TV ShowEnded

Lux Video Theatre

6.3 / 10
1950
7 seasons
337 episodes
DramaComedy

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

    02-10-195060m

    Pretty 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

    09-10-195060m

    An aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue roles.

  • Ep 3

    3.Shadow on the Heart

    16-10-195060m

    Coast 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

    23-10-195060m

    A 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

    30-10-195060m

    When 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

    06-11-195060m

    An 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

    13-11-195060m

    A 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

    20-11-195060m

    A 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

    27-11-195060m

    Story 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

    04-12-195060m

    A 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

    11-12-195060m

    Marie 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

    18-12-195060m

    The story is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where young sweethearts parents' try to break up their romance.

  • Ep 13

    13.A Child is Born

    25-12-195060m

    The 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

    01-01-195160m

    A 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

    08-01-195160m

    A 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

    15-01-195160m

    The 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

    22-01-195160m

    A 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

    29-01-195160m

    Story of a sideshow barker with a yen for high society after he meets a society gal out slumming.

  • Ep 19

    19.The Choir Rehearsal

    05-02-195160m

    It 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

    12-02-195160m

    Humble 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

    19-02-195160m

    Margaret, 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

    26-02-195160m

    Due 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

    05-03-195160m

    A 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

    12-03-195160m

    Story 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

    19-03-195160m

    A 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

    26-03-195160m

    Tony 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

    02-04-195160m

    A young soldier, about to leave for war, is "adopted" by an elderly lady with the same surname.

  • Ep 28

    28.Column Item

    09-04-195160m

    Sophie 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

    16-04-195160m

    Setting 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

    23-04-195160m

    A 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

    30-04-195160m

    A 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

    07-05-195160m

    Set 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

    14-05-195160m

    A thriller about a woman who believes she is a cripple.

  • Ep 34

    34.Wild Geese

    21-05-195160m

    A 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

    28-05-195160m

    An 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

    04-06-195160m

    A 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

    11-06-195160m

    A 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

    18-06-195160m

    A psychological comedy about an advertising girl and a psychiatrist.

  • Ep 39

    39.The Promise

    25-06-195160m

    Story 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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