Fielder Cook
Director
The Lux Video Theatre (1950)
Season 7
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
S7E1 - The Wayward Saint
None
Aug. 30, 1956, midnight
S7E2 - Road of Fear
None
Sept. 6, 1956, midnight
S7E3 - The Top Rung
None
Sept. 13, 1956, midnight
S7E4 - Mildred Pierce
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Sept. 20, 1956, midnight
S7E5 - Only Yesterday
None
Sept. 27, 1956, midnight
S7E6 - Now, Voyager
Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
Oct. 4, 1956, midnight
S7E7 - The Guilty
Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.
Oct. 11, 1956, midnight
S7E8 - Flamingo Road
A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.
Oct. 18, 1956, midnight
S7E9 - Because of You
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
Oct. 25, 1956, midnight
S7E10 - You Can't Escape Forever
A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the hottest story of the day.
Nov. 1, 1956, midnight
S7E11 - Jezebel
A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
Nov. 8, 1956, midnight
S7E12 - The Glass Web
A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
Nov. 15, 1956, midnight
S7E13 - The Gay Sisters
Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marries Charles Barclay in order to get an inheritance and he begins a campaign to obtain the mansion to level it for real estate development. She vows that this will never happen.
Nov. 22, 1956, midnight
S7E14 - Old Acquaintance
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Nov. 29, 1956, midnight
S7E15 - Christmas in Connecticut
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Dec. 13, 1956, midnight
S7E16 - Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue
Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.
Dec. 20, 1956, midnight
S7E17 - Michael and Mary
After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husband returns with plans of blackmail.
Dec. 27, 1956, midnight
S7E18 - It Happened on Fifth Avenue
A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
Jan. 3, 1957, midnight
S7E19 - Just Across the Street
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Jan. 10, 1957, midnight
S7E20 - To Have and Have Not
During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
Jan. 17, 1957, midnight
S7E21 - Vice Squad
When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby has no qualms about bending the law to achieve his ends, including trumped up charges to persuade his only witness to cooperate or detaining some call girls to coerce their madam to help him. In the meantime he deals with everyday police business, juggling seemingly trivial matters with more serious ones.
Jan. 24, 1957, midnight
S7E22 - One Sunday Afternoon
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Jan. 31, 1957, midnight
S7E23 - The Undesirable
None
Feb. 7, 1957, midnight
S7E24 - Dark Victory
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
Feb. 14, 1957, midnight
S7E25 - One Way Street
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Feb. 21, 1957, midnight
S7E26 - Possessed
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
Feb. 28, 1957, midnight
S7E27 - One Way Passage
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
March 7, 1957, midnight
S7E28 - Eileen
Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing to do with a man who's only a groom. Nevertheless, Barry determines to claim Eileen for his own.
March 14, 1957, midnight
S7E29 - The Great Lie
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
March 21, 1957, midnight
S7E30 - The Black Angel
When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
March 28, 1957, midnight
S7E31 - Adam Had Four Sons
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same time, Emilie falls in love with Adam. The boys grow up, but Adam insists that Emilie stay on as part of the family. Her relationships with both the boys and Adam become strained after one son marries a gold-digging viper named Hester.
April 4, 1957, midnight
S7E32 - The Taggart Light
None
April 18, 1957, midnight
S7E33 - The Man Who Played God
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
April 25, 1957, midnight
S7E34 - The Hard Way
Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
May 2, 1957, midnight
S7E35 - Stand-In for Murder
A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.
May 9, 1957, midnight
S7E36 - Death Do Us Part
None
May 16, 1957, midnight
S7E37 - The Armed Venus
The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.
May 23, 1957, midnight
S7E38 - Paris Calling
None
May 30, 1957, midnight
S7E39 - Payment in Kind
None
June 6, 1957, midnight
S7E40 - Design for November
None
June 13, 1957, midnight
S7E41 - Edge of Doubt
None
June 20, 1957, midnight
S7E42 - The Latch Key
A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the passengers on the bus unfold the story.
June 27, 1957, midnight
S7E43 - Who is Picasso?
None
July 4, 1957, midnight
S7E44 - The Softest Music
None
July 11, 1957, midnight
S7E45 - Summer Return
None
July 18, 1957, midnight
S7E46 - High Tension
The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.
July 25, 1957, midnight
S7E47 - Dark Hammock
None
Aug. 1, 1957, midnight
S7E48 - Barren Harvest
A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.
Aug. 8, 1957, midnight
S7E49 - Judge Not
A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.
Aug. 15, 1957, midnight
S7E50 - Diagnosis - Homicide
An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.
Aug. 22, 1957, midnight
S7E51 - Old Witch, Old Witch
A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for him to make a ton of money.
Sept. 5, 1957, midnight
S7E52 - The Last Act
A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young French girl he is in love with.
Sept. 12, 1957, 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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