Lux Video Theatre
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.
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- Ep 1
1.Saturday's Children
02-10-195060mPretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one...
- Ep 2
2.Rosalind
09-10-195060mAn aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue roles.
- Ep 3
3.Shadow on the Heart
16-10-195060mCoast Guard Seaman Red Harrington on duty at Cape Cod, meets a pretty girl named Stormy Denton. Only after he has developed a fondness for her does he discover that she is blind. B...
- Ep 4
4.The Valient
23-10-195060mA convicted murderer steadfastly refuses to reveal his real identity leaves the warden and prison chaplain with no luck in penetrating the man's silence. A girl who thinks he might...
- Ep 5
5.Mine to Have
30-10-195060mWhen her husband is killed in trying to elude police, she is imprisoned as his accomplice. She discovers that she is going to have a baby and after the child is born, that she must...
- Ep 6
6.That Wonderful Night
06-11-195060mAn English girl is thoroughly unimpressed by winning a date with an American Movie idol she never heard of. The date is the idea of a press-agent trying to stir up interest in the...
- Ep 7
7.Gallant Lady
13-11-195060mA woman discovers that her husband, who disappeared seven years ago, was suffering amnesia and is now happily living with a new wife and their child. She must decide whether to dis...
- Ep 8
8.Goodnight, Please
20-11-195060mA besieged bank executive decides that the high pressure business isn't worth the aggravation. Fed up with questions he simply went to bed.
- Ep 9
9.The Token
27-11-195060mStory of a fiery girl with a great love for the sea, during the days of American's great clipper fleets.
- Ep 10
10.To Thine Own Self
04-12-195060mA stock broker plans to rob his clients. After emptying the safe, he reserves a train compartment under an assumed name, shaves off his moustache and removes all marks of his ident...
- Ep 11
11.The Lovely Menace
11-12-195060mMarie Overbrook, is a young French widow of an American soldier, who is suddenly cast in the midst of high society. Living with her father-in-law, Marie is invited to a party where...
- Ep 12
12.Down Bayou Du Bac
18-12-195060mThe story is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where young sweethearts parents' try to break up their romance.
- Ep 13
13.A Child is Born
25-12-195060mThe child born in none other than Jesus Christ and the event that was to rock the world is seen through the eyes of an innkeeper and his wife.
- Ep 14
14.A Well-Remembered Voice
01-01-195160mA husband and wife are drifting apart because one doesn't think the other is sad enough about their son's death.
- Ep 15
15.The Purple Doorknob
08-01-195160mA spirited old woman hopes for a little excitement in her quiet life in a small New England town, and gets it when a famous actress knocks at her door one night with a strange requ...
- Ep 16
16.Purple and Fine Linen
15-01-195160mThe plot concerns an elderly woman beggar who picks a man's pocket on a London street, persuades her victim not to turn her over to the police and leads him into a series of advent...
- Ep 17
17.Manhattan Pastorale
22-01-195160mA spinsterish young schoolteacher finds an abundance of excitement in a visit to the Big City. Her adventures beging when she finds $30,000 in a taxi and turns it over to the polic...
- Ep 18
18.The Shiny People
29-01-195160mStory of a sideshow barker with a yen for high society after he meets a society gal out slumming.
- Ep 19
19.The Choir Rehearsal
05-02-195160mIt takes place in the small New England town of Tuckerton during the early years of the nineteenth century. Esmeralda is expelled from the church coral group because she sings a tu...
- Ep 20
20.Abe Lincoln in Illinois
12-02-195160mHumble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
- Ep 21
21.To the Lovely Margaret
19-02-195160mMargaret, who lives in the home of her uncle, Professor Adams, is rarely invited to parties or dances. To her surprise she receives an invitation to the important Junior Prom from...
- Ep 22
22.The Irish Drifter
26-02-195160mDue to his mother and father who are continually fighting and threatening to get divorced, little Robbie Crosley decides to run away. Packing a knapsack he starts for New York wher...
- Ep 23
23.Not Guilty of Much
05-03-195160mA young tenant of a Manhattan apartment house spends her working days in a department store. Kitty is in love with a young lawyer named George who lives three flights above her apa...
- Ep 24
24.Long Distance
12-03-195160mStory of a woman trying against desperate odds to save her husband from unjust execution. Uncovering new evidence that will prove his innocence she tries in a series of time-consum...
- Ep 25
25.No Shoes
19-03-195160mA truck driver is awaiting the birth of his first child and certain that it will be a boy, since all his plans for the child are based on that assumption. He is crushed when a nurs...
- Ep 26
26.The Treasure Trove
26-03-195160mTony is the best friend of Bob and Hilda Devinish. He visits their home in London every weekend and spends his vacations with the young couple. One day while helpin to weed the gar...
- Ep 27
27.The Old Lady Shows Her Medals
02-04-195160mA young soldier, about to leave for war, is "adopted" by an elderly lady with the same surname.
- Ep 28
28.Column Item
09-04-195160mSophie Claire is telling one of her fellow press agents that the worst has come to pass, she is in love with her client, Eli Norman. At that moment she receives a phone call from N...
- Ep 29
29.Heritage on Wimpole Street
16-04-195160mSetting of the play is the home in England of Edward Barrett, father of the famous poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. After she had run away to marry Robert Browning, Barrett refused...
- Ep 30
30.Hit and Run
23-04-195160mA man who has run over a child, decides to hide from the police. However, he develops a persecution complex and reaches the point where he is terrified by every doorknock. Whe he c...
- Ep 31
31.The Speech
30-04-195160mA small toen doctor is called to New York to accept an award as the outstanding country doctor of the year. He leaves his home in Bowlegs, Okla., with his wife to visit the big cit...
- Ep 32
32.The Sire de Maletroit's Door
07-05-195160mSet in 15th century France, the story deals with a young man who flees from the Royal Guard after trying to avenge the death of a friends. He takes refuge in the home of the Sire d...
- Ep 33
33.Local Storm
14-05-195160mA thriller about a woman who believes she is a cripple.
- Ep 34
34.Wild Geese
21-05-195160mA young and beautiful school mistress receives a strange visit from an Englishman who introduces himself as Cyril. The traveler tells Jane that he has come two thousand miles to bu...
- Ep 35
35.Sweet Sorrow
28-05-195160mAn important Broadway actress has journeyed to the town of Oxford, Vermont to play the lead in a summer stock presentation. She is surprised that the townfolk are unfriendly and gr...
- Ep 36
36.Consider the Lillies
04-06-195160mA struggling young authoress caught between her own puritanical inclinations and a publisher's efforts to please the public's fancy by injecting "spice" into her manuscript.
- Ep 37
37.Weather for Today
11-06-195160mA young Broadway producer is having casting problems on his forthcoming play. Although the deadline for casting is approaching he has just about given up and is resting at his Stat...
- Ep 38
38.Inside Story
18-06-195160mA psychological comedy about an advertising girl and a psychiatrist.
- Ep 39
39.The Promise
25-06-195160mStory of a sadistic tycoon ruthlessly dominates his wife. Although crippled by an accident, he continues to run his business from his bedside, bulldozing and thundering to his empl...
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