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