Lux Video Theatre - Season 6

Lux Video Theatre - Season 6

Season 6

Network
DatesSep 29, 1955 - Aug 9, 1956
Previous Season

Episodes

The Enchanted Cottage
Season 6Episode 1

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. 

Sep 29, 1955
The Amazing Mrs. Halliday
Season 6Episode 2

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
The Two Dollar Bettor
Season 6Episode 3

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
The Human Jungle
Season 6Episode 4

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. 

Oct 20, 1955
The Lady Gambles
Season 6Episode 5

The Lady Gambles

A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling. 

Oct 27, 1955
Appointment for Love
Season 6Episode 6

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
Bedtime Story
Season 6Episode 7

Bedtime Story

Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play. 

Nov 10, 1955
The Hunted
Season 6Episode 8

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
Miss Susie Slagle's
Season 6Episode 9

Miss Susie Slagle's

Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students. 

Nov 24, 1955
The Web
Season 6Episode 10

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
Suspicion
Season 6Episode 11

Suspicion

A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.

Dec 8, 1955
Branded
Season 6Episode 12

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
Holiday Affair
Season 6Episode 13

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
Cover-Up
Season 6Episode 14

Cover-Up

An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man. 

Dec 29, 1955
Hands Across the Table
Season 6Episode 15

Hands Across the Table

A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.

Jan 5, 1956
The Unfaithful
Season 6Episode 16

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
Ivy
Season 6Episode 17

Ivy

An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?

Jan 19, 1956
Witness to Murder
Season 6Episode 18

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
The Green Promise
Season 6Episode 19

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
The Star
Season 6Episode 20

The Star

A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back. 

Feb 9, 1956
Night Song
Season 6Episode 21

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
Hired Way
Season 6Episode 22

Hired Way

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
Here Comes the Groom
Season 6Episode 23

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.

Mar 1, 1956
Criminal Code
Season 6Episode 24

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. 

Mar 8, 1956
Little Boy Lost
Season 6Episode 25

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. 

Mar 15, 1956
The Steel Trap
Season 6Episode 26

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. 

Mar 22, 1956
It Started With Eve
Season 6Episode 27

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. 

Mar 29, 1956
Tabloid
Season 6Episode 28

Tabloid

A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin. 

Apr 5, 1956
Temptation
Season 6Episode 29

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. 

Apr 12, 1956
Betrayed
Season 6Episode 30

Betrayed

A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder. 

Apr 19, 1956
Impact
Season 6Episode 31

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. 

Apr 26, 1956
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
Season 6Episode 32

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. 

May 3, 1956
The Night of January Sixteenth
Season 6Episode 33

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
Princess O'Rourke
Season 6Episode 34

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
Millie's Daughter
Season 6Episode 35

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. 

May 24, 1956
Indiscreet
Season 6Episode 36

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
She Married Her Boss
Season 6Episode 37

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.

Jun 7, 1956
A House of His Own
Season 6Episode 38

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.

Jun 14, 1956
The Corrigan Case
Season 6Episode 39

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.

Jun 21, 1956
A Yankee Cousin
Season 6Episode 40

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.

Jun 28, 1956
A Marriage Day
Season 6Episode 41

A Marriage Day

A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected in her marriage to a handsome young man.

Jul 5, 1956
Sting in the Tail
Season 6Episode 42

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.

Jul 12, 1956
No One to Cry With
Season 6Episode 43

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.

Jul 19, 1956
Miss Mabel
Season 6Episode 44

Miss Mabel

After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.

Jul 26, 1956
The Quick and the Dead
Season 6Episode 45

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
Rebuke Me Not
Season 6Episode 46

Rebuke Me Not

An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife.

Aug 9, 1956

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