TV Reader's Digest
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.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
17-01-195530 min - Ep 2
2.Trouble on the Double
24-01-195530 min - Ep 3
3.Britain's Most Baffling Murder
TBA30 min - Ep 4
4.How Chance Made Lincoln President
07-02-195530 min - Ep 5
5.I'll Pick More Daisies
14-02-195530 min - Ep 6
6.Top Secret
21-02-195530 min - Ep 7
7.A Matter of Life and Death
28-02-195530 min - Ep 8
8.The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
07-03-195530 min - Ep 9
9.The American Master Counterfeiters
14-03-195530 min - Ep 10
10.America's First Great Lady
21-03-195530 min - Ep 11
11.The Manufactured Clue
28-03-195530 min - Ep 12
12.Incident on the China Coast
04-04-195530 min - Ep 13
13.How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
11-04-195530 min - Ep 14
14.Honeymoon in Mexico
18-04-195530 minA 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...
- Ep 15
15.The Great Armored Car Robbery
25-04-195530 min - Ep 16
16.A Million Dollar Story
02-05-195530 min - Ep 17
17.Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
09-05-195530 min - Ep 18
18.France's Greatest Detective
16-05-195530 minThe 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...
- Ep 19
19.Around the Horn to Matrimony
23-05-195530 min - Ep 20
20.The Anatomy of a Graft
30-05-195530 min - Ep 21
21.Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
06-06-195530 min - Ep 22
22.Mr. Pak Takes Over
13-06-195530 min - Ep 23
23.My First Bullfight
20-06-195530 min - Ep 24
24.Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
27-06-195530 min - Ep 25
25.Six Hours of Surgery
04-07-195530 min - Ep 26
26.The Baron and His Uranium Killing
11-07-195530 min
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