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TV Reader's Digest Season 1

January. 17,1955

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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 Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 26 - The Baron and His Uranium Killing

First Aired: July. 11,1955

Episode 25 - Six Hours of Surgery

First Aired: July. 04,1955

Episode 24 - Comrade Lindemann's Conscience

First Aired: June. 27,1955

Episode 23 - My First Bullfight

First Aired: June. 20,1955

Episode 22 - Mr. Pak Takes Over

First Aired: June. 13,1955

Episode 21 - Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror

First Aired: June. 06,1955

Episode 20 - The Anatomy of a Graft

First Aired: May. 30,1955

Episode 19 - Around the Horn to Matrimony

First Aired: May. 23,1955

Episode 18 - France's Greatest Detective

First Aired: May. 16,1955

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.

Episode 17 - Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts

First Aired: May. 09,1955

Episode 16 - A Million Dollar Story

First Aired: May. 02,1955

Episode 15 - The Great Armored Car Robbery

First Aired: April. 25,1955

Episode 14 - Honeymoon in Mexico

First Aired: April. 18,1955

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.

Episode 13 - How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants

First Aired: April. 11,1955

Episode 12 - Incident on the China Coast

First Aired: April. 04,1955

Episode 11 - The Manufactured Clue

First Aired: March. 28,1955

Episode 10 - America's First Great Lady

First Aired: March. 21,1955

Episode 9 - The American Master Counterfeiters

First Aired: March. 14,1955

Episode 8 - The End of Blackbeard the Pirate

First Aired: March. 07,1955

Episode 7 - A Matter of Life and Death

First Aired: February. 28,1955

Episode 6 - Top Secret

First Aired: February. 21,1955

Episode 5 - I'll Pick More Daisies

First Aired: February. 14,1955

Episode 4 - How Chance Made Lincoln President

First Aired: February. 07,1955

Episode 3 - Britain's Most Baffling Murder

First Aired: January. 01,0001

Episode 2 - Trouble on the Double

First Aired: January. 24,1955

Episode 1 - The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs

First Aired: January. 17,1955

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