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