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Lux Video Theatre Season 7

August. 30,1956

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Lux Video Theatre

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.

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Lux Video Theatre

1950

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Lux Video Theatre Season 7 Full Episode Guide

Episode 52 - The Last Act

First Aired: September. 12,1957

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.

Episode 51 - Old Witch, Old Witch

First Aired: September. 05,1957

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.

Episode 50 - Diagnosis - Homicide

First Aired: August. 22,1957

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.

Episode 49 - Judge Not

First Aired: August. 15,1957

A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.

Episode 48 - Barren Harvest

First Aired: August. 08,1957

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.

Episode 47 - Dark Hammock

First Aired: August. 01,1957

Episode 46 - High Tension

First Aired: July. 25,1957

The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.

Episode 45 - Summer Return

First Aired: July. 18,1957

Episode 44 - The Softest Music

First Aired: July. 11,1957

Episode 43 - Who is Picasso?

First Aired: July. 04,1957

Episode 42 - The Latch Key

First Aired: June. 27,1957

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.

Episode 41 - Edge of Doubt

First Aired: June. 20,1957

Episode 40 - Design for November

First Aired: June. 13,1957

Episode 39 - Payment in Kind

First Aired: June. 06,1957

Episode 38 - Paris Calling

First Aired: May. 30,1957

Episode 37 - The Armed Venus

First Aired: May. 23,1957

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.

Episode 36 - Death Do Us Part

First Aired: May. 16,1957

Episode 35 - Stand-In for Murder

First Aired: May. 09,1957

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.

Episode 34 - The Hard Way

First Aired: May. 02,1957

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.

Episode 33 - The Man Who Played God

First Aired: April. 25,1957

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

Episode 32 - The Taggart Light

First Aired: April. 18,1957

Episode 31 - Adam Had Four Sons

First Aired: April. 04,1957

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.

Episode 30 - The Black Angel

First Aired: March. 28,1957

When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.

Episode 29 - The Great Lie

First Aired: March. 21,1957

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.

Episode 28 - Eileen

First Aired: March. 14,1957

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.

Episode 27 - One Way Passage

First Aired: March. 07,1957

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.

Episode 26 - Possessed

First Aired: February. 28,1957

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.

Episode 25 - One Way Street

First Aired: February. 21,1957

After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.

Episode 24 - Dark Victory

First Aired: February. 14,1957

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.

Episode 23 - The Undesirable

First Aired: February. 07,1957

Episode 22 - One Sunday Afternoon

First Aired: January. 31,1957

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

Episode 21 - Vice Squad

First Aired: January. 24,1957

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.

Episode 20 - To Have and Have Not

First Aired: January. 17,1957

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.

Episode 19 - Just Across the Street

First Aired: January. 10,1957

Episode 18 - It Happened on Fifth Avenue

First Aired: January. 03,1957

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.

Episode 17 - Michael and Mary

First Aired: December. 27,1956

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.

Episode 16 - Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue

First Aired: December. 20,1956

Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.

Episode 15 - Christmas in Connecticut

First Aired: December. 13,1956

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.

Episode 14 - Old Acquaintance

First Aired: November. 29,1956

Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.

Episode 13 - The Gay Sisters

First Aired: November. 22,1956

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.

Episode 12 - The Glass Web

First Aired: November. 15,1956

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.

Episode 11 - Jezebel

First Aired: November. 08,1956

A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.

Episode 10 - You Can't Escape Forever

First Aired: November. 01,1956

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.

Episode 9 - Because of You

First Aired: October. 25,1956

A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.

Episode 8 - Flamingo Road

First Aired: October. 18,1956

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.

Episode 7 - The Guilty

First Aired: October. 11,1956

Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.

Episode 6 - Now, Voyager

First Aired: October. 04,1956

Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

Episode 5 - Only Yesterday

First Aired: September. 27,1956

Episode 4 - Mildred Pierce

First Aired: September. 20,1956

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.