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Lux Video Theatre Season 6 Episodes

49 Episodes 1955 - 1956

Episode 1

The Enchanted Cottage

Thu, Sep 29, 195560 mins

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.

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Episode 2

The Amazing Mrs. Holliday

Thu, Oct 6, 195560 mins

An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.

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Episode 3

The Two Dollar Bettor

Thu, Oct 13, 195560 mins

A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to take money from the bank when his funds run low.

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Episode 4

The Human Jungle

Thu, Oct 20, 195560 mins

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. He calls this a cop's war that is the same as a soldier's war with the difference being that people hate cops. His cause isn't helped when a rookie policeman accidentally kills an innocent bystander. And he has to protect police informer Mary Abbott from Swados, a killer in the hire of the man behind the petty mobsters.

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Episode 5

The Lady Gambles

Thu, Oct 27, 195560 mins

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

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Episode 6

Appointment for Love

Thu, Nov 3, 195560 mins

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.

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Episode 7

Bedtime Story

Thu, Nov 10, 195560 mins

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

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Episode 8

The Hunted

Thu, Nov 17, 195560 mins

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.

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Episode 9

Miss Susie Slagle's

Thu, Nov 24, 195560 mins

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

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Episode 10

The Web

Thu, Dec 1, 195560 mins

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.

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Episode 11

Suspicion

Thu, Dec 8, 195560 mins

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

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Episode 12

Branded

Thu, Dec 15, 195560 mins

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.

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Episode 13

Holiday Affair

Thu, Dec 22, 195553 mins

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.

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Episode 14

Cover-Up

Thu, Dec 29, 195560 mins

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

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Episode 15

Hands Across the Table

Thu, Jan 5, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 16

The Unfaithful

Thu, Jan 12, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 17

Ivy

Thu, Jan 19, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 18

Witness to Murder

Mon, Jan 16, 195660 mins

A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.

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Episode 19

The Green Promise

Thu, Feb 2, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 20

The Star

Thu, Feb 9, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 21

Night Song

Thu, Feb 16, 195660 mins

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...

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Episode 22

Hired Wife

Thu, Feb 23, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 23

Here Comes the Groom

Thu, Mar 1, 195660 mins

Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

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Episode 24

Criminal Code

Thu, Mar 8, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 25

Little Boy Lost

Thu, Mar 15, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 26

The Steel Trap

Thu, Mar 22, 195660 mins

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. He is now alone with his conscience, and doesn't know if he can get back and return the money to the bank's vault before the start of business on Monday.

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Episode 27

It Started with Eve

Thu, Mar 29, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 28

Tabloid

Thu, Apr 5, 195660 mins

A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.

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Episode 29

Temptation

Thu, Apr 12, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 30

Betrayed

Thu, Apr 19, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 31

Impact

Thu, Apr 26, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 32

Has Anybody Seen My Gal?

Thu, May 3, 195660 mins

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. The money goes to their heads, and they soon find themselves broke, back in their old house, and back to their old lives. Father back in his shop, Millicent engaged to Dan, and everyone seemingly much happier. Hoping they learned their lesson, Fulton takes his leave of the family.

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Episode 33

The Night of January Sixteenth

Thu, May 10, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 34

Princess O'Rourke

Thu, May 17, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 35

Millie's Daughter

Thu, May 24, 195660 mins

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. When the check is stopped, Millie self-reports her embezzlement to the authorities.

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Episode 36

Indiscreet

Thu, May 31, 195660 mins

The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy due to his wife's past, which eventually catches up to her.

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Episode 37

She Married Her Boss

Thu, Jun 7, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 38

A House of His Own

Thu, Jun 14, 195660 mins

An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole. All are in favor except for one member.

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Episode 39

The Corrigan Case

Thu, Jun 21, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 40

A Yankee Cousin

Thu, Jun 28, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 41

A Marriage Day

Thu, Jul 5, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 42

Sting in the Tail

Thu, Jul 12, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 43

No One to Cry With

Thu, Jul 19, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 44

Miss Mabel

Thu, Jul 26, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 45

The Quick and the Dead

Thu, Aug 2, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 46

Rebuke Me Not

Thu, Aug 9, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 47

The Wayward Saint

Thu, Aug 30, 195660 mins

A beloved, aging Irish priest, looked upon by his parishioners as a veritable saint, falls victim to one form of corruption, vanity..

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Episode 48

Road of Fear

Thu, Sep 6, 195660 mins

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Episode 49

The Top Rung

Thu, Sep 13, 195660 mins

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