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The Best Episodes of Lux Video Theatre

Every episode of Lux Video Theatre ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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,...
Genres:DramaComedy
Network:CBS

Best Episodes Summary

"The Hard Way" is the best rated episode of "Lux Video Theatre". It scored 8.8/10 based on 8 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/2/1957. This episode scored 0.8 points higher than the second highest rated, "Witness for the Prosecution".

  • The Hard Way
    8.8/108 votes
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    #1 - The Hard Way

    Season 7 Episode 34 - Aired 5/2/1957

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Witness for the Prosecution
    8.0/107 votes
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    #2 - Witness for the Prosecution

    Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1953

    Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Sunset Boulevard
    8.0/1011 votes
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    #3 - Sunset Boulevard

    Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 1/6/1955

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

    Director: Buzz Kulik

    Writer: N/A

  • The Life of Emile Zola
    7.7/1013 votes
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    #4 - The Life of Emile Zola

    Season 5 Episode 29 - Aired 3/10/1955

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

    Director: Buzz Kulik

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gay Sisters
    7.4/108 votes
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    #5 - The Gay Sisters

    Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 11/22/1956

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Night of January Sixteenth
    6.9/1013 votes
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    #6 - The Night of January Sixteenth

    Season 6 Episode 33 - Aired 5/10/1956

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Holiday Affair
    6.8/1027 votes
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    #7 - Holiday Affair

    Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 12/22/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley
    6.0/101 votes
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    #8 - Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley

    Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 2/18/1952

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Foggy, Foggy Dew
    6.0/101 votes
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    #9 - The Foggy, Foggy Dew

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 3/17/1952

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Each His Own
    6.0/101 votes
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    #10 - To Each His Own

    Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1954

    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: N/A

  • The Magnolia Touch
    5.0/101 votes
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    #11 - The Magnolia Touch

    Season 2 Episode 53 - Aired 8/25/1952

    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: N/A

  • Saturday's Children
    NaN/100 votes
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    #12 - Saturday's Children

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1950

    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: N/A

  • Rosalind
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    #13 - Rosalind

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1950

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Shadow on the Heart
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    #14 - Shadow on the Heart

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1950

    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: N/A

  • The Valient
    NaN/100 votes
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    #15 - The Valient

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1950

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Mine to Have
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    #16 - Mine to Have

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1950

    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: N/A

  • That Wonderful Night
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    #17 - That Wonderful Night

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1950

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gallant Lady
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    #18 - Gallant Lady

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1950

    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: N/A

  • Goodnight, Please
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    #19 - Goodnight, Please

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1950

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Token
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    #20 - The Token

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1950

    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: N/A

  • To Thine Own Self
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    #21 - To Thine Own Self

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1950

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Lovely Menace
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    #22 - The Lovely Menace

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1950

    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: N/A

  • Down Bayou Du Bac
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    #23 - Down Bayou Du Bac

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/18/1950

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Child is Born
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    #24 - A Child is Born

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1950

    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: N/A

  • A Well-Remembered Voice
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    #25 - A Well-Remembered Voice

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1951

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A