TV Reader's Digest
TV Reader's Digest | |
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Genre | Drama, Anthology |
Directed by | William Beaudine John Brahm Peter Godfrey (director) Phil Karlson Arnold Laven Ted Post |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Executive producer | Harry Joe Brown |
Production locations | Los Angeles, California, United States |
Running time | 25 minutes |
Release | |
Original network | ABC |
Picture format | 1.33:1 monochrome |
Audio format | monaural |
Original release | January 17, 1955 July 9, 1956 | –
TV Reader's Digest is the title of a 30-minute American television anthology drama series, which aired on the ABC from 1955 to 1956. Its theme music was "Polonaise" from Act III of Eugene Onegin.
Based on articles that appeared in Reader's Digest magazine, the episodes based on true stories that were varied in their themes, plots, and content. Themes included crime, heroism, mystery, romance, and human interest. Episode writers included Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, Cleveland Amory, and Frank Gruber.
Some of the actors who were cast in the episodes include Claude Akins, Leon Askin, Jean Byron, Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, John Howard, Vivi Janiss (as Mary Todd Lincoln in "How Chance Made Lincoln President"), Lee Marvin, Francis McDonald, Martin Milner, Jerry Paris, Gene Raymond, Max Showalter, and Michael Winkelman. Clint Eastwood made his first Western appearance as Lt. Wilson in the episode "Cochise, Greatest of the Apaches", which aired January 30, 1956.
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- 1950s American drama television series
- 1950s American anthology television series
- 1955 American television series debuts
- 1956 American television series endings
- American Broadcasting Company original programming
- Black-and-white American television shows
- Reader's Digest
- Television shows based on magazines
- United States television show stubs