I love this movie so much

the audience applauded

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

I watched this show during its original run and somewhere in one episode they played the song "Someome Tp Watch Over Me". It instantly became my all time favorite song. I have been thinking about this episode for long time and am wondering if anyone knows which one it was. The only thing I can remember about the story was that the recipient of the check was a blonde girl who had been a singer and was confined to a wheelchair. Can anyone help me with this?

This show let you dream about what you would do if someone gave you a million dollars tax free. I wish they would show all the episodes on ME TV or TV land. The actor Marvin Miller had this fantastic voice and the kind of low-key character that made it believable that someone could possibly be generous enough to give this gift. I often wondered if a person was financially able to do this what really drives them to do so. And to do it anonymously without praise is interesting and surprisingly poignant. I wondered if this billionaire many times over had a family to share his wealth with. I thought maybe he was bored or that he had no one to leave it to so he chose deserving ones, not so deserving ones and persons who would do good things with it as in the case a preacher who received the money. In any case I enjoyed this series tremendously.

Wonderful television show.Remember: "You sent for me sir.""Mike."We were well on our way to discover who was going to get the next million dollars.Funny, how the writers of this show would never have the benefactors ask Mike Anthony to stay for a cup of coffee or danish.The show was absolutely great because it took us into a world of fantasy where we could imagine what we would do with all that money.A variety of people received the money at random. Did John Beresford Tipton use the phone book? I vividly remember where one such "lucky" person was on death row waiting to be executed for murdering someone. No, he wasn't guilty. P.S. He was spared at the end when his innocence was proved.You never saw the Tipton character and that made the show even more engaging.After Mike got the money, you would hear the most rousing musical score which I can still hum to this very day.Of course, with inflation the way it is-the show would have to be retitled today as the trillionaire and would star among others- Mayor Bloomberg of NYC.

"The Millionaire" is a show unfairly forgotten, today; as popular in it's time as "Queen for a Day", "Private Secretary", and "Our Miss Brooks", it offered a premise that would serve as an inspiration for series as varied as "Magnum P.I,", "Fantasy Island", "Stairway to Heaven", and the current 'Reality TV' craze; top-notch casts in half-hour morality tales; and 'common sense' resolutions that would keep it an audience favorite for five seasons.Produced for CBS by Don Fedderson Productions (who would also give America "My Three Sons" and "Family Affair"), an unseen millionaire (with obviously WAY too much free time), John Beresford Tipton (voiced by one of TV and film's best-known voice actors, Paul Frees), would dispatch his associate, the ever put-upon Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller, in his best-known role), carrying a tax-free cashier's check for a million dollars, made out to 'random' individuals, on condition that they never attempt to discover who sent it, or reveal where the money came from, except to their husband or wife. With the frequently bemused Anthony as an observer, the new millionaires would run the gamut of possible scenarios, discovering, ultimately, that money can't buy happiness, but CAN provide a half-hour of frequently engrossing drama. Each episode would generally end with Anthony summarizing the recipient's 'lesson learned' to a satisfied Tipton.With casts often featuring future 'stars', the series was wise without ever being overly 'preachy', with good direction and strong production values. Frequently lampooned by comedy shows of the period, "The Millionaire" ultimately would have the last laugh, outlasting most of them.While an attempt to 'reinvent' the show would fail, in 1978, the original certainly qualifies as a TV 'classic'...