Fielder Cook
Director
The Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Season 3
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.
Released Oct. 2, 1950
Episode 60 min
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Keywords: tmdb.anthology, imdb.company-sponsor-name-in-title, imdb.based-on-film, imdb.anthology, imdb.based-on-novel, awards.emmy-award-nominated
Watch Providers: Tubi TV
Production Companies: J. Walter Thompson Agency
Network: CBS
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - The Return of Ulysses
An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.
Sept. 1, 1952, midnight
S3E2 - Ile
The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.
Sept. 8, 1952, midnight
S3E3 - Stone's Throw
A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.
Sept. 15, 1952, midnight
S3E4 - Happily, But Not Forever
The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.
Sept. 22, 1952, midnight
S3E5 - A Message for Janice
Dave Carter attempts to deliver a message from his deceased comrad-in-arms to a young girl, he meets unexpected rebuffs from his buddy's parents.
Sept. 29, 1952, midnight
S3E6 - A Legacy for Love
A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.
Oct. 6, 1952, midnight
S3E7 - The Country Lawyer
Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.
Oct. 20, 1952, midnight
S3E8 - Three Hours Between
Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.
Oct. 27, 1952, midnight
S3E9 - The Face of Autumn
A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.
Nov. 3, 1952, midnight
S3E10 - Something to Celebrate
A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.
Nov. 10, 1952, midnight
S3E11 - The Man Who Struck It Rich
An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.
Nov. 17, 1952, midnight
S3E12 - The Hill
A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.
Nov. 24, 1952, midnight
S3E13 - Amo, Amas, Amat
A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.
Dec. 1, 1952, midnight
S3E14 - Fear
A drama about the reunion of two men who haven't seen each other for 25 years. One is a millionaire philanthropist and the other an ex-con.
Dec. 8, 1952, midnight
S3E15 - Song for a Banjo
A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.
Dec. 15, 1952, midnight
S3E16 - A Child is Born
Gene Lockhart and Fay Bainter will recreate the roles of the Innkeeper and his wife for the third year, of the Christmas television classic "A Child Is Born", Stephen Vincent Benet's story of the Nativity.
Dec. 22, 1952, midnight
S3E17 - The Key
A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.
Dec. 29, 1952, midnight
S3E18 - Two for Tea
A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.
Jan. 5, 1953, midnight
S3E19 - Thanks for a Lovely Evening
A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.
Jan. 12, 1953, midnight
S3E20 - Ti Babette
A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.
Jan. 19, 1953, midnight
S3E21 - The Inn of Eagles
A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.
Jan. 26, 1953, midnight
S3E22 - The White Gown
A 16-year-old girl wears a very special dress on her first date with a college man and gives her parents anxious moments when she departs.
Feb. 2, 1953, midnight
S3E23 - A Bouquet for Caroline
Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.
Feb. 9, 1953, midnight
S3E24 - Miss Marlow at Play
A reigning headliner of the British stage is accused by an irate father, of stealing the affections of his son from the girl of his choice.
Feb. 16, 1953, midnight
S3E25 - Autumn Nocturne
Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.
Feb. 23, 1953, midnight
S3E26 - A Time for Heroes
A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years
to claim a son he had deserted.
March 2, 1953, midnight
S3E27 - One of These Things
A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.
March 9, 1953, midnight
S3E28 - The Wednesday Wish
A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.
March 16, 1953, midnight
S3E29 - One for the Road
Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.
March 23, 1953, midnight
S3E30 - The Brooch
A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.
April 2, 1953, midnight
S3E31 - With Glory and Honor
Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.
April 9, 1953, midnight
S3E32 - Measure for Greatness
The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.
April 16, 1953, midnight
S3E33 - Long Distance
A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.
April 23, 1953, midnight
S3E34 - The Ascent of Alfred Fishkettle
Story concerns a young man whose scientific experiments disturb his entire neighborhood, especially when he discovers how to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
April 30, 1953, midnight
S3E35 - Listen, He's Proposing
A small-town girl whose on-again off-again romance keeps the neighbors guessing. Their curiosity reaches an all-time high when the word gets around that a proposal is in the offing.
May 7, 1953, midnight
S3E36 - The Betrayers
Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.
May 14, 1953, midnight
S3E37 - Tunnel Job
Dan Carmody is the boss of a construction job 1,500 feet below the surface of a river. The job is fraught with danger and turmoil when he must make a life or death decision.
May 21, 1953, midnight
S3E38 - Lost Sunday
A middle-aged school teacher is in a one-woman battle with the international date line and the Bon Voyage Travel Bureau, trying to get back a golden day she lost on her wistful trip around the World.
May 28, 1953, midnight
S3E39 - Ten Days to Forever
A little known custom in Mississippi, permits a life prisoner 10 days furlough after several years of good behavior; and what happens to aristocratic Jeff Foster, convicted murderer, on his 10-day return.
June 4, 1953, midnight
S3E40 - Make Believe Bride
A bewildered plane passenger agrees to pose as the husband of a fleeing and temporarily penniless, heiress who has just enough with her for the trip if she goes on the company's "half-fare-for-wives" plan.
June 11, 1953, midnight
S3E41 - Wind of the Way
A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".
June 18, 1953, midnight
S3E42 - This is Jimmy Merrill
When two feuding newscasters become involved in a mud-slinging campaign, an interesting situation is bound to develop. The instigator of the feud suddenly faces an expose of scandal in his own family.
June 25, 1953, midnight
S3E43 - Force of Circumstance
A man is jailed for the hit-and-run death of a child, even though he couldn't possibly have committed the crime. He struggles to free himself of a web of evidence that has sent him to prison.
July 2, 1953, midnight
S3E44 - The Tango
A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.
July 9, 1953, midnight
S3E45 - The Corporal and the Lady
A G.I. camp in Korea is plagued by a mysterious pin-up picture thief. A meek corporal suffers from a strange ailment - he objects to pin-up girls around the barracks, particularly when the happen to be his wife!
July 16, 1953, midnight
S3E46 - A Man in the Kitchen
An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.
July 23, 1953, midnight
S3E47 - The Odyssey of Jeffrey Sewell
A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.
July 30, 1953, midnight
S3E48 - Something to Live For
The story concerns a retired stage star whose marriage to a theatrical producer is threatened by the ambitious and unscrupulous young star of his new play.
Aug. 6, 1953, midnight
S3E49 - Lovely Day
Linda Russell is under strict instructions from husband Bill to have the family home good and ready for the dinner visit of Bill's efficiency obsessed boss Mr Marshall. Will she meet Bill's expectations or will the evening end in disaster.
Aug. 13, 1953, midnight
S3E50 - Women Who Wait
The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.
Aug. 20, 1953, midnight
S3E51 - Some Call It Love
A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.
Aug. 27, 1953, midnight
Network: CBS
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 5880 min.
Released: Oct. 2, 1950
Last Air Date: Sept. 12, 1957, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: PG
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