Hugh Reilly
TV Reader's Digest (1955)
Season 1
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.
Released Jan. 17, 1955
Episode 30 min
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Genres: Drama
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Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Jan. 17, 1955, midnight
S1E2 - Trouble on the Double
Jan. 24, 1955, midnight
S1E3 - Britain's Most Baffling Murder
S1E4 - How Chance Made Lincoln President
Feb. 7, 1955, midnight
S1E5 - I'll Pick More Daisies
Feb. 14, 1955, midnight
S1E6 - Top Secret
Feb. 21, 1955, midnight
S1E7 - A Matter of Life and Death
Feb. 28, 1955, midnight
S1E8 - The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
March 7, 1955, midnight
S1E9 - The American Master Counterfeiters
March 14, 1955, midnight
S1E10 - America's First Great Lady
March 21, 1955, midnight
S1E11 - The Manufactured Clue
March 28, 1955, midnight
S1E12 - Incident on the China Coast
April 4, 1955, midnight
S1E13 - How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
April 11, 1955, midnight
S1E14 - Honeymoon in Mexico
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.
April 18, 1955, midnight
S1E15 - The Great Armored Car Robbery
April 25, 1955, midnight
S1E16 - A Million Dollar Story
May 2, 1955, midnight
S1E17 - Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
May 9, 1955, midnight
S1E18 - France's Greatest Detective
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.
May 16, 1955, midnight
S1E19 - Around the Horn to Matrimony
May 23, 1955, midnight
S1E20 - The Anatomy of a Graft
May 30, 1955, midnight
S1E21 - Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
June 6, 1955, midnight
S1E22 - Mr. Pak Takes Over
June 13, 1955, midnight
S1E23 - My First Bullfight
June 20, 1955, midnight
S1E24 - Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
June 27, 1955, midnight
S1E25 - Six Hours of Surgery
July 4, 1955, midnight
S1E26 - The Baron and His Uranium Killing
July 11, 1955, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Jan. 17, 1955
Last Air Date: July 9, 1956, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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