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Lux Video Theatre Season 7 Episodes

49 Episodes 1956 - 1957

Episode 1

Mildred Pierce

Thu, Sep 20, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 2

Only Yesterday

Thu, Sep 27, 195660 mins

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Episode 3

Now, Voyager

Thu, Oct 4, 195660 mins

Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.

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Episode 4

The Guilty

Thu, Oct 11, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 5

Flamingo Road

Thu, Oct 18, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 6

Because of You

Thu, Oct 25, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 7

You Can't Escape Forever

Thu, Nov 1, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 8

Jezebel

Thu, Nov 8, 195630 mins

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

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Episode 9

The Glass Web

Thu, Nov 15, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 10

The Gay Sisters

Thu, Nov 22, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 11

Old Acquaintance

Thu, Nov 29, 195660 mins

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

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Episode 12

Christmas in Connecticut

Thu, Dec 13, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 13

Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue

Thu, Dec 20, 195660 mins

Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.

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Episode 14

Michael and Mary

Thu, Dec 27, 195660 mins

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.

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Episode 15

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Thu, Jan 3, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 16

Just Across the Street

Thu, Jan 10, 195760 mins

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Episode 17

To Have and Have Not

Thu, Jan 17, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 18

Vice Squad

Thu, Jan 24, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 19

One Sunday Afternoon

Thu, Jan 31, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 20

The Undesirable

Thu, Feb 7, 195760 mins

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Episode 21

Dark Victory

Thu, Feb 14, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 22

One Way Street

Thu, Feb 21, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 23

Possessed

Thu, Feb 28, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 24

One Way Passage

Thu, Mar 7, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 25

Eileen

Thu, Mar 14, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 26

The Great Lie

Thu, Mar 21, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 27

The Black Angel

Thu, Mar 28, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 28

Adam Had Four Sons

Thu, Apr 4, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 29

The Taggart Light

Thu, Apr 18, 195760 mins

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Episode 30

The Man Who Played God

Thu, Apr 25, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 31

The Hard Way

Thu, May 2, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 32

Stand-In for Murder

Thu, May 9, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 33

Death Do Us Part

Thu, May 16, 195760 mins

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Episode 34

The Armed Venus

Thu, May 23, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 35

Paris Calling

Thu, May 30, 195760 mins

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Episode 36

Payment in Kind

Thu, Jun 6, 195760 mins

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Episode 37

Design for November

Thu, Jun 13, 195760 mins

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Episode 38

Edge of Doubt

Thu, Jun 20, 195760 mins

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Episode 39

The Latch Key

Thu, Jun 27, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 40

Who Is Picasso?

Thu, Jul 4, 195760 mins

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Episode 41

The Softest Music

Thu, Jul 11, 195760 mins

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Episode 42

Summer Return

Thu, Jul 18, 195760 mins

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Episode 43

High Tension

Thu, Jul 25, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 44

Dark Hammock

Thu, Aug 1, 195760 mins

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Episode 45

Barren Harvest

Thu, Aug 8, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 46

Judge Not

Thu, Aug 15, 195760 mins

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

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Episode 47

Diagnosis: Homicide

Thu, Aug 22, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 48

Old Witch, Old Witch

Thu, Sep 5, 195760 mins

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.

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Episode 49

The Last Act

Thu, Sep 12, 195760 mins

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.

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