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TV Reader's Digest Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1955 - 1955
Episode 1
The Last of the Old Time Shooting Sheriffs
Mon, Jan 17, 195530 mins
The factual story of Jim Roberts, the shooting sheriff who was brought out of retirement by the citizens of an Arizona town to check a series of bank robberies.
Episode 2
Trouble on the Double
Mon, Jan 24, 1955
A storm and a train wreck make it impossible to get a doctor for an expectant mother. The frantic father learns that "necessity is the mother of invention."
Episode 3
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson
Sun, Jan 30, 1955
The love story of American divorcee Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne and Scottish literary giant Robert Louis Stevenson. Focuses on Fanny's support for Robert through his health problems and with his literary work.
Episode 4
How Chance Made Lincoln President
Mon, Feb 7, 195530 mins
The story of five events that propelled Lincoln into the White House.
Episode 5
I'll Pick More Daisies
Mon, Feb 14, 1955
On his 50th birthday, straight-laced Don Wilkerson is wishing he had taken more chances in life. On the train home, his guardian angel allows him to relive 3 moments in his life to experience the repercussions of choosing the bolder path.
Episode 6
Top Secret
Mon, Feb 21, 1955
German citizens attempt to escape from East Berlin's Russian zone in an ancient bus.
Episode 7
A Matter of Life and Death
Mon, Feb 28, 1955
A young man that Is born into the hateful, ignorant world of family feuding in the old south, rebels against it by leaving it, and becomes an educated man, a famed neurosurgeon. The conflict of the story comes when he must operate on the brain of grandson of his childhood enemy from the feuding clan.
Episode 8
The End of Blackbeard the Pirate
Mon, Mar 7, 1955
Blackbeard the Pirate meets his match in a battle against Lt. Robert Maynard off the Carolina coast in 1718.
Episode 9
The American Master Counterfeiters
Mon, Mar 14, 1955
At the turn of the 20th century, Detective William Burns helps the U.S. Secret Service solve one of the most puzzling counterfeit cases in history: the case of the "too good" hundred-dollar bills.
Episode 10
America's First Great Lady
Mon, Mar 21, 1955
The story of Pocahontas and her romances with Capt. John Smith and John Rolfe.
Episode 11
The Manufactured Clue
Mon, Mar 28, 1955
A sleuth is hired to manufacture clues against a murder suspect.
Episode 12
Incident on the China Coast
Mon, Apr 4, 1955
The true story of how survivors of a plane crash, afloat on a life raft, face the dangers of the China Sea.
Episode 13
How Charlie Faust Won a Pennant for the Giants
Mon, Apr 11, 1955
Gamblers kidnap a pitcher who is responsible for the New York Giants' winning streak.
Episode 14
Honeymoon in Mexico
Mon, Apr 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 15
The Great Armored Car Robbery
Mon, Apr 25, 1955
A con puts together one last heist, but his wife's plea for him to return to honest ways brings him into conflict with his gang.
Episode 16
A Million Dollar Story
Mon, May 2, 1955
A captain refuses to leave a sinking freighter even though the crew and passengers are safely ashore.
Episode 17
Dear Friends and Gentle Hearts
Mon, May 9, 1955
The story of composer Stephen Foster, from his early success to his tragic death.
Episode 18
France's Greatest Detective
Mon, May 16, 195530 mins
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 19
Around the Horn to Matrimony
Mon, May 23, 1955
Back in the 1800's a brave and courageous man organized a project to send a boatload of women from New York to Seattle. The purpose of this singular and daring voyage was matrimony.
Episode 20
The Anatomy of a Graft
Mon, May 30, 1955
Gene Barry goes to city hall as an idealistic Councilman but becomes disillusioned as he learns the realities of politics.
Episode 21
Human Nature Through a Rear View Mirror
Mon, Jun 6, 1955
Cabby Joey White gets involved in a kidnapping and a maternity case because of his interest in the passengers that ride in his cab.
Episode 22
Mr. Pak Takes Over
Mon, Jun 13, 1955
This is the Korean War. Mr. Pak is a native interpreter. He is assigned to an American officer.
Episode 23
My First Bullfight
Mon, Jun 20, 1955
True story of Sidney Franklin -- America's first bullfighter.
Episode 24
Comrade Lindemann's Conscience
Mon, Jun 27, 195530 mins
An East German official who's been sending innocent men to jail has pangs of conscience.
Episode 25
Six Hours of Surgery
Mon, Jul 4, 1955
The personal problems in the lives of a surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16 year old boy.
Episode 26
The Baron and His Uranium Killing
Mon, Jul 11, 195530 mins
A wealthy French baron and his baroness find themselves victims of a clever uranium swindle.