TV Reader's Digest (1955)

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

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    The last of the old time shooting sheriffs

  • 1x2

    Trouble on the double

  • 1x3

    Britain's most baffling murder

  • 1x4

    How chance made lincoln president

  • 1x5

    I'll pick more daisies

  • 1x6

    Top secret

  • 1x7

    A matter of life and death

  • 1x8

    The end of blackbeard the pirate

  • 1x9

    The american master counterfeiters

  • 1x10

    America's first great lady

  • 1x11

    The manufactured clue

  • 1x12

    Incident on the china coast

  • 1x13

    How charlie faust won a pennant for the giants

  • 1x14

    Honeymoon in mexico

  • 1x15

    The great armored car robbery

  • 1x16

    A million dollar story

  • 1x17

    Dear friends and gentle hearts

  • 1x18

    France's greatest detective

  • 1x19

    Around the horn to matrimony

  • 1x20

    The anatomy of a graft

  • 1x21

    Human nature through a rear view mirror

  • 1x22

    Mr. pak takes over

  • 1x23

    My first bullfight

  • 1x24

    Comrade lindemann's conscience

  • 1x25

    Six hours of surgery

  • 1x26

    The baron and his uranium killing

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    Child pioneer

  • 2x2

    The old master detective

  • 2x3

    The archer-shee case

  • 2x4

    The brainwashing of john hayes

  • 2x5

    The making of a submarine

  • 2x6

    The voyage of captain tom jones, pirate

  • 2x7

    If i were rich

  • 2x8

    The sad death of a hero

  • 2x9

    Emergency case

  • 2x10

    When the wise men appeared

  • 2x11

    Ordeal at yuba gap

  • 2x12

    In the eye of a hurricane

  • 2x13

    Why the choir was late

  • 2x14

    The man who beat death

  • 2x15

    A bell for okinawa

  • 2x16

    Cochise, greatest of the apaches

  • 2x17

    The mystery of minnie

  • 2x18

    Texas in new york

  • 2x19

    Return from oblivion

  • 2x20

    The case of the uncertain hand

  • 2x21

    It's a wise father

  • 2x22

    Night court

  • 2x23

    No horse, no wife, no mustache

  • 2x24

    The trigger finger clue

  • 2x25

    The secret weapon of joe smith

  • 2x26

    Courage

  • 2x27

    The woman who changed her mind

  • 2x28

    Uncle sam's c-men

  • 2x29

    Miss victoria

  • 2x30

    The old, old story

  • 2x31

    Britain's most baffling murder case

  • 2x32

    Down on the tennessee

  • 2x33

    The man who dreamt winners

  • 2x34

    The general's escape

  • 2x35

    The gigantic bank note swindle

  • 2x36

    Go fight city hall

  • 2x37

    Family reunion usa

  • 2x38

    The only way out

  • 2x39

    The smuggler

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