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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Season 1
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E1
The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Jan 17, 1955 · 30m -
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E2
Trouble on the Double
Jan 24, 1955 -
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E3
Britain's Most Baffling Murder
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E4
How Chance Made Lincoln President
Feb 7, 1955 · 30m -
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E5
I'll Pick More Daisies
Feb 14, 1955 -
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E6
Top Secret
Feb 21, 1955 -
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E7
A Matter of Life and Death
Feb 28, 1955 -
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E8
The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
Mar 7, 1955 -
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E9
The American Master Counterfeiters
Mar 14, 1955 -
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E10
America's First Great Lady
Mar 21, 1955 -
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E11
The Manufactured Clue
Mar 28, 1955 -
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E12
Incident on the China Coast
Apr 4, 1955 -
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E13
How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Apr 11, 1955 -
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E14
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.
Apr 18, 1955 -
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E15
The Great Armored Car Robbery
Apr 25, 1955 -
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E16
A Million Dollar Story
May 2, 1955 -
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E17
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
May 9, 1955 -
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E18
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.
May 16, 1955 · 30m -
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E19
Around the Horn to Matrimony
May 23, 1955 -
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E20
The Anatomy of a Graft
May 30, 1955 -
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E21
Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
Jun 6, 1955 -
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E22
Mr. Pak Takes Over
Jun 13, 1955 -
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E23
My First Bullfight
Jun 20, 1955 -
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E24
Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Jun 27, 1955 · 30m -
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E25
Six Hours of Surgery
Jul 4, 1955 -
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E26
The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Jul 11, 1955 · 30m