Overview of 'Lux Video Theatre' Season 6

Episode 1 - The Enchanted Cottage

Release Date: 1955-09-29

A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.

Episode 2 - The Amazing Mrs. Halliday

Release Date: 1955-10-06

An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.

Episode 3 - The Two Dollar Bettor

Release Date: 1955-10-13

A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to take money from the bank when his funds run low.

Episode 4 - The Human Jungle

Release Date: 1955-10-20

Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an ...

Episode 5 - The Lady Gambles

Release Date: 1955-10-27

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.

Episode 6 - Appointment for Love

Release Date: 1955-11-03

Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.

Episode 7 - Bedtime Story

Release Date: 1955-11-10

Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play.

Episode 8 - The Hunted

Release Date: 1955-11-17

An innocent girl is sent to prison by her policeman sweetheart who believes her guilty of the crime. When she is released on parole, the girl swears vengeance on those responsible for her undeserved punishment.

Episode 9 - Miss Susie Slagle's

Release Date: 1955-11-24

Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students.

Episode 10 - The Web

Release Date: 1955-12-01

An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.

Episode 11 - Suspicion

Release Date: 1955-12-08

A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

Episode 12 - Branded

Release Date: 1955-12-15

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Episode 13 - Holiday Affair

Release Date: 1955-12-22

Connie Ennis, widowed mother to young son Timmy, has avoided accepting the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend Carl. While he patiently awaits her saying "yes," Connie clings to the memory of her late husband. By chance, a department store salesman enters her life and complicates matters when the two quickly fall in love. With two marriage proposals on the table, Connie is forced to make a final choice.

Episode 14 - Cover-Up

Release Date: 1955-12-29

An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.

Episode 15 - Hands Across the Table

Release Date: 1956-01-05

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

Episode 16 - The Unfaithful

Release Date: 1956-01-12

Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.

Episode 17 - Ivy

Release Date: 1956-01-19

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Episode 18 - Witness to Murder

Release Date: 1956-01-26

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

Episode 19 - The Green Promise

Release Date: 1956-02-02

A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His three daughters live on the farm with him, and the oldest one, a teenager, has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father's expectations for her to continue working the farm.

Episode 20 - The Star

Release Date: 1956-02-09

A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.

Episode 21 - Night Song

Release Date: 1956-02-16

Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. Attracted but spurned, Cathy feigns blindness herself to get past Dan's bitter facade, scheming to get him to the doctor who can restore his sight...and to Carnegie Hall. But her actions bring about several twists in their relationship...

Episode 22 - Hired Wife

Release Date: 1956-02-23

Kendal, a secretary, helps to her boss Stephen Dexter out of a legal problem by becoming his wife. What was supposed to be temporary becomes something more after many obstacles.

Episode 23 - Here Comes the Groom

Release Date: 1956-03-01

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

Episode 24 - Criminal Code

Release Date: 1956-03-08

After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.

Episode 25 - Little Boy Lost

Release Date: 1956-03-15

A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.

Episode 26 - The Steel Trap

Release Date: 1956-03-22

A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on the following Monday. He and his wife, who doesn't know what he has done, then take a flight to Brazil. After some difficulties, they get as far as New Orleans, where his wife discovers the reason for their flight and what he has done. She leaves him and returns home. He is now alone with his conscience, and doesn't know if he can get back and return the ...

Episode 27 - It Started With Eve

Release Date: 1956-03-29

A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.

Episode 28 - Tabloid

Release Date: 1956-04-05

A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.

Episode 29 - Temptation

Release Date: 1956-04-12

In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcée with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed.

Episode 30 - Betrayed

Release Date: 1956-04-19

A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder.

Episode 31 - Impact

Release Date: 1956-04-26

An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.

Episode 32 - Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Release Date: 1956-05-03

Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father's shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find...

Episode 33 - The Night of January Sixteenth

Release Date: 1956-05-10

The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's board of directors. Faulkner is (presumably) murdered, and Kit is falsely accused of the murder. Steve assumes the job of clearing her name.

Episode 34 - Princess O'Rourke

Release Date: 1956-05-17

A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.

Episode 35 - Millie's Daughter

Release Date: 1956-05-24

Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert Lattimer, a Boston bank official in charge of her estate, follows her and, while trying to persuade her to return to Boston, falls in love with her. Millie, a social secretary in charge of the funds of a Palm Beach charity, 'borrows' from the fund, with intentions of paying the money back using a check she is expecting. When the check is stopped, Millie self-reports her embezzlement to the ...