TV Reader's Digest

Traveling westward in a covered wagon train, the parents of six children meet their death. Their 13-year-old son is now head of the family and leads his siblings on the rest of the journey.

A Hollywood producer who's in need of cash is collecting insurance money on his forged collection of great artwork.

A 17-year-old cadet at the Royal Naval College is discharged for stealing in the dramatization of a famous British court case.

The Communist Chinese government in Beijing arrests and imprisons American English teacher/Presbyterian missionary John Hayes, claiming he is a spy. They attempt to break his spirit through starvation, solitary confinement, and sleep deprivation. When facing the so-called court headed by a supposed friend, he warns that they too will be betrayed by the Communist leaders they're now serving.

Young men wanting to serve in the U. S. Submarine Serivce endure a rigid program of training and discipline.

The true story of how a pirate forced the Pilgrims to land at Plymouth is dramatized.

The real life adventures of a young intern who spends a day working on a big city ambulance.

A young boy, dressed as one of the Three Wise Men, is being taken to school for a Christmas pageant. When the car dies, he head out on foot. Singing "Come All Ye Faithful" and dressed in a robe and crown, he brings about some small miracles along the way.

Based on actual events from December 1952, massive snowstorms trap the locomotive "City of San Francisco" and its passengers in the infamous Donner Pass.

A cargo vessel sets out from Florida, heading into the eye of a hurricane.

Each member of the choir of a small town Nebraska church were running late for practice. It proved a Divine case of multiple tardiness since the church was destroyed by a twister five minutes before practice time.

The true story of tennis star Billy Talbert's battle with diabetes is dramatized.

Dr. Van Scorebrand searches the world over for a bell that will bring faith and hope to the patients at a leprosy hospital in Okinawa.

Former Civil War leader General Oliver Otis Howard is sent by President Grant to meet with the Chief of the Apaches, Cochise, and end a 12-year war.

A woman's bequest continues to benefit the residents of her hometown years after her death.

A new teacher gets her first job in New York City and finds a classroom full of thugs and hoodlums. She moves away to return 29 years later and finds that very little has changed.

A businessman begins to crack from the pressure of running his construction business. He becomes unjustifiably suspicious of his partner.

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.

After an argument with his studious father, a sensitive 10-year-old boy feels unwanted and unloved and runs away from home.

A night court judge uses compassion in making decisions on the varied people who parade through his courtroom.

A West Point enrollee faces punishment for breaking the one of the Academy's more important rules.

The FBI is relentless in pursuing the robbers who committed a $250,000 heist.

Joe Smith, a newspaper reporter hired to cover the United Nations, decides to work over a rude Russian delegate using kindness.

A man protects a German-born shopkeeper from a crazed mob during the height of anti-German bigotry during World War I.

A movie producer marries a gorgeous but dumb showgirl. Their relationship runs into trouble when she belatedly decides to get an education.

The work of the Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Enforcement is profiled.

A British woman acts heroically on a cargo ship during World War II.

Two teen-aged lovers announce their plans to marry and immediately face opposition from their parents.

Despite having an air-tight alibi, William Wallace, a sheepish husband, is brought to trial for the murder of his shrewish wife. When Wallace's union is asked for financial help, they first stage a mock trial before deciding to back him. The real-life jury, however, is not so easily convinced.

A young first mate on a Tennessee riverboat deals with an unweildly crew of oddballs and misfits.

A Harvard grad student's dreams reveal the winning horses in upcoming races. He fights the overpowering urge to sell this skill for riches.

French General Henri Giraund plans a daring escape from a Nazi prision in this dramatization of a true story.

A smooth-talking con man buys and operates the Bank of Portugal using five million dollars in counterfeit currency.

A broken water pipe is the straw that breaks the camel's back for an New York taxpayer. He forms a citizens' committee and takes on corrupt officials in the local government.

A Greek janitor struggles to raise money so his family can join him in America. His co-workers at a U.S. Naval depot come to his aid.

An painter being held as an East German political prisoner plans an escape from a Communist prision, and his guard chooses to flee with him.

An oriential drug ring demands a Norwegian sailor help smuggle opium into the United States.