TV Reader's Digest
1955 · 2 seasons · 65 episodes · Ended · ABC
Drama
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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
- S01E01The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs1955-01-1730m
- S01E02Trouble on the Double1955-01-2430m
- S01E03Britain's Most Baffling Murder30m
- S01E04How Chance Made Lincoln President1955-02-0730m
- S01E05I'll Pick More Daisies1955-02-1430m
- S01E06Top Secret1955-02-2130m
- S01E07A Matter of Life and Death1955-02-2830m
- S01E08The End of Blackbeard the Pirate1955-03-0730m
- S01E09The American Master Counterfeiters1955-03-1430m
- S01E10America's First Great Lady1955-03-2130m
- S01E11The Manufactured Clue1955-03-2830m
- S01E12Incident on the China Coast1955-04-0430m
- S01E13How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants1955-04-1130m
- S01E14Honeymoon in Mexico1955-04-1830m
A 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.
- S01E15The Great Armored Car Robbery1955-04-2530m
- S01E16A Million Dollar Story1955-05-0230m
- S01E17Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts1955-05-0930m
- S01E18France's Greatest Detective1955-05-1630m
The 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.
- S01E19Around the Horn to Matrimony1955-05-2330m
- S01E20The Anatomy of a Graft1955-05-3030m
- S01E21Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror1955-06-0630m
- S01E22Mr. Pak Takes Over1955-06-1330m
- S01E23My First Bullfight1955-06-2030m
- S01E24Comrade Lindemann's Conscience1955-06-2730m
- S01E25Six Hours of Surgery1955-07-0430m
- S01E26The Baron and His Uranium Killing1955-07-1130m
