Lux Video Theatre - Season 2
Season 2
Network
DatesAug 27, 1951 - Aug 25, 1952
Episodes
Season 2Episode 1
The Pacing Goose
A farm woman would rather raise a goose as a pet than a cat.
Aug 27, 1951
Season 2Episode 2
Forever Walking Free
The story takes place in London during the height of the "Battle of Britain" when the Luftwaffe was bombing the populace. Joan Warrock's home has been bombed. She meets an American Air Force gunner, Buster Menton, in the blackout-darkened streets shortly afterwards and he takes her to an afterhour "pub" to calm her nerves. It isn't until the evening is over that she realizes there has been something strange about the place and about Buster. Her thoughts return to the party in the bombed building and she dreads all the future bombing that will come, until Menton convinces her that he knows that she has nothing to worry about in the future.
Sep 3, 1951
Season 2Episode 3
It's A Promise
A young roomer's life is unexpectedly altered by a seven-year-old child.
Sep 10, 1951
Season 2Episode 4
A Family Affair
An outwardly weak-kneed, henpecked member of Philadelphia's elite, Sumner Scofield II is constantly reminded by his wife that he must look down his bank-roll at anyone not in the same financial and social bracket as the Scofields. When their son Will, home from Yale for Spring vacation declares he wants to quit college and marry a vocalist in a band, Agnes Scofield tells Sumner the family must "buy the girl off". Sumner's encounter with the young singer takes an unusual turn which allows him to assert himself for once in his life.
Sep 17, 1951
Season 2Episode 5
A Matter Of Life
A widower, realizes to his astonishment that his daughter, a typical wholesome American girl, begins to act strangely almost overnight, stealing and disobeying him. When he shadows her one night, he realizes she has fallen in with drug addicts and herself becomes addicted to narcotics.
Sep 24, 1951
Season 2Episode 6
Grandma Was An Actress
An old woman seeks to persuade her granddaughter to go on the stage against her son's opposition.
Oct 1, 1951
Season 2Episode 7
Route 19
Maryjane finds herself in a lonely bus station on a desolate highway one rainy night shortly after it is reported that a homicidal maniac is at large in the area. There are only two people in the station and Maryjane suspects that one of them is the killer.
Oct 8, 1951
Season 2Episode 8
Cafe Ami
In Western Germany an Army sergeant feels there is something strange about the proprietor of a cafe, but doesn't believe a German girl who says the man is an exNazi concentration camp commandant.
Oct 15, 1951
Season 2Episode 9
The Twinkle In Her Eye
A bachelor's sister believes he should get married. She hires a housekeeper for him and he refuses to have the girl in the house until he meets her.
Oct 22, 1951
Season 2Episode 10
The Doctor's Wife
A young wife of a doctor tries to help him by learning his profession. She learns far too well and nearly causes her husband to lose his medical license.
Oct 29, 1951
Season 2Episode 11
Confession
Story of a small town bank cashier dismissed from his job, after the bank's president John Gresham is indicted for embezzlement. The bank trustees suspect that Baldwin is involved in the crime but don't accuse him. He cannot find other work because of the scandal and is practically penniless when he receives a strange offer of $100,000 if he will leave town.
Nov 5, 1951
Season 2Episode 12
No Will Of His Own
An excavation inspector finds an original play by William Shakespear in the ruins of an old London house and connives to pass it off as a creation of his own.
Nov 12, 1951
Season 2Episode 13
Stolen Years
The easy-going life on a Chinese river port of four foreign agents for American firms is unexpectedly interrupted by Detective Yates of the San Francisco police department, who announces he wants one of them as a fugitive from a California murder warrant.
Nov 19, 1951
Season 2Episode 14
Dames Are Poison
A nurse is forced to make a shrewd real estate deal when five roommates leave her with a lease for a huge house.
Nov 26, 1951
Season 2Episode 15
Tin Badge
A beat cop finds that making the arrest of a wanted killer has its aftermath - attacks by vengeful henchmen.
Dec 3, 1951
Season 2Episode 16
Second Sight
Story of a secretary hired by a blinded foreign correspondent to take down his memories and in so doing proves a fateful influence on his life.
Dec 10, 1951
Season 2Episode 17
The Blues Street
Pete Cornelius the 19-year-old son of a wealthy businessman is on his way to college for his first year's studies but when he stops off in New Orleans on the way to the school Pete becomes fascinated with the city. He also becomes interested in a nightclub vocalist, Lou Jansen and decides against catching his train for the University. His disappearance causes his father to send out a nationwide alarm and offers $1000 reward for his son's return. When this is announced Lou plays a different part in his life than he had anticipated.
Dec 17, 1951
Season 2Episode 18
A Child Is Born
The story of the Innkeeper and his wife in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.
Dec 24, 1951
Season 2Episode 19
The Jest Of Hahalaba
A British business man whose clairvoyance plays tricks on him on New Year's Eve.
Dec 31, 1951
Season 2Episode 20
Mr. Finchley Versus The Bomb
Finchley refuses to move from an old ghost town he calls home. The Army has planned to test the atom bomb at the site but Finchley will not budge.
Jan 7, 1952
Season 2Episode 21
Ceylon Treasure
Adventurer Dave Rorsford arrives at a hotel in Ceylon carrying a gem worth a fortune, an international band of thieves immediately find out about it and make plans to steal it. A blonde named Alma also turns up at the same hotel hoping to buy the jewel. Indirectly she lures Rorsford into a trap set by the plotters. However, once she has betrayed him, Alma makes new plans to secure the diamond.
Jan 14, 1952
Season 2Episode 22
The Sound Of Waves Breaking
Mike Brackauer shrugs off his success as an artist, feeling that his rise to fame has been based on technical proficiency without any deep creative talent. He becomes increasingly moody over his failure to inject what he terms "the spark of life" into his paintings. His confidence in himself is suddenly restored when a department stor salesgirl tells him she can hear the sound of waves breaking when she looks at one of his seascape paintings. A short time later they fall in love and plan marriage until Brackauer's confidence again leaves him.
Jan 21, 1952
Season 2Episode 23
For Goodness Sake
A Boston waterfront roughneck is hounded by a beautiful evangelist who tries to convert him.
Jan 28, 1952
Season 2Episode 24
Kelly
A romantic comedy about the member of a three-man army team which followed the invading Allied Forces to Normandy in 1944 to liberate American prisoners of war and other Nazi captives.
Feb 4, 1952
Season 2Episode 25
The Game Of Chess
A foreign ruler, unarmed and without guards or servants, plays a game of wits with a would-be assassin.
Feb 11, 1952
Season 2Episode 26
Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley
A veteran uses his GI allotment to further his education and win the love of the school teacher.
Feb 18, 1952
Season 2Episode 27
The Bargain
The wife of a mining engineer, gains the money needed to save her husband's business.
Feb 25, 1952
Season 2Episode 28
Night, Be Quiet
A young wife becomes involved in a triangle with her husband and his youthful brother, a guest in their home.
Mar 3, 1952
Season 2Episode 29
The Promotion
A hapless employee finds the proverbial silver lining in the dreaded pink slip after a long career as a salesman.
Apr 10, 1952
Season 2Episode 30
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Kyle had been brought up by foster parents. On a hunting trip he meets his biological father, a strange looking drifter with a guitar.
Mar 17, 1952
Season 2Episode 31
Julie
A temperamental actress gets entangled in a struggle with her daughter over the love of the same man.
Mar 24, 1952
Season 2Episode 32
Taste
A sinister gourmet and wine authority makes a cunning bet to win a reluctant young lady. The wager: his town and country houses against the girl's hand that he can guess the date and vinyard's name of a rare claret the father is serving for dinner.
Mar 31, 1952
Season 2Episode 33
Man At Bay
A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail to expose the real killer.
Apr 7, 1952
Season 2Episode 34
Decision
The story of a man's inner conflict between his self-respect and his worldly desires.
Apr 14, 1952
Season 2Episode 35
Operation Weekend
Concerning a clash between a young medical student and a famous brain specialist.
Apr 21, 1952
Season 2Episode 36
Salad Days
The adventures of law student Bellamy Partridge's at school and his quest to wed Judy Dwinelle.
Apr 28, 1952
Season 2Episode 37
Masquerade
A French dramatist is in quest of a young actress to star in his latest play.
May 5, 1952
Season 2Episode 38
Marriage In The Beginning
Story of a young wife who is jealous of her husband's political activities.
May 12, 1952
Season 2Episode 39
Ferry Crisis At Friday Point
An old man has a small ferry boat on which he takes goods and passengers back and forth across the river of a small Midwestern town. One day the town's leaders decide that they'll build a bridge from the town across the river, which would enable them to bring even more goods and visitors to the town, but it will put the old ferryman out of business.
May 19, 1952
Season 2Episode 40
Pattern For Glory
The story of a young dramatist torn between love for his sweetheart and his devotion to an older film star with whom he shares his first success.
May 26, 1952
Season 2Episode 41
Garneau '83
The plot concerns an art patron whose name is
mysteriously linked with that of her young protege.
Jun 2, 1952
Season 2Episode 42
The Lesson
A psychological drama.
Jun 9, 1952
Season 2Episode 43
Gilia
A young wife sacrifices her career as a novelist rather than stand in the way of her husband's ambitions as a musician.
Jun 16, 1952
Season 2Episode 44
Welcome Home, Lefty
A washed up major league baseball player is put to the test by his hometown regarding his sportsmanship.
Jun 23, 1952
Season 2Episode 45
I Can't Remember
A story about a detective accused of the homicide of a beautiful girl.
Jun 30, 1952
Season 2Episode 46
The Lady From Washington
A political career woman is forced to choose between marriage or becoming the first woman to run for the vice-presidency.
Jul 7, 1952
Season 2Episode 47
Son Wanted
A movie-struck youngster tries to palm off a youthful vagabond as the missing son of an aged woman.
Jul 14, 1952
Season 2Episode 48
The Brigadier
The play deals with a spy in Northern ranks during Sherman's march thru Georgia.
Jul 21, 1952
Season 2Episode 49
Two Pale Horsemen
Story about a cynical artist and a lonesome teacher who seek to escape from reality by going to an Arctic village.
Jul 28, 1952
Season 2Episode 50
Two Make Four
Story about two orphans in search of foster parents.
Aug 4, 1952
Season 2Episode 51
The Orchard
A tragic rural American life involving a family of itinerant cherry pickers.
Aug 11, 1952
Season 2Episode 52
You Be The Bad Guy
Detective lieutenant Dan Shelvin is torn between the sense of duty and justice and his devotion to his family after discovering his younger brother in a hijacking racket.
Aug 18, 1952
Season 2Episode 53
The Magnolia Touch
A married Dixie gentleman smitten by a young Southern belle now living in Manhattan invites him to her apartment for an old homestyle dinner.
Aug 25, 1952
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