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TV Reader's Digest

1955 - 1956

The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

17th January 1955
Episode 1
No overview available.

Trouble on the Double

24th January 1955
Episode 2
No overview available.

Britain's Most Baffling Murder

Episode 3
No overview available.

How Chance Made Lincoln President

7th February 1955
Episode 4
No overview available.

I'll Pick More Daisies

14th February 1955
Episode 5
No overview available.

Top Secret

21st February 1955
Episode 6
No overview available.

A Matter of Life and Death

28th February 1955
Episode 7
No overview available.

The End of Blackbeard the Pirate

7th March 1955
Episode 8
No overview available.

The American Master Counterfeiters

14th March 1955
Episode 9
No overview available.

America's First Great Lady

21st March 1955
Episode 10
No overview available.

The Manufactured Clue

28th March 1955
Episode 11
No overview available.

Incident on the China Coast

4th April 1955
Episode 12
No overview available.

How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants

11th April 1955
Episode 13
No overview available.

Honeymoon in Mexico

18th April 1955
Episode 14
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.

The Great Armored Car Robbery

25th April 1955
Episode 15
No overview available.

A Million Dollar Story

2nd May 1955
Episode 16
No overview available.

Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

9th May 1955
Episode 17
No overview available.

France's Greatest Detective

16th May 1955
Episode 18
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.

Around the Horn to Matrimony

23rd May 1955
Episode 19
No overview available.

The Anatomy of a Graft

30th May 1955
Episode 20
No overview available.

Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror

6th June 1955
Episode 21
No overview available.

Mr. Pak Takes Over

13th June 1955
Episode 22
No overview available.

My First Bullfight

20th June 1955
Episode 23
No overview available.

Comrade Lindemann's Conscience

27th June 1955
Episode 24
No overview available.

Six Hours of Surgery

4th July 1955
Episode 25
No overview available.

The Baron and His Uranium Killing

11th July 1955
Episode 26
No overview available.
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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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