TV Reader's Digest
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Overview
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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2 seasons
Season 1
1955 · 26 episodes
- 1 1. The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
- 2 2. Trouble on the Double
- 3 3. Britain's Most Baffling Murder
- 4 4. How Chance Made Lincoln President
- 5 5. I'll Pick More Daisies
- 6 6. Top Secret
- 7 7. A Matter of Life and Death
- 8 8. The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
- 9 9. The American Master Counterfeiters
- 10 10. America's First Great Lady
- 11 11. The Manufactured Clue
- 12 12. Incident on the China Coast
- 13 13. How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
- 14 14. Honeymoon in Mexico
- 15 15. The Great Armored Car Robbery
- 16 16. A Million Dollar Story
- 17 17. Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
- 18 18. France's Greatest Detective
- 19 19. Around the Horn to Matrimony
- 20 20. The Anatomy of a Graft
- 21 21. Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
- 22 22. Mr. Pak Takes Over
- 23 23. My First Bullfight
- 24 24. Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
- 25 25. Six Hours of Surgery
- 26 26. The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Season 2
1955 · 39 episodes
- 1 1. Child Pioneer
- 2 2. The Old Master Detective
- 3 3. The Archer-Shee Case
- 4 4. The Brainwashing of John Hayes
- 5 5. The Making of a Submarine
- 6 6. The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate
- 7 7. If I Were Rich
- 8 8. The Sad Death of a Hero
- 9 9. Emergency Case
- 10 10. When the Wise Men Appeared
- 11 11. Ordeal at Yuba Gap
- 12 12. In the Eye of a Hurricane
- 13 13. Why the Choir Was Late
- 14 14. The Man Who Beat Death
- 15 15. A Bell for Okinawa
- 16 16. Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches
- 17 17. The Mystery of Minnie
- 18 18. Texas in New York
- 19 19. Return from Oblivion
- 20 20. The Case of the Uncertain Hand
- 21 21. It's a Wise Father
- 22 22. Night Court
- 23 23. No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache
- 24 24. The Trigger Finger Clue
- 25 25. The Secret Weapon of Joe Smith
- 26 26. Courage
- 27 27. The Woman Who Changed Her Mind
- 28 28. Uncle Sam's C-Men
- 29 29. Miss Victoria
- 30 30. The Old, Old Story
- 31 31. Britain's Most Baffling Murder Case
- 32 32. Down on the Tennessee
- 33 33. The Man Who Dreamt Winners
- 34 34. The General's Escape
- 35 35. The Gigantic Bank Note Swindle
- 36 36. Go Fight City Hall
- 37 37. Family Reunion USA
- 38 38. The Only Way Out
- 39 39. The Smuggler
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