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 - The Wayward Saint
Release Date: 1956-08-30 -
Episode 2 - Road of Fear
Release Date: 1956-09-06 -
Episode 3 - The Top Rung
Release Date: 1956-09-13 -
Episode 4 - Mildred Pierce
Release Date: 1956-09-20After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
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Episode 5 - Only Yesterday
Release Date: 1956-09-27 -
Episode 6 - Now, Voyager
Release Date: 1956-10-04Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
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Episode 7 - The Guilty
Release Date: 1956-10-11Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.
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Episode 8 - Flamingo Road
Release Date: 1956-10-18A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.
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Episode 9 - Because of You
Release Date: 1956-10-25A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
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Episode 10 - You Can't Escape Forever
Release Date: 1956-11-01A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the hottest story of the day.
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Episode 11 - Jezebel
Release Date: 1956-11-08A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
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Episode 12 - The Glass Web
Release Date: 1956-11-15A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
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Episode 13 - The Gay Sisters
Release Date: 1956-11-22Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.
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Episode 14 - Old Acquaintance
Release Date: 1956-11-29Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
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Episode 15 - Christmas in Connecticut
Release Date: 1956-12-13A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
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Episode 16 - Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue
Release Date: 1956-12-20Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.
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Episode 17 - Michael and Mary
Release Date: 1956-12-27After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.
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Episode 18 - It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Release Date: 1957-01-03A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
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Episode 19 - Just Across the Street
Release Date: 1957-01-10 -
Episode 20 - To Have and Have Not
Release Date: 1957-01-17During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
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Episode 21 - Vice Squad
Release Date: 1957-01-24When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones.
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Episode 22 - One Sunday Afternoon
Release Date: 1957-01-31Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
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Episode 23 - The Undesirable
Release Date: 1957-02-07 -
Episode 24 - Dark Victory
Release Date: 1957-02-14A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
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Episode 25 - One Way Street
Release Date: 1957-02-21After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
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Episode 26 - Possessed
Release Date: 1957-02-28After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
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Episode 27 - One Way Passage
Release Date: 1957-03-07A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
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Episode 28 - Eileen
Release Date: 1957-03-14Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.
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Episode 29 - The Great Lie
Release Date: 1957-03-21After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
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Episode 30 - The Black Angel
Release Date: 1957-03-28When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
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Episode 31 - Adam Had Four Sons
Release Date: 1957-04-04Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.
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Episode 32 - The Taggart Light
Release Date: 1957-04-18 -
Episode 33 - The Man Who Played God
Release Date: 1957-04-25After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
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Episode 34 - The Hard Way
Release Date: 1957-05-02Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
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Episode 35 - Stand-In for Murder
Release Date: 1957-05-09A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.
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Episode 36 - Death Do Us Part
Release Date: 1957-05-16 -
Episode 37 - The Armed Venus
Release Date: 1957-05-23The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.
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Episode 38 - Paris Calling
Release Date: 1957-05-30 -
Episode 39 - Payment in Kind
Release Date: 1957-06-06 -
Episode 40 - Design for November
Release Date: 1957-06-13 -
Episode 41 - Edge of Doubt
Release Date: 1957-06-20 -
Episode 42 - The Latch Key
Release Date: 1957-06-27A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the passengers on the bus unfold the story.
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Episode 43 - Who is Picasso?
Release Date: 1957-07-04 -
Episode 44 - The Softest Music
Release Date: 1957-07-11 -
Episode 45 - Summer Return
Release Date: 1957-07-18 -
Episode 46 - High Tension
Release Date: 1957-07-25The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.
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Episode 47 - Dark Hammock
Release Date: 1957-08-01 -
Episode 48 - Barren Harvest
Release Date: 1957-08-08A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.
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Episode 49 - Judge Not
Release Date: 1957-08-15A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.
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Episode 50 - Diagnosis - Homicide
Release Date: 1957-08-22An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.
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Episode 51 - Old Witch, Old Witch
Release Date: 1957-09-05A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.
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Episode 52 - The Last Act
Release Date: 1957-09-12A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young French girl he is in love with.