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The Best Episodes of Lux Video Theatre Season 2

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

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

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

    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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  4. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 1 - The Pacing Goose
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E1

    A farm woman would rather raise a goose as a pet than a cat.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 2 - Forever Walking Free
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E2

    The story takes place in London during the height of the "Battle of Britain" when the Luftwaffe was bombing the populace. Joan Warrock's home has been bombed. She meets an American Air Force gunner, Buster Menton, in the blackout-darkened streets shortly afterwards and he takes her to an afterhour "pub" to calm her nerves. It isn't until the evening is over that she realizes there has been something strange about the place and about Buster. Her thoughts return to the party in the bombed building and she dreads all the future bombing that will come, until Menton convinces her that he knows that she has nothing to worry about in the future.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 3 - It's a Promise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E3

    A young roomer's life is unexpectedly altered by a seven-year-old child.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 4 - A Family Affair
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E4

    An outwardly weak-kneed, henpecked member of Philadelphia's elite, Sumner Scofield II is constantly reminded by his wife that he must look down his bank-roll at anyone not in the same financial and social bracket as the Scofields. When their son Will, home from Yale for Spring vacation declares he wants to quit college and marry a vocalist in a band, Agnes Scofield tells Sumner the family must "buy the girl off". Sumner's encounter with the young singer takes an unusual turn which allows him to assert himself for once in his life.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 5 - A Matter of Life
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E5

    A widower, realizes to his astonishment that his daughter, a typical wholesome American girl, begins to act strangely almost overnight, stealing and disobeying him. When he shadows her one night, he realizes she has fallen in with drug addicts and herself becomes addicted to narcotics.

    Director:Richard Goode
    Writer:Mac Shoub

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  9. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 6 - Grandma Was an Actress
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E6

    An old woman seeks to persuade her granddaughter to go on the stage against her son's opposition.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 7 - Route 19
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E7

    Maryjane finds herself in a lonely bus station on a desolate highway one rainy night shortly after it is reported that a homicidal maniac is at large in the area. There are only two people in the station and Maryjane suspects that one of them is the killer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 8 - Cafe Ami
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E8

    In Western Germany an Army sergeant feels there is something strange about the proprietor of a cafe, but doesn't believe a German girl who says the man is an exNazi concentration camp commandant.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 9 - The Twinkle in Her Eye
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E9

    A bachelor's sister believes he should get married. She hires a housekeeper for him and he refuses to have the girl in the house until he meets her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 10 - The Doctor's Wife
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E10

    A young wife of a doctor tries to help him by learning his profession. She learns far too well and nearly causes her husband to lose his medical license.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 11 - Confession
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E11

    Story of a small town bank cashier dismissed from his job, after the bank's president John Gresham is indicted for embezzlement. The bank trustees suspect that Baldwin is involved in the crime but don't accuse him. He cannot find other work because of the scandal and is practically penniless when he receives a strange offer of $100,000 if he will leave town.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 12 - No Will of His Own
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E12

    An excavation inspector finds an original play by William Shakespear in the ruins of an old London house and connives to pass it off as a creation of his own.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 13 - Stolen Years
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E13

    The easy-going life on a Chinese river port of four foreign agents for American firms is unexpectedly interrupted by Detective Yates of the San Francisco police department, who announces he wants one of them as a fugitive from a California murder warrant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 14 - Dames are Poison
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E14

    A nurse is forced to make a shrewd real estate deal when five roommates leave her with a lease for a huge house.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 15 - Tin Badge
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E15

    A beat cop finds that making the arrest of a wanted killer has its aftermath - attacks by vengeful henchmen.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 16 - Second Sight
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E16

    Story of a secretary hired by a blinded foreign correspondent to take down his memories and in so doing proves a fateful influence on his life.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 17 - The Blues Street
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E17

    Pete Cornelius the 19-year-old son of a wealthy businessman is on his way to college for his first year's studies but when he stops off in New Orleans on the way to the school Pete becomes fascinated with the city. He also becomes interested in a nightclub vocalist, Lou Jansen and decides against catching his train for the University. His disappearance causes his father to send out a nationwide alarm and offers $1000 reward for his son's return. When this is announced Lou plays a different part in his life than he had anticipated.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 18 - A Child is Born
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E18

    The story of the Innkeeper and his wife in the town of Bethlehem during the reign of King Herod.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 19 - The Jest of Hahalaba
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E19

    A British business man whose clairvoyance plays tricks on him on New Year's Eve.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 20 - Mr. Finchley Versus the Bomb
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E20

    Finchley refuses to move from an old ghost town he calls home. The Army has planned to test the atom bomb at the site but Finchley will not budge.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Rod Serling

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  24. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 21 - Ceylon Treasure
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E21

    Adventurer Dave Rorsford arrives at a hotel in Ceylon carrying a gem worth a fortune, an international band of thieves immediately find out about it and make plans to steal it. A blonde named Alma also turns up at the same hotel hoping to buy the jewel. Indirectly she lures Rorsford into a trap set by the plotters. However, once she has betrayed him, Alma makes new plans to secure the diamond.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Lux Video Theatre Season 2 Episode 22 - The Sound of Waves Breaking
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S2:E22

    Mike Brackauer shrugs off his success as an artist, feeling that his rise to fame has been based on technical proficiency without any deep creative talent. He becomes increasingly moody over his failure to inject what he terms "the spark of life" into his paintings. His confidence in himself is suddenly restored when a department stor salesgirl tells him she can hear the sound of waves breaking when she looks at one of his seascape paintings. A short time later they fall in love and plan marriage until Brackauer's confidence again leaves him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Life, Liberty and Orrin Dudley" is the best rated episode of "Lux Video Theatre" season 2. It scored 6/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/18/1952. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Foggy, Foggy Dew".