TV Reader's Digest(1955)

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2 Seasons
Drama

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.

Episodes

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Ep 1

The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

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17/01/195530 min
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Ep 2

Trouble on the Double

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24/01/195530 min
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Ep 3

Britain's Most Baffling Murder

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Ep 4

How Chance Made Lincoln President

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07/02/195530 min
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Ep 5

I'll Pick More Daisies

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14/02/195530 min
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Ep 6

Top Secret

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21/02/195530 min
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Ep 7

A Matter of Life and Death

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28/02/195530 min
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Ep 8

The End of Blackbeard the Pirate

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07/03/195530 min
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Ep 9

The American Master Counterfeiters

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14/03/195530 min
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Ep 10

America's First Great Lady

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21/03/195530 min
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Ep 11

The Manufactured Clue

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28/03/195530 min
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Ep 12

Incident on the China Coast

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04/04/195530 min
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Ep 13

How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants

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11/04/195530 min
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Ep 14

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.

18/04/195530 min
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Ep 15

The Great Armored Car Robbery

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25/04/195530 min
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Ep 16

A Million Dollar Story

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02/05/195530 min
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Ep 17

Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

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09/05/195530 min
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Ep 18

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.

16/05/195530 min
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Ep 19

Around the Horn to Matrimony

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23/05/195530 min
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Ep 20

The Anatomy of a Graft

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30/05/195530 min
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Ep 21

Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror

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06/06/195530 min
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Ep 22

Mr. Pak Takes Over

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13/06/195530 min
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Ep 23

My First Bullfight

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20/06/195530 min
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Ep 24

Comrade Lindemann's Conscience

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27/06/195530 min
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Ep 25

Six Hours of Surgery

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04/07/195530 min
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Ep 26

The Baron and His Uranium Killing

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11/07/195530 min

Top Cast

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Hugh Reilly

Gene Raymond

Gene Raymond

Show Info

StatusEnded
NetworkABC
TypeScripted