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TV Reader's Digest 1955 - 1956
TV Reader's Digest was a filmed
anthology series that featured dramatic stories based on articles
that
appeared in Reader's Digest magazine. The episodes, based
on true stories, were varied in their themes,
plots and content.
Stories included crime, heroism, mystery, romance and human
interest.
Its theme music was "Polonaise" from Act III of Eugene
Onegin, an Opera by Tchaikovsky
The series was hosted by Hugh
Riley and sponsored by the Studebaker-Packard Corporation.
The
series was canceled when the automaker ran into financial troubles.
We have 11 Very rare Episodes on 3 Dvd's - Some episodes have
the original commerials
DVD 1
France's Greatest Detective (aired 5-16-55)
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.
Honeymoon In
Mexico (aired 4-18-55) - Richard Long & Merry Anders
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.
If I Were Rich (aired 11-28-55) - Jim Backus & Hellen
Parrish
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.
DVD 2
The
Brainwashing Of John Hayes (aired 11-07-55) - Vincent Price
The Communist Chinese government arrests and imprisons American
English teacher/Presbyterian
missionary John Hayes, claiming he
is a spy.
The Great Armored Car Robbery (aired
4-25-55) - Alex Nichol & Dorthy Green
The man who
master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to
your health
Case Of The Uncertain Hand (aired
2-27-56) - Marguerite Chapman & Aaron Spelling
A woman
private detective, employed to defend a couple accused of grand
larceny, tries to prove
that the handwriting on a bank deposit
slip is not that of the accused wife.
My First
Bullfight (aired 6-20-55) - Jack Kelly & George Huerta
An 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.
DVD 3
A
Matter Of Life & Death (aired 2-28-55) - Bobby Driscoll & Minor
Watson
A 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.
Anatomy Of A Graft (aired 5-30-55) - Gene
Barry & Howard St. John
A naive attorney enters
politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately,
others in positions of
power do not share his idealism.
The General's Escape (aired 6-4-56)
During WWII
French General Henri Giraund plans a daring escape from a Nazi
prision in this dramatization of
a true story.
Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson (aired 1-31-55) - Douglass Scott &
Martha Montgomery
Author Robert Louis Stevenson and his
wife search for a healthy environment as he battles tuberculosis.
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