Lux Video Theatre - Season 3
Season 3
Network
DatesSep 1, 1952 - Aug 27, 1953
Episodes
Season 3Episode 1
The Return Of Ulysses
An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.
Sep 1, 1952
Season 3Episode 2
Ile
The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.
Sep 8, 1952
Season 3Episode 3
Stone's Throw
A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.
Sep 15, 1952
Season 3Episode 4
Happily, But Not Forever
The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.
Sep 22, 1952
Season 3Episode 5
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.
Sep 29, 1952
Season 3Episode 6
A Legacy For Love
A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.
Oct 6, 1952
Season 3Episode 7
Country Lawyer
Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.
Oct 20, 1952
Season 3Episode 8
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
Season 3Episode 9
The Face Of Autumn
A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.
Nov 3, 1952
Season 3Episode 10
Something To Celebrate
A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.
Nov 10, 1952
Season 3Episode 11
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
Season 3Episode 12
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
Season 3Episode 13
Amo, Amas, Amat
A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.
Dec 1, 1952
Season 3Episode 14
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
Season 3Episode 15
Song For A Banjo
A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.
Dec 15, 1952
Season 3Episode 16
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
Season 3Episode 17
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
Season 3Episode 18
Two For Tea
A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.
Jan 5, 1953
Season 3Episode 19
Thanks For A Lovely Evening
A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.
Jan 12, 1953
Season 3Episode 20
Ti Babette
A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.
Jan 19, 1953
Season 3Episode 21
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
Season 3Episode 22
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
Season 3Episode 23
A Bouquet For Caroline
Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.
Feb 9, 1953
Season 3Episode 24
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
Season 3Episode 25
Autumn Nocturne
Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.
Feb 23, 1953
Season 3Episode 26
A Time For Heroes
A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years
to claim a son he had deserted.
Mar 2, 1953
Season 3Episode 27
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.
Mar 9, 1953
Season 3Episode 28
The Wednesday Wish
A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.
Mar 16, 1953
Season 3Episode 29
One For The Road
Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.
Mar 23, 1953
Season 3Episode 30
The Brooch
A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.
Apr 2, 1953
Season 3Episode 31
With Glory And Honor
Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.
Apr 9, 1953
Season 3Episode 32
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.
Apr 16, 1953
Season 3Episode 33
Long Distance
A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.
Apr 23, 1953
Season 3Episode 34
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.
Apr 30, 1953
Season 3Episode 35
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
Season 3Episode 36
The Betrayers
Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.
May 14, 1953
Season 3Episode 37
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
Season 3Episode 38
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
Season 3Episode 39
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.
Jun 4, 1953
Season 3Episode 40
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.
Jun 11, 1953
Season 3Episode 41
Wind Of The Way
A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".
Jun 18, 1953
Season 3Episode 42
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.
Jun 25, 1953
Season 3Episode 43
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.
Jul 2, 1953
Season 3Episode 44
The Tango
A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.
Jul 9, 1953
Season 3Episode 45
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!
Jul 16, 1953
Season 3Episode 46
A Man In The Kitchen
An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.
Jul 23, 1953
Season 3Episode 47
The Odyssey Of Jeffrey Sewell
A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.
Jun 30, 1953
Season 3Episode 48
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 13, 1953
Season 3Episode 49
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 20, 1953
Season 3Episode 50
Women Who Wait
The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.
Aug 27, 1953
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[NOTE: Episodes shown only in the UK are listed in Season 0, first digit of episode number indicated UK series.]
