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TV Reader's Digest Season 2 Episodes

Season 2 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

Child Pioneer

Mon, Oct 17, 1955

When his parents die on a wagon trek to Oregon, a 13 year old boy completes the journey leading the rest of his family.

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Episode 2

Old Master Detective

Mon, Oct 24, 1955

An insurance investigator makes a special trip to Europe to look into an insurance claim on a so-called masterpiece of art. The insured man making the claim is a Hollywood producer who is short on funds.

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Episode 3

The Archer-Shee Case

Mon, Oct 31, 195530 mins

A young cadet at Royal Navel College is accused of theft and dismissed.

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Episode 4

The Brainwashing of John Hayes

Mon, Nov 7, 1955

Vincent Price is a Christian Missionary jailed by Chinese Communists.

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Episode 5

The Making of a Submarine

Mon, Nov 14, 1955

The story of four recruits who sign up for submarine service. Only one of the four proves that he can meet the rigid training and discipline

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Episode 6

The Voyage of Captain Tom Jones, Pirate

Mon, Nov 21, 195530 mins

An ex-buccaneer is released from an English jail for a strange assignment. He is to sail a boatload of pilgrims to the New World on the "Mayflower."

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Episode 7

If I Were Rich

Mon, Nov 28, 1955

Longing to move up in the world and escape their ordinary lives, the Johnson family pin all their hopes on a sweepstakes ticket. When their ticket becomes one of twenty finalists, temptation to sell it before the prize is selected wears on them, but they win it. Afterward, what looked like a life of ease turns into problems and heartache.

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Episode 8

The Sad Death of a Hero

Mon, Dec 5, 195530 mins

This is the story of the Scopes "Monkey Trial" at Dayton, Tenn., July 1925. Defending the young teacher of Darwinism is avowed agnostic Clarence Darrow. Prosecuting him is fundamentalist statesman William Jennings Bryan. The show centers on Darrow's hard-fought verbal duel with the 65 year-old Bryan.

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Episode 9

Emergency Case

Mon, Dec 12, 1955

Story of a young intern on duty as an ambulance attendant.

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Episode 10

When the Wise Men Appeared

Mon, Dec 19, 1955

By walking down the street dressed as one of the wise men, a young boy inadvertently changes the meaning of Christmas for several people.

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Episode 11

Ordeal at Yuba Gap

Mon, Dec 26, 195530 mins

One of the worst blizzards of the century traps more than 200 terror-stricken train passengers at Donner Pass in January 1952.

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Episode 12

In the Eye of the Hurricane

Mon, Jan 2, 1956

The captain of a small freighter with a disgruntled crew is caught in a hurricane off the Florida coast.

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Episode 13

Why the Choir Was Late

Mon, Jan 9, 1956

Each member of a small-town church choir was delayed en route to the weekly choir practice. If they been on time, they would have been in the church when it was blown to pieces.

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Episode 14

The Man Who Beat Death

Mon, Jan 16, 1956

Tennis player William Talbert reenacts his own fight against diabetes.

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Episode 15

A Bell for Okinawa

Mon, Jan 23, 1956

A doctor in a leper colony decides his patients need a church bell.

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Episode 16

Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches

Mon, Jan 30, 195630 mins

Tom Jeffords hopes to bring peace to the Arizona Territory by convincing Cochise, the Apache Indian Chief, and General Howard to meet for peace talks.

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Episode 17

The Mystery of Minnie

Mon, Feb 6, 1956

Though Minnie Garrett has been dead many years, her unique bequest makes it possible for an author to complete a novel and effect an adoption.

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Episode 18

Texas in New York

Mon, Feb 13, 1956

A Texas schoolteacher comes to work in a tough New York neighborhood and tries to drill some good sense, as well as good citizenship, into her class of hoodlums.

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Episode 19

Return from Oblivion

Mon, Feb 20, 195630 mins

A businessman develops a persecution complex.

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Episode 20

The Case of the Uncertain Hand

Mon, Feb 27, 1956

Attorney Nancy Drake (Marguerite Chapman) must use her handwriting expertise along with gum shoe detective work to exonerate Ben Williams (Aaron Spelling) and Anne Williams (Helene Santley) from a bank heist charge.

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Episode 21

Lost, Strayed, and Lonely

Mon, Mar 5, 195630 mins

Feeling unloved and unwanted when his juvenile projects bring only annoyance from his father, a 10 year-old runs away from home.

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Episode 22

Night Court

Mon, Mar 12, 1956

A judge, noted for his compassion toward the poor who appear before him, has little to show financially for his years on the bench. He is highly tempted by a lucrative offer from the head of a powerful law firm.

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Episode 23

No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache

Mon, Mar 19, 1956

A lovesick West Point cadet breaks a standing rule: he has grown a mustache.

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Episode 24

The Trigger Finger Clue

Mon, Mar 26, 195630 mins

Four criminals rob a bank, commit murder and take two clerks with them as hostages.

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Episode 25

The Secret Weapon of Joe Smith

Mon, Apr 2, 195630 mins

A reporter shares his apartment with a belligerent USSR delegate to the UN. He intends to "kill him with kindness."

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Episode 26

Courage

Mon, Apr 9, 1956

When a young man's courage is questioned due to an incident that occurred at collage, his father relates a story that happened to him when he was young, via the lessons he learned from his own father about standing up for what is right.

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Episode 27

The Woman Who Changed Her Mind

Mon, Apr 16, 1956

A movie producer's marriage to a dumb show girl (Marilyn Erskine) is jeopardized when she decides to get an education.

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Episode 28

Uncle Sam's C Men

Mon, Apr 23, 1956

Agents from the U.S. Commerce Department get a tip that a manufacturer is illegally shipping aircraft parts to Communist East Europe.

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Episode 29

Miss Victoria

Mon, Apr 30, 1956

The true account of the heroism of a British woman on a cargo ship in the Atlantic during World War 2.

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Episode 30

The Old, Old Story

Mon, May 7, 1956

An Army recruit and his girl are determined to marry, despite parental objections on both sides.

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Episode 31

Britain's Most Baffling Murder Case

Mon, May 14, 195625 mins

When the wife of a mild-mannered insurance salesman is murdered, the police immediately suspect the husband, William Herbert Wallace.

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Episode 32

Down on the Tennessee

Mon, May 21, 195630 mins

A young Northerner gets a job as first mate on a Tennessee River cargo boat, but discovers that the pilot is deaf, the fireman is a drunk and the cook is up to something shady.

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Episode 33

The Man Who Dreamt Winners

Mon, May 28, 1956

A Harvard graduate student discovers that his dreams reveal winning horses for future races.

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Episode 34

The General's Escape

Mon, Jun 4, 1956

General Henri Giraud must escape from a Nazi prison and return to the French Resistance, avoiding the Gestapo along the way.

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Episode 35

The Gigantic Bank Note Swindle

Mon, Jun 11, 1956

A Portuguese con man buys a bank with counterfeit funds. Based upon actual events.

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Episode 36

Go Fight City Hall

Mon, Jun 18, 195630 mins

An angry taxpayer in a suburban New York town finally gets fed up with the crooked and incompetent politicians running the local government and sets out to do something about it. However, the political machine doesn't scare so easily and they begin to make life miserable for the man and his family.

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Episode 37

Family Reunion USA

Mon, Jun 25, 1956

An office pools it's resources to bring the family of janitor Spyros Patros to the U.S. from Greece. Spyros has not seen his family in 10 years.

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Episode 38

The Only Way Out

Mon, Jul 2, 1956

The true story of a German painter whose zealous efforts to escape from a Communist prison encouraged his guard to flee with him.

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Episode 39

The Smuggler

Mon, Jul 9, 1956

A young Norwegian sailor on a ship bound for San Francisco runs afoul of a gang smuggling opium from Asia, which threatens to kill him if he doesn't smuggle drugs into the country for them when he lands in San Francisco.

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