TV Reader's Digest

TV Reader's Digest (1955)


  • Genre: Drama
  • First Air Date: 1955-01-17
  • Last Air Date: 1956-07-09
  • Total Seasons: 2
  • Total Episodes: 65
  • Status: Ended
  • Episode Runtime: 30 min.
  • Network: ABC

Summary

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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TV Reader's Digest Seasons

Season 1

First Air Date: 1955-01-17
26 Episodes

Season 2

First Air Date: 1955-10-17
39 Episodes

TV Reader's Digest Episodes

Title Air Date Duration
Season 1Episode 1The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs30 min
Season 1Episode 2Trouble on the Double30 min
Season 1Episode 3Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson30 min
Season 1Episode 4How Chance Made Lincoln President30 min
Season 1Episode 5I'll Pick More Daisies30 min
Season 1Episode 6Top Secret30 min
Season 1Episode 7A Matter of Life and Death30 min
Season 1Episode 8The End of Blackbeard the Pirate30 min
Season 1Episode 9The American Master Counterfeiters30 min
Season 1Episode 10America's First Great Lady30 min
Season 1Episode 11The Manufactured Clue30 min
Season 1Episode 12Incident on the China Coast30 min
Season 1Episode 13How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants30 min
Season 1Episode 14Honeymoon in Mexico30 min
Season 1Episode 15The Great Armored Car Robbery30 min
Season 1Episode 16A Million Dollar Story30 min
Season 1Episode 17Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts30 min
Season 1Episode 18France's Greatest Detective30 min
Season 1Episode 19Around the Horn to Matrimony30 min
Season 1Episode 20The Anatomy of a Graft30 min
Season 1Episode 21Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror30 min
Season 1Episode 22Mr. Pak Takes Over30 min
Season 1Episode 23My First Bullfight30 min
Season 1Episode 24Comrade Lindemann's Conscience30 min
Season 1Episode 25Six Hours of Surgery30 min
Season 1Episode 26The Baron and His Uranium Killing30 min
Season 2Episode 1Child Pioneer30 min
Season 2Episode 2Old Master Detective30 min
Season 2Episode 3The Archer-Shee Case30 min
Season 2Episode 4The Brainwashing of John Hayes30 min
Season 2Episode 5The Making of a Submarine30 min
Season 2Episode 6The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate30 min
Season 2Episode 7If I Were Rich30 min
Season 2Episode 8The Sad Death of a Hero30 min
Season 2Episode 9Emergency Case30 min
Season 2Episode 10When the Wise Men Appeared30 min
Season 2Episode 11Ordeal at Yuba Gap30 min
Season 2Episode 12In the Eye of a Hurricane30 min
Season 2Episode 13Why the Choir Was Late30 min
Season 2Episode 14The Man Who Beat Death30 min
Season 2Episode 15A Bell for Okinawa30 min
Season 2Episode 16Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches30 min
Season 2Episode 17The Mystery of Minnie30 min
Season 2Episode 18Texas in New York30 min
Season 2Episode 19Return from Oblivion30 min
Season 2Episode 20The Case of the Uncertain Hand30 min
Season 2Episode 21Lost, Strayed, and Lonely30 min
Season 2Episode 22Night Court30 min
Season 2Episode 23No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache30 min
Season 2Episode 24The Trigger Finger Clue30 min
Season 2Episode 25The Secret Weapon of Joe Smith30 min
Season 2Episode 26Courage30 min
Season 2Episode 27The Woman Who Changed Her Mind30 min
Season 2Episode 28Uncle Sam's C Men30 min
Season 2Episode 29Miss Victoria30 min
Season 2Episode 30The Old, Old Story30 min
Season 2Episode 31Britain's Most Baffling Murder30 min
Season 2Episode 32Down on the Tennessee30 min
Season 2Episode 33The Man Who Dreamt Winners30 min
Season 2Episode 34The General's Escape30 min
Season 2Episode 35The Gigantic Bank Note Swindle30 min
Season 2Episode 36Go Fight City Hall30 min
Season 2Episode 37Family Reunion USA30 min
Season 2Episode 38The Only Way Out30 min
Season 2Episode 39The Smuggler30 min
  • Hugh Reilly

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  • Gene Raymond

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