watch
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