Lux Video Theatre
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.
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Season 7
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E1
The Wayward Saint
Aug 30, 1956 · 60m -
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E2
Road of Fear
Sep 6, 1956 · 60m -
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E3
The Top Rung
Sep 13, 1956 · 60m -
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E4
Mildred Pierce
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Sep 20, 1956 · 60m -
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E5
Only Yesterday
Sep 27, 1956 · 60m -
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E6
Now, Voyager
Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
Oct 4, 1956 · 60m -
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E7
The Guilty
Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.
Oct 11, 1956 · 60m -
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E8
Flamingo Road
A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.
Oct 18, 1956 · 30m -
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E9
Because of You
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Oct 25, 1956 · 60m -
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E10
You Can't Escape Forever
A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the hottest story of the day.
Nov 1, 1956 · 60m -
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E11
Jezebel
A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
Nov 8, 1956 · 60m -
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E12
The Glass Web
A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
Nov 15, 1956 · 60m -
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E13
The Gay Sisters
Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.
Nov 22, 1956 · 60m -
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E14
Old Acquaintance
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Nov 29, 1956 · 60m -
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E15
Christmas in Connecticut
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Dec 13, 1956 · 60m -
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E16
Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue
Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.
Dec 20, 1956 · 60m -
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E17
Michael and Mary
After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.
Dec 27, 1956 · 60m -
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E18
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Jan 3, 1957 · 60m -
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E19
Just Across the Street
Jan 10, 1957 · 60m -
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E20
To Have and Have Not
During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
Jan 17, 1957 · 60m -
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E21
Vice Squad
When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones.
Jan 24, 1957 · 60m -
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E22
One Sunday Afternoon
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Jan 31, 1957 · 60m -
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E23
The Undesirable
Feb 7, 1957 · 60m -
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E24
Dark Victory
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Feb 14, 1957 · 60m -
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E25
One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Feb 21, 1957 · 60m -
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E26
Possessed
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Feb 28, 1957 · 60m -
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E27
One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Mar 7, 1957 · 60m -
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E28
Eileen
Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.
Mar 14, 1957 · 60m -
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E29
The Great Lie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
Mar 21, 1957 · 60m -
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E30
The Black Angel
When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
Mar 28, 1957 · 60m -
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E31
Adam Had Four Sons
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.
Apr 4, 1957 · 60m -
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E32
The Taggart Light
Apr 18, 1957 · 60m -
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E33
The Man Who Played God
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
Apr 25, 1957 · 60m -
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E34
The Hard Way
Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
May 2, 1957 · 60m -
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E35
Stand-In for Murder
A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.
May 9, 1957 · 60m -
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E36
Death Do Us Part
May 16, 1957 · 60m -
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E37
The Armed Venus
The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.
May 23, 1957 · 60m -
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E38
Paris Calling
May 30, 1957 · 60m -
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E39
Payment in Kind
Jun 6, 1957 · 60m -
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E40
Design for November
Jun 13, 1957 · 60m -
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E41
Edge of Doubt
Jun 20, 1957 · 60m -
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E42
The Latch Key
A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the passengers on the bus unfold the story.
Jun 27, 1957 · 60m -
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E43
Who is Picasso?
Jul 4, 1957 · 60m -
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E44
The Softest Music
Jul 11, 1957 · 60m -
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E45
Summer Return
Jul 18, 1957 · 60m -
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E46
High Tension
The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.
Jul 25, 1957 · 60m -
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E47
Dark Hammock
Aug 1, 1957 · 60m -
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E48
Barren Harvest
A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.
Aug 8, 1957 · 60m -
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E49
Judge Not
A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.
Aug 15, 1957 · 60m -
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E50
Diagnosis - Homicide
An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.
Aug 22, 1957 -
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E51
Old Witch, Old Witch
A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.
Sep 5, 1957 -
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E52
The Last Act
A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young French girl he is in love with.
Sep 12, 1957