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Series
TV Reader's Digest
US
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.
Seasons & Episodes
E1
The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
1955-01-17
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E2
Trouble on the Double
1955-01-24
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E3
Britain's Most Baffling Murder
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E4
How Chance Made Lincoln President
1955-02-07
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E5
I'll Pick More Daisies
1955-02-14
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E6
Top Secret
1955-02-21
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E7
A Matter of Life and Death
1955-02-28
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E8
The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
1955-03-07
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E9
The American Master Counterfeiters
1955-03-14
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E10
America's First Great Lady
1955-03-21
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E11
The Manufactured Clue
1955-03-28
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E12
Incident on the China Coast
1955-04-04
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E13
How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
1955-04-11
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E14
Honeymoon in Mexico
1955-04-18
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E15
The Great Armored Car Robbery
1955-04-25
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E16
A Million Dollar Story
1955-05-02
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E17
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
1955-05-09
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E18
France's Greatest Detective
1955-05-16
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E19
Around the Horn to Matrimony
1955-05-23
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E20
The Anatomy of a Graft
1955-05-30
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E21
Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
1955-06-06
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E22
Mr. Pak Takes Over
1955-06-13
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E23
My First Bullfight
1955-06-20
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E24
Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
1955-06-27
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E25
Six Hours of Surgery
1955-07-04
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E26
The Baron and His Uranium Killing
1955-07-11
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E1
Child Pioneer
1955-10-17
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E2
The Old Master Detective
1955-10-24
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E3
The Archer-Shee Case
1955-10-31
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E4
The Brainwashing of John Hayes
1955-11-07
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E5
The Making of a Submarine
1955-11-14
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E6
The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate
1955-11-21
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E7
If I Were Rich
1955-11-28
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E8
The Sad Death of a Hero
1955-12-05
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E9
Emergency Case
1955-12-12
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E10
When the Wise Men Appeared
1955-12-19
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E11
Ordeal at Yuba Gap
1955-12-26
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E12
In the Eye of a Hurricane
1956-01-02
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E13
Why the Choir Was Late
1956-01-09
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E14
The Man Who Beat Death
1956-01-16
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E15
A Bell for Okinawa
1956-01-23
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E16
Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches
1956-01-30
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E17
The Mystery of Minnie
1956-02-06
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E18
Texas in New York
1955-02-13
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E19
Return from Oblivion
1956-02-20
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E20
The Case of the Uncertain Hand
1956-02-27
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E21
It's a Wise Father
1956-03-05
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E22
Night Court
1956-03-12
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E23
No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache
1956-03-19
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E24
The Trigger Finger Clue
1956-03-26
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E25
The Secret Weapon of Joe Smith
1956-04-02
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E26
Courage
1956-04-09
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E27
The Woman Who Changed Her Mind
1956-04-16
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E28
Uncle Sam's C-Men
1956-04-23
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E29
Miss Victoria
1956-04-30
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E30
The Old, Old Story
1956-05-07
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E31
Britain's Most Baffling Murder Case
1956-05-14
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E32
Down on the Tennessee
1956-05-21
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E33
The Man Who Dreamt Winners
1956-05-28
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E34
The General's Escape
1956-06-04
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E35
The Gigantic Bank Note Swindle
1956-06-11
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E36
Go Fight City Hall
1956-06-18
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E37
Family Reunion USA
1956-06-25
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E38
The Only Way Out
1956-07-02
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E39
The Smuggler
1956-07-09
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Cast
