TV Reader's Digest (1955)
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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Episode 1 - The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Release Date: 1955-01-17 -
Episode 2 - Trouble on the Double
Release Date: 1955-01-24 -
Episode 3 - Britain's Most Baffling Murder
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Episode 4 - How Chance Made Lincoln President
Release Date: 1955-02-07 -
Episode 5 - I'll Pick More Daisies
Release Date: 1955-02-14 -
Episode 6 - Top Secret
Release Date: 1955-02-21 -
Episode 7 - A Matter of Life and Death
Release Date: 1955-02-28 -
Episode 8 - The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
Release Date: 1955-03-07 -
Episode 9 - The American Master Counterfeiters
Release Date: 1955-03-14 -
Episode 10 - America's First Great Lady
Release Date: 1955-03-21 -
Episode 11 - The Manufactured Clue
Release Date: 1955-03-28 -
Episode 12 - Incident on the China Coast
Release Date: 1955-04-04 -
Episode 13 - How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Release Date: 1955-04-11 -
Episode 14 - Honeymoon in Mexico
Release Date: 1955-04-18A 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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Episode 15 - The Great Armored Car Robbery
Release Date: 1955-04-25 -
Episode 16 - A Million Dollar Story
Release Date: 1955-05-02 -
Episode 17 - Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
Release Date: 1955-05-09 -
Episode 18 - France's Greatest Detective
Release Date: 1955-05-16The 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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Episode 19 - Around the Horn to Matrimony
Release Date: 1955-05-23 -
Episode 20 - The Anatomy of a Graft
Release Date: 1955-05-30 -
Episode 21 - Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
Release Date: 1955-06-06 -
Episode 22 - Mr. Pak Takes Over
Release Date: 1955-06-13 -
Episode 23 - My First Bullfight
Release Date: 1955-06-20 -
Episode 24 - Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Release Date: 1955-06-27 -
Episode 25 - Six Hours of Surgery
Release Date: 1955-07-04 -
Episode 26 - The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Release Date: 1955-07-11