Fielder Cook
Director
The Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Season 6
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
S6E1 - The Enchanted Cottage
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more out of loneliness than love. The romantic spirit of the cottage, however, overtakes them. They soon begin to look beautiful to each other, but no one else.
Sept. 29, 1955, midnight
S6E2 - The Amazing Mrs. Halliday
An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.
Oct. 6, 1955, midnight
S6E3 - The Two Dollar Bettor
A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to take money from the bank when his funds run low.
Oct. 13, 1955, midnight
S6E4 - The Human Jungle
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a strip-tease dancer. Recognizing the laxity of the department he implements many changes and soon finds himself under fire by the newspapers, the attorney of a racket leader and the denizens of this human jungle. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an ...
Oct. 20, 1955, midnight
S6E5 - The Lady Gambles
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Oct. 27, 1955, midnight
S6E6 - Appointment for Love
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
Nov. 3, 1955, midnight
S6E7 - Bedtime Story
Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play.
Nov. 10, 1955, midnight
S6E8 - The Hunted
An innocent girl is sent to prison by her policeman sweetheart who believes her guilty of the crime. When she is released on parole, the girl swears vengeance on those responsible for her undeserved punishment.
Nov. 17, 1955, midnight
S6E9 - Miss Susie Slagle's
Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students.
Nov. 24, 1955, midnight
S6E10 - The Web
An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.
Dec. 1, 1955, midnight
S6E11 - Suspicion
A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.
Dec. 8, 1955, midnight
S6E12 - Branded
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
Dec. 15, 1955, midnight
S6E13 - Holiday Affair
Connie Ennis, widowed mother to young son Timmy, has avoided accepting the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend Carl. While he patiently awaits her saying "yes," Connie clings to the memory of her late husband. By chance, a department store salesman enters her life and complicates matters when the two quickly fall in love. With two marriage proposals on the table, Connie is forced to make a final choice.
Dec. 22, 1955, midnight
S6E14 - Cover-Up
An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.
Dec. 29, 1955, midnight
S6E15 - Hands Across the Table
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
Jan. 5, 1956, midnight
S6E16 - The Unfaithful
Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incriminating statue he created.
Jan. 12, 1956, midnight
S6E17 - Ivy
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Jan. 19, 1956, midnight
S6E18 - Witness to Murder
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
Jan. 26, 1956, midnight
S6E19 - The Green Promise
A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His three daughters live on the farm with him, and the oldest one, a teenager, has fallen in love with a local boy. However, she knows that she is expected to help her father work the farm and is torn between her love for the local boy and her father's expectations for her to continue working the farm.
Feb. 2, 1956, midnight
S6E20 - The Star
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.
Feb. 9, 1956, midnight
S6E21 - Night Song
Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan's swing band but seems to be a composer of great promise. Attracted but spurned, Cathy feigns blindness herself to get past Dan's bitter facade, scheming to get him to the doctor who can restore his sight...and to Carnegie Hall. But her actions bring about several twists in their relationship...
Feb. 16, 1956, midnight
S6E22 - Hired Wife
Kendal, a secretary, helps to her boss Stephen Dexter out of a legal problem by becoming his wife. What was supposed to be temporary becomes something more after many obstacles.
Feb. 23, 1956, midnight
S6E23 - Here Comes the Groom
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
March 1, 1956, midnight
S6E24 - Criminal Code
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
March 8, 1956, midnight
S6E25 - Little Boy Lost
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost during a bombing raid but has been told is living in an orphanage in Paris.
March 15, 1956, midnight
S6E26 - The Steel Trap
A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won't be missed until the bank opens on the following Monday. He and his wife, who doesn't know what he has done, then take a flight to Brazil. After some difficulties, they get as far as New Orleans, where his wife discovers the reason for their flight and what he has done. She leaves him and returns home. He is now alone with his conscience, and doesn't know if he can get back and return the ...
March 22, 1956, midnight
S6E27 - It Started With Eve
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now his son doesn't know how to break the news that he's engaged to someone else, especially since his father is so taken with the impostor.
March 29, 1956, midnight
S6E28 - Tabloid
A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.
April 5, 1956, midnight
S6E29 - Temptation
In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcée with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mummies. Bored, Ruby undertakes to recover a friend's letters from Baroudi. But when she meets the blackmailer, mutual attraction leads to an affair. As Ruby gets in deeper, she finds Baroudi is even more unscrupulous than she dreamed.
April 12, 1956, midnight
S6E30 - Betrayed
A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder.
April 19, 1956, midnight
S6E31 - Impact
An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
April 26, 1956, midnight
S6E32 - Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago because he was poor. But he wants to test the family before leaving his money to them. He takes a room in their home and a job in the father's shop. He anonymously grants them $100,000. Harriet Blaisdell moves the family into a mansion and makes plans to marry her daughter Millicent off to a socialite rather than her soda jerk boyfriend Dan. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find...
May 3, 1956, midnight
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S6E33 - The Night of January Sixteenth
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a personal interest; and Steve Van Ruyle, a sailor who has inherited a position on Faulkner's board of directors. Faulkner is (presumably) murdered, and Kit is falsely accused of the murder. Steve assumes the job of clearing her name.
May 10, 1956, midnight
S6E34 - Princess O'Rourke
A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.
May 17, 1956, midnight
S6E35 - Millie's Daughter
Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert Lattimer, a Boston bank official in charge of her estate, follows her and, while trying to persuade her to return to Boston, falls in love with her. Millie, a social secretary in charge of the funds of a Palm Beach charity, 'borrows' from the fund, with intentions of paying the money back using a check she is expecting. When the check is stopped, Millie self-reports her embezzlement to the ...
May 24, 1956, midnight
S6E36 - Indiscreet
The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy due to his wife's past, which eventually catches up to her.
May 31, 1956, midnight
S6E37 - She Married Her Boss
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot different than taking care of him at work.
June 7, 1956, midnight
S6E38 - A House of His Own
An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole. All are in favor except for one member.
June 14, 1956, midnight
S6E39 - The Corrigan Case
A woman is acquitted of murdering her husband, but the cloud of suspicion still surrounds her. Her daughter and a tenant in the family rooming house set out to find the real killer of her father.
June 21, 1956, midnight
S6E40 - A Yankee Cousin
A man moves his family from Puerto Rico to New York City in the hopes of making a success for himself. He soon finds out that by signing for what he wants, the creditors are after him.
June 28, 1956, midnight
S6E41 - A Marriage Day
A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected in her marriage to a handsome young man.
July 5, 1956, midnight
S6E42 - Sting in the Tail
Greedy Joseph Bently is working hard on his plan to inherit the estate of a rich relative, but things change when his sister confesses that she murdered her husband.
July 12, 1956, midnight
S6E43 - No One to Cry With
A woman recently released from a mental institute gets a job as a housekeeper. Things turn for the worse when her employer's wife arrives, causing stress and conflict for the rest of the household.
July 19, 1956, midnight
S6E44 - Miss Mabel
After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.
July 26, 1956, midnight
S6E45 - The Quick and the Dead
A Sioux guide leads a wagon train West. A gambler on the trip is suspicious and believes the guide is leading them into an ambush.
Aug. 2, 1956, midnight
S6E46 - Rebuke Me Not
An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife.
Aug. 9, 1956, 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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