TV Reader's Digest (1955)
Synopsis
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.
First Air Date: 1955-01-17
Last Air Date: 1956-07-09
Number of Seasons: 2
Number of Episodes: 65
Networks: ABC
Top Cast
- Hugh Reilly as N/A
- Gene Raymond as N/A
Seasons
Season 1 (1955)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
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Ep. 2: Trouble on the Double
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Ep. 3: Britain's Most Baffling Murder
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Ep. 4: How Chance Made Lincoln President
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Ep. 5: I'll Pick More Daisies
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Ep. 6: Top Secret
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Ep. 7: A Matter of Life and Death
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Ep. 8: The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
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Ep. 9: The American Master Counterfeiters
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Ep. 10: America's First Great Lady
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Ep. 11: The Manufactured Clue
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Ep. 12: Incident on the China Coast
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Ep. 13: How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
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Ep. 14: Honeymoon in Mexico
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.
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Ep. 15: The Great Armored Car Robbery
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Ep. 16: A Million Dollar Story
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Ep. 17: Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
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Ep. 18: France's Greatest Detective
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.
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Ep. 19: Around the Horn to Matrimony
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Ep. 20: The Anatomy of a Graft
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Ep. 21: Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
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Ep. 22: Mr. Pak Takes Over
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Ep. 23: My First Bullfight
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Ep. 24: Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
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Ep. 25: Six Hours of Surgery
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Ep. 26: The Baron and His Uranium Killing
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