Lux Video Theatre

Season 4 (39 Episodes)

7 Seasons 1953 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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Season 4 Episodes:

Episode 1 Message in a Bottle

1. Message in a Bottle

Aired: Sep 3, 1953

Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cos...

Episode 2 The Second Meeting

2. The Second Meeting

Aired: Sep 10, 1953

The story of two ex-GI's in a secluded hunting lodge. One brings home a bride...

Episode 4 Return to Alsace

4. Return to Alsace

Aired: Sep 24, 1953

The story of an ex-GI who makes some amazing discoveries when he goes to Euro...

Episode 5 Anniversary

5. Anniversary

Aired: Oct 1, 1953

Even the haunting spectre of death fails to dampen the gaiety of an anniversa...

Episode 6 The Moon for Linda

6. The Moon for Linda

Aired: Oct 8, 1953

Story about a doting mother of an ungrateful, headstrong, adopted daughter.

Episode 7 Guilty Knowledge

7. Guilty Knowledge

Aired: Oct 15, 1953

Harry discovers that his best friend is responsible for a storage in the comp...

Episode 8 The Cruel Time

8. The Cruel Time

Aired: Oct 22, 1953

A frustrated piano teacher longs for recognition as a concert performer. A we...

Episode 10 Will Power

10. Will Power

Aired: Nov 5, 1953

Story of a cantankerous millionaire who arouses the ire of his family by chan...

Episode 13 A Place in the Sun

13. A Place in the Sun

Aired: Dec 10, 1953

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love ...

Episode 14 A Bouquet for Millie

14. A Bouquet for Millie

Aired: Dec 17, 1953

Millie loves flowers and constantly beseaches Tim to bring her a bouquet. Tim...

Episode 15 Call Off the Wedding

15. Call Off the Wedding

Aired: Jan 7, 1954

Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden t...

Episode 16 All Dressed in White

16. All Dressed in White

Aired: Jan 14, 1954

The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sa...

Episode 18 A Place in the Sun

18. A Place in the Sun

Aired: Jan 28, 1954

A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love ...

Episode 20 Shall Not Perish

20. Shall Not Perish

Aired: Feb 11, 1954

The story of a sharecropper's wife and a banker who both lost sons in Korea.

Episode 21 Final Round

21. Final Round

Aired: Feb 18, 1954

A prize fight manager double-crosses his boxer pal.

Episode 22 Borrowed Wife

22. Borrowed Wife

Aired: Feb 25, 1954

An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's atten...

Episode 24 Call Me Mrs.

24. Call Me Mrs.

Aired: Mar 11, 1954

A brainy secretary gives up her career to be the wife of a "shrinking violet"...

Episode 26 Spent in Silence

26. Spent in Silence

Aired: Mar 25, 1954

A deaf mute tries to find love and a career despite her handicap and parental...

Episode 27 The Way I Feel

27. The Way I Feel

Aired: Apr 1, 1954

The story of a teenager preparing to wed after graduation from high school, w...

Episode 28 Pick of the Litter

28. Pick of the Litter

Aired: Apr 8, 1954

A young veterinarian saves the life of a boy's dog and gives a cynical gambl...

Episode 30 Gavin's Darling

30. Gavin's Darling

Aired: Apr 22, 1954

A young woman is distraught over her secure but loveless marriage to an elder...

Episode 31 A Chair for a Lady

31. A Chair for a Lady

Aired: Apr 29, 1954

A man is freed from a loveless marriage by the death of his invalid wife and ...

Episode 32 Two Dozen Roses

32. Two Dozen Roses

Aired: May 6, 1954

A famous novelist attempts to prevent her daughter's marriage to the son of a...

Episode 33 The Queen's English

33. The Queen's English

Aired: May 13, 1954

Drama about a spinster teacher who is brought to trial by the school board on...

Episode 34 Blind Fury

34. Blind Fury

Aired: May 20, 1954

A railroad agent is forced to a crucial decision when an attempt to wreck a t...

Episode 36 The Outside Witness

36. The Outside Witness

Aired: Jun 3, 1954

The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has hi...

Episode 37 Waiting for Onorio

37. Waiting for Onorio

Aired: Jun 10, 1954

A headstrong Italian immigrant and restaurant owner deserts his family in a f...

Episode 38 The Pretext

38. The Pretext

Aired: Jun 17, 1954

A pretty young graduate student is caught in the cross-fire of an emotional c...

Episode 39 Perished Leaves

39. Perished Leaves

Aired: Jun 24, 1954

A wealthy bachelor dies suddenly, leaving his lawyer with unWritten instructi...


Info about Lux Video Theatre

Network: CBS

Genres: Comedy, Drama