Lux Video Theatre - Season 5

Lux Video Theatre - Season 5

Season 5

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Datesaoût 26, 1954 - sept. 22, 1955
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Episodes

To Each His Own
Season 5Episode 1

To Each His Own

An unwed mother, forced to give up her child to avoid scandal, follows her son's life from afar even as she prospers in business.
août 26, 1954
Welcome, Stranger
Season 5Episode 2

Welcome, Stranger

sept. 2, 1954
Christmas In July
Season 5Episode 3

Christmas In July

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize. As a result, he gets a promotion, buys presents for all of his family and friends, and proposes to his girl. When the truth comes out, he's not prepared for the consequences.
sept. 9, 1954
Hold Back The Dawn
Season 5Episode 4

Hold Back The Dawn

Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
sept. 16, 1954
The Heiress
Season 5Episode 5

The Heiress

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.
sept. 23, 1954
Meet Jo Cathart
Season 5Episode 6

Meet Jo Cathart

sept. 30, 1954
The Mansion
Season 5Episode 7

The Mansion

Young Master Lacy must make up his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy.
oct. 7, 1954
A Visit From Evelyn
Season 5Episode 8

A Visit From Evelyn

oct. 14, 1954
An Angel Went AWOL
Season 5Episode 9

An Angel Went AWOL

oct. 21, 1954
September Tide
Season 5Episode 10

September Tide

oct. 28, 1954
Imperfect Lady
Season 5Episode 11

Imperfect Lady

nov. 4, 1954
Five Star Final
Season 5Episode 12

Five Star Final

The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case - with tragic results.
nov. 11, 1954
Captive City
Season 5Episode 13

Captive City

nov. 18, 1954
A Medal For Benny
Season 5Episode 14

A Medal For Benny

Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
nov. 25, 1954
Craig's Wife
Season 5Episode 15

Craig's Wife

A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
déc. 2, 1954
Ladies In Retirement
Season 5Episode 16

Ladies In Retirement

The housekeeper to a retired actress tries at the same time to look after her own two emotionally disturbed sisters, with dramatic results.
déc. 9, 1954
Double Indemnity
Season 5Episode 17

Double Indemnity

An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
déc. 16, 1954
September Affair
Season 5Episode 18

September Affair

An industrialist and a pianist meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren't on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.
déc. 23, 1954
The Chase
Season 5Episode 19

The Chase

Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare.
déc. 30, 1954
Sunset Boulevard
Season 5Episode 20

Sunset Boulevard

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
janv. 6, 1955
Penny Serenade
Season 5Episode 21

Penny Serenade

A couple's big dreams give way to a life full of unexpected sadness and unexpected joy.
janv. 13, 1955
Love Letters
Season 5Episode 22

Love Letters

janv. 20, 1955
So Evil My Love
Season 5Episode 23

So Evil My Love

Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. Olivia falls so completely under amoral Mark's spell that he's able to overcome her scruples, and soon she's his willing tool in an ambitious scheme of theft and blackmail...maybe too ambitious.
janv. 27, 1955
One Foot In Heaven
Season 5Episode 24

One Foot In Heaven

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.
févr. 3, 1955
A Bell For Adano
Season 5Episode 25

A Bell For Adano

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.
févr. 10, 1955
The Copperhead
Season 5Episode 26

The Copperhead

Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
févr. 17, 1955
So Dark The Night
Season 5Episode 27

So Dark The Night

A renowned and relentless Paris detective takes his first vacation in eleven years at a small inn in the French countryside. There he meets and falls in love with the hotelier's daughter, who had been betrothed to a neighboring farmer, but who hopes to marry him and move to Paris. On the evening of their engagement, both the fiancée and the farmer disappear. What has happened to them? Who is responsible? Can the famed detective apply his talents to a rural mystery?
févr. 24, 1955
Casablanca
Season 5Episode 28

Casablanca

Set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
mars 3, 1955
The Life Of Emile Zola
Season 5Episode 29

The Life Of Emile Zola

The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.
mars 10, 1955
It Grows On Trees
Season 5Episode 30

It Grows On Trees

What happens when an American family gets two trees that grow spendable money.
mars 17, 1955
Shadow Of A Doubt
Season 5Episode 31

Shadow Of A Doubt

A young woman discovers her visiting "Uncle Charlie" may not be the man he seems to be.
mars 24, 1955
My Name Is Julia Ross
Season 5Episode 32

My Name Is Julia Ross

Julia Ross is a young woman alone in the world and is in search of a job. She is hired by an elderly woman named Mrs. Hughes to act as her live-in personal secretary. One of Mrs. Hughes' stipulations is that whomever she hire treat this job as one of a long term nature, meaning no current boyfriends or marriage on the horizon. The closest person to Julia was Dennis Bruce, who lived at the same boarding house and who was somewhat sweet on Julia but left to get married to another woman. As such, Julia is grateful for her new job. When Julia awakens after her first night...
mars 31, 1955
The Browning Version
Season 5Episode 33

The Browning Version

Forced to retire from an English public school. a disliked professor must confront his utter failures as a teacher, a husband, and a man.
avr. 7, 1955
No Sad Songs For Me
Season 5Episode 34

No Sad Songs For Me

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow ...
avr. 14, 1955
An Act Of Murder
Season 5Episode 35

An Act Of Murder

A hard-line judge is tempted toward mercy-killing by his wife's terminal cancer.
avr. 21, 1955
The Great McGinty
Season 5Episode 36

The Great McGinty

Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics. But endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
avr. 28, 1955
Remember The Night
Season 5Episode 37

Remember The Night

Just before Christmas, Lee Leander is caught shoplifting. It is her third offense. She is prosecuted by John Sargent. He postpones the trial because it is hard to get a conviction at Christmas time. But he feels sorry for her and arranges for her bail, and ends up taking her home to his mother for Christmas. Surrounded by a loving family (in stark contrast to Lee's own family background) they fall in love. This creates a new problem: how do they handle the upcoming trial?
mai 5, 1955
Eight Iron Men
Season 5Episode 38

Eight Iron Men

Tensions arise when a WW II squadron is ordered not to rescue a squad mate pinned down by the enemy, for fear of risking more lives.
mai 12, 1955
Make Way For Tomorrow
Season 5Episode 39

Make Way For Tomorrow

An elderly couple are forced to separate when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
mai 19, 1955
Thunder On The Hill
Season 5Episode 40

Thunder On The Hill

Convicted murderess Valerie Carns is being transported to Norwich to be executed when a flood strands her and her guards at a convent hospital. Nurse Sister Mary becomes convinced of her innocence and sets out to find the real killer.
mai 26, 1955
The Suspect
Season 5Episode 41

The Suspect

A middle aged man commits murder when he feels that his happiness is threatened. Without remorse the man continues on believing he's executed the perfect crime and won't be caught.
juin 2, 1955
Lightning Strikes Twice
Season 5Episode 42

Lightning Strikes Twice

Sent to a dude ranch in the west to recover her health, a New York actress falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of the murder of his wife.
juin 9, 1955
The Inside Story
Season 5Episode 43

The Inside Story

When money is inadvertently removed from an hotel safe, it leads to all kinds of problems.
juin 16, 1955
Forever Female
Season 5Episode 44

Forever Female

An aging actress refuses to admit she is too old to play the ingénue role anymore.
juin 23, 1955
Last Year's Snow
Season 5Episode 45

Last Year's Snow

juin 30, 1955
The Creaking Gate
Season 5Episode 46

The Creaking Gate

juil. 7, 1955
Dark Tribute
Season 5Episode 47

Dark Tribute

Murder mystery in which a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered.
juil. 14, 1955
Desparate Glory
Season 5Episode 48

Desparate Glory

juil. 21, 1955
The Bride Came C.O.D.
Season 5Episode 49

The Bride Came C.O.D.

A financially-strapped charter pilot hires himself to an oil tycoon to kidnap his madcap daughter and prevent her from marrying a vapid band leader.
juil. 28, 1955
The Nine-Penny Dream
Season 5Episode 50

The Nine-Penny Dream

A dream of winning a penny pool is realized by the meek owner of an English pub, but the prestige he expected eludes him.
août 4, 1955
Perilous Deception
Season 5Episode 51

Perilous Deception

A man murders his wife then makes his interest known to her best friend.
août 11, 1955
Nor All Your Tears
Season 5Episode 52

Nor All Your Tears

août 18, 1955
June Bride
Season 5Episode 53

June Bride

A magazine's staff, including bickering ex-lovers Linda and Carey, cover an Indiana wedding, which goes slightly wrong.
août 25, 1955
The Last Confession
Season 5Episode 54

The Last Confession

sept. 1, 1955
The Happy Man
Season 5Episode 55

The Happy Man

A man finds a wallet in a taxicab with a lot of money in it. He turns it in to the police, who--according to the law--will hold it for 90 days, and if no one claims it, the wallet and its content will be given to the person who found it. However, when his friends and neighbors find out that he turned in the wallet, they ridicule him mercilessly, and he begins to wonder if he did the right thing or not.
sept. 8, 1955
The Lucky Finger
Season 5Episode 56

The Lucky Finger

sept. 15, 1955
The Eyes Of Father Tomasino
Season 5Episode 57

The Eyes Of Father Tomasino

When a gentle older priest is found killed a young man quota the force so he can devote all his time to finding the killer.
sept. 22, 1955

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