Lux Video Theatre — Season 3

Aired 1 September 1952 • 60 min

An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.

Aired 8 September 1952 • 60 min

The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.

Aired 15 September 1952 • 60 min

A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.

Aired 22 September 1952 • 60 min

The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.

Aired 29 September 1952 • 60 min

Dave Carter attempts to deliver a message from his deceased comrad-in-arms to a young girl, he meets unexpected rebuffs from his buddy's parents.

Aired 6 October 1952 • 60 min

A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.

Aired 20 October 1952 • 60 min

Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.

Aired 27 October 1952 • 60 min

Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.

Aired 3 November 1952 • 60 min

A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.

Aired 10 November 1952 • 60 min

A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.

Aired 17 November 1952 • 60 min

An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.

Aired 24 November 1952 • 60 min

A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.

Aired 1 December 1952 • 60 min

A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.

Aired 8 December 1952 • 60 min

A drama about the reunion of two men who haven't seen each other for 25 years. One is a millionaire philanthropist and the other an ex-con.

Aired 15 December 1952 • 60 min

A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.

Aired 22 December 1952 • 60 min

Gene Lockhart and Fay Bainter will recreate the roles of the Innkeeper and his wife for the third year, of the Christmas television classic "A Child Is Born", Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity.

Aired 29 December 1952 • 60 min

A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.

Aired 5 January 1953 • 60 min

A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.

Aired 12 January 1953 • 60 min

A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.

Aired 19 January 1953 • 60 min

A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.

Aired 26 January 1953 • 60 min

A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.

Aired 2 February 1953 • 60 min

A 16-year-old girl wears a very special dress on her first date with a college man and gives her parents anxious moments when she departs.

Aired 9 February 1953 • 60 min

Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.

Aired 16 February 1953 • 60 min

A reigning headliner of the British stage is accused by an irate father, of stealing the affections of his son from the girl of his choice.

Aired 23 February 1953 • 60 min

Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.

Aired 2 March 1953 • 60 min

A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years to claim a son he had deserted.

Aired 9 March 1953 • 60 min

A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.

Aired 16 March 1953 • 60 min

A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.

Aired 23 March 1953 • 60 min

Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.

Aired 2 April 1953 • 60 min

A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.

Aired 9 April 1953 • 60 min

Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.

Aired 16 April 1953 • 60 min

The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.

Aired 23 April 1953 • 60 min

A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.

Aired 30 April 1953 • 60 min

Story concerns a young man whose scientific experiments disturb his entire neighborhood, especially when he discovers how to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.

Aired 7 May 1953 • 60 min

A small-town girl whose on-again off-again romance keeps the neighbors guessing. Their curiosity reaches an all-time high when the word gets around that a proposal is in the offing.

Aired 14 May 1953 • 60 min

Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.

Aired 21 May 1953 • 60 min

Dan Carmody is the boss of a construction job 1,500 feet below the surface of a river. The job is fraught with danger and turmoil when he must make a life or death decision.

Aired 28 May 1953 • 60 min

A middle-aged school teacher is in a one-woman battle with the international date line and the Bon Voyage Travel Bureau, trying to get back a golden day she lost on her wistful trip around the World.

Aired 4 June 1953 • 60 min

A little known custom in Mississippi, permits a life prisoner 10 days furlough after several years of good behavior; and what happens to aristocratic Jeff Foster, convicted murderer, on his 10-day return.

Aired 11 June 1953 • 60 min

A bewildered plane passenger agrees to pose as the husband of a fleeing and temporarily penniless, heiress who has just enough with her for the trip if she goes on the company's "half-fare-for-wives" plan.

Aired 18 June 1953 • 60 min

A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".

Aired 25 June 1953 • 60 min

When two feuding newscasters become involved in a mud-slinging campaign, an interesting situation is bound to develop. The instigator of the feud suddenly faces an expose of scandal in his own family.

Aired 2 July 1953 • 60 min

A man is jailed for the hit-and-run death of a child, even though he couldn't possibly have committed the crime. He struggles to free himself of a web of evidence that has sent him to prison.

Aired 9 July 1953 • 60 min

A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.

Aired 16 July 1953 • 60 min

A G.I. camp in Korea is plagued by a mysterious pin-up picture thief. A meek corporal suffers from a strange ailment - he objects to pin-up girls around the barracks, particularly when the happen to be his wife!

Aired 23 July 1953 • 60 min

An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.

Aired 30 July 1953 • 60 min

A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.

Aired 6 August 1953 • 60 min

The story concerns a retired stage star whose marriage to a theatrical producer is threatened by the ambitious and unscrupulous young star of his new play.

Aired 13 August 1953 • 60 min

Linda Russell is under strict instructions from husband Bill to have the family home good and ready for the dinner visit of Bill's efficiency obsessed boss Mr Marshall. Will she meet Bill's expectations or will the evening end in disaster.

Aired 20 August 1953 • 60 min

The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.

Aired 27 August 1953 • 60 min

A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.