TV Reader's Digest

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 2
Total Episodes 65
Original Language EN

TV Reader's Digest (1955)

⭐ 4.0 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 2 Seasons 📼 65 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Series Status:

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Synopsis

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.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
E2 Trouble on the Double
E3 Britain's Most Baffling Murder
E4 How Chance Made Lincoln President
E5 I'll Pick More Daisies
E6 Top Secret
E7 A Matter of Life and Death
E8 The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
E9 The American Master Counterfeiters
E10 America's First Great Lady
E11 The Manufactured Clue
E12 Incident on the China Coast
E13 How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
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.

E15 The Great Armored Car Robbery
E16 A Million Dollar Story
E17 Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
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.

E19 Around the Horn to Matrimony
E20 The Anatomy of a Graft
E21 Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
E22 Mr. Pak Takes Over
E23 My First Bullfight
E24 Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
E25 Six Hours of Surgery
E26 The Baron and His Uranium Killing
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