TV Reader's Digest

This episode is based on the true story of the "Shooting Sheriff", Jim Roberts, who comes out of retirement to investigate a string of bank robberies.

A soon-to-deliver woman needs a doctor, but a bad storm and a train wreck conspire to keep him away. The father improvises a solution.

Author Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife search for a healthy environment as she battles tuberculosis.

This episode looks at five events which resulted in Abraham Lincoln's sucessful election.

A middle-aged man, believing himself to be a failure, reviews three crucial moments from his past.

Louie Meyer has his beloved bus declared state property by the East German police. This prompts his attempted escape from the country.

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.

The infamous Blackbeard the Pirate meets his demise at the hands of Lt. Robert Maynard in a 1718 battle off the coast of North Carolina.

At the start of the twentieth century, detective William Burns helps the Secret Service find the counterfeiters of hundred-dollar bills that look just a little too good.

Pocahontas is the "great lady"in this story of the two men she loved: tobacco planter John Rolfe and Captain John Smith.

A private eye uses some unusual techniques to track down a girl's murderer; he's hired to manufacture clues.

A passenger plane on a flight from Bangkok to Hong Kong is shot down. The survivors fight for their lives while floating in the China Sea in a lifeboat. This episode is a dramatization of a true story.

In 1911, gamblers kidnap New York Yankee's picher Charlie Faust, the man responsible for their winning streak, to keep him from playing.

A Texas man and his bride from Boston celebrate their honeymoon by moving to a small Mexican to paint. Their effort to help an injured kid results in them becoming the child's parents. Before they know what's happened, they've become mother and father to ten orphaned children.

The man who master-minded a crime finds that "going straight" can be harmful to your health.

This episode dramatizizes the true story of Captain Henrik Kurt Carlsen and “The Flying Enterprise.” In 1952, the freighter encountered rough seas out of England, causing the ship to list severely. With their lifeboats lost, the captain refuses to leave until all the passengers and crew have been rescued.

The life of composer Stephen Foster is told, from his days as a bookkeeper though his early success and tragic death.

Alphonse Bertillon revolutionized the French Police's investigations by implementing scientific methods. His measuring and studying of bones and body features is credited with convicting over seven thousand criminals. His institution of fingerprinting was even more successful at capturing criminals.

A man arranges for a boatload of women to travel from New York to the wild frontier town of Seattle. The purpose of the voyage was simple: women were needed for marriage.

A naive attorney enters politics, intending to practice clean government. Unfortunately, others in positions of power do not share his idealism.

Because he takes an interest in his passengers' lives, cabbie Joey White becomes involved in a maternity case and a kidnapping.

A native interpreter is assigned to an American officer during the Korean War.

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.

The methods he's used to send innocent people to prison begins to bother an assistant state's attorney in Communist East Germany.

The personal problems in the lives of the surgeon and his assistants are revealed under the stress and strain of a delicate heart operation on a 16-year-old boy.

A rich French baron and his wife are swindled out of money in an uranium scam.