TV Reader's Digest is a 30-minute American television anthology drama series, which aired on ABC from January 17, 1955, to July 9, 1956.

Based on articles that appeared in Reader's Digest magazine,[1] the episodes were true stories that were varied in their themes, plots, and content.

[2] Some of the actors who were cast in the episodes include Chuck Connors, Peter Graves, Lee Marvin,[3] Claude Akins, Leon Askin, Jean Byron, John Howard, Vivi Janiss (as Mary Todd Lincoln in "How Chance Made Lincoln President"), Francis McDonald, Martin Milner, Jerry Paris, Gene Raymond, Max Showalter, and Michael Winkelman.

[3] A review of the premiere episode in the trade publication Variety said that Erskine "appears to have successfully translated that human interest element that's made the Reader's Digest a literary phenom into television terms.

[10] J. P. Shanley, writing in The New York Times, found the December 5, 1955, episode ("The Sad Death of a Hero", about the 1925 Scopes trial) to be "an uninspired presentation.