Lux Video Theatre

1950 - 1957 NR 30m 7.6

Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars. Initially, the show was a thirty-minute weekly show, but when it moved to NBC in August 1954, the show was extended to sixty minutes, and the plays were primarily adaptations of motion...

Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars. Initially, the show was a thirty-minute weekly show, but when it moved to NBC in August 1954, the show was extended to sixty minutes, and the plays were primarily adaptations of motion pictures, and a host was added. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.

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Episodes:

Episode 1 Saturday's Children

1. Saturday's Children

Aired: Oct 2, 1950

Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much go...

Episode 2 Rosalind

2. Rosalind

Aired: Oct 9, 1950

An aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue ...

Episode 3 Shadow on the Heart

3. Shadow on the Heart

Aired: Oct 16, 1950

Coast Guard Seaman Red Harrington on duty at Cape Cod, meets a pretty girl na...

Episode 4 The Valiant

4. The Valiant

Aired: Oct 23, 1950

A convicted murderer steadfastly refuses to reveal his real identity leaves t...

Episode 5 Mine to Have

5. Mine to Have

Aired: Oct 30, 1950

When her husband is killed in trying to elude police, she is imprisoned as hi...

Episode 6 That Wonderful Night

6. That Wonderful Night

Aired: Nov 6, 1950

An English girl is thoroughly unimpressed by winning a date with an American ...

Episode 7 Gallant Lady

7. Gallant Lady

Aired: Nov 13, 1950

A woman discovers that her husband, who disappeared seven years ago, was suff...

Episode 8 Goodnight, Please

8. Goodnight, Please

Aired: Nov 20, 1950

A besieged bank executive decides that the high pressure business isn't worth...

Episode 9 The Token

9. The Token

Aired: Nov 27, 1950

Story of a fiery girl with a great love for the sea, during the days of Ameri...

Episode 10 To Thine Own Self

10. To Thine Own Self

Aired: Dec 4, 1950

A stock broker plans to rob his clients. After emptying the safe, he reserves...

Episode 11 The Lovely Menace

11. The Lovely Menace

Aired: Dec 11, 1950

Marie Overbrook, is a young French widow of an American soldier, who is sudde...

Episode 12 Down Bayou DuBac

12. Down Bayou DuBac

Aired: Dec 18, 1950

This is a delightful story told from the view of "Mis' Lyd" who acts as the l...

Episode 13 A Child Is Born

13. A Child Is Born

Aired: Dec 25, 1950

The child born in none other than Jesus Christ and the event that was to rock...

Episode 15 The Purple Doorknob

15. The Purple Doorknob

Aired: Jan 8, 1951

A spirited old woman hopes for a little excitement in her quiet life in a sma...

Episode 17 Manhattan Pastorale

17. Manhattan Pastorale

Aired: Jan 22, 1951

A spinsterish young schoolteacher finds an abundance of excitement in a visit...

Episode 18 The Shiny People

18. The Shiny People

Aired: Jan 29, 1951

Story of a sideshow barker with a yen for high society after he meets a socie...

Episode 19 The Choir Rehearsal

19. The Choir Rehearsal

Aired: Feb 5, 1951

It takes place in the small New England town of Tuckerton during the early ye...

Episode 22 The Irish Drifter

22. The Irish Drifter

Aired: Feb 26, 1951

Due to his mother and father who are continually fighting and threatening to ...

Episode 23 Not Guilty - Of Much

23. Not Guilty - Of Much

Aired: Mar 5, 1951

A young tenant of a Manhattan apartment house spends her working days in a de...

Episode 24 Long Distance

24. Long Distance

Aired: Mar 12, 1951

Story of a woman trying against desperate odds to save her husband from unjus...

Episode 25 No Shoes

25. No Shoes

Aired: Mar 19, 1951

A truck driver is awaiting the birth of his first child and certain that it w...

Episode 26 The Treasure Trove

26. The Treasure Trove

Aired: Mar 26, 1951

Tony is the best friend of Bob and Hilda Devinish. He visits their home in Lo...

Episode 28 Column Item

28. Column Item

Aired: Apr 9, 1951

Sophie Claire is telling one of her fellow press agents that the worst has co...

Episode 30 Hit and Run

30. Hit and Run

Aired: Apr 23, 1951

A man who has run over a child, decides to hide from the police. However, he ...

Episode 31 The Speech

31. The Speech

Aired: Apr 30, 1951

A small toen doctor is called to New York to accept an award as the outstandi...

Episode 33 Local Storm

33. Local Storm

Aired: May 14, 1951

A thriller about a woman who believes she is a cripple.

Episode 34 Wild Geese

34. Wild Geese

Aired: May 21, 1951

A young and beautiful school mistress receives a strange visit from an Englis...

Episode 35 Sweet Sorrow

35. Sweet Sorrow

Aired: May 28, 1951

An important Broadway actress has journeyed to the town of Oxford, Vermont to...

Episode 36 Consider the Lillies

36. Consider the Lillies

Aired: Jun 4, 1951

A struggling young authoress caught between her own puritanical inclinations ...

Episode 37 Weather for Today

37. Weather for Today

Aired: Jun 11, 1951

A young Broadway producer is having casting problems on his forthcoming play....

Episode 38 Inside Story

38. Inside Story

Aired: Jun 18, 1951

A psychological comedy about an advertising girl and a psychiatrist.

Episode 39 The Promise

39. The Promise

Aired: Jun 25, 1951

Story of a sadistic tycoon ruthlessly dominates his wife. Although crippled b...


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Info about Lux Video Theatre

Network: CBS

Genres: Comedy, Drama