TV Reader's Digest(1955)
Drama
First Air Date: 1955-01-17
Average Runtime: 30m
Rating: 8.0
Votes: 1
Seasons: 2
Episodes: 65
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
Season 1
Episodes: 26E01
The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Air Date: 1955-01-17
No episode overview available.
E02
Trouble on the Double
Air Date: 1955-01-24
No episode overview available.
E03
Britain's Most Baffling Murder
Air Date: N/A
No episode overview available.
E04
How Chance Made Lincoln President
Air Date: 1955-02-07
No episode overview available.
E05
I'll Pick More Daisies
Air Date: 1955-02-14
No episode overview available.
E06
Top Secret
Air Date: 1955-02-21
No episode overview available.
E07
A Matter of Life and Death
Air Date: 1955-02-28
No episode overview available.
E08
The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
Air Date: 1955-03-07
No episode overview available.
E09
The American Master Counterfeiters
Air Date: 1955-03-14
No episode overview available.
E10
America's First Great Lady
Air Date: 1955-03-21
No episode overview available.
E11
The Manufactured Clue
Air Date: 1955-03-28
No episode overview available.
E12
Incident on the China Coast
Air Date: 1955-04-04
No episode overview available.
E13
How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Air Date: 1955-04-11
No episode overview available.
E14
Honeymoon in Mexico
Air Date: 1955-04-18
A newlywed couple comes to a small Mexican village to spend a year painting. After helping an orphaned child with an ...
E15
The Great Armored Car Robbery
Air Date: 1955-04-25
No episode overview available.
E16
A Million Dollar Story
Air Date: 1955-05-02
No episode overview available.
E17
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
Air Date: 1955-05-09
No episode overview available.
E18
France's Greatest Detective
Air Date: 1955-05-16
The story of Alphonse Bertillion, a low level employee of the French police, who developed a theory of identifying su...
E19
Around the Horn to Matrimony
Air Date: 1955-05-23
No episode overview available.
E20
The Anatomy of a Graft
Air Date: 1955-05-30
No episode overview available.
E21
Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
Air Date: 1955-06-06
No episode overview available.
E22
Mr. Pak Takes Over
Air Date: 1955-06-13
No episode overview available.
E23
My First Bullfight
Air Date: 1955-06-20
No episode overview available.
E24
Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Air Date: 1955-06-27
No episode overview available.
E25
Six Hours of Surgery
Air Date: 1955-07-04
No episode overview available.
E26
The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Air Date: 1955-07-11
No episode overview available.
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