Lux Video Theatre

Season 5 (57 Episodes)

7 Seasons 1954 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 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 To Each His Own

1. To Each His Own

Aired: Aug 26, 1954

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her so...

Episode 3 Christmas in July

3. Christmas in July

Aired: Sep 9, 1954

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a for...

Episode 4 Hold Back the Dawn

4. Hold Back the Dawn

Aired: Sep 16, 1954

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into th...

Episode 5 The Heiress

5. The Heiress

Aired: Sep 23, 1954

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusiv...

Episode 7 The Mansion

7. The Mansion

Aired: Oct 7, 1954

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

Episode 12 Five Star Final

12. Five Star Final

Aired: Nov 11, 1954

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics ...

Episode 14 A Medal for Benny

14. A Medal for Benny

Aired: Nov 25, 1954

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the tow...

Episode 15 Craig's Wife

15. Craig's Wife

Aired: Dec 2, 1954

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her po...

Episode 16 Ladies in Retirement

16. Ladies in Retirement

Aired: Dec 9, 1954

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her...

Episode 17 Double Indemnity

17. Double Indemnity

Aired: Dec 16, 1954

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme ...

Episode 18 September Affair

18. September Affair

Aired: Dec 23, 1954

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a qui...

Episode 19 The Chase

19. The Chase

Aired: Dec 30, 1954

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's inv...

Episode 20 Sunset Boulevard

20. Sunset Boulevard

Aired: Jan 6, 1955

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has...

Episode 21 Penny Serenade

21. Penny Serenade

Aired: Jan 13, 1955

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

Episode 23 So Evil My Love

23. So Evil My Love

Aired: Jan 27, 1955

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and ro...

Episode 24 One Foot in Heaven

24. One Foot in Heaven

Aired: Feb 3, 1955

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

Episode 25 A Bell for Adano

25. A Bell for Adano

Aired: Feb 10, 1955

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Itali...

Episode 26 The Copperhead

26. The Copperhead

Aired: Feb 17, 1955

Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a tra...

Episode 27 So Dark the Night

27. So Dark the Night

Aired: Feb 24, 1955

A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven ...

Episode 28 Casablanca

28. Casablanca

Aired: Mar 3, 1955

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American e...

Episode 30 It Grows on Trees

30. It Grows on Trees

Aired: Mar 17, 1955

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

Episode 31 Shadow of a Doubt

31. Shadow of a Doubt

Aired: Mar 24, 1955

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

Episode 33 The Browning Version

33. The Browning Version

Aired: Apr 7, 1955

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must con...

Episode 34 No Sad Songs for Me

34. No Sad Songs for Me

Aired: Apr 14, 1955

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurabl...

Episode 35 An Act of Murder

35. An Act of Murder

Aired: Apr 21, 1955

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

Episode 36 The Great McGinty

36. The Great McGinty

Aired: Apr 28, 1955

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But en...

Episode 37 Remember the Night

37. Remember the Night

Aired: May 5, 1955

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third off...

Episode 38 Eight Iron Men

38. Eight Iron Men

Aired: May 12, 1955

Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pi...

Episode 40 Thunder on the Hill

40. Thunder on the Hill

Aired: May 26, 1955

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be execu...

Episode 41 The Suspect

41. The Suspect

Aired: Jun 2, 1955

A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threaten...

Episode 43 The Inside Story

43. The Inside Story

Aired: Jun 16, 1955

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

Episode 44 Forever Female

44. Forever Female

Aired: Jun 23, 1955

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

Episode 47 Dark Tribute

47. Dark Tribute

Aired: Jul 14, 1955

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

Episode 50 The Nine-Penny Dream

50. The Nine-Penny Dream

Aired: Aug 4, 1955

A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English p...

Episode 51 Perilous Deception

51. Perilous Deception

Aired: Aug 11, 1955

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

Episode 53 June Bride

53. June Bride

Aired: Aug 25, 1955

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an I...

Episode 55 The Happy Man

55. The Happy Man

Aired: Sep 8, 1955

A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in t...


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