TV Reader's Digest

TV Reader's Digest

1955 · Drama · 2 Seasons · 65 Episodes · 8.0

TV Reader's Digest is the title of a 30 minute American television anthology drama series which aired on the ABC from 1955 to 1956. Based on articles that appeared in Reader's Digest magazine, the episodes based on true stories which were varied in their themes, plots and content. Themes included crime, heroism, mystery, romance, and human interest. Episode writers included Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Cleveland Amory and Frank Gruber. Some of the actors who were cast in the episodes included: Claude Akins, Leon Askin, Jean Byron, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Tod Griffin, Francis McDonald, Max Showalter, John Howard, Lee Marvin, Gene Raymond, Jerry Paris, and Michael Winkelman.

Episodes

Season 1 Season 2

E11. The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs30m · 1955-01-17 E22. Trouble on the Double30m · 1955-01-24 E33. Britain's Most Baffling Murder30m · E44. How Chance Made Lincoln President30m · 1955-02-07 E55. I'll Pick More Daisies30m · 1955-02-14 E66. Top Secret30m · 1955-02-21 E77. A Matter of Life and Death30m · 1955-02-28 E88. The End of Blackbeard the Pirate30m · 1955-03-07 E99. The American Master Counterfeiters30m · 1955-03-14 E1010. America's First Great Lady30m · 1955-03-21 E1111. The Manufactured Clue30m · 1955-03-28 E1212. Incident on the China Coast30m · 1955-04-04 E1313. How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants30m · 1955-04-11 E1414. Honeymoon in Mexico30m · 1955-04-18A newlywed couple comes to a small Mexican village to spend a year painting. After helping an orphaned child with an injury, they unexpectedly end up as his parents. Once word gets around, other kids beat a path to their door hoping also to be adopted.E1515. The Great Armored Car Robbery30m · 1955-04-25 E1616. A Million Dollar Story30m · 1955-05-02 E1717. Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts30m · 1955-05-09 E1818. France's Greatest Detective30m · 1955-05-16The story of Alphonse Bertillion, a low level employee of the French police, who developed a theory of identifying suspects by their unique physical measurements, like the size of the head. At first his superiors are skeptical, but statistics taken of a man in question exposes his guilt in a murder case.E1919. Around the Horn to Matrimony30m · 1955-05-23 E2020. The Anatomy of a Graft30m · 1955-05-30 E2121. Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror30m · 1955-06-06 E2222. Mr. Pak Takes Over30m · 1955-06-13 E2323. My First Bullfight30m · 1955-06-20 E2424. Comrade Lindemann's Conscience30m · 1955-06-27 E2525. Six Hours of Surgery30m · 1955-07-04 E2626. The Baron and His Uranium Killing30m · 1955-07-11

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