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The Best Episodes of Lux Video Theatre

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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 Season 5 Episode 25 - A Bell for Adano
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - A Bell for Adano

    S5:E25

    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. The relations between the lovable U.S. officers and equally lovable natives of occupied countries is interesting. Edmond O'Brien was effective as the idealistic Major Joppolo, and Charles Bronson played that familiar folk hero, the tough sergeant with the heart of gold.

    Director:Richard Goode
    Writer:Richard P. McDonagh

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  2. Lux Video Theatre Season 5 Episode 20 - Sunset Boulevard
    8.5/10(16 votes)

    #2 - Sunset Boulevard

    S5:E20

    A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent-film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Lux Video Theatre Season 5 Episode 26 - The Copperhead
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Copperhead

    S5:E26

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Lux Video Theatre Season 6 Episode 13 - Holiday Affair
    6.9/10(31 votes)

    #4 - Holiday Affair

    S6:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 26 - Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley

    S2:E26

    A veteran uses his GI allotment to further his education and win the love of the school teacher.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 30 - The Foggy, Foggy Dew
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Foggy, Foggy Dew

    S2:E30

    Kyle had been brought up by foster parents. On a hunting trip he meets his biological father, a strange looking drifter with a guitar.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lux Video Theatre Season 5 Episode 1 - To Each His Own
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - To Each His Own

    S5:E1

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lux Video Theatre Season 5 Episode 29 - The Life of Emile Zola
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Life of Emile Zola

    S5:E29

    The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfuss Affair.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Lux Video Theatre Season 6 Episode 33 - The Night of January Sixteenth
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Night of January Sixteenth

    S6:E33

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 53 - The Magnolia Touch
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Magnolia Touch

    S2:E53

    A married Dixie gentleman smitten by a young Southern belle now living in Manhattan invites him to her apartment for an old homestyle dinner.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 1 - Saturday's Children
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - Saturday's Children

    S1:E1

    Pretty Bobby Halevy loves Rims Rosson, a dreamer and inventor without much going for him. Rims has a scheme of going to Manila to turn hemp into silk and become rich. But when one of her family talks Bobby into tricking Rims into marriage, the real world comes crashing down on the couple.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 2 - Rosalind
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Rosalind

    S1:E2

    An aging actress resists the fact that she is no longer able to play ingénue roles.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 3 - Shadow on the Heart
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Shadow on the Heart

    S1:E3

    Coast Guard Seaman Red Harrington on duty at Cape Cod, meets a pretty girl named Stormy Denton. Only after he has developed a fondness for her does he discover that she is blind. But it doesn't make any difference to the young sailor. He wants to marry her. All he knows about her past is that she was wounded and lost her sight while serving as an Army nurse during the War. She is to undergo a special operation on her eyes and is anxiously awaited not only by Red bu an ex-fiance whom she has not heard from since her injury.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 4 - The Valient
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Valient

    S1:E4

    A convicted murderer steadfastly refuses to reveal his real identity leaves the warden and prison chaplain with no luck in penetrating the man's silence. A girl who thinks he might be her brother visits the convict.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 5 - Mine to Have
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - Mine to Have

    S1:E5

    When her husband is killed in trying to elude police, she is imprisoned as his accomplice. She discovers that she is going to have a baby and after the child is born, that she must give it up. Her only hope for her baby's security and her own peace of mind is a policeman who has befriended her.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 6 - That Wonderful Night
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - That Wonderful Night

    S1:E6

    An English girl is thoroughly unimpressed by winning a date with an American Movie idol she never heard of. The date is the idea of a press-agent trying to stir up interest in the actor's newest movie. The girl's disinterest in the stunt and the actor's general boredom with publicity stunts forbode a grim evening, until events take a surprising turn.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 7 - Gallant Lady
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Gallant Lady

    S1:E7

    A woman discovers that her husband, who disappeared seven years ago, was suffering amnesia and is now happily living with a new wife and their child. She must decide whether to disrupt his new-found family life or remake her own.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 8 - Goodnight, Please
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Goodnight, Please

    S1:E8

    A besieged bank executive decides that the high pressure business isn't worth the aggravation. Fed up with questions he simply went to bed.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 9 - The Token
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - The Token

    S1:E9

    Story of a fiery girl with a great love for the sea, during the days of American's great clipper fleets.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 10 - To Thine Own Self
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - To Thine Own Self

    S1:E10

    A stock broker plans to rob his clients. After emptying the safe, he reserves a train compartment under an assumed name, shaves off his moustache and removes all marks of his identity from his clothing in the hope of leading a new life of a wealthy investor in another city. Just an hour before his scheduled departure a strange girl approaches him and tries to persuade him to remain honest.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 11 - The Lovely Menace
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - The Lovely Menace

    S1:E11

    Marie Overbrook, is a young French widow of an American soldier, who is suddenly cast in the midst of high society. Living with her father-in-law, Marie is invited to a party where she will meet al of her husband's old friends. Before the party, the girl confesses that she is afraid of making a fool of herself in front of all the guests. Moreover, she is even more frightened by the prospect of being treated like a poor French peasant. But at the affair everything goes differently than she had anticipated. The young widow makes a great hit with the men and they heap attention on her. All the women, however resent her for fear she is stealing their husbands. Marie finds that she has unwittingly become the competitor of every woman there.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 12 - Down Bayou Du Bac
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Down Bayou Du Bac

    S1:E12

    The story is set in the Louisiana Bayou, where young sweethearts parents' try to break up their romance.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 13 - A Child is Born
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - A Child is Born

    S1:E13

    The child born in none other than Jesus Christ and the event that was to rock the world is seen through the eyes of an innkeeper and his wife.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 14 - A Well-Remembered Voice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - A Well-Remembered Voice

    S1:E14

    A husband and wife are drifting apart because one doesn't think the other is sad enough about their son's death.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Lux Video Theatre Season 1 Episode 15 - The Purple Doorknob
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Purple Doorknob

    S1:E15

    A spirited old woman hopes for a little excitement in her quiet life in a small New England town, and gets it when a famous actress knocks at her door one night with a strange request.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"A Bell for Adano" is the best rated episode of "Lux Video Theatre". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Richard Goode and written by Richard P. McDonagh, it aired on 2/10/1955. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sunset Boulevard".