Lux Video Theatre — Season 5

Aired 26 August 1954 • 60 min

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.

Aired 2 September 1954 • 60 min

Aired 9 September 1954 • 60 min

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.

Aired 16 September 1954 • 60 min

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.

Aired 23 September 1954 • 60 min

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

Aired 30 September 1954 • 60 min

Aired 7 October 1954 • 60 min

Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.

Aired 14 October 1954 • 60 min

Aired 21 October 1954 • 60 min

Aired 28 October 1954 • 60 min

Aired 4 November 1954 • 60 min

Aired 11 November 1954 • 60 min

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.

Aired 18 November 1954 • 60 min

Aired 25 November 1954 • 60 min

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.

Aired 2 December 1954 • 60 min

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.

Aired 9 December 1954 • 60 min

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.

Aired 16 December 1954 • 60 min

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

Aired 23 December 1954 • 60 min

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

Aired 30 December 1954 • 60 min

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.

Aired 6 January 1955 • 60 min

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

Aired 13 January 1955 • 60 min

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.

Aired 20 January 1955 • 60 min

Aired 27 January 1955 • 60 min

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.

Aired 3 February 1955 • 60 min

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

Aired 10 February 1955 • 60 min

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life. The relations between the lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries is interesting. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo, and Charles Bronson played that familiar folk hero, the tough sergeant with the heart of gold.

Aired 17 February 1955 • 60 min

Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.

Aired 24 February 1955 • 60 min

A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?

Aired 3 March 1955 • 60 min

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

Aired 10 March 1955 • 60 min

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

Aired 17 March 1955 • 60 min

What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.

Aired 24 March 1955 • 60 min

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.

Aired 31 March 1955 • 60 min

Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...

Aired 7 April 1955 • 60 min

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.

Aired 14 April 1955 • 60 min

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...

Aired 21 April 1955 • 60 min

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.

Aired 28 April 1955 • 60 min

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.

Aired 5 May 1955 • 60 min

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?

Aired 12 May 1955 • 60 min

Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.

Aired 19 May 1955 • 60 min

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.

Aired 26 May 1955 • 60 min

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.

Aired 2 June 1955 • 60 min

A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.

Aired 9 June 1955 • 60 min

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.

Aired 16 June 1955 • 60 min

When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.

Aired 23 June 1955 • 60 min

An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.

Aired 30 June 1955 • 60 min

Aired 7 July 1955 • 60 min

Aired 14 July 1955 • 60 min

Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.

Aired 21 July 1955 • 60 min

Aired 28 July 1955 • 60 min

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.

Aired 4 August 1955 • 60 min

A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.

Aired 11 August 1955 • 60 min

A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.

Aired 18 August 1955 • 60 min

Aired 25 August 1955 • 60 min

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.

Aired 1 September 1955 • 60 min

Aired 8 September 1955 • 60 min

A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.

Aired 15 September 1955 • 60 min

Aired 22 September 1955 • 60 min

When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.