Lux Video Theatre — Season 2

Aired 27 August 1951 • 60 min

A farm woman would rather raise a goose as a pet than a cat.

Aired 3 September 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 10 September 1951 • 60 min

A young roomer's life is unexpectedly altered by a seven-year-old child.

Aired 17 September 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 September 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 1 October 1951 • 60 min

An old woman seeks to persuade her granddaughter to go on the stage against her son's opposition.

Aired 8 October 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 15 October 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 22 October 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 29 October 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 5 November 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 12 November 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 19 November 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 November 1951 • 60 min

A nurse is forced to make a shrewd real estate deal when five roommates leave her with a lease for a huge house.

Aired 3 December 1951 • 60 min

A beat cop finds that making the arrest of a wanted killer has its aftermath - attacks by vengeful henchmen.

Aired 10 December 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 17 December 1951 • 60 min

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.

Aired 24 December 1951 • 60 min

The story of the Innkeeper and his wife in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.

Aired 31 December 1951 • 60 min

A British business man whose clairvoyance plays tricks on him on New Year's Eve.

Aired 7 January 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 14 January 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 21 January 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 28 January 1952 • 60 min

A Boston waterfront roughneck is hounded by a beautiful evangelist who tries to convert him.

Aired 4 February 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 11 February 1952 • 60 min

A foreign ruler, unarmed and without guards or servants, plays a game of wits with a would-be assassin.

Aired 18 February 1952 • 60 min

A veteran uses his GI allotment to further his education and win the love of the school teacher.

Aired 25 February 1952 • 60 min

The wife of a mining engineer, gains the money needed to save her husband's business.

Aired 3 March 1952 • 60 min

A young wife becomes involved in a triangle with her husband and his youthful brother, a guest in their home.

Aired 10 March 1952 • 60 min

A hapless employee finds the proverbial silver lining in the dreaded pink slip after a long career as a salesman.

Aired 17 March 1952 • 60 min

Kyle had been brought up by foster parents. On a hunting trip he meets his biological father, a strange looking drifter with a guitar.

Aired 24 March 1952 • 60 min

A temperamental actress gets entangled in a struggle with her daughter over the love of the same man.

Aired 31 March 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 7 April 1952 • 60 min

A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail to expose the real killer.

Aired 14 April 1952 • 60 min

The story of a man's inner conflict between his self-respect and his worldly desires.

Aired 21 April 1952 • 60 min

Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.

Aired 28 April 1952 • 60 min

The adventures of law student Bellamy Partridge's at school and his quest to wed Judy Dwinelle.

Aired 5 May 1952 • 60 min

A French dramatist is in quest of a young actress to star in his latest play.

Aired 12 May 1952 • 60 min

Story of a young wife who is jealous of her husband's political activities.

Aired 19 May 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 26 May 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 2 June 1952 • 60 min

The plot concerns an art patron whose name is mysteriously linked with that of her young protege.

Aired 9 June 1952 • 60 min

A psychological drama.

Aired 16 June 1952 • 60 min

A young wife sacrifices her career as a novelist rather than stand in the way of her husband's ambitions as a musician.

Aired 23 June 1952 • 60 min

A washed up major league baseball player is put to the test by his hometown regarding his sportsmanship.

Aired 30 June 1952 • 60 min

A story about a detective accused of the homicide of a beautiful girl.

Aired 7 July 1952 • 60 min

A political career woman is forced to choose between marriage or becoming the first woman to run for the vice-presidency.

Aired 14 July 1952 • 60 min

A movie-struck youngster tries to palm off a youthful vagabond as the missing son of an aged woman.

Aired 21 July 1952 • 60 min

The play deals with a spy in Northern ranks during Sherman's march thru Georgia.

Aired 28 July 1952 • 60 min

Story about a cynical artist and a lonesome teacher who seek to escape from reality by going to an Arctic village.

Aired 4 August 1952 • 60 min

Story about two orphans in search of foster parents.

Aired 11 August 1952 • 60 min

A tragic rural American life involving a family of itinerant cherry pickers.

Aired 18 August 1952 • 60 min

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.

Aired 25 August 1952 • 60 min

A married Dixie gentleman smitten by a young Southern belle now living in Manhattan invites him to her apartment for an old homestyle dinner.