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.
Episodes
1E1The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs30m2E2Trouble on the Double30m3E3Britain's Most Baffling Murder30m4E4How Chance Made Lincoln President30m5E5I'll Pick More Daisies30m6E6Top Secret30m7E7A Matter of Life and Death30m8E8The End of Blackbeard the Pirate30m9E9The American Master Counterfeiters30m10E10America's First Great Lady30m11E11The Manufactured Clue30m12E12Incident on the China Coast30m13E13How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants30m14E14Honeymoon in MexicoA 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.30m15E15The Great Armored Car Robbery30m16E16A Million Dollar Story30m17E17Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts30m18E18France's Greatest DetectiveThe 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.30m19E19Around the Horn to Matrimony30m20E20The Anatomy of a Graft30m21E21Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror30m22E22Mr. Pak Takes Over30m23E23My First Bullfight30m24E24Comrade Lindemann's Conscience30m25E25Six Hours of Surgery30m26E26The Baron and His Uranium Killing30m
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