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TV Reader's Digest

Season 1 1955

  • 1955-01-17T05:00:00Z on ABC
  • 30m
  • 12h 30m (25 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama
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.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1955-01-17T05:00:00Z

1x01 The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

Series Premiere

1x01 The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

  • 1955-01-17T05:00:00Z30m

1955-01-24T05:00:00Z

1x02 Trouble on the Double

1x02 Trouble on the Double

  • 1955-01-24T05:00:00Z30m

1955-02-14T05:00:00Z

1x05 I'll Pick More Daisies

1x05 I'll Pick More Daisies

  • 1955-02-14T05:00:00Z30m

1955-02-21T05:00:00Z

1x06 Top Secret

1x06 Top Secret

  • 1955-02-21T05:00:00Z30m

1x07 A Matter of Life and Death

  • 1955-02-28T05:00:00Z30m

1x08 The End of Blackbeard the Pirate

  • 1955-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

1x10 America's First Great Lady

  • 1955-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

1955-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x11 The Manufactured Clue

1x11 The Manufactured Clue

  • 1955-03-28T05:00:00Z30m

1x12 Incident on the China Coast

  • 1955-04-04T05:00:00Z30m

1955-04-18T05:00:00Z

1x14 Honeymoon in Mexico

1x14 Honeymoon in Mexico

  • 1955-04-18T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1x15 The Great Armored Car Robbery

  • 1955-04-25T04:00:00Z30m

1955-05-02T04:00:00Z

1x16 A Million Dollar Story

1x16 A Million Dollar Story

  • 1955-05-02T04:00:00Z30m

1x17 Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

  • 1955-05-09T04:00:00Z30m

1x18 France's Greatest Detective

  • 1955-05-16T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1x19 Around the Horn to Matrimony

  • 1955-05-23T04:00:00Z30m

1955-05-30T04:00:00Z

1x20 The Anatomy of a Graft

1x20 The Anatomy of a Graft

  • 1955-05-30T04:00:00Z30m

1955-06-13T04:00:00Z

1x22 Mr. Pak Takes Over

1x22 Mr. Pak Takes Over

  • 1955-06-13T04:00:00Z30m

1955-06-20T04:00:00Z

1x23 My First Bullfight

1x23 My First Bullfight

  • 1955-06-20T04:00:00Z30m

1x24 Comrade Lindemann's Conscience

  • 1955-06-27T04:00:00Z30m

1955-07-04T04:00:00Z

1x25 Six Hours of Surgery

1x25 Six Hours of Surgery

  • 1955-07-04T04:00:00Z30m
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