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#1 - 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
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#2 - 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
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#3 - 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
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#4 - 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
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#5 - 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
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#6 - 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
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#7 - 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
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#8 - 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
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#9 - 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
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#10 - 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
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#11 - 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
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#12 - 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
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#13 - 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
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#14 - 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
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#15 - The Purple Doorknob
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1951
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: N/A
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#16 - Purple and Fine Linen
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/15/1951
The plot concerns an elderly woman beggar who picks a man's pocket on a London street, persuades her victim not to turn her over to the police and leads him into a series of adventures, during which he discovers that she is no ordinary pickpocket - nor elderly, either.
Director: N/A
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#17 - Manhattan Pastorale
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/22/1951
A spinsterish young schoolteacher finds an abundance of excitement in a visit to the Big City. Her adventures beging when she finds $30,000 in a taxi and turns it over to the police. A visit by mobsters and her involvement in gang warfare follow promptly.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: N/A
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#18 - The Shiny People
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/29/1951
Story of a sideshow barker with a yen for high society after he meets a society gal out slumming.
Director: N/A
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#19 - The Choir Rehearsal
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/5/1951
It takes place in the small New England town of Tuckerton during the early years of the nineteenth century. Esmeralda is expelled from the church coral group because she sings a tuneful melody in the choir. Embarrassed and deeply hurt Esmeralda withdraws from society and stops going to church. She is making plans to leave town when an unexpected ally turns up.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/12/1951
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#21 - To the Lovely Margaret
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/19/1951
Margaret, who lives in the home of her uncle, Professor Adams, is rarely invited to parties or dances. To her surprise she receives an invitation to the important Junior Prom from one of the most handsome young men in town. But, her joy is short-lived for he calls up a day later to break the date in order to take another girl. Just when it looks as though Margaret will continue to be a wallflower someone steps into her home to bring the story or an unexpected and happier ending.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: N/A
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#22 - The Irish Drifter
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/26/1951
Due to his mother and father who are continually fighting and threatening to get divorced, little Robbie Crosley decides to run away. Packing a knapsack he starts for New York where he plans to join the Navy. Before he can get very far, Robbie meets Tim Larkin, a philosophical tramp who is always on the move from one place to another. Robbie stops to tell Tim his story and the kindly drifter decides to take matters into his own hands. He realizes that for the boy's sake he must solve the Crosley's marital problems before taking the youngster back home. But when he visits the parents that evening Tim finds that it will take more than his glib tongue to straighten things out.
Director: N/A
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#23 - Not Guilty of Much
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/5/1951
A young tenant of a Manhattan apartment house spends her working days in a department store. Kitty is in love with a young lawyer named George who lives three flights above her apartment. They can't consider getting married because George has yet to get his first case and doesn't make enough money to support himself. One day, when he is buried in his law books, he receives a message that Kitty has been arrested. She has been accused of stealing an automobile. George rushes to her defense and finds that his first case is also one of the most unusual to ever come before the bar.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Long Distance
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/12/1951
Story of a woman trying against desperate odds to save her husband from unjust execution. Uncovering new evidence that will prove his innocence she tries in a series of time-consuming, frustrating telephone calls to reach the trial judge, the only man who can intervene.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#25 - No Shoes
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/19/1951
A truck driver is awaiting the birth of his first child and certain that it will be a boy, since all his plans for the child are based on that assumption. He is crushed when a nurse informs him his wife has given birth to a girl, he is about to fight with a quiet stranger who tries to reason with him when he learns the most important lesson of his life.
Director: Fielder Cook
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Lux Video Theatre Season 1
Every episode of Lux Video Theatre Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Lux Video Theatre Season 1!
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
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Saturday's Children" is the best rated episode of "Lux Video Theatre" season 1. It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Fielder Cook and written by N/A, it aired on 10/2/1950. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "Rosalind".