TV Reader's Digest

Season 1

Family-oriented stories from the pages of "Reader's Digest" were dramatized on film.

Where to Watch TV Reader's Digest • Season 1

26 Episodes

  • The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
    E1
    The Last of the Old Time Shooting SheriffsThis episode is based on the true story of the "Shooting Sheriff", Jim Roberts, who comes out of retirement to investigate a string of bank robberies.
  • Trouble on the Double
    E2
    Trouble on the DoubleA soon-to-deliver woman needs a doctor, but a bad storm and a train wreck conspire to keep him away. The father improvises a solution.
  • Britain's Most Baffling Murder
    E3
    Britain's Most Baffling Murder
  • How Chance Made Lincoln President
    E4
    How Chance Made Lincoln PresidentThis episode looks at five events which resulted in Abraham Lincoln's sucessful election.
  • I'll Pick More Daisies
    E5
    I'll Pick More DaisiesA middle-aged man, believing himself to be a failure, reviews three crucial moments from his past.
  • Top Secret
    E6
    Top SecretLouie Meyer has his beloved bus declared state property by the East German police. This prompts his attempted escape from the country.
  • A Matter of Life and Death
    E7
    A Matter of Life and DeathA young boy considers the tradition of old Southern feuds to be distasteful. As an adult and a brain surgeon, he performs a serious operation on the grandson of his childhood enemy.
  • The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
    E8
    The End of Blackbeard the PirateThe infamous Blackbeard the Pirate meets his demise at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard in a 1718 battle off the coast of North Carolina.
  • The American Master Counterfeiters
    E9
    The American Master CounterfeitersAt the start of the twentieth century, detective William Burns helps the Secret Service find the counterfeiters of hundred-dollar bills that look just a little too good.
  • America's First Great Lady
    E10
    America's First Great LadyPocahontas is the "great lady"in this story of the two men she loved: tobacco planter John Rolfe and Captain John Smith.
  • The Manufactured Clue
    E11
    The Manufactured ClueA private eye uses some unusual techniques to track down a girl's murderer; he's hired to manufacture clues.
  • Incident on the China Coast
    E12
    Incident on the China CoastA passenger plane on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong is shot down. The survivors fight for their lives while floating in the China Sea in a lifeboat. This episode is a dramatization of a true story.
  • How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
    E13
    How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the GiantsIn 1911, gamblers kidnap New York Yankee's picher Charlie Faust, the man responsible for their winning streak, to keep him from playing.
  • Honeymoon in Mexico
    E14
    Honeymoon in MexicoA 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.
  • The Great Armored Car Robbery
    E15
    The Great Armored Car RobberyThe man who master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to your health.
  • A Million Dollar Story
    E16
    A Million Dollar StoryThis episode dramatizizes the true story of Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen and “The Flying Enterprise.” In 1952, the freighter encountered rough seas out of England, causing the ship to list severely. With their lifeboats lost, the captain refuses to leave until all the passengers and crew have been rescued.
  • Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
    E17
    Dear Friends and Gentle HeartsThe life of composer Stephen Foster is told, from his days as a bookkeeper though his early success and tragic death.
  • France's Greatest Detective
    E18
    France's Greatest DetectiveThe 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.
  • Around the Horn to Matrimony
    E19
    Around the Horn to MatrimonyA man arranges for a boatload of women to travel from New York to the wild frontier town of Seattle. The purpose of the voyage was simple: women were needed for marriage.
  • The Anatomy of a Graft
    E20
    The Anatomy of a GraftA naive attorney enters politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately, others in positions of power do not share his idealism.
  • Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
    E21
    Human Nature Through a Rear View MirrorBecause he takes an interest in his passengers' lives, cabbie Joey White becomes involved in a maternity case and a kidnapping.
  • Mr. Pak Takes Over
    E22
    Mr. Pak Takes OverA native interpreter is assigned to an American officer during the Korean War.
  • My First Bullfight
    E23
    My First BullfightAn American artist is drawing bullfighting posters in Mexico City. After a little too much tequiila, he feels he has what it takes to battle a bull.
  • Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
    E24
    Comrade Lindemann's ConscienceThe methods he's used to send innocent people to prison begins to bother an assistant state's attorney in Communist East Germany.
  • Six Hours of Surgery
    E25
    Six Hours of SurgeryThe personal problems in the lives of the surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16-year-old boy.
  • The Baron and His Uranium Killing
    E26
    The Baron and His Uranium KillingA rich French baron and his wife are swindled out of money in an uranium scam.

Cast of Season 1

  • Hugh Reilly
  • Gene Raymond

 

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