About this season
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.
Episodes (26)
1. The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Aired 17 January 1955 • 30 min
2. Trouble on the Double
Aired 24 January 1955 • 30 min
3. Britain's Most Baffling Murder
4. How Chance Made Lincoln President
Aired 7 February 1955 • 30 min
5. I'll Pick More Daisies
Aired 14 February 1955 • 30 min
6. Top Secret
Aired 21 February 1955 • 30 min
7. A Matter of Life and Death
Aired 28 February 1955 • 30 min
8. The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
Aired 7 March 1955 • 30 min
9. The American Master Counterfeiters
Aired 14 March 1955 • 30 min
10. America's First Great Lady
Aired 21 March 1955 • 30 min
11. The Manufactured Clue
Aired 28 March 1955 • 30 min
12. Incident on the China Coast
Aired 4 April 1955 • 30 min
13. How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Aired 11 April 1955 • 30 min
14. Honeymoon in Mexico
Aired 18 April 1955 • 30 min
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.
15. The Great Armored Car Robbery
Aired 25 April 1955 • 30 min
16. A Million Dollar Story
Aired 2 May 1955 • 30 min
17. Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
Aired 9 May 1955 • 30 min
18. France's Greatest Detective
Aired 16 May 1955 • 30 min
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.
19. Around the Horn to Matrimony
Aired 23 May 1955 • 30 min
20. The Anatomy of a Graft
Aired 30 May 1955 • 30 min
21. Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
Aired 6 June 1955 • 30 min
22. Mr. Pak Takes Over
Aired 13 June 1955 • 30 min
23. My First Bullfight
Aired 20 June 1955 • 30 min
24. Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Aired 27 June 1955 • 30 min
25. Six Hours of Surgery
Aired 4 July 1955 • 30 min
26. The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Aired 11 July 1955 • 30 min