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The Lux Video Theatre

Season 5 1954 - 1955

  • 1954-08-26T04:00:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 2d 9h (57 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Comedy
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57 episodes

Season Premiere

1954-08-26T04:00:00Z

5x01 To Each His Own

Season Premiere

5x01 To Each His Own

  • 1954-08-26T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1954-09-02T04:00:00Z

5x02 Welcome, Stranger

5x02 Welcome, Stranger

  • 1954-09-02T04:00:00Z1h

1954-09-09T04:00:00Z

5x03 Christmas In July

5x03 Christmas In July

  • 1954-09-09T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1954-09-16T04:00:00Z

5x04 Hold Back The Dawn

5x04 Hold Back The Dawn

  • 1954-09-16T04:00:00Z1h

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

1954-09-23T04:00:00Z

5x05 The Heiress

5x05 The Heiress

  • 1954-09-23T04:00:00Z1h

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

1954-09-30T05:00:00Z

5x06 Meet Jo Cathart

5x06 Meet Jo Cathart

  • 1954-09-30T05:00:00Z1h

1954-10-07T05:00:00Z

5x07 The Mansion

5x07 The Mansion

  • 1954-10-07T05:00:00Z1h

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

1954-10-14T05:00:00Z

5x08 A Visit From Evelyn

5x08 A Visit From Evelyn

  • 1954-10-14T05:00:00Z1h

1954-10-21T05:00:00Z

5x09 An Angel Went AWOL

5x09 An Angel Went AWOL

  • 1954-10-21T05:00:00Z1h

1954-10-28T05:00:00Z

5x10 September Tide

5x10 September Tide

  • 1954-10-28T05:00:00Z1h

1954-11-04T05:00:00Z

5x11 Imperfect Lady

5x11 Imperfect Lady

  • 1954-11-04T05:00:00Z1h

1954-11-11T05:00:00Z

5x12 Five Star Final

5x12 Five Star Final

  • 1954-11-11T05:00:00Z1h

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

1954-11-18T05:00:00Z

5x13 Captive City

5x13 Captive City

  • 1954-11-18T05:00:00Z1h

1954-11-25T05:00:00Z

5x14 A Medal For Benny

5x14 A Medal For Benny

  • 1954-11-25T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1954-12-02T05:00:00Z

5x15 Craig's Wife

5x15 Craig's Wife

  • 1954-12-02T05:00:00Z1h

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

1954-12-09T05:00:00Z

5x16 Ladies In Retirement

5x16 Ladies In Retirement

  • 1954-12-09T05:00:00Z1h

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

1954-12-16T05:00:00Z

5x17 Double Indemnity

5x17 Double Indemnity

  • 1954-12-16T05:00:00Z1h

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

1954-12-23T05:00:00Z

5x18 September Affair

5x18 September Affair

  • 1954-12-23T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1954-12-30T05:00:00Z

5x19 The Chase

5x19 The Chase

  • 1954-12-30T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-01-06T05:00:00Z

5x20 Sunset Boulevard

5x20 Sunset Boulevard

  • 1955-01-06T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-01-13T05:00:00Z

5x21 Penny Serenade

5x21 Penny Serenade

  • 1955-01-13T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-01-20T05:00:00Z

5x22 Love Letters

5x22 Love Letters

  • 1955-01-20T05:00:00Z1h

1955-01-27T05:00:00Z

5x23 So Evil My Love

5x23 So Evil My Love

  • 1955-01-27T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-02-03T05:00:00Z

5x24 One Foot In Heaven

5x24 One Foot In Heaven

  • 1955-02-03T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-02-10T05:00:00Z

5x25 A Bell For Adano

5x25 A Bell For Adano

  • 1955-02-10T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-02-17T05:00:00Z

5x26 The Copperhead

5x26 The Copperhead

  • 1955-02-17T05:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-02-24T05:00:00Z

5x27 So Dark The Night

5x27 So Dark The Night

  • 1955-02-24T05:00:00Z1h

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?

1955-03-03T05:00:00Z

5x28 Casablanca

5x28 Casablanca

  • 1955-03-03T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-03-10T05:00:00Z

5x29 The Life Of Emile Zola

5x29 The Life Of Emile Zola

  • 1955-03-10T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-03-17T05:00:00Z

5x30 It Grows On Trees

5x30 It Grows On Trees

  • 1955-03-17T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-03-24T05:00:00Z

5x31 Shadow Of A Doubt

5x31 Shadow Of A Doubt

  • 1955-03-24T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-03-31T05:00:00Z

5x32 My Name Is Julia Ross

5x32 My Name Is Julia Ross

  • 1955-03-31T05:00:00Z1h

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...

1955-04-07T05:00:00Z

5x33 The Browning Version

5x33 The Browning Version

  • 1955-04-07T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-04-14T05:00:00Z

5x34 No Sad Songs For Me

5x34 No Sad Songs For Me

  • 1955-04-14T05:00:00Z1h

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 ...

1955-04-21T05:00:00Z

5x35 An Act Of Murder

5x35 An Act Of Murder

  • 1955-04-21T05:00:00Z1h

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

1955-04-28T04:00:00Z

5x36 The Great McGinty

5x36 The Great McGinty

  • 1955-04-28T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-05-05T04:00:00Z

5x37 Remember The Night

5x37 Remember The Night

  • 1955-05-05T04:00:00Z1h

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?

1955-05-12T04:00:00Z

5x38 Eight Iron Men

5x38 Eight Iron Men

  • 1955-05-12T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-05-19T04:00:00Z

5x39 Make Way For Tomorrow

5x39 Make Way For Tomorrow

  • 1955-05-19T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-05-26T04:00:00Z

5x40 Thunder On The Hill

5x40 Thunder On The Hill

  • 1955-05-26T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-06-02T04:00:00Z

5x41 The Suspect

5x41 The Suspect

  • 1955-06-02T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-06-09T04:00:00Z

5x42 Lightning Strikes Twice

5x42 Lightning Strikes Twice

  • 1955-06-09T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-06-16T04:00:00Z

5x43 The Inside Story

5x43 The Inside Story

  • 1955-06-16T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-06-23T04:00:00Z

5x44 Forever Female

5x44 Forever Female

  • 1955-06-23T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-06-30T04:00:00Z

5x45 Last Year's Snow

5x45 Last Year's Snow

  • 1955-06-30T04:00:00Z1h

1955-07-07T04:00:00Z

5x46 The Creaking Gate

5x46 The Creaking Gate

  • 1955-07-07T04:00:00Z1h

1955-07-14T04:00:00Z

5x47 Dark Tribute

5x47 Dark Tribute

  • 1955-07-14T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-07-21T04:00:00Z

5x48 Desparate Glory

5x48 Desparate Glory

  • 1955-07-21T04:00:00Z1h

1955-07-28T04:00:00Z

5x49 The Bride Came C.O.D.

5x49 The Bride Came C.O.D.

  • 1955-07-28T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-08-04T04:00:00Z

5x50 The Nine-Penny Dream

5x50 The Nine-Penny Dream

  • 1955-08-04T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-08-11T04:00:00Z

5x51 Perilous Deception

5x51 Perilous Deception

  • 1955-08-11T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-08-18T04:00:00Z

5x52 Nor All Your Tears

5x52 Nor All Your Tears

  • 1955-08-18T04:00:00Z1h

1955-08-25T04:00:00Z

5x53 June Bride

5x53 June Bride

  • 1955-08-25T04:00:00Z1h

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

1955-09-01T04:00:00Z

5x54 The Last Confession

5x54 The Last Confession

  • 1955-09-01T04:00:00Z1h

1955-09-08T04:00:00Z

5x55 The Happy Man

5x55 The Happy Man

  • 1955-09-08T04:00:00Z1h

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.

1955-09-15T04:00:00Z

5x56 The Lucky Finger

5x56 The Lucky Finger

  • 1955-09-15T04:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1955-09-22T04:00:00Z

5x57 The Eyes Of Father Tomasino

Season Finale

5x57 The Eyes Of Father Tomasino

  • 1955-09-22T04:00:00Z1h

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.

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