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Classic TV Themes: The Millionaire

A show that ran for six seasons and was a rerun staple for decades, 'The Millionaire' (1955) is unknown to most today. Never released on home video, it has been reduced to occasional runs of edited episodes on a few little-watched digital subchannels. Marvin Miller was Michael Anthony, secretary to a multi-billionaire who gifted select people a cool million (with all taxes paid) just to see what effect it would have. The story possibilities were endless and the show attracted a good number of stars and stars-to-be over its 207 episodes. Some people came to believe billionaire John Beresford Tipton was a real person. On a lighter note, 'Ozzie & Harriet' had Marvin Miller show up in a dream sequence with a check for Ozzie, while decades later SCTV did a parody of the series. 00:00 Opening titles (sponsored). Hit 50s shows usually included a sponsor plug as part of the show's intro. Behind the announcing you can hear the show's opening theme ('Whirlwind', aka 'Betting Montage'), taken from a 1951 movie. It was composed by Irving Gertz to accompany a montage of race track bets, here repurposed to open 'The Millionaire'. 00:20 Episode intro. Every episode began with Marvin Miller explaining the show's premise. Miller would then address Tipton ('You sent for me, sir?') beginning that week's storyline. 02:02 Opening titles, syndicated. The Gertz montage music was used, but cut down to just a few seconds. An extended version is presented here. For a while reruns aired under the title 'If You Had a Million' using the same musical intro. 02:28 End credits. One of several different end themes; this rather bland effort is on most of the first-run CBS prints we've seen. 03:18 End credits. This second theme may have been heard on network showings but was definitely used in syndication and is the one I remember. The classicthemes site suggests one of these end credits tracks may be M-41 (composed by Philip Green) from the Capitol Hi-Q music library. 04:18 BONUS: Preview of next week's show. 05:03 BONUS: The 'Susan Johnson' story in season six had a jazzy theme by Jeff Alexander. It may have been a one-off written just for this episode about a rock 'n' roll singer. (Alexander is not credited on any other episode.) Video quality is awful.