Lux Video Theatre (1950)
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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Episode 1 - To Each His Own
Release Date: 1954-08-26An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
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Episode 2 - Welcome, Stranger
Release Date: 1954-09-02 -
Episode 3 - Christmas in July
Release Date: 1954-09-09An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.
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Episode 4 - Hold Back the Dawn
Release Date: 1954-09-16Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
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Episode 5 - The Heiress
Release Date: 1954-09-23A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
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Episode 6 - Meet Jo Cathart
Release Date: 1954-09-30 -
Episode 7 - The Mansion
Release Date: 1954-10-07Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.
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Episode 8 - A Visit from Evelyn
Release Date: 1954-10-14 -
Episode 9 - An Angel Went AWOL
Release Date: 1954-10-21 -
Episode 10 - September Tide
Release Date: 1954-10-28 -
Episode 11 - Imperfect Lady
Release Date: 1954-11-04 -
Episode 12 - Five Star Final
Release Date: 1954-11-11The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.
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Episode 13 - Captive City
Release Date: 1954-11-18 -
Episode 14 - A Medal for Benny
Release Date: 1954-11-25Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
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Episode 15 - Craig's Wife
Release Date: 1954-12-02A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
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Episode 16 - Ladies in Retirement
Release Date: 1954-12-09The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
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Episode 17 - Double Indemnity
Release Date: 1954-12-16An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
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Episode 18 - September Affair
Release Date: 1954-12-23An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
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Episode 19 - The Chase
Release Date: 1954-12-30Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
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Episode 20 - Sunset Boulevard
Release Date: 1955-01-06A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
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Episode 21 - Penny Serenade
Release Date: 1955-01-13A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
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Episode 22 - Love Letters
Release Date: 1955-01-20 -
Episode 23 - So Evil My Love
Release Date: 1955-01-27Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
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Episode 24 - One Foot in Heaven
Release Date: 1955-02-03Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
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Episode 25 - A Bell for Adano
Release Date: 1955-02-10Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
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Episode 26 - The Copperhead
Release Date: 1955-02-17Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
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Episode 27 - So Dark the Night
Release Date: 1955-02-24A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?
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Episode 28 - Casablanca
Release Date: 1955-03-03Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Episode 29 - The Life of Emile Zola
Release Date: 1955-03-10The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
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Episode 30 - It Grows on Trees
Release Date: 1955-03-17What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
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Episode 31 - Shadow of a Doubt
Release Date: 1955-03-24A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
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Episode 32 - My Name is Julia Ross
Release Date: 1955-03-31Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...
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Episode 33 - The Browning Version
Release Date: 1955-04-07Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
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Episode 34 - No Sad Songs for Me
Release Date: 1955-04-14Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...
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Episode 35 - An Act of Murder
Release Date: 1955-04-21A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
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Episode 36 - The Great McGinty
Release Date: 1955-04-28Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
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Episode 37 - Remember the Night
Release Date: 1955-05-05Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?
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Episode 38 - Eight Iron Men
Release Date: 1955-05-12Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.
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Episode 39 - Make Way for Tomorrow
Release Date: 1955-05-19An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
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Episode 40 - Thunder on the Hill
Release Date: 1955-05-26Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
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Episode 41 - The Suspect
Release Date: 1955-06-02A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.
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Episode 42 - Lightning Strikes Twice
Release Date: 1955-06-09Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
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Episode 43 - The Inside Story
Release Date: 1955-06-16When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.
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Episode 44 - Forever Female
Release Date: 1955-06-23An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.
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Episode 45 - Last Year's Snow
Release Date: 1955-06-30 -
Episode 46 - The Creaking Gate
Release Date: 1955-07-07 -
Episode 47 - Dark Tribute
Release Date: 1955-07-14Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.
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Episode 48 - Desparate Glory
Release Date: 1955-07-21 -
Episode 49 - The Bride Came C.O.D.
Release Date: 1955-07-28A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
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Episode 50 - The Nine-Penny Dream
Release Date: 1955-08-04A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.
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Episode 51 - Perilous Deception
Release Date: 1955-08-11A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.
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Episode 52 - Nor All Your Tears
Release Date: 1955-08-18 -
Episode 53 - June Bride
Release Date: 1955-08-25A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
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Episode 54 - The Last Confession
Release Date: 1955-09-01 -
Episode 55 - The Happy Man
Release Date: 1955-09-08A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.
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Episode 56 - The Lucky Finger
Release Date: 1955-09-15 -
Episode 57 - The Eyes of Father Tomasino
Release Date: 1955-09-22When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.