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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.
Episode 53 : The Magnolia Touch
August. 25,1952
A married Dixie gentleman smitten by a young Southern belle now living in Manhattan invites him to her apartment for an old homestyle dinner.
Episode 52 : You Be the Bad Guy
August. 18,1952
Detective lieutenant Dan Shelvin is torn between the sense of duty and justice and his devotion to his family after discovering his younger brother in a hijacking racket.
Episode 51 : The Orchard
August. 11,1952
A tragic rural American life involving a family of itinerant cherry pickers.
Episode 50 : Two Make Four
August. 04,1952
Story about two orphans in search of foster parents.
Episode 49 : Two Pale Horsemen
July. 28,1952
Story about a cynical artist and a lonesome teacher who seek to escape from reality by going to an Arctic village.
Episode 48 : The Brigadier
July. 21,1952
The play deals with a spy in Northern ranks during Sherman's march thru Georgia.
Episode 47 : Son Wanted
July. 14,1952
A movie-struck youngster tries to palm off a youthful vagabond as the missing son of an aged woman.
Episode 46 : The Lady from Washington
July. 07,1952
A political career woman is forced to choose between marriage or becoming the first woman to run for the vice-presidency.
Episode 45 : I Can't Remember
June. 30,1952
A story about a detective accused of the homicide of a beautiful girl.
Episode 44 : Welcome Home, Lefty
June. 23,1952
A washed up major league baseball player is put to the test by his hometown regarding his sportsmanship.
Episode 43 : Gilia
June. 16,1952
A young wife sacrifices her career as a novelist rather than stand in the way of her husband's ambitions as a musician.
Episode 42 : The Lesson
June. 09,1952
A psychological drama.
Episode 41 : Garneau '83
June. 02,1952
The plot concerns an art patron whose name is
mysteriously linked with that of her young protege.
Episode 40 : Pattern for Glory
May. 26,1952
The story of a young dramatist torn between love for his sweetheart and his devotion to an older film star with whom he shares his first success.
Episode 39 : Ferry Crisis at Friday Point
May. 19,1952
An old man has a small ferry boat on which he takes goods and passengers back and forth across the river of a small Midwestern town. One day the town's leaders decide that they'll build a bridge from the town across the river, which would enable them to bring even more goods and visitors to the town, but it will put the old ferryman out of business.
Episode 38 : Marriage in the Beginning
May. 12,1952
Story of a young wife who is jealous of her husband's political activities.
Episode 37 : Masquerade
May. 05,1952
A French dramatist is in quest of a young actress to star in his latest play.
Episode 36 : Salad Days
April. 28,1952
The adventures of law student Bellamy Partridge's at school and his quest to wed Judy Dwinelle.
Episode 35 : Operation Weekend
April. 21,1952
Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.
Episode 34 : Decision
April. 14,1952
The story of a man's inner conflict between his self-respect and his worldly desires.
Episode 33 : Man at Bay
April. 07,1952
A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail to expose the real killer.
Episode 32 : Taste
March. 31,1952
A sinister gourmet and wine authority makes a cunning bet to win a reluctant young lady. The wager: his town and country houses against the girl's hand that he can guess the date and vinyard's name of a rare claret the father is serving for dinner.
Episode 31 : Julie
March. 24,1952
A temperamental actress gets entangled in a struggle with her daughter over the love of the same man.
Episode 30 : The Foggy, Foggy Dew
March. 17,1952
Kyle had been brought up by foster parents. On a hunting trip he meets his biological father, a strange looking drifter with a guitar.
Episode 29 : The Promotion
March. 10,1952
A hapless employee finds the proverbial silver lining in the dreaded pink slip after a long career as a salesman.
Episode 28 : Night, Be Quiet
March. 03,1952
A young wife becomes involved in a triangle with her husband and his youthful brother, a guest in their home.
Episode 27 : The Bargain
February. 25,1952
The wife of a mining engineer, gains the money needed to save her husband's business.
Episode 26 : Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley
February. 18,1952
A veteran uses his GI allotment to further his education and win the love of the school teacher.
Episode 25 : The Game of Chess
February. 11,1952
A foreign ruler, unarmed and without guards or servants, plays a game of wits with a would-be assassin.
Episode 24 : Kelly
February. 04,1952
A romantic comedy about the member of a three-man army team which followed the invading Allied Forces to Normandy in 1944 to liberate American prisoners of war and other Nazi captives.
Episode 23 : For Goodness Sake
January. 28,1952
A Boston waterfront roughneck is hounded by a beautiful evangelist who tries to convert him.
Episode 22 : The Sound of Waves Breaking
January. 21,1952
Mike Brackauer shrugs off his success as an artist, feeling that his rise to fame has been based on technical proficiency without any deep creative talent. He becomes increasingly moody over his failure to inject what he terms "the spark of life" into his paintings. His confidence in himself is suddenly restored when a department stor salesgirl tells him she can hear the sound of waves breaking when she looks at one of his seascape paintings. A short time later they fall in love and plan marriage until Brackauer's confidence again leaves him.
Episode 21 : Ceylon Treasure
January. 14,1952
Adventurer Dave Rorsford arrives at a hotel in Ceylon carrying a gem worth a fortune, an international band of thieves immediately find out about it and make plans to steal it. A blonde named Alma also turns up at the same hotel hoping to buy the jewel. Indirectly she lures Rorsford into a trap set by the plotters. However, once she has betrayed him, Alma makes new plans to secure the diamond.
Episode 20 : Mr. Finchley Versus the Bomb
January. 07,1952
Finchley refuses to move from an old ghost town he calls home. The Army has planned to test the atom bomb at the site but Finchley will not budge.
Episode 19 : The Jest of Hahalaba
December. 31,1951
A British business man whose clairvoyance plays tricks on him on New Year's Eve.
Episode 18 : A Child is Born
December. 24,1951
The story of the Innkeeper and his wife in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.
Episode 17 : The Blues Street
December. 17,1951
Pete Cornelius the 19-year-old son of a wealthy businessman is on his way to college for his first year's studies but when he stops off in New Orleans on the way to the school Pete becomes fascinated with the city. He also becomes interested in a nightclub vocalist, Lou Jansen and decides against catching his train for the University. His disappearance causes his father to send out a nationwide alarm and offers $1000 reward for his son's return. When this is announced Lou plays a different part in his life than he had anticipated.
Episode 16 : Second Sight
December. 10,1951
Story of a secretary hired by a blinded foreign correspondent to take down his memories and in so doing proves a fateful influence on his life.
Episode 15 : Tin Badge
December. 03,1951
A beat cop finds that making the arrest of a wanted killer has its aftermath - attacks by vengeful henchmen.
Episode 14 : Dames are Poison
November. 26,1951
A nurse is forced to make a shrewd real estate deal when five roommates leave her with a lease for a huge house.
Episode 13 : Stolen Years
November. 19,1951
The easy-going life on a Chinese river port of four foreign agents for American firms is unexpectedly interrupted by Detective Yates of the San Francisco police department, who announces he wants one of them as a fugitive from a California murder warrant.
Episode 12 : No Will of His Own
November. 12,1951
An excavation inspector finds an original play by William Shakespear in the ruins of an old London house and connives to pass it off as a creation of his own.
Episode 11 : Confession
November. 05,1951
Story of a small town bank cashier dismissed from his job, after the bank's president John Gresham is indicted for embezzlement. The bank trustees suspect that Baldwin is involved in the crime but don't accuse him. He cannot find other work because of the scandal and is practically penniless when he receives a strange offer of $100,000 if he will leave town.
Episode 10 : The Doctor's Wife
October. 29,1951
A young wife of a doctor tries to help him by learning his profession. She learns far too well and nearly causes her husband to lose his medical license.
Episode 9 : The Twinkle in Her Eye
October. 22,1951
A bachelor's sister believes he should get married. She hires a housekeeper for him and he refuses to have the girl in the house until he meets her.
Episode 8 : Cafe Ami
October. 15,1951
In Western Germany an Army sergeant feels there is something strange about the proprietor of a cafe, but doesn't believe a German girl who says the man is an exNazi concentration camp commandant.
Episode 7 : Route 19
October. 08,1951
Maryjane finds herself in a lonely bus station on a desolate highway one rainy night shortly after it is reported that a homicidal maniac is at large in the area. There are only two people in the station and Maryjane suspects that one of them is the killer.
Episode 6 : Grandma Was an Actress
October. 01,1951
An old woman seeks to persuade her granddaughter to go on the stage against her son's opposition.
Episode 5 : A Matter of Life
September. 24,1951
A widower, realizes to his astonishment that his daughter, a typical wholesome American girl, begins to act strangely almost overnight, stealing and disobeying him. When he shadows her one night, he realizes she has fallen in with drug addicts and herself becomes addicted to narcotics.
Episode 4 : A Family Affair
September. 17,1951
An outwardly weak-kneed, henpecked member of Philadelphia's elite, Sumner Scofield II is constantly reminded by his wife that he must look down his bank-roll at anyone not in the same financial and social bracket as the Scofields. When their son Will, home from Yale for Spring vacation declares he wants to quit college and marry a vocalist in a band, Agnes Scofield tells Sumner the family must "buy the girl off". Sumner's encounter with the young singer takes an unusual turn which allows him to assert himself for once in his life.
Episode 3 : It's a Promise
September. 10,1951
A young roomer's life is unexpectedly altered by a seven-year-old child.
Episode 2 : Forever Walking Free
September. 03,1951
The story takes place in London during the height of the "Battle of Britain" when the Luftwaffe was bombing the populace. Joan Warrock's home has been bombed. She meets an American Air Force gunner, Buster Menton, in the blackout-darkened streets shortly afterwards and he takes her to an afterhour "pub" to calm her nerves. It isn't until the evening is over that she realizes there has been something strange about the place and about Buster. Her thoughts return to the party in the bombed building and she dreads all the future bombing that will come, until Menton convinces her that he knows that she has nothing to worry about in the future.
Episode 1 : The Pacing Goose
August. 27,1951
A farm woman would rather raise a goose as a pet than a cat.
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