About this season
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.
Episodes (39)
1. Message in a Bottle
Aired 3 September 1953 • 60 min
Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cost him a career and a fortune.
2. The Second Meeting
Aired 10 September 1953 • 60 min
The story of two ex-GI's in a secluded hunting lodge. One brings home a bride, and she is the woman who jilted the buddy ten years earlier.
3. Witness for the Prosecution
Aired 17 September 1953 • 60 min
Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.
4. Return to Alsace
Aired 24 September 1953 • 60 min
The story of an ex-GI who makes some amazing discoveries when he goes to Europe to return a necklace stolen during the War by one of his buddies.
5. Anniversary
Aired 1 October 1953 • 60 min
Even the haunting spectre of death fails to dampen the gaiety of an anniversary celebration when it is pitted against a plucky woman's resolve.
6. The Moon for Linda
Aired 8 October 1953 • 60 min
Story about a doting mother of an ungrateful, headstrong, adopted daughter.
7. Guilty Knowledge
Aired 15 October 1953 • 60 min
Harry discovers that his best friend is responsible for a storage in the company's books.
8. The Cruel Time
Aired 22 October 1953 • 60 min
A frustrated piano teacher longs for recognition as a concert performer. A wealthy young matron offers to sponsor his concerts - against the wishes of his wife, who feels that the sponsor's interests are more than professional.
9. The Return of Socko Bernard
Aired 29 October 1953 • 60 min
A hungry and jobless former football star is embarrassed when he secures a job as a waiter at a hotel. He discovers too late that he is to serve dinner at a reunion of former classmates.
10. Will Power
Aired 5 November 1953 • 60 min
Story of a cantankerous millionaire who arouses the ire of his family by changing his will.
11. Lady of Suspicion
Aired 12 November 1953 • 60 min
A prison escapee seeks shelter on a fruit farm.
12. The Moment of the Rose
Aired 19 November 1953 • 60 min
Story of a penniless waiter who tries to give his daughter a better way of life.
13. Three Just Men
Aired 10 December 1953 • 60 min
The story set in a frontier cabin, involves three self-appointed vigilantes hunting down a Confederate soldier turned horse thief.
14. A Bouquet for Millie
Aired 17 December 1953 • 60 min
Millie loves flowers and constantly beseaches Tim to bring her a bouquet. Tim thinks flowers are sissy and refuses to buy them. An argument ensues and leads to a black eye for Millie, court proceeding and a sentence that Tim bring his wife a bouquet for 10 consecutive nights or spend 30 days in jail.
15. Call Off the Wedding
Aired 7 January 1954 • 60 min
Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden to win her man from the clutches of a movie siren.
16. All Dressed in White
Aired 14 January 1954 • 60 min
The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sadistic killer at a wedding.
17. The Bachelor of Grandby Oaks
Aired 21 January 1954 • 60 min
A chronic bachelor is plagued by women in a small community overrun by them.
18. A Place in the Sun
Aired 28 January 1954 • 60 min
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
19. The Small Glass Bottle
Aired 4 February 1954 • 60 min
A nagging wife suspects her husband of trying to kill her.He gives her some pills for her headache and she thinks he has given her poison.
20. Shall Not Perish
Aired 11 February 1954 • 60 min
The story of a sharecropper's wife and a banker who both lost sons in Korea.
21. Final Round
Aired 18 February 1954 • 60 min
A prize fight manager double-crosses his boxer pal.
22. Borrowed Wife
Aired 25 February 1954 • 60 min
An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions.
23. Miracle at the Waldorf
Aired 4 March 1954 • 60 min
A once famed Viennese throat specialist is struggling to establish a practice in America.
24. Call Me Mrs.
Aired 11 March 1954 • 60 min
A brainy secretary gives up her career to be the wife of a "shrinking violet" construction engineer.
25. The Exposure of Michael O'Reilly
Aired 18 March 1954 • 60 min
The story of a man who posed for 30 years as a hero of the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916.
26. Spent in Silence
Aired 25 March 1954 • 60 min
A deaf mute tries to find love and a career despite her handicap and parental opposition.
27. The Way I Feel
Aired 1 April 1954 • 60 min
The story of a teenager preparing to wed after graduation from high school, who is shocked when her fiance, the school's football hero, disgraces himself.
28. Pick of the Litter
Aired 8 April 1954 • 60 min
A young veterinarian saves the life of a boy's dog and gives a cynical gambler a lesson in human kindness and understanding.
29. The Girl Who Couldn't Cry
Aired 15 April 1954 • 60 min
A schoolteacher with a malicious teenage student trying to ruin the teachers reputation.
30. Gavin's Darling
Aired 22 April 1954 • 60 min
A young woman is distraught over her secure but loveless marriage to an elderly man.
31. A Chair for a Lady
Aired 29 April 1954 • 60 min
A man is freed from a loveless marriage by the death of his invalid wife and becomes suspect until the unscrupulous nurse comes into question.
32. Two Dozen Roses
Aired 6 May 1954 • 60 min
A famous novelist attempts to prevent her daughter's marriage to the son of a stage star.
33. The Queen's English
Aired 13 May 1954 • 60 min
Drama about a spinster teacher who is brought to trial by the school board on charges of prejudice. She is accused of flunking the son of a wealthy man because of an injustice the man committed against her.
34. Blind Fury
Aired 20 May 1954 • 60 min
A railroad agent is forced to a crucial decision when an attempt to wreck a train from his post is attempted.
35. I'll Never Love Again
Aired 27 May 1954 • 60 min
Lee suffers paralysis but the the love of a good man Nick helps her in her recovery.
36. The Outside Witness
Aired 3 June 1954 • 60 min
The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has his attention drawn to a supposedly respectable couple. He indeed overhears them discussing a murder plan designed to get rid of the man who could send them to jail. What is he going to do?
37. Waiting for Onorio
Aired 10 June 1954 • 60 min
A headstrong Italian immigrant and restaurant owner deserts his family in a fit of temper because his wife won't obey him and sign a bill of sale.
38. The Pretext
Aired 17 June 1954 • 60 min
A pretty young graduate student is caught in the cross-fire of an emotional conflict between her father and her fiance.
39. Perished Leaves
Aired 24 June 1954 • 60 min
A wealthy bachelor dies suddenly, leaving his lawyer with unWritten instructions that the woman he loves should benefit from his estate. He never names the woman and the lawyer is forced to play detective, which results in complications.