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TV Reader's Digest

1955

2 seasons

65 episodes

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.

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Cast

Hugh Reilly

Gene Raymond

Seasons

Ep 1
1.The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
17-01-195530m
Ep 2
2.Trouble on the Double
24-01-195530m
Ep 3
3.Britain's Most Baffling Murder
TBA30m
Ep 4
4.How Chance Made Lincoln President
07-02-195530m
Ep 5
5.I'll Pick More Daisies
14-02-195530m
Ep 6
6.Top Secret
21-02-195530m
Ep 7
7.A Matter of Life and Death
28-02-195530m
Ep 8
8.The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
07-03-195530m
Ep 9
9.The American Master Counterfeiters
14-03-195530m
Ep 10
10.America's First Great Lady
21-03-195530m
Ep 11
11.The Manufactured Clue
28-03-195530m
Ep 12
12.Incident on the China Coast
04-04-195530m
Ep 13
13.How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
11-04-195530m
Ep 14
14.Honeymoon in Mexico
18-04-195530m
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...
Ep 15
15.The Great Armored Car Robbery
25-04-195530m
Ep 16
16.A Million Dollar Story
02-05-195530m
Ep 17
17.Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
09-05-195530m
Ep 18
18.France's Greatest Detective
16-05-195530m
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...
Ep 19
19.Around the Horn to Matrimony
23-05-195530m
Ep 20
20.The Anatomy of a Graft
30-05-195530m
Ep 21
21.Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
06-06-195530m
Ep 22
22.Mr. Pak Takes Over
13-06-195530m
Ep 23
23.My First Bullfight
20-06-195530m
Ep 24
24.Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
27-06-195530m
Ep 25
25.Six Hours of Surgery
04-07-195530m
Ep 26
26.The Baron and His Uranium Killing
11-07-195530m

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