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 LUX VIDEO THEATRE

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Episode Guide
version
22 August 2009

(Season 6)
compiled by
The Classic TV Archive
http://ctva.biz/index.htm

with contributions by:

James Beers (ep. Nothing So Monstrous)
Rina Fox
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database (http://us.imdb.com)
UCLA Film and Television Archive

 

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LUX VIDEO THEATRE

aka Video Theatre

aka The Lux Video Theatre

aka Producer's Choice (syndication early 60's)

aka Curtain Call Theatre (summer title)

Oct 1950-Jun 1951 CBS Mon 8:00-8:30

Aug 1951-Mar 1953 CBS Mon 8:00-8:30

Apr 1953-Jun 1954 CBS Thu 9:00-9:30

Aug 1954-Sep 1957 NBC Thu 10:00-11:00

Host:

James Mason (1954-55)

Otto Kruger (1955-56)

Gordon MacRae (1956-57)

Ken Carpenter (summers 1955-57)

The Lux Radio Theatre was on radio for 16 years before making its

debut as a weekly dramatic series.

The first live play, from New York was an adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's

play 'Saturday's Children'.

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1.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SATURDAY'S CHILDREN

02-Oct-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendella

adapted from Maxwell Anderson's story.

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Joan Caulfield as Bobby

Dean Harens as Rims

Eileen Heckart as Florie

Una O'Connor as Mrs. Gorlick

Ralph Riggs as Mr. Halevy

Peter Thompson as Messenger

John Ericson as Mike

 

1.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ROSALIND

09-Oct-1950 CBS Mon

directed by Larry Goldwasser

starring

Luise Rainer as Mrs. Page

David Wainwright as Charles Roche

Kate Tomlinson as Dame Quickly

Edward H. Kramer as Messenger

 

1.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SHADOW ON THE HEART

16-Oct-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendedella

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Veronica Lake as Stormy Denton

Gene Lyons as Red Galligher

Roy Fant as Gramps

William Kemp as Steve

Robert Allen as Skipper

Myron Kellin as Tuttle

Walter Matthau as First Coastguardsman

Virginia Tate as Nurse

 

1.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE VALIENT

23-Oct-1950 CBS Mon

directed by Larry Goldwasser

starring

Zachary Scott as James Dyke

Harold E. Vermilyea as Warden Holt

Wendy Drew as The Girl

Graham W. Velsey as Father Daly

Hy Anzel as Dan

Edmund Morris as Jailer

Bill Hellinger as Prisoner #1

James Reason as Prisoner #2

 

1.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MINE TO HAVE

30-Oct-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendedella

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Nina Foch as Flo

Andrew Duggan as Mahoney

Muriel Landers as Head Nurse

Eileen Page as Smitty

Maxine Stuart as Millie

Janet Fox as Henrietta

Norma Winters as Addie

 

1.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THAT WONDERFUL NIGHT

06-Nov-1950 CBS Mon

written by Ellis Marcus

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Angela Lansbury as Leslie

Thomas Glen Langan as Arnold Imes

Cliff Hall as Jameson

Jean Sincere as Grace

Harry Davis as Sims

Terry O'Sullivan as Announcer

Tom McElhaney as Daniels

Henrietta Moore as Hope Beauville

 

1.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GALLANT LADY

13-Nov-1950 CBS Mon

written by John Robert Lloyd

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Ruth Hussey as Linda Carson

Herbert Rudley as Doctor Carson

Audra Lindley as Irene Stoddard

John Steven as Paul Hewitt

Fran Lee as Selma

Elizabeth Dillon as Miss Lee

Helen Marcy as Marilyn Adams

Leon Shaw as Peter Adams

 

1.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GOODNIGHT, PLEASE

20-Nov-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cenedella

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Franchot Tone as Meredith Whitehouse

Jan Sherwood as Lucy Whitehouse

Claude Allister as Burton

Ruth Altman as Mrs. Dele Beque

Erik Rhodes as Dr. Gardiner

Douglas Gregory as Mr. McWinkle, First Vice President

Donald Keyes as Vice President #2

Albert Bergh as Vice President #3

 

1.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE TOKEN

27-Nov-1950 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Wanda Hendrix as Sumatra

Dean Harens as Epes Calef

June Dayton as Annice

John Stephen as Ira Calef

Ruth Hammond as Mother Calef

Robert Morgan as John Nickerson

Sandy Kenyon as Fireman #1

Lee Filips as Fireman #2

 

1.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TO THINE OWN SELF

04-Dec-1950 CBS Mon

written by Joseph Liss

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Melvyn Douglas as James Strickland

Katharine Bard as The Girl

Walter Burke as Benson

Royal Dano as Sergeant Finley

James Sheridan as Sheridan

Roy Baime as Ticket Agent

Arthur Little Jr. Melvyn Douglas Double

 

1.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LOVELY MENACE

11-Dec-1950 CBS Mon

written by Eric Hatch

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Mercedes McCambridge as Marie

Walter Abel as Joe Holmby

Dorothy Elder as Peggy Harding

Sydney Smith as Tim Harding

Jean Sincere as Genevieve Packard

Karen Stevens as Molly Grimes

Elizabeth Dillon as Sarah Wayne

Mercer McLeod as Mr. Overbrook

 

1.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DOWN BAYOU DU BAC

18-Dec-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendedella

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Diana Lynn as Ruth Deeves

Lon McCallister as Ed Brown

Charles Dingle as Mr. Wendell Deeves

Mabel Paige as Aunt Lydia

Hazel Jones as Mrs. Deeves

Tom McElhaney as Mr. Brown

Marga Ann Deighton as Mrs. Brown

Donald Keyes as Minister

 

1.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A CHILD IS BORN

25-Dec-1950 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendedella

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fay Bainter as Innkeeper's Wife

Gene Lockhart as Innkeeper

Ann Marno as Leah

Elizabeth Ross as Sarah

Robert Morgan as Dismas

William Darrid as Soldier

Alan Shayne as Joseph

Jacques Aubuchon as Prefect

 

1.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A WELL-REMEMBERED VOICE

01-Jan-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Brian Ahern as Mr. Don

Renee Gadd as Mrs. Don

Denholm Elliott as Dick

Karen Laporte as Laura

Robert Oswald Marshall as Mr. Rogers

Robin Craven as Major Armitage

 

1.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE PURPLE DOORKNOB

08-Jan-1951 CBS Mon

written by Walter Richard Eaton

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Josephine Hull as Mrs. Bartholomew

Virginia Sale as Mrs. Dunbar

Felicia Montealegro as Viola Cole

 

1.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PURPLE AND FINE LINEN

15-Jan-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Basil Rathbone as Frampton

Rex Everhart as Extra

Ilona Massey as Lady Malvern

Claude Allister as Butler to Frampton

Frances Greet as Saleslady

Adia Kusnetsoff as Grigor

Robert Oswald Marshall as Butler to Lord Malvern

Malcolm Beggs as Lord Malvern

Hugh Green as Bobby

 

1.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MANHATTAN PASTORALE

22-Jan-1951 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cendedella

directed by Fielder Cook

starirng

Teresa Wright as Emily

Francis Lederer as Charles

Myron Kellin as Two Times

Murvyn Vye as Tiny Tim

Harold Stone as Clerk

Walter Matthau as Inspector

William F. Sands as Reporter #1

Knox Fowler as Reporter #2

 

1.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SHINY PEOPLE

29-Jan-1951 CBS Mon

written by Eric Hatch

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Kene Holliday  as Wally

Elinor Randel as Mary

Jacqueline DeWitt as Phyllis

Karl Lukas as Bob

J. Pat O'Malley as Alf

Art Smith as Pop

Ruth Hope as Mrs. Thompson

Doris Patston as Emily

 

1.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CHOIR REHEARSAL

05-Feb-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Martha Scott as Esmerelda

Robert Sterling as Alan

Enid Markey as Abigail

Parker Fennelly as William

Thomas Reaphy as Amos

Robert Le Sueur as Enoch

 

1.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS

12-Feb-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Raymond Massey as Abe Lincoln

Muriel Kirkland as Mary

Calvin Thomas as Josh Speed

Walter Davis as Sturveson

Charles Evans as Dr. Barrick

Frank Tweddell as Crimmin

Joseph Foley as Billy Herndon

Ed Cullen as Ninian Edwards

 

1.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TO THE LOVELY MARGARET

19-Feb-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Anna Lee as Julia

Margaret O'Brien as Margaret

Skip Homeier as Kirk

Ivan Simpson as Professor Adams

Pat Gaye as Jackie

 

1.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE IRISH DRIFTER

26-Feb-1951 CBS Mon

written by Charles Devlin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Pat O'Brien as Tim Larkin

Jonathan Marlowe as Robbie Crosley

Dulcy Jordan as Melanie

Robert Dale Martin as Larry

Paul Lipson as Krull

Walter Appler as Cop

 

1.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NOT GUILTY OF MUCH

05-Mar-1951 CBS Mon

written by Eric Hatch

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Dane Clark as George

Bonita Granville as Kitty

Maxine Stuart as Marcia

Neva Patterson as Thelma

Biff McGuire as Officer Miles

Roland Winters as Judge Hampton

Maurice Manson as Sergeant

Vaughn Taylor as Court Clerk

 

1.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LONG DISTANCE

12-Mar-1951 CBS Mon

written by Harry Junkin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Miriam Hopkins as Bertha Jacks

Richard Abbott as Warden

Lila Lee as Mrs. McLean

Elinor Wright as New York Operator

Helen Donaldson as Miss Milton

Rosemary Murphy as Oakland Operator

Henrietta Moore as Info Operator

Floyd Buckley as Henderson

 

1.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NO SHOES

19-Mar-1951 CBS Mon

written by Lawrence Du Pont

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Jack Carson as Garrison

Ernest Graves as John Norman

Tom McElhaney as Olson

Brenda Forbes as Nurse

Bill Romaine as Doctor

Janet Fox as Mrs. Spragel

Mary Cahoon as Nurse

Charlene Harris Victor as Nurse

 

1.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE TREASURE TROVE

26-Mar-1951 CBS Mon

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Bruce Cabot as Tony

Dick Foran as Bob

Barbara Britton as Hilda

Vera Millish as Brenda

Halliwell Hobbes as Justin

Susan Delmar as Hannah

 

1.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE OLD LADY SHOWS HER MEDALS

02-Apr-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Robert Preston as Dowey

Margaret Wycherly as Mrs. Downey

Rosalind Ivan as Mrs. Mickleham

Maida Reade as Mrs. Twymley

Phoebe MacKay as Mrs. Haggerty

Stuart MacIntosh as Mr. Willings

Evelyn Wall as Extra in Street

 

1.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: COLUMN ITEM

09-Apr-1951 CBS Mon

written by Carol Warner Gluck

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Laraine Day as Sophie

John Newland as Eli Norman

Tom Coley as Jack Harrow

Rita Lynn as Della Weston

Harry Davis as Bill Brady

Ruth Hope as Miss Parker

 

1.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HERITAGE ON WIMPOLE STREET

16-Apr-1951 CBS Mon

written by Robert Knipe

directed by Feilder Cook

starring

Walter Hampden as Barrett

Patricia Wheel as Henrietta

Emily Lawrence as Arabel

Judson Rees as Robert Browning Jr.

Ruth McDevitt as Jane

 

1.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre:  HIT AND RUN

23-Apr-1951 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Hal

Alfreda Wallace as Ellen

Christopher Barbieri as Jackie

Carl Don as Tony

Bill Hellinger as Taxi Driver

Andrew Bernard as Announcer

 

1.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SPEECH

30-Apr-1951 CBS Mon

written by Lawrence Du Pont

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fredric March as Sam

Florence Eldridge as Bess

Roland Winters as Dr. Sturgis

Eileen Heckert as Miss Green

Martin Newman as Bellboy

Rex O'Malley as Speech Instructor

Walter Matthau as Extra

Frederic Carmichael as Extra

 

1.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR

07-May-1951 CBS Mon

written by Adrian D. Knepper

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Richard Greene as Denis de Beaulieu

Coleen Gray as Blanche

Frederick Worlock as Sire de Maletroit

Joel Ashley as Captain Philip de Chartier

Paul Andor as Padre

Andrew Bernard as Guard

Frank Boylan as Guard

Richard Hazelton as Guard

 

1.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LOCAL STORM

14-May-1951 CBS Mon

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Betty Field as Carol

Ernest Graves as Alan

Dean Harens as George

Audra Lindley as Olive

 

1.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WILD GEESE

21-May-1951 CBS Mon

written by Robert Cenderdella

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Charles Taylor as Charley

Evelyn Keyes as Jane

Ralph Clanton as Cyril

Jonathan Marlowe as Jimmy

 

1.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SWEET SORROW

28-May-1951 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Sarah Churchill as Linda Forrest

Jeffrey Lynn as Seth Warner

Katherine Meskill as Lucille De Pew

Gage Clarke as Brandon Forbes

Philippa Bevans as Ruth Bogen

Myron Kellin as Eddie Stork

Michael Wager as Ronald Ellison

Seth Arnold as Hotel Clerk

 

1.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CONSIDER THE LILLIES

04-Jun-1951 CBS Mon

written by Lawrence Du Pont

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Kay Francis as Alice

Jerome Cowan as Alfred Bragg

Joel Ashley as Myles

Olive Templeton Flannery as Agnes

Marlene Cameron as Barbara

Arthur Jarrett as Hardwicke

 

1.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WEATHER FOR TODAY

11-Jun-1951 CBS Mon

written by Ted Kneeland

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Lynn Bari as Kay Plumber

Lee Bowman as Jerry Courtney

Butterfly McQueen as Mary

Joe Di Reda as First Coastguardsman

Leo Bayard as Second Coastgaurdsman

Dick Wigginton as Little Boy

 

1.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: INSIDE STORY

18-Jun-1951 CBS Mon

written by Nelson Bond

directed by Calvin Kuhl

starring

Robert Sterling as Lew Davies

Lola Albright as Jennifer

Will Hare as Warren

Sally Gracie as Sally

Edward Gargan as Dolan

Terese Hayden as Miss Miller

James Karen as Llewellyn

Edward Horner as Butch

 

1.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE PROMISE

25-Jun-1951 CBS Mon

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Vincent Price as Herbert

Louisa Horton as Ella

Jane Seymour as Sarah

Murray Matheson as Dr. Southford

Audra Lindley as Nurse Claxton

Ursula Campbell as Nurse Brice

 

 

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2.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE PACING GOOSE

27-Aug-1951 CBS Mon

written by Elinor Lenz

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Celeste Holm as Eliza

Thomas Coley as Jess

Parker Fennelly as Enoch

Gene Steiner as Josh

Roland Wood as Judge Pomeroy

Tom McElhaney as Abel Samp

Klock Ryder as Overby

Gage Clark as Steve Morgan

 

2.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FOREVER WALKING FREE

03-Sep-1951 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Wendell Corey as Buster

Nancy Marchand as Joan

Murray Matheson as Old Waiter

J. Pat O'Malley as London Bobby

Sybil Baker as Girl at Blue Polly

Oswald Marshall as Man in Bathrobe

Richard Barclay

Joseph Colbert

 

2.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IT'S A PROMISE

10-Sep-1951 CBS Mon

written by Michelle Cousin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Laraine Day as Lynn

John Shelton as Tom

Janet Alexander as Elly Barret

Edward Gargan as Policeman

 

2.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A FAMILY AFFAIR

17-Sep-1951 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Roland Young as Sumner

Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Scofield

Biff McGuire as Will

Francis Compton as Everett

Elizabeth Ross as Barbara

Margaret Ann Deighton as Abby

Paul Andor as Head Waiter

William E. Becker

 

2.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A MATTER OF LIFE

24-Sep-1951 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Mr. Protis

Elizabeth Johnson as Jeannie

Dick Moore as Tony

Lee Dimond as Milkman

 

2.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GRANDMA WAS AN ACTRESS

01-Oct-1951 CBS Mon

written by James Truex

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Josephine Hull as Grandma

Patty Smith as Hester

Lawrence Fletcher as Henry

Amy Douglass as Daphne

Gage Clarke as Mr. Westcott

Nancy Malone as Girl

 

2.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ROUTE 19

08-Oct-1951 CBS Mon

written by Joseph Ruscoll

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Dennis O'Keefe as Second Man

Robert Stack as First Man

Vanessa Brown as Girl

Norma Winters as Woman

 

2.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CAFE AMI

15-Oct-1951 CBS Mon

written by George Bellak

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Robert Preston as Jed Kennedy

Maria Riva as Hilda

Rod Steiger as Victor Honegger

Walter Matthau as Craig

Frances Fuller as Aunt

Susan Wayne as Girl Singer

Andrew Duggan as Thug

Lawrence Breitman as Waiter

 

2.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE TWINKLE IN HER EYE

22-Oct-1951 CBS Mon

written by Bill Coleman and Imelda Coleman

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Diana Lynn as Honor

Dick Foran as Matt

Leora Thatcher as Meg

Art Carney as Mike

Pat O'Malley as Griffin

Bob Gardette as Fireman

Peter Clune as Fireman

William MacDougall as Fireman

 

2.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE DOCTOR'S WIFE

29-Oct-1951 CBS Mon

written by Manya Starr

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

June Lockhart as Julie

George Hill as Dan

Grace Valentine as Betty

Joseph Buloff as Mr. Pulaski

Luba Kadison as Mrs. Pulaski

Jean Sincere as Miss Sherman

Philippa Bevans as Mrs. Evans

Alexander Clark as Dr. Edwards

 

2.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CONFESSION

05-Nov-1951 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Thomas Mitchell as Baldwin

Russell Collins as Marlett

Dorothy Blackburn as Martha

Biff Elliot as John

Ellen-Cobb Hill as Evie

 

2.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NO WILL OF HIS OWN

12-Nov-1951 CBS Mon

written by Jack Campbell

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Gene Lockhart as Leslie

Binnie Barnes as Beatrice

Rosalind Ivan as Mrs. Chamberlain

Melville Cooper as Watts

Halliwell Hobbes as Fitz James

John Stephen as Darlington

Guy Spaull as Granet

Anthony Kemble-Cooper as Foxhall

 

2.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: STOLEN YEARS

19-Nov-1951 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Richard Greene as Hartford

Francis L. Sullivan as Yates

Lola Albright as Miriam

Jerome Cowan as Wright

Hurd Hatfield as Dobbins

Nils Asther as Norstad

Frederick Worlock as Reverand Stowell

Harold Yee as Chang

 

2.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DAMES ARE POISON

26-Nov-1951 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Nina Foch as Jessica

William Eythe as Peter

Alice Pearce as Nina

Henry Jones as Sanford

Peggy Cass as Betty

Kip McArdle as Cooper

Klock Ryder as Blake

Sy Travers as Policeman

 

2.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TIN BADGE

03-Dec-1951 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Pat O'Brien as Joe Crandall

Bobby Driscoll as Billy Crandall

Muriel Kirkland as Ellen Crandall

Harold Stone as Mike Gannon

Anthony Rivers as Gangster

Jimmy Sheridan as Young Cop

Ernest Roncoli as Extra

 

2.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SECOND SIGHT

10-Dec-1951 CBS Mon

written by Melinda Palmer

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Celeste Holm as Margaret Best

Patric Knowles as Corey Hill

Neva Patterson as Claire Whitcomb

Don Shelton as Doctor

Ann Meachan as Nurse

Jerry MacKady as Extra

Mary Cahoon as Extra

John Weaver as Extra

 

2.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BLUES STREET

17-Dec-1951 CBS Mon

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Veronica Lake as Lou

Roddy McDowall as Pete

Walter Woolf King as Cornelius

Harry Bellaver as Victor

Jack Warden as Man

Anne Dere as Landlady

David Kerman as Counterman

John Kullens as Waiter

 

2.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A CHILD IS BORN

24-Dec-1951 CBS Mon

Adapted by Wendell Mayes
From a story by Stephen Vincent Benet
Directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fay Bainter  ....... Innkeeper's Wife
Thomas Mitchell ... Innkeeper
Rita Gam .......... Leah
Elizabeth Ross .... Sarah
Robert Morgan ..... Dismas
Lloyd Bochner ..... Soldier
Ernest Graves ..... Joseph
Lawrence Ryle ..... Prefect

 

2.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE JEST OF HAHALABA

31-Dec-1951 CBS Mon

written by David Shaw

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Boris Karloff as Sir Arthur

Arnold Moss as Yannu

Sybil Baker as Miss Kerry

Robin Craven as Snaggs

Michael McAloney as Doorman

Diane de Brett as Yannu's Assistant

Evelyn Wall as Woman In Theatre #1

Carrie Bridewell as Woman In Theatre #2

 

2.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MR. FINCHLEY VERSUS THE BOMB

07-Jan-1952 CBS Mon

written Rod Serling

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Henry Hull as Jason W. Finchley

Arlene Francis as Eddie Sloan

Harry Townes as  Hannify

Roland Winters as General Millet

Robert F. Simon as Peterson

Gage Clarke as Hoffman

 

2.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CEYLON TREASURE

14-Jan-1952 CBS Mon

written by Irwin Lewis

directed by Seymour Kulik

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Rorsford

Maria Riva as Alma

Stefan Schnabel as Kroner

Alexander Scourby as Hagen

Ronald Long as Dodsley

Al Thaler as Wilson

Audrey Meadows as The Singer

William Caldwell as Extra

 

2.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SOUND OF WAVES BREAKING

21-Jan-1952 CBS Mon

written by Ann Loring and Meade Roberts

directed by Richard Cooke

starring

Teresa Wright as Emily Lawrence

Kent Smith as David Barlow

Natalie Schafer as Blanche

John Mylong as Brack

Hugh Griffith as Man with Cello

Patrick O'Neal as Sailor

 

2.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FOR GOODNESS SAKE

28-Jan-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elinor Lenz

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Jack Carson as John Mulligan

June Lockhart as Carrie Williams

Edgar Stehli as Pa Williams

Fredd Wayne as Bert Oliver

Victor Thorley as Bartender

Walter Matthau as Extra

Charles Gordon as Extra

Robert Ludlam as Extra

 

2.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: KELLY

04-Feb-1952 CBS Mon

written by Eric Hatch

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Robert Preston as Kelly

Geraldine Brooks as Odette

Horace McMahon as Captain Hodges

Marcel Hillaire as Frenchman

Jack Warden as Sergeant Stivers

Michael McAloney as Extra

Grady Fraser as Extra

 

2.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GAME OF CHESS

11-Feb-1952 CBS Mon

written by Kenneth Sawyer Goodman

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Vincent Price as Christoff

Will Kuluva as Joseph

Hugh Griffith as Constantine

Marden Bate as Footman

 

2.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LIFE, LIBERTY AND ORRIN DUDLEY

18-Feb-1952 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Jackie Cooper as Orrin Dudley

Grace Kelly as Beth

Roy Fant as Pa

Edith Meiser as Ma

Maurice Manson as Mayor

Evelyn Wall as Mrs. Jeffers

Tom Glazer as Guitarist

Chet Stratton as Extra

 

2.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BARGAIN

25-Feb-1952 CBS Mon

written by James Truex

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Celeste Holm as Katherine Case

Robert Coote as Stephen

James Daly as Brigida

Diane de Brett as Felicia

John Moore as Borland

Miriam Goldina as Extra

Emil Belasco as Extra

Douglas MacLean as Extra

 

2.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NIGHT, BE QUIET

03-Mar-1952 CBS Mon

written by S. Lee Pogostin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Sylvia Sidney as Joyce

Lloyd Gough as Ben

Alfred Neal as Neal

 

2.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE PROMOTION

10-Apr-1952 CBS Mon

written by Andrew Duggan

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Thomas Mitchell as Ralph Burgess

Anne Jackson as Sara

Richard Carlyle as Steve

Clifford Sales as Johnny

 

2.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE FOGGY, FOGGY DEW

17-Mar-1952

written by Albert Hirsch

directed by Richard Goode

starring

James Barton as The Stranger

Muriel Kirkland as Mother

Richard Bishop as Father

James Dean as The Boy

James Ginelli as Guitarist (off camera)

 

2.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: JULIE

24-Mar-1952 CBS Mon

written by William Kozlenko

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Miriam Hopkins as Julie Arden

Jerome Cowan as Rollo

Gene Blakely as Jack

Loretta Day as Dorothy

Joy Nilson as Extra

Carl Swope as Extra

Arthur Rowe as Extra

John Dorman as Extra

 

2.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TASTE

31-Mar-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elinor Lenz

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Peter Lorre as Richard Pratt

Frederic Torzere as Father

Renee Gadd as Mother

Peter Forster as The Boy

Margaret Grindell as The Girl

Ronald Long as Extra

Robert Oswald Marshall as Extra

 

2.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MAN AT BAY

07-Apr-1952 CBS Mon

written by Dewitt Copp

directed by Fielder Cook

Music, Wladimir Selinsky

starring

Broderick Crawford as David

Anthony Ross as Pete

Carmen Matthews as Milly

George Roy Hill as Mark

Gloria McGhee as Sheila

Jack Weston as Bill

Leo Bayard as Harry

Walter Matthau as Extra

Synopsis:

A man convicted of murder breaks out of jail to expose the real killer. [RF]

 

2.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DECISION

14-Apr-1952 CBS Mon

written by Robert Esson

directed by Richard Goode

starirng

Burgess Meredith as David

Peggy Conklin as Mary

Addison Richards as Michaels

Constance Coleman as Secretary

Lewis Grady Fraser as Extra

 

2.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: OPERATION WEEKEND

21-Apr-1952 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Angela Lansbury as Lucy Landor

Richard Kiley as Dan

Ian Keith as Dr. Landor

Marcel Hillaire as Pierre

Lloyd Knight as Jim

 

2.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SALAD DAYS

28-Apr-1952 CBS Mon

written by Henry Denker

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Peggy Ann Garner as Judy

Roddy McDowall as Bellamy Partridge

Enid Markey as Mother

Parker Fennelly as Judge

Iggie Wolfington as Ward

Gage Clarke as Justice of the Peace

Leta Bonynge as Maid

 

2.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MASQUERADE

05-May-1952 CBS Mon

written by Mac Shoub

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Basil Rathbone as Sir Paul Maxim

Margaret Phillips as Jeanne Allison

Robin Craven as General Travers

George Roy Hill as George

Fred Warriner as Johnson

 

2.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MARRIAGE IN THE BEGINNING

12-May-1952 CBS Mon

written by Jacqueline James

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Diana Lynn as Louise Franklin

Donald Curtis as Walter

Roger Price as Rex

Blanche Yurka as Mother-in-Law

Rosamond Vance as Gossiping Woman

Sidney Fields as Extra

Joan Morgan as Extra

Virginia Girvin as Extra

 

2.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FERRY CRISIS AT FRIDAY POINT

19-May-1952 CBS Mon

written by John Gay

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fredric March as Captain Matt

Florence Eldridge as Emma

Henry Jones as Jim

Katharine Bard as Ellen

Roland Winters as Greenleaf

Robert F. Simon as Jeff

Dan Morgan as Clyde

G. Albert Smith as Blake

 

2.40 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PATTERN FOR GLORY

26-May-1952 CBS Mon

written by Abby Mann and Bernard Drew

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Kene Holliday as Farley

Sylvia Sidney as Laura Barrie

Svea Grunfield as Anne

Sanford Bickart as Producer

Robert Dale Martin as First Actor

Addison Powell as Second Actor

Glen Gordon as Extra

Leonard Bell as Extra

 

2.41 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GARNEAU '83

02-Jun-1952 CBS Mon

written by Bruce Jewell

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Janet Beecher as Kate Walburn

Reinhold Schunzel as Robert Owens

Lili Darvas as Marie

Geoffrey Lamb as Perry

 

2.42 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LESSON

09-Jun-1952 CBS Mon

written by George Kelly

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Gene Raymond as John Aldrid

Nancy Coleman as Mrs. Aldrid

Geraldine Page as Neighbor

 

2.43 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GILIA

16-Jun-1952 CBS Mon

written by Hamilton Benz

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Leueen MacGrath as Gilia

Ernest Graves as David

Ed Binns as Silas

Isobel Elsom as Watkins

 

2.44 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WELCOME HOME, LEFTY

23-Jun-1952 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Dick McDonagh

starring

Chester Morris as Lefty

Jan Sherwood as Helen

Richard McMurray as Barney

Donald Murray as Jimmy

Robert F. Simon as Joey

Jack Diamond as Bartender

 

2.45 [--] Lux Video Theatre: I CAN'T REMEMBER

30-Jun-1952 CBS Mon

written by Marcus Ellis

directed by Richard Dinkas

starring

Robert Alda as Rusty Miller

Julia Meade as Esther

Steven Gethers as Suber

Ralph Dunn as Mitch

Thomas Walsh as Tolen

Pan Bourke as Mrs. Malone

William Greaves as Extra

 

2.46 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LADY FROM WASHINGTON

07-Jul-1952 CBS Mon

starring

Constance Cummings

 

2.47 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SON WANTED

14-Jul-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elinor Lenz

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Aina Niemela as Garbo Jones

Joe Maross as Young Man

Jean Adair as Miss Lizzie

Helen Donaldson as Nurse

James Little as Policeman

 

2.48 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BRIGADIER

21-Jul-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elizabeth Meehan

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Henry Hull as Brigadier General  William Elred

Skip Homeier as the Spy

Philip Coolidge as Lieutenant Colonel Finley

Addison Richards as Colonel Bessette

Ralph Clanton as Major Morey

Jack Warden as Captain Giluley

Lauris Lambert as Miss Rainer

Martin Newman as Orderly Jackson

 

2.49 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TWO PALE HORSEMEN

28-Jul-1952 CBS Mon

written by Carey Wilbur

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Marian Winters as Jean Nelson

Anthony Ross as Rusty

Martin Newman as Johnny

Victor Thorley as Eppikuk

Ralph Allen as Radio Man

Matteo Vitucci as Witch Doctor

Anne Mary Tallon as Extra

Pamela Fitzmaurice as Extra

 

2.50 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TWO MAKE FOUR

04-Aug-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elenor Tarshis

directed by Richard Dunlap

starring

Nana Bryant as Mrs. Carter

Lewis Scholle as Robbie

Johnny Coleman as Dickie

Curtis Cooksey as Mr. Wainwright

Isabel Price

 

2.51 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE ORCHARD

11-Aug-1952 CBS Mon

written by Carey Wilbur

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Geraldine Brooks as Doraleen Perkins

Skip Homeier as Les Prince

Anne Seymour as Hannah

John Shellie as Moses

Henry Jones as Dan

Peggy Ann Garner as Girl

 

2.52 [--] Lux Video Theatre: YOU BE THE BAD GUY

18-Aug-1952 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Dick McDonagh

starring

MacDonald Carey as Dan Shelvin

Biff Elliot as Jamie

William Harrigan as Captain Vansky

Joe De Santis as Wylie

Joe Verdi as Abernathy

Rudy Bond as Detective

Robert Dale Martin as First Policeman

Andrew Sibilia as Second Policeman

 

2.53 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE MAGNOLIA TOUCH

25-Aug-1952 CBS Mon

written by Jo Schilling

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Nina Foch as Terry

Donald Cook as Roger

June Dayton as Lucy Lee

Jamie Smith as Mark

Jack Weston as Elevator Man

Lilija Austrin as Extra

Diana Rogers as Extra

 

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########## season 3 1952-53 #########

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3.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE RETURN OF ULYSSES

01-Sep-1952 CBS Mon

written by Jack Barden and Irwin Blacker

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Cedric Hardwicke as Robert Malcolm

Dorothy Peterson as Wife

Glenn Anders as Richard Morgan

William Redfield as Son

Addison Richards as General Spencer

Sybil Baker as Son's Secretary

Henrietta Moore as Wife's Secretary

Roy Baime as Extra

 

3.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ILE

08-Sep-1952 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fay Bainter as Annie Keeney

Gene Lockhart as David Keeney

James Daly as Mate

Frank Maxwell as Harpooner

Abby Lewis as Extra

John Armstrong as Extra

John Marvin as Extra

Robert McQuade as Extra

 

3.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: STONE'S THROW

15-Sep-1952 CBS Mon

written by Earl Booth

directed by Richard Good

starring

Angela Lansbury as Tina Rafferty

Jeffrey Lynn as Ralph Caswell

Joshua Shelly as Pete

Parker Fennelly as Dad Campbell

 

3.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HAPPILY, BUT NOT FOREVER

22-Sep-1952 CBS Mon

written by Jack Barden and Irwin Blacker

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Robert Preston as Isaac Eaton

June Lockhart as Sally Eaton

Bramwell Fletcher as President Maynard

Malcolm Keen as Dean Truitt

Laura Bartlett Muehlberger as Extra

Sidney Fields as Extra

Ken Meecham as Extra

Bruce Reynolds as Extra

 

3.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A MESSAGE FOR JANICE

29-Sep-1952 CBS Mon

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Jackie Cooper as Dave Carter

Grace Kelly as Janice

George Chandler as Newspaper Man

Royal Beal as Mr. Towers

Peggy Allenby as Mrs. Towers

George Hall as Desk Clerk

Evelyn Wall as Maid

Anne Roberts as Extra

 

3.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A LEGACY FOR LOVE

06-Oct-1952 CBS Mon

written by Michael Dyne

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Corinne Calvet as Mouche

Steven Hill as Hank

Gaby Rogers 

Louise Larabee as Opera Singer

Francis Bethencourt as Jean

Leni Stengel as Madam Hortense

Lili Valenty as Extra

William A. Lee as Extra

 

3.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: COUNTRY LAWYER

20-Oct-1952 CBS Mon

written by Henry Denker

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Thomas Mitchell as Sam Partridge

Russell Collins as Ezra

Whit Bissell as Reverand Trumbull

Harry Antrim as Judge

John McGovern as Bottomley the Lawyer

Dorothy Blackburn as Wife

Buzzy Martin as Son

Charles Thompson as Storekeeper

 

3.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THREE HOURS BETWEEN

27-Oct-1952 CBS Mon

written by Elihu Winer

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Lili Palmer as Nancy

Joseph Anthony as Donald

Frank Twedell as Newsman

Anita Bayless as Wilma

Marc Hamilton as Extra

 

3.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE FACE OF AUTUMN

03-Nov-1952 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Dick McDonagh

starring

Pat O'Brien as George Morrell

Anne Seymour as Helen

Frank Campanella as Mr. Paletto

Anna Berger as Mrs. Paletto

William Erwin as Reporter

Tony Canzoneri as Packy

Andrew Gerado as Extra

Horace Cunningham as Extra

 

3.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE

10-Nov-1952 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Paul Lukas as Franz Kralik

Signe Hasso as Else Kralik

Anna Appel as Frau Schmidt

Nils Asther as Baron Hauser

Paul Andor as First Bookkeeper

Alfred Hesse as Second Bookkeeper

Eva Gerson as Secretary

Walter Kohler as Waiter

 

3.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE MAN WHO STRUCK IT RICH

17-Nov-1952 CBS Mon

written by Dick McDonagh and Dick Goode

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Barry Fitzgerald as Barry Flynn

Arthur Shields as Michael

Una O'Connor asReverand Mother

Naomi Riordan as Sister Mary Margaret

Floyd Buckley as One-Eye

Rex O'Malley as Bank Teller

Ann Sullivan as Caroline

Barry Macollum as Otto

 

3.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE HILL

24-Nov-1952 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Mercedes McCambridge as Chris

John Shellie as Pop

Herbert Rudley as Gage

Harry Townes as Kidwell

Gage Clarke as Walters

Victor Thorley as Colonel

Biff McGuire as Second Soldier

Jack Weston as Third Soldier

 

3.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: AMO, AMAS, AMAT

01-Dec-1952 CBS Mon

written by Carol Warner Gluck

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Lizabeth Scott as Margaret Bailey

Ralph Meeker as Nicky Hanks

Oliver Thorndike as Walter

Harold Shadwell as First Intern

John Weaver as Second Intern

Byron Russell as Extra

Constance Hoffman as Extra

Lilija Austrin as Extra

 

3.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FEAR

08-Dec-1952 CBS Mon

written by Roland Winters

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Boris Karloff as Larkin

Gene Lockhart as Sir George

Bramwell Fletcher as Doctor

Dan Morgan as Attendant

Ruth McDevitt as Mrs. Wheaton

Noel Coleman as First Chauffeur

Winston Ross as Second Chauffeur

 

3.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SONG FOR A BANJO

15-Dec-1952 CBS Mon

written by John Whedon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Dick Haymes as Dan Shepherd

Nancy Guild as Julia Bartlett

Nat King Cole as Horace Hambleton

Olin Howlin as Sheriff

Harry Antrim as Lem Grant

Gage Clarke as Henry Totter

Harry Davis as Shop Owner

Tom McElhaney as Man Shopper

 

3.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A CHILD IS BORN

22-Dec-1952 CBS Mon

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Fay Bainter as Innkeeper's Wife

Gene Lockhart as Innkeeper

Dan Morgan as Dismas

Elizabeth Ross as Sarah

Barbara Bolton as Leah

Alan Shayne as Joseph

Noel Coleman as Soldier

Frank Overton as Prefect

 

3.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE KEY

29-Dec-1952 CBS Mon

written by Roger Gavis

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Nina Foch as Jane Conway

Donald Cook as Bruce Wallace

Donald Buka as Tommy

Allen Nourse as Dr. Walker

Lloyd Knight as Patient

Kenneth Clifford as Extra

Aileen Poe as Extra

Virginia Leigh as Extra

 

3.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TWO FOR TEA

05-Jan-1953 CBS Mon

written by James Truex

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Brian Aherne as Reggie

Margaret Phillips as Penelope

Cyril Ritchard as Arnold

Viola Roache as Mrs. Brooke

Nancy Marchand as Phyllis

Philippa Bevans as Waitress

Rex O'Malley as First Policeman

Robert Fletcher as Second Policeman

 

3.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THANKS FOR A LOVELY EVENING

12-Jan-1953 CBS Mon

written by Leonard T. Holton

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Veronica Lake as Beverly

Jeffrey Lynn as Tom

Art Carney as Curley

Pat Hosley as Gladie

Jack Diamond as Counterman

Marcel Hillaire as Headwaiter

 

3.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TI BABETTE

19-Jan-1953 CBS Mon

written by Carey Wilber

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Corinne Calvet as Ti Babette

Scott Forbes as Duncan

Cameron Prud'homme as Father

Sybil Baker as Miss Peters

Leni Stengel as Dress Fitter

George Forest as Extra

Frank Baxter as Extra

Robert Gardette as Extra

 

3.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE INN OF EAGLES

26-Jan-1953 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Dick McDonagh

starring

MacDonald Carey as Major Slocum

Brian Keith as Happy (as Robert Keith Jr.)

Nicholas Joy as Frobisher

Maureen Hurley as Mary

Victor Wood as Cavendish

Marcel Hillaire as Frenchman

Robert Oswald Marshall as Extra

Marjorie Eaton as Extra

 

3.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE WHITE GOWN

02-Feb-1953 CBS Mon

written by Philip Cyrus Cunion

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Margaret O'Brien as Laura

Walter Abel as Father

John Kerr as Tony

Valerie Cossart as Mother

Georgianne Johnson as Maggie

Marcel Hillaire as Headwaiter

William Penn as Bob

Geoffrey Lumb as Professor

 

3.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A BOUQUET FOR CAROLINE

09-Feb-1953 CBS Mon

written by John Gay

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Luise Rainer as Caroline

Lilia Skala as the Housekeeper

Dean Harens as the Young Man

Charles Amure as Extra

Anita Dangler as Extra

 

3.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MISS MARLOW AT PLAY

16-Feb-1953 CBS Mon

written by A.A. Milne

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Binnie Barnes as Miss Marlow

Basil Rathbone as Ambrose Wallington

Robert Coote as Joe Worton

Isobel Elsom as Ethel

 

3.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: AUTUMN NOCTURNE

23-Feb-1953 CBS Mon

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Viveca Lindfors as Julie

Robert Sterling as David

Robert Armstrong as Dr. Hoffman

Dulcie Jordan as Ellie

Doreen Lang as Nurse

Doris Belage as Extra

Carrie Caldwell as Extra

Katherine Gregg as Extra

 

3.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A TIME FOR HEROES

02-Mar-1953 CBS Mon

written by Rod Serling

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Dennis O'Keefe as Mack

Paul Tripp as Paul

Marian Seldes as May

Kenneth Walken as Martin

Gene Steiner as Student

Jean Stapleton as Teacher

Dimitry Natvierro as Extra

Virginia Shield as Extra

 

3.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ONE OF THESE THINGS

09-Mar-1953 CBS Mon

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Nancy Guild as Angela Gray

Donald Cook as Tad Bryson

Louise Allbritton as Mavis Bryson

Will Hare as Mike Walters

Louise Buckley as Ellen Dorson

Janet Fox as Miss Marbury

 

3.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE WEDNESDAY WISH

16-Mar-1953 CBS Mon

written by Frank D. Gilroy

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Josephine Hull as Mom Baker

Charles Dingle as Mr. Brown

Gage Clarke as Mayor Patrick

James Gregory as Mac

Mike Kellin as George

Dorg Merande as Miss Sandow

Amy Douglass as Miss Winters

 

3.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ONE FOR THE ROAD

23-Mar-1953 CBS Mon

written by Seymour Stern

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Pat O'Brien as Charley Hackett

Robert P. Lieb as Berger

Paul Lipson as Mike McKenzie

Dick Moore as Carter Lockwood

Dan Healy as Mickey Dunn

Alonzo Rosan as Andy

Val Avery as Hank

Mary James as Rose Dunn

 

3.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BROOCH

02-Apr-1953 CBS Thur

written by William Faulkner

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Dan Duryea as Howard Boyd

Sally Forrest as Amy Boyd

Mildred Natwick as Mrs. Boyd

Margaret Wycherly as Mrs. Murchison

Alan Shayne as Narrator

Tillie Born as Clara

Synopsis:

A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control

of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.

* Note Faulkner rewrote the original which tells of a Mama's boy whose marriage

 to a high-spirited woman is destroyed by his controlling mother which ends tragically

with Howard's suicide. Due to severe censorship Faulkner rewrote this episode. [RF]

 

3.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WITH GLORY AND HONOR

09-Apr-1953 CBS Thur

written by S. Lee Pogostin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Wendell Corey as Dante

Nancy Kelly as Clare

Alan Carney as Max

Louise Buckley as Mary

Casey Walters as Harold

Red Barber as Baseball Narration

Arnold Moss as Extra

Jack Jason as Extra

 

3.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MEASURE FOR GREATNESS

16-Apr-1953 CBS Thur

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Millard Mitchell as Larry

Arlene Francis as Anne

Skip Homeier as Gig

Bruce Bennett as Dr. Grant

Marlene Cameron as Julie

Barbara Karen as Betsy

Dorothy Elder as Mrs. Crandall

Andrew Duggan as Karl

 

3.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LONG DISTANCE

23-Apr-1953 CBS Thur

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Miriam Hopkins as Bertha Jacks

 

3.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE ASCENT OF ALFRED FISHKETTLE

30-Apr-1953 CBS Thur

written by Francis Bethencourt

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Robert Newton as Mr. Fishkettle

Jack Lemmon as Alfred Fishkettle

Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Fishkettle

Viola Roche as Mrs. Bracegirdle

Jean Cook as Effie Bracegirdle

Francis Bethencourt as Godolphin Cfoliot

Carl Harbord as Announcer

 

3.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LISTEN, HE'S PROPOSING

07-May-1953 CBS Thur

written by Patricia Jourday

directed byRichard Goode

starring

Phyllis Kirk as Lucy Hammond

Tom Drake as Gary Morgan

Nydia Westman as Mrs. Hammond

Harry Sheppard as Granddad

Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Morgan

Milton Parsons as Mr. Morgan

Sherry Jackson as Ruthie Hammond

David Winters as Stu Morgan

 

3.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BETRAYERS

14-May-1953 CBS Thur

written by Charles L. Emmons

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Robert Preston as Tom

Grace Kelly as Meg

Bruce Gordon as Labrutte

Doris Rich as Mrs. Curtis

Richard Carlyle as Detective

Louis Lytton as Mac

 

3.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TUNNEL JOB

21-May-1953 CBS Thur

written by Carey Wilber

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Brian Donlevy as Dan Carmody

Ruth Warrick as Anna Carmody

George Matthews as Mike

Olin Howlin as Pete Walters

Joseph Foley as Folger

Griff Evans as Powder Monkey

Andrew Sabsilia as Extra

Willard Sage as Extra

 

3.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LOST SUNDAY

28-May-1953 CBS Thur

written by George Lowther

directed by Fielder Cook

starring

Celeste Holm as Miss Prynne

Patric Knowles as Mr. Morley

James Gregory as Mr. Randolph

Frank Albertson as Mr. Edgar

Ethel Remey as Customer

 

3.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TEN DAYS TO FOREVER

04-Jun-1953 CBS Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Barry Sullivan as Jeff Foster

Joan Vohs as Lou Willis

Ann Shoemaker as Mrs. Foster

Richard Bishop as Major Foster

Lloyd Knight as Sid

Bart Burns as Buddy

Tom McElhany as Sheriff

Leonard Yorr as Prison Guard

 

3.40 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MAKE BELIEVE BRIDE

11-Jun-1953 CBS Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Howard Loeb

starring

Lizabeth Scott as Betsy

Don DeFore as Stan

Glenn Anders as Mr. Stone

Mary Finney as Mrs. Kelly

Chandler Cowles as Judson Smith

Ann Dere as Mrs. Harrison

Fred Kareman as Bellhop

Joe Verdi as Extra

 

3.41 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WIND OF THE WAY

18-Jun-1953 CBS Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Phyllis Thaxter as Diana Forbes

Ralph Nelson as Dick McKettrick

Isobel Elsom as Mrs. Forbes

Margaret Hamilton as Charity Ames

Gage Clarke as Colonel Burt Stander

 

3.42 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THIS IS JIMMY MERRILL

25-Jun-1953 CBS Thur

written by Bernard Drew

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Millard Mitchell as Jimmy Merrill

Madge Evans as Sylvia

Don Briggs as Scott Henderson

Henry Bernard as Larry

Louise King as Julia

Sanford Bickart as Extra

Victor Harrison as Extra

 

3.43 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANCE

02-Jul-1953 CBS Thur

written by Harry W. Junkin

directed by Harold Loeb

starring

Robert Alda as Paul Oxford

Lisa Ferraday as Jean

Anthony Ross as Detective Grant

Cameron Prud'homme as Mr. Brakeland

William Kemp as Martin

Maurice Manson as Detective Captain

Wyrley Birch as Judge

Andy Sabsilia as Extra

 

3.44 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TANGO

09-Jul-1953 CBS Thur

written by Erik James Martin

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Joan Blondell as May

James Dunn as Joey

Allen Nourse as Treasury Man

Anita Bayless as Mrs. Conners

Synopsis:

A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years,

 waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.[RF]

 

3.45 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CORPORAL AND THE LADY

16-Jul-1953 CBS Thur

written by Michael Morris

directed by Harold Loeb

starring

Eddie Bracken as Larry

Gloria Marlowe as Sable

Harold Stone as Sam

Jack Warden as Miller

Philip Coolidge as Major

Lloyd Knight as Henderson

Lee Bayard as Garrity

Corey Gill as Extra

Synopsis:

A G.I. camp in Korea is plagued by a mysterious pin-up picture thief.

 

3.46 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A MAN IN THE KITCHEN

23-Jul-1953 CBS Thur

written by Leslie Waller

directed by Earl Eby

starring

William Lundigan as Jim

Nancy Guild as Nora

Maurice Manson as Mr. Coggins

Doris Rich as Mrs. Coggins

Charlotte Austin as Marie

 

3.47 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE ODYSSEY OF JEFFREY SEWELL

30-Jun-1953 CBS Thur

written by Jerome Brondfield

directed by Harold Loeb

starring

Dennis O'Keefe as Jeff Sewell

Patrice Wymore as Gretchen Oliver

Lawrence Fletcher as B.G. Peters

Janet Fox as Miss Carroll

Dorothy Greener as Salesgirl

Lulu B. King as Maid

Joan Vohs

 

3.48 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR

06-Aug-1953 CBS Thur

starring

Virginia Bruce

Otto Kruger

Karen Sharpe

Amanda Blake

Lewis Martin

Bruce Payne

 

3.49 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WOMEN WHO WAIT

13-Aug-1953 CBS Thur

written by  Al C. Ward

directed by Peter Godfrey

starring

Laraine Day

Randy Stuart

William Ching

Steve Dunn

Charles Cane

Kenneth Tobey

 

3.50 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LOVELY DAYS

20-Aug-1953 CBS Thur

written by Lawrence Kimble

directed by Peter Godfrey

produced by Jack J. Gross & Phillip N. Krasne

starring

Ann Sheridan

Robert Paige

Sandy Descher

Tom Powers

Scatman Crothers

Synopsis:

An efficiency expert puts his wife and family on a tight schedule. [RF]

 

3.51 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SOME CALL IT LOVE

27-Aug-1953 CBS Thur

written by Roy Chanslor and Al C. Ward

directed by Charles Haas

starring

Gene Raymond

Peter Godfrey

 

 

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######### Lux Video Theatre #########

########## season 4 1953-54 #########

###################################

 

 

4.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

03-Sep-1953 CBS Thur

written by Gerald Holland

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Ronald Reagan as Merle Fisher

Maureen O'Sullivan as Agnes Fisher

George Macready as Mr. Cloud

George Pembroke as Mr. Bascom

Charles Victor as Mr. Gordon

Julie Bennett as Miss Williams

Stephen Terrell as Bellboy

Larry Carr as Mr. Randolph

 

4.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SECOND MEETING

10-Sep-1953 CBS Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Frank Lovejoy as Clark

Arleen Whelan as Laura

Craig Stevens as Scott

Harry Tyler as Joe Miller

Ralph Brooke as Soldier

Paul Power as Chaplain

Jeanne Cagney (Intermission Guest)

 

4.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION

17-Sep-1953 CBS Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

story by Larry Marcus

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Edward G. Robinson as A.J. Mayherne

Andrea King as Romaine Vole/Mrs. Mogson

Tom Drake as Leonard Vole

Leo Curley as Judge

Thomas Browne Henry as Judge

Blaine Williams as Extra

Roy Darmour as Extra

Leslie Turner as Extra

 

4.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: RETURN TO ALSACE

24-Sep-1953 CBS Thur

written by Robert E. Carson

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Scott Brady as Mark

Suzanne Dalbert as Lisa

Eduard Franz as Emil

Leon Askin as Gustave

Greta Granstedt as Johanna

Joseph Doran as Extra

Barbara Ruick (Intermission Guest)

 

4.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ANNIVERSARY

01-Oct-1953 CBS Thur

written by Robert B. Skeley

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Phyllis Thaxter as Fran

Warner Anderson as Jim

Elisabeth Fraser as Helen

Chick Chandler as George

Grandon Rhodes as Dr. Mason

Diana Dawson as Nurse

Myrtle Anderson as Extra

Joan Weldon (Intermission Guest)

 

4.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE MOON FOR LINDA

08-Oct-1953 CBS Thur

written by Joseph Hayes

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Ruth Hussey as Irene

Barbara Lawrence as Linda

Carl Benton Reid as Jeff

Carleton Young as Carleton

Lillian Sayre as Extra

Dulce Daye as Extra

Joe Gilbert as Extra

Murray Forbes as Extra

 

4.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GUILTY KNOWLEDGE

15-Oct-1953 CBS Thur

written by Elinor Lenz

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Stephen McNally as Harry

Frances Dee as Louise

Dan Tobin as Paul

Jacqueline DeWitt as Extra

Dorothy Patrick (Intermission Guest)

 

4.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CRUEL TIME

22-Oct-1953 CBS Thur

written by Frank D. Gilroy

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Jean Pierre Aumont as Georges

Nancy Gates as Laurette

John Wengraf as Landau

Marie Windsor as Phyllis

Pat Kaskel as Extra

Cynthia Bell (Intermission Guest)

 

4.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE RETURN OF SOCKO BERNARD

29-Oct-1953 CBS Thur

written by Rod Serling

directed by Dick McDonagh

starring

Broderick Crawford as Socko Bernard

Irene Hervey as Patricia

James Flavin as Steve

Lyle Talbot as Paul

Selmer Jackson as Doctor Allen

Nick Dennis as Tony

Benny Rubin as Headwaiter

Charles Watts as Wilson

 

4.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WILL POWER

05-Nov-1953 CBS Thur

written by George Lowther

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Charles Coburn as Pa Harrington

James Lydon as D. Crockett Weeks

Margaret Field as Emily

Douglas Spencer as Jonas

Don Beddoe as Paul

Nan Boardman as Livia

Arthur Space as Max

Anne O'Neal as Amelia Jennings

 

4.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LADY OF SUSPICION

12-Nov-1953 CBS Thur

written by Will La Jolla

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Mike Dixon

Faith Domergue as Sue Dawson

Ray Bennett as Sheriff

Sukhy Kang as Laundress

 

4.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE MOMENT OF THE ROSE

19-Nov-1953 CBS Thur

written by James F. Cook

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Claude Dauphin as Paul

Patricia Morison as Mrs. Carrington

Beverly Washburn as Jeanne

Stephen DeKassy as Headwaiter

James Craven as Mr. Carrington

Mickey Simpson as Doorman

George E. Stone as Carl

Charlotte Austin (Intermission Guest)

 

4.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SOME CALL IT LOVE

26-Nov-1953 CBS Thur

written by Erna Lazarus

directed by Peter Godfrey

starring

Gene Raymond

Carole Mathews

Charles McGraw

Kristine Miller

Barbara Knudson

 

4.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THREE JUST MEN

10-Dec-1953 CBS Thur

written by Elliott Street

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Steve Cochran as Luke Martens

Jack Lambert as Simmons

John Dierkes as Jeb Bricker

James Best as Clem Wallace

Jeane Wood as Maw

Joyce Lake as Effie

Ann Miller (Intermission Guest)

 

4.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A BOUQUET FOR MILLIE

17-Dec-1953 CBS Thur

written by Joseph Cochran

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Marge Champion as Millie

Gower Champion as Tim

Nana Bryant as Mother-in-law

Don Beddoe as Judge

Francis Pierlot as Florist

John Doucette as Bartender

Marilyn Erskine (Intermission Guest)

 

4.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CALL OFF THE WEDDING

07-Jan-1954 CBS Thur

written by Lois Landauer

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Joanne Dru as Nancy

Alex Nicol as Hank

Pauline Drake as Winnie

Carol Brewster as Lilly

Rita Moreno (Intermission Guest)

Synopsis:

Comedy of a country girl in the city, who uses her rooftop vegetable garden

to win her man from the clutches of a movie siren. [RF]

 

4.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ALL DRESSED IN WHITE

14-Jan-1954 CBS Thur

written by Ronnie Alexander

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Richard Carlson as John

Phyllis Kirk as Mary

Steve Brodie as Mac

Vera Miles (Intermission Guest)

Synopsis:

The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps

 a sadistic killer at a wedding. [RF]

 

4.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BACHELOR OF GRANDBY OAKS

21-Jan-1954 CBS Thur

written by Kal Phillips

directed by Richard Goode

starring

MacDonald Carey as Colby

Nancy Kelly as Sheila

Benson Fong as Alexander

Bob Anderson as Greg

Sheila Bromley as Lucy

 

4.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A PLACE IN THE SUN

28-Jan-1954 CBS Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

Ronald Reagan, Guest Host

starring

Ann Blyth

Marilyn Erskine

John Derek ...... George

Raymond Burr

Regis Toomey

Paul Frees

Pat Crowley (Intermission Guest)

*Note: Based on the movie of Theodore Dreiser's novel "An American Tragedy".

George Stevens who won the academy award for his direction of the movie,

 has been acting as an adviser to the producers of this show. [RF]

 

4.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SMALL GLASS BOTTLE

04-Feb-1954 CBS Thur

written by David Hill

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Miriam Hopkins as Margaret

George Chandler as Fred

Ann Doran as Rose

Selmer Jackson as Doctor Curlin

Joan Weldon (Intermission Guest)

 

4.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SHALL NOT PERISH

11-Feb-1954 CBS Thur

written by William Faulkner

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Fay Bainter as Mrs. Grier

Raymond Burr as Major Blakestone

Tommy Rettig as Jody

Trevor Bardette as Mr. Grier

Dayton Lummis as Captain McLandon

Tom Powers as Minister

Harry Tyler as Willie

Clarence Muse as Albert

Vera Miles (Intermission Guest)

*Note Faulkner also rewrote this episode updating its World War II setting to

the Korean War era. The story's patriotic title and theme comes from the last

 line of Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address. (To play up the Lincoln connection the

 program aired on the eve of the 145th anniversary of Lincoln's birth.) [RF]

 

4.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FINAL ROUND

18-Feb-1954 CBS Thur

written by Emmett Murphy and Leonard Heideman

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Richard Benedict as Al

Wendell Corey as Herb

Martha Hyer as Lois

George Wallace as Whitey

Joseph Crehan as Doctor

Bill Justine as Commissioner

Larry Chance as Coyle

 

4.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: BORROWED WIFE

25-Feb-1954 CBS Thur

written by Mortimer Braus

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Diana Lynn ....... Ellen
Lee Bowman ....... Michael
Kay Baker ........ Amy
Larry Kerr ....... Henry
Madge Kennedy .... Ma Glover
Howard Negley .... Pa Glover
Synopsis:
An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions. [RF]
 

4.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MIRACLE AT THE WALDORF

04-Mar-1954 CBS Thur

written by Stanley Paley

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Paul Lukas as Dr. Leitner

Joan Weldon as Patricia Dean

Celia Lovsky as Mrs. Lietner

Chick Chandler as Herb

George Chandler as Mr. Hollis

Mary Alan Hokanson as Miss Foster

 

4.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CALL ME MRS.

11-Mar-1954 CBS Thur

written by Eric Hatch and Kate Phillips

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Laraine Day as Lydia

Hugh Beaumont as George

Kirk Alyn as Bill Waterman

Lela Bliss as Worthy

Kay Stewart as Sally Jackson

James Griffith as Henry Jackson

Jan Kayne as Betty Thompson

Mary Ellen Kay (Intermission Guest)

 

4.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE EXPOSURE OF MICHAEL O'REILLY

18-Mar-1954 CBS Thur

written by Richard F. McDonagh

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Victor McLaglen as Michael O'Reilly

Vera Miles as Maureen O'Reilly

Arthur Shields as Uncle Dan

Roger Face as Joseph Olesker

Helen Mayor as Mrs. O'Reilly

John Patrick as Finnegan

Karen Sharpe (Intermission Guest)

 

4.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SPENT IN SILENCE

25-Mar-1954 CBS Thur

written by Malvin Wald and Jack Jacobs

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

John Hudson as Larry

Nancy Olson asLisa

Wilton Graff as Mr. Grant

Marjie Millar (Intermission Guest)

 

4.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE WAY I FEEL

01-Apr-1954 CBS Thur

written by William Kendall Clarke

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Margaret O'Brien as Elaine

Michael Chapin as George

Duane Hickman as Charlie

Michael Morrow as Pete

Mae Clarke as Mother

Sydney Mason as Father

Joseph Crehan as Doctor

Sheilah Graham (Intermission Guest (Hollywood Columnist)

 

4.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PICK OF THE LITTER

08-Apr-1954 CBS Thur

written by Sam Robins

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Joan Leslie as Vanessa Cook

William Talman as Brad Ringer

Myrna Dell as Cynthia

Billy Chapin as Jeremy

Harry Harvey, Sr. as Pop

Coleen Gray (Intermission Guest)

 

4.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GIRL WHO COULDN'T CRY 

15-Apr-1954 CBS Thur

written by Frederic Manley

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Gigi Perreau as Phyllis

Phyllis Thaxter as Anne

Ellen Corby

Danny Hellman

Mary Bear

Bill Hudson

Dayton Lummis

Mary Ellen Simmons

 

4.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: GAVIN'S DARLING

22-Apr-1954 CBS Thur

written by Richard F. McDonagh

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Herbert Marshall as Enoch Gavin

Barbara Rush as Joyce Gavin

Bart Roberts as Jeff Miller

Norman Railey as Butler

Jonathan Hole as Hotel Clerk

Peggy O'Connor as Airline Clerk

Sheilah Graham (Intermission Guest (Hollywood Columnist)

 

4.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A CHAIR FOR A LADY

29-Apr-1954 CBS Thur

written by Paul Slocumb

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Angela Lansbury as Elsa

Paul Richards as Waldo

Norma Varden as Aunt

Ellen Corby as Aunt

Pamela Benson as Linda

Rita Johnson (Intermission Guest)

 

4.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TWO DOZEN ROSES

06-May-1954 CBS Thur

written by Mortimer Braus

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Janet Gaynor as Eleanor

Frank Wilcox as Stanley

Carol Brannon as Caroline

Tyler MacDuff as Mark

 

4.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH

13-May-1954 CBS Thur

written by Joseph Cochran

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Ann Harding as Henrietta Mekker

Gene Lockhart as Evander Cobb

Erik Rhodes as Mr. Purdy

Geraldine Wall as Mildred Cobb

Ted Avery as Anthony Cobb

Pat Prest as Janice

Ken Christie as Mr. Wilbur

 

4.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: BLIND FURY

20-May-1954 CBS Thur

written by Agnes Christine Johnston and Frank Daley

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Dean Jagger as John Straley

Sarah Selby as Mary Straley

Paul Picerni as Dr. Murger

Moira Turner as Maureen Drake

Harry Cheshire as Mr. Briggs

Virginia Bruce (Intermission Guest)

 

4.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN

27-May-1954 CBS Thur

written by Will La Jolla

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Suzan Ball as Lee

Richard Long as Nick

John Litel as Dr. Robbins

Frieda Inescort as Mrs. Robbins

Kathryn Givney as Mrs. Proctor

Ruta Lee as Marian

Sarah Shane (Intermission Guest)

 

4.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE OUTSIDE WITNESS

03-Jun-1954 CBS Thur

written by Alan Campbell and Norman Foster

directed by Earl Eby

starring

William Bendix

Carolyn Jones

Tristram Coffin

George Chandler

Helen Parrish (Intermission Guest)

 

4.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WAITING FOR ONORIO

10-Jun-1954 CBS Thur

written by Konrad Borcovici and Kate Phillips

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Richard Benedict as Libero

J. Carrol Naish as Onorio

Renata Yanni as Peppina

Tito Vuolo as Caccevechia

Norma Nilsson as Lugia at 16

Eleanor Fanie as Francesca at 18

Helen Parrish (Intermission Guest)

Anne Francis (Intermission Guest Interviewer)

 

4.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE PRETEXT

17-Jun-1954 CBS Thur

written by Lois Landauer

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Patricia Crowley as Val

Wilton Graff as Professor Cole

John Luiton as Jeff

Lewis Martin as Dean Cunningham

Helen Parrish (Intermission Guest)

 

4.40 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PERISHED LEAVES

24-Jun-1954 CBS Thur

written by Leonard Heidman and Emmett Murphy

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Anne Francis

Faith Domergue

Philip Ober

Dayton Lummis

Maury Hill

Patrick Miller

Kay Christopher (Intermission Guest)

Ann Rutherford (Intermission Guest)

 

NOTE: This episode closed the 1953/54 season and was the final Lux Video

Theatre at CBS. The show moves to NBC and a new one hour format.

 

 

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5.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TO EACH HIS OWN

26-Aug-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Dorothy McGuire  ....... Jody
Gene Barry ............ Cosgrove/Griggsy
Edward Ashley ......... Lord Desham
Mary Anderson ......... Corrine
Herb Butterfield ...... Mr. Norris
Joan Elan ............. Ida Lorimer
Brooks West ........... Alec
Ronald Brogan ......... Mac

 

5.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WELCOME, STRANGER

02-Sep-1954 NBC Thur

Written by S.H. Barnett

Directed by Richard Goode

Hosted by William Holden

starring

Bill Goodwin  .......... Dr. Fiston
Martha Hyer ........... Trudy
J.M. Kerrigan ......... Dr. Makery
Elizabeth Patterson ... Dr. Gilley
Alexander Campbell .... Mr. Cheeley
Maury Hill ............ Ray Cheeley
Archie Mitchell ....... Dr. Jenks

 

5.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CHRISTMAS IN JULY

09-Sep-1954 NBC Thur

Written by S.H. Barnett and Richard McDonagh

Directed by Earl Eby

Hosted by James Mason
starring
Raymond Walburn ....... Dr. Maxford
Nancy Gates ........... Betty Casey
Alex Nicol ............ Jimmy MacDonald

Harry Hayden

Florenz Ames

Sally Corner

Robert Nichols

Peter Leeds

Synopsis:
The comedy concerns the complications which arise when a practical joke backfires.

A young man takes his co-workers seriously when they jokingly

inform him that he has won a slogan contest. [RF]

 

5.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HOLD BACK THE DAWN

16-Sep-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett and Richard McDonagh

directed by Buzz Kulik

Hosted by Rosemary Clooney

starring

Fernando Lamas

Toni Gerry

Maria Palmer

Robert Emmett Keane

Leonid Kinsky

George Eldridge

 

5.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE HEIRESS

23-Sep-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Goode

Hosted by Joan Vohs

starring

Vincent Price as Dr. Sloper

Marilyn Erskine as Catherine Sloper

Donald Murphy as Morris Townsend

Ellen Corby as Aunt Lavina

 

5.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MEET JO CATHART

30-Sep-1954 NBC Thur

written by John McGreevey

directed by Earl Eby

Hosted by Van Heflin

starring

Virginia Bruce as Jo Cathart Archer

Bruce Bennett as Ben Archer

Craig Hill as Chris Jameson

Beverly Garland as Mary Lou Matthews

June Evans as Mollie Ryan

Joan Freeman as Judy Archer

Duncan Richardson as Junior Archer

 

5.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE MANSION

07-Oct-1954 NBC Thur

written by Anne Howard Bailey

directed by Buzz Kulik

Hosted by Mark Stevens

starring

Zachary Scott  ....... Morgan Lacey
Carole Mathews ...... Thelma
Mary Young .......... Mrs. Lacy
Murvyn Vye .......... Stallings
Ralph Moody ......... Percy Hunter
Jean Howell ......... Mary Fay
Olin Howlin ......... Bartender
Mark Stevens (Lux Video Theatre Guest)
Synopsis:
Young Master Lacy on the veranda of his columned home must make up

 his mind between a daughter of the Old South and a Northern hussy. [RF]
 

5.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A VISIT FROM EVELYN

14-Oct-1954 NBC Thur

written by Turner Bullock and Ruth Woodman

directed by Richard Goode

Hosted by Margaret Lindsay

starring

Ann Harding as Nora Walling

Lynn Bari as Evelyn

Raymond Greenleaf as John Case

John Sheppodd as Glen

Lillian Culver as Vinnie

Eugenia Paul as Lucille

 

5.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: AN ANGEL WENT AWOL

21-Oct-1954 NBC Thur

written by Jack Gordon and Winifred Wolfe

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Joanne Dru as Polly

George Nader as Jeremy

Charlotte Knight as Lucy Gilind

Robert Jordan as Boy at Piano

Angela Stevens as Christy

Jayne Mansfield as Girl at Piano

Margaret Lindsay (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SEPTEMBER TIDE

28-Oct-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Maureen O'Sullivan (Stella

John Sutton as Evan

Lisa Daniels as Cherry

Philip Tonge as Robert

Ivan Hayes as Jimmy

Margaret Lindsay (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

Mark Stevens (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IMPERFECT LADY

04-Nov-1954 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Patricia Medina as Millicent

Henry Daniel as Lord Belmont

Robin Hughes as Clive

Phyllis Stanley as Rose

Susan Manning as Lucy

Richard Perl as Inspector Gerston

Thayer Roberts as Henderson

Arthur Gould-Porter as Montalyn

 

5.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FIVE STAR FINAL

11-Nov-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Randall

Joanne Woodward as Jen Townsend

Mae Clarke as Nancy Townsend

Dayton Lummis as Michael Townsend

Pierre Watkin as Hinchecliffe

Frances Mercer asNora Fletcher

Ernestine Barrier as Mrs. Weeks

George Eldridge as Mr. Weeks

 

5.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CAPTIVE CITY

18-Nov-1954 NBC Thur

written by Harry Muheim

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Gig Young

Betsy Palmer

Murray Hamilton

Onslow Stevens

Dwayne Hickman

Louis Jean Heydt

Margaret Lindsay (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A MEDAL FOR BENNY

25-Nov-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

J. Carrol Naish as Charlie

Anne Bancroft as Lolita

Rick Jason as Joe

Ralph Dumke as Kibbe

Jay Novello as Rafael

Allegra Varron as Mrs. Catalina

Byron Foulger as Sam

George Chandler as Edgar

 

5.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CRAIG'S WIFE

02-Dec-1954 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Ruth Hussey as Harriet Craig (nominated for an Emmy)

Philip Ober as Walter Craig

Kathryn Givney as Miss Justin

Lillian Bronson as Mrs. Harold

Eleanor Tanin as Ethel

Ray Walker as Birkaire

Emilie Poule as Mrs. Frazer

Paul Bryer as Gateile

 

5.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LADIES IN RETIREMENT

09-Dec-1954 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Claire Trevor as Ellen Creed (nominated for an Emmy)

Elsa Lanchester as Emily

Sean McClory as Albert

Edith Barrett as Louisa

Isobel Elsom as Leonora Fiske

Lisa Daniels as Lucy

Dianne Foster (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DOUBLE INDEMNITY

16-Dec-1954 NBC Thur

written by Frederic Manley and S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Laraine Day as Phyllis Dietrichson

Frank Lovejoy as Walter Neff (nominated for an Emmy)

Ray Collins as Barton Keyes

Donna Percy as Lola

Hugh Sanders as Mr. Dietrichson

Herbert Heyes as Mr. Norton

Hal K. Dawson as Jackson

Shepard Menken as Sam Gorlopin

 

5.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SEPTEMBER AFFAIR

23-Dec-1954 NBC Thur

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Arlene Dahl

John Howard

Irene Hervey

Ernestine Barrier

Robert Arthur

Renata Yanni

Charles Evans

Tony Barrett

 

5.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CHASE

30-Dec-1954 NBC Thur

written by Sumner Locke Elliott

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Pat O'Brien as Eddie Gorman

Ruth Roman as Lorna Gorman

James Arness as Chuck Scott

Frances Bavier as Martha

Patrick Miller as Gene Morton

Charles Watts as Charley Gill

Margaret Lindsay (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SUNSET BOULEVARD

06-Jan-1955 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Miriam Hopkins as Norma Desmond

James Daly as Joe Gillis

Nancy Gates as Betty Schaeffer

John Wenegraf as Max von Mayerling

Lee Millar as Artie Green

Margaret Lindsay (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

Bing Crosby (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PENNY SERENADE

13-Jan-1955 NBC Thur

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Phyllis Thaxter as Julie

Don Taylor as Roger

Chubby Johnson as Applejack

Olive Blakeney as Miss Oliver

Paul Birch as Doctor

Tom Powers as Judge

Lauren Chapin as Trina

Helen Kleeb as Woman

 

5.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LOVE LETTERS

20-Jan-1955 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Diana Lynn as Singleton

Dan O'Herlihy as Alan

Judith Evelyn as Dilly

Percival Vivian as Mack

Doris Lloyd as Beatrice

Lumsden Hare as Bishop

Ludwig Stossel as Dr. Snider

Colin Campbell as Postman

 

5.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SO EVIL MY LOVE

27-Jan-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Louis Hayward as Mark

Marilyn Erskine as Olivia

Isobel Elsom as Miss Shoebridge

Paula Duncan as Kitty

Rex Evans as Edgar

Richard Aherne as Courtney

Donald Lawton as Mr. Watson

Wade Nichols (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ONE FOOT IN HEAVEN

03-Feb-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Hugh Marlowe as Reverend Spence

Ellen Drew as Mrs. Spence

Ralph Dumke as Thurston

Charles Meredith as Dr. Romer

Malcolm Attenberg as Potter

Jack Diamond as Hartzell

Diane Jergens as Eileen

Larry White as Fraser

 

5.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A BELL FOR ADANO

10-Feb-1955 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Edmond O'Brien as Major Jeppelo

Charles Bronson as Sergeant Borth

Frank Fuglia as Father Pensovecchio

Dan Tobin as Captain Purvis

Elliott Reid as Lieutenant Livingston

George Pieronne as Corporal Trapani

Tito Vuolo as Zito

Michael Vallon as Bellianca

 

5.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE COPPERHEAD

17-Feb-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

John Ireland as Milt Shanks

Betty Field as Martha Shanks/Madeline

Ian Wolfe as The Reverand Andrews

Richard Garland as Hardy as a young man

Pat Miller as Gillespie as a young man

Paul Harvey as Hardy as an old man

Ralph Moody as Gillespie as an old man

William Schallert as Sam Carter

Synopsis:

During the Civil War a Northerner joins the organization of Southern

sympathizers called, "The Copperheads". Because of this his wife leaves him

 and his son calls him a traitor. Years later he tells the real story of his

part in the war to a grandchild. [RF]

 

5.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SO DARK THE NIGHT

24-Feb-1955 NBC Thur

written by Richard McDonagh

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Joseph Schildkraut as Henri Cassin

Madeline Holmes as Widow Bridello

Suzanne Dalbert as Nanette Michaud

Eugene Borden as Pierre Michaud

Ann Codee as Mama Michaud

Steven Ritch as Leon Archard

Hal Gerard as Antoine

Edgar Barrier as Dr. Boucourt

 

5.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CASABLANCA

03-Mar-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Paul Douglas as Rick

Arlene Dahl as Ilsa

Hoagy Carmichael as Sam

Carl Esmond as Laszlo

John Hoyt as Renault

Ivan Triesault as Major Strasser

Paul Simieon as Ugarte

Dan Seymour as Ferrari

 

5.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA

10-Mar-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Lee J. Cobb as Emile Zola

Joy Paige as Madame Dreyfus

Gloria Holden as Alexandrine

Robert Warwick as Chief Of Staff

Paul Richards as Esterbassy

Dayton Lummis as Picquart

Lawrence Ryle as Henry

William Bakewell as Dert

 

5.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IT GROWS ON TREES

17-Mar-1955 NBC Thur

Adapted by John Whedon
Directed by Earl Eby
Hosted by James Mason
starring
Ruth Hussey ........ Polly Baxter
Robert Preston ..... Phil Baxter
Leigh Snowden ...... Diane Baxter
David Janssen ...... Ralph
Charlotte Knight ... Mrs. Pryor
Henry Hunter ....... Murchison
Alexander Campbell.. Carrollman
Richard Cutting .... Leatherbee
Pierre Watkin ...... Sleamish
Dabbs Greer ........ MacGuire
Forrest Lewis ...... Dr. Burrows
Butch Bernard ...... Flip Baxter
Lauren Chapin ...... Midge Baxter
Ralph Sanford ...... Police Sgt.
Yvonne Peattie ..... Secretary
Robert Bruce ....... Policeman
Synopsis:
A family trying to live on little money winds up with a mysterious tree. [RF]
*Note: Based on the 1952 film.
 

5.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SHADOW OF A DOUBT

24-Mar-1955 NBC Thur

written by Benjamin Simcoe

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Frank Lovejoy as Uncle Charlie

Barbara Rush as Charlotte

Sarah Selby as Emmy

George Chandler as Joe

Helena Nash as Mrs. Potter

Myron Folger as Herby Haskins

Charles Meredith as Reverend

Grant Williams as Jack Graham

 

5.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS

31-Mar-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Beverly Garland as Julia Ross

Fay Bainter as Mrs. Hughes

Paul Richards as Ralph

Phyllis Stanley as Alice

Beryl Machin as Mrs. Sparkes

Lumsden Hare as Vicar

Terrence de Marney as Peters

Justice Watson as Dr. Keller

 

5.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BROWNING VERSION

07-Apr-1955 NBC Thur

written by Charles Bennett

adaptation of a play by Terence Rattigan

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Herbert Marshall as Andrew Crocker-Harris

Judith Evelyn as Mrs. Crocker-Harris

Robert Douglas as Frank Hunter

Christopher Cook as Taplow

Paul Cavanagh as Frobisher

Rod Taylor as Mr. Gilbert

Betty Harford as Mrs. Gilbert

Synopsis:

English schoolteacher Andrew Crocker-Harris, who is confronting the disappointments

 of his marriage and career. Forced to retire early because of bad health, Crocker-Harris

 departs unloved by his students as well as by Mrs. Crocker-Harris, who is having an

affair with Frank Hunter. Mr. Gilbert is to be Crocker-Harris' replacement. [RF]

 

5.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NO SAD SONGS FOR ME

14-Apr-1955 NBC Thur

written by DeWitt Bodeen

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Claire Trevor as Mary Scott

William Hopper as Brad Scott

Katharine Bard as Chris Mathison

Linda Bend as Polly Scott

Tom Powers as Dr. Franco

Maidie Norman as Flora

Selmer Jackson as Mr. Coswell

Jeane Wood as Louise Spears

Synopsis:

A young mother happily married and expecting her second child, is told that she has but 10 months to live.

*The motion picture of 1950 starred Margaret Sullivan, Wendell Corey & Viveca Lindfors.

 

5.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: AN ACT OF MURDER

21-Apr-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Thomas Mitchell as Calvin Cook

Ann Harding as Cathy Cook

Lewis Martin as Charles Dayton

Howard St. John as Judge Ogden

Ray Danton as David Douglas

Sallie Brophy as Ellie

Dayton Loomis as Dr. Morrison

Ruth Warren as Mrs. Russell

Synopsis:

A judge, known for his strict adherence to the law, learns that his wife is

 soon to die. Without telling her, he arranges a vacation to make her last days happy.

 But a situation arises which he must make a fateful decision. [RF]

Fredric March and Florence Eldridge starred in the 1948 motion picture.

 

5.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GREAT MCGINTY

28-Apr-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Brian Donlevy as Daniel J. McGinty

Nancy Gates as Catharine

Thomas Gomez as The Boss

Jesse White as Sigmund

William Schallert as Thompson

Lillian Molieri as Girl at Bar

Paul Harvey as Maxwell

Hal Taggart as Mayor Tillinghest

Synopsis:

A bartender tells a would-be suicide the story of his spectacular and thoroughly

crooked political career. [RF]

Brian Donlevy who starred in the original 1940 motion picture recreates his original role.

 

5.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: REMEMBER THE NIGHT

05-May-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Douglas Wilson as Tom

Jan Sterling as Lee

Don DeFore as Jack Sargent

Elizabeth Patterson as Mrs. Sargent

Edith Evanson as Aunt Emma

Lyle Talbot as O'Leary

Robert Wehling as Willie

Helen Maxon as Mrs. Leander

 

5.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: EIGHT IRON MEN

12-May-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Alex Nicol as Macney

Paul Gilbert as Coliussi

Gene Reynolds as Coke

Russell Johnson as Carter

Alvin Greenmar as Shapiro

William Schallert as Ferguson

Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer as Mailer

Alan Dexter as Captain Treiswaney

Synopsis:

The story of eight soldiers who seek shelter in a shell-torn house in Italy in 1944.

One of the squad members is trapped in a shell hole outside the house. [RF]

*Note: Based on the 1952 picture starring Arthur Franz & Lee Marvin.

 

5.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MAKE WAY FOR TOMORROW

19-May-1955 NBC Thur

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Ernest Truex as Father

Sylvia Field as Mother

Michael Whalen as George

William Bakewell as Robert

Sheila Bromley as Nellie

Betty Hanna as Cora

Lynn Bari as Anita

Olive Sturges as Rhoda

Synopsis:

An elderly couple loses their home and turn to their grown-up children for help.

 But the children are not very anxious to share their homes with their parents. [RF]

The 1937 motion picture starred Victor Moore and Beulah Bondi.

 

5.40 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THUNDER ON THE HILL

26-May-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Donald Crisp (Guest Host for this episode)

Phyllis Thaxter as Sister Mary

Rex Reason as Dr. Jeffries

Beverly Garland as Valerie

Rhys Williams as Melling

Nana Bryant as Reverend Mother

John Alderson as Willie

Phyllis Stanley as Nurse Phillips

Synopsis:

A murder mystery set in an English convent during a flood in Norfolk County. [RF]

*Note: Based on the 1951 picture starring Claudette Colbert & Ann Blyth.

 

5.41 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE SUSPECT

02-Jun-1955 NBC Thur

written by Charles Bennett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Barry Sullivan (Guest Host of this episode)

Robert Newton as Philip Marshall

Toni Gerry as Mary Grey

John Hoyt as Musley

Erin O'Brien Moore as Cora Marshall

John Dehner as Gilbert Simmone

Peter Votrian as Marridew

Richard Lupino as John Marshall

Synopsis:

A mild-mannered, middle-aged man resorts to murder when his new-found happiness

 is threatened. He believes he has committed the perfect crime. [RF]

*Note: Based on the 1944 motion picture starring Charles Laughton.

 

5.42 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE

09-Jun-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Tab Hunter (Guest Host for this episode)

Janet Blair as Shelly Carnes

Dan O'Herlihy as Trevelyan

Lorna Thayer as Liza

Kathryn Givney as Myra

Leonard Penn as Father Paul

Fay Roope as J.D. Nolan

Robert Clarke as Harvey

 

5.43 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE INSIDE STORY

16-Jun-1955 NBC Thur

written by John Whedon

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Thomas Mitchell (Guest Host for this episode)

James Barton as Uncle Ed

Vera Miles as Audrey O'Connor

Carroll McComas as Mrs. Atherton

George Chandler as Eustace Peabody

Taylor Holmes as Jay-Jay Johnson

Byron Foulger as Horace

Irene Anders as Francine

 

5.44 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FOREVER FEMALE

23-Jun-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Otto Kruger (Guest Host for this episode)

Bob Hope (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

Anita Louise as Beatrice Page

Fred Clark as Harry Phillips

Anne Bancroft as Sally

Richard Shannon as Stanley Crown

Jeanette Miller as Patty

Maidie Norman as Maid

 

5.45 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LAST YEAR'S SNOW

30-Jun-1955 NBC Thur

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Steve Brodie as Joe

Constance Ford as Marty

Paul Langton as Carl

Alex Nicol (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.46 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CREAKING GATE

07-Jul-1955 NBC Thur

written by Charles Bennett

directed by George Roy Hill

starring

Beverly Garland as Joyce Williams

Philip Abbott as Dr. Glennon

Robert Cornthwaite as Egan

Chubby Johnson as Fogarty

Russell Gaige as Mr. Williams

Patrick Miller as Dr. Bob Monroe

Paul Bryer as Plainclothesman

Elizabeth Cope as Sadie

 

5.47 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DARK TRIBUTE

14-Jul-1955 NBC Thur

directed by Buzz Kulik

starring

Gage Clarke

Robert Coote

Rod Taylor

Maureen O'Sullivan (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

Synopsis:

Murder mystery when a woman who has won the sweepstakes is found murdered. [RF]

 

5.48 [--] Lux Video Theatre: DESPERATE GLORY

21-Jul-1955 NBC Thur

written by Joseph Cochran

directed by Earl Eby

starring

Joe De Santis as Anton Maxuranic

Reba Waters as Ella Maxuranic

Grace Field as Manya Maxuranic

Michael Vallon as Paul Stephani

Paul Sorenson as Ilya

Peter Mamkos as Dmitri

Ruth Swanson as Tamara Zabutov

Daria Lee Ridgeway as Sophia

 

5.49 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE BRIDE CAME C.O.D.

28-Jul-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Dunlap

starring

Ron Randell as Steve Collins

Joyce Holden as Joan Winfield

Florenz Ames as Pop

Patrick Waltz as Allen Brice

Alexander Campbell as Mr. Winfield

Eddie Marr as Peewee

Ralph Sanford as McGee

Tom Jordon as Pilot

 

5.50 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE NINE-PENNY DREAM

04-Aug-1955 NBC Thur

written by S.H. Barnett

directed by Richard Goode

starring

Lloyd Corrigan as Horace

Betty Sinclair as Agnes

Lisa Daniels as Pam

Liam Sullivan as Tod

Lyle Talbot as Abner

Dulcy Jordan as Cynthia

Charles Davis as Bestman

Aldo Ray (Lux Video Theatre Guest)

 

5.51 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PERILOUS DECEPTION

11-Aug-1955 NBC Thur

Directed by Earl Ebi
Hosted by William Hopper
starring
David Janssen ..... Joe Davies
April Kent ........ Agnes
Karen Kalder ...... Vera Collins
Stuart Nedd ....... Chris Collins
James Flavin ...... Heineman
Ruth Warren ....... Mrs. Beacham
Forrest Lewis ..... Mr. Beacham
Davis Alpert ...... Policeman
Jean Lewis ........ Waitress
Synopsis:
A man murders his wife, then pursues her best friend. [RF]
 

5.52 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NOR ALL YOUR TEARS

18-Aug-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Richard Shannon

Arleen Whelan

 

5.53 [--] Lux Video Theatre: JUNE BRIDE

25-Aug-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Marguerite Chapman

Jerome Thor

 

5.54 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LAST CONFESSION

01-Sep-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Eduard Franz

 

5.55 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE HAPPY MAN

08-Sep-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Judith Evelyn

Kurt Kasznar

Marilyn Erskine

Robert Emhardt

 

5.56 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LUCKY FINGER

15-Sep-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Alan Napier

J. Pat O'Malley

Edith Barrett

 

5.57 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE EYES OF FATHER TOMASINO

22-Sep-1955 NBC Thur

starring

Joe De Santis

Gloria Talbott

Keefe Brasselle

Synopsis:

When a kindly old priest is stabbed to death, a young police officer resigns from the force.

 The policeman wants to use all of his waking hours to find the killer.[RF]

 

[--] Lux Video Theatre: NOTHING SO MONSTROUS

original airdate not known
Cast:

Lew Ayres

Tommy Rettig (Lassie)

Synopsis:
A father tries to provide his motherless son with a sense

of aesthetic appreciation and moral conviction rather than

material conformity to community standards. [JB]
Syndicated rerun on Curtain Call, Sat. 23Jul 55, KEYD-9 Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN 8 p.m.

 

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6.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE ENCHANTED COTTAGE

29-Sep-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Richard P. McDonagh
Based on the play by Arthur Wing Pinero
From the original screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Teresa Wright ......... Laura Pennington

Dan O'Herlihy ...... Oliver Bradford

Synopsis:
An ex-GI meets a homely maid at the cottage where he

 was to spend his honeymoon prior to his injuries.
 

*NOTE: From Sir Arthur Wing Pinero's classic The Enchanted Cottage,

proved without question that there can be as much happiness in ears

and disfigurement as in girlish laugther.
 

6.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE AMAZING MRS. HALLIDAY

06-Oct-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
From the screenplay by John Jacoby, Frank Ryan & Sonya Levien
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Barbara Rush

Grant Williams

Gerald Charlebois

Virginia Gibson

Dorothy Gish

Craig Hill

Synopsis:
An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war

and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.

 

6.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE TWO DOLLAR BETTOR

13-Oct-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by DeWitt Bodeen
From the original screenplay by Howard Emmett Rogers
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring

Gene Lockhart

Karen Sharpe

King Donovan

Barney Phillips

Diane Jergens

Peter Hansen

Synopsis:
A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to

take money from the bank when his funds run low.

 

6.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE HUMAN JUNGLE

20-Oct-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ben Simcoe
From the original screenplay by Daniel Fuchs & William Sackheim
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Dennis O'Keefe.... Captain John Danforth

Joan Vohs

Synopsis:
A police captain is ready to leave the force and open a law office.
*NOTE: Lux Video Theatre Intermission guest is Fred MacMurray.

 

6.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE LADY GAMBLES

27-Oct-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Leo Lieberman
From the story by Oscar Saul
Based on the original screenplay by Halsted Welles, Roy Huggins & Lewis Meltzer
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Martha Hyer

Lyle Bettger

Synopsis:
A woman joins her writer husband on an assignment and winds

up gambling and almost destroying her marriage.

NOTE: Based on the 1949 film that starred Barbara Stanwyck.

 

6.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: APPOINTMENT FOR LOVE

03-Nov-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Story by Leslie Bush-Fekete
From the original screenplay by Felix Jackson & Bruce Manning
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring

Cesar Romero

Julie Adams

Leigh Snowden
Jan Sterling
Synopsis:

A successful playwright and a successful woman doctor have a marriage that is

anything but successful. The fault lies in the female M.D.'s rather objective

attitude toward the human heart. [RF]

 

6.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: BEDTIME STORY

10-Nov-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by James B. Allardice
Story by Horace Jackson
From the original screenplay by Richard Flournoy
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Marguerite Chapman

Gene Raymond

Betty Blythe
Synopsis:

A comedy involving an actress and her playwright husband. She wants him to retire from

the theatrical world, and when it appears he won't accede to her wishes, she heads for Reno. [RF]

 

6.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE HUNTED

17-Nov-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett (as Sandy Barnett)
From the original screenplay by Steve Fisher
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Richard Boone

Helen Westcott

Synopsis:

An innocent girl is sent to prison by her policeman sweetheart who believes her

guilty of the crime. When she is released on parole, the girl swears vengeance

on those responsible for her undeserved punishment. [RF]

 

6.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MISS SUSIE SLAGLE'S

24-Nov-55 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Hugo Butler
Based on the novel by Augusta Tucker
From the original screenplay by Anne Froelich
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring
Dorothy Gish ...... Miss Susie Slagle
Gerald Charlebois
Craig Hill
Virginia Gibson
Synopsis:

Miss Susie Slagle's is a boarding house for medical students in a small college

town. Miss Slagle takes an interest in a student boarding with her who feels he is not

worthy of the girl he loves. [RF]

*Note: The 1945 movie starred Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Joan Caulfield and Lillian Gish.

 

6.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE WEB

01-Dec-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Harry Kronman
Based on the story by Harry Kurnitz
From the original screenplay by William Bowers & Bertram Millhauser
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Raymond Burr

Ray Danton

Arleen Whelan

Barton MacLane
Synopsis:

A young lawyer is entangled in a web of implications and complications

when he accepts a fee to act as a bodyguard. [RF]

 

6.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SUSPICION

08-Dec-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on the novel by Anthony Berkeley
From the original screenplay by Joan Harrison & Samson Raphaelson
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Melville Cooper

Louis Hayward

Kim Hunter

Dan O'Herlihy
Synopsis:
A woman is convinced that her husband killed his

best friend and is now planning to kill her.

 

6.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: BRANDED

15-Dec-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on the novel by Max Brand
From the original screenplay by Sydney Boehm & Cyril Hume
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring

Brian Keith

Jay C. Flippen

Josephine Hutchinson

Synopsis:
A gun fighter poses a wealthy rancher's long lost son to get at the rancher's money.

 

6.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HOLIDAY AFFAIR

22-Dec-1955 NBC Thur

Producer Cal Kuhl
Teleplay Harry Kronman
Based on the story by "The Christmas Gift" by John D. Weaver
Screenplay by Isobel Lennart
Directed by Earl Eby
Music Rudy Schrager
Hosted by Otto Kruger

starring
Scott Brady ...... Steve Mason
Phyllis Thaxter .. Connie Ennis
Elliott Reid ..... Carl Davis
Chris Olsen ...... Timmy Ennis
George Baxter .... Mr. Gow
Herbert Butterfield .. Grandpa
Mary Adams ....... Grandma
Charles Cane ..... Officer McClary
Paul Bryar ....... Desk Sergeant
Synopsis:
A department store "comparison shopper" falls for a toy salesman

after she causes him to lose his job. [RF]

 

Lux Video Intermission guests: Margaret O'Brien and Walter Brennan.

 

6.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: COVER-UP

29-Dec-1955 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on the original screenplay by Dennis O'Keefe & Jerome Odlum
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

William Bendix ....... Larry Beat

Jane Howard

Steve Brodie
Robert Vaughn
Robert Wehling
Synopsis:
An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.

 

6.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HANDS ACROSS THE TABLE

05-Jan-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Jack Roche
Based on the story by Vina Delmar
From the original screenplay by Norman Krasna,

Vincent Lawrence & Herbert Fields
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring

Anne Jeffreys

Robert Sterling

Synopsis:
A playboy and a manicurist are both on the prowl for wealthy spouses.

 

6.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE UNFAITHFUL

12-Jan-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ben Simcoe
Based on the original screenplay by David Goodis & James Gunn
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Jan Sterling

Synopsis:
A husband loses all hope during a murder trial when

his so-called 'perfect' wife isn't so perfect.

 

6.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IVY

19-Jan-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on the novel "The Story of Ivy" by Belloc Lowndes
From the screenplay by Charles Bennett
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Martha Hyer ..... Ivy
Synopsis:
The story of a beautiful woman with designs on a wealthy man.

But she is already saddled with a husband and a boyfriend and plots

murder to remove the obstacles. [RF]
*Note: The 1947 movie starred Joan Fontaine.
 

6.18 [--] Lux Video Theatre: WITNESS TO MURDER

16-Jan-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on a story by Chester Erskine
Director Buzz Kulik
starring
Audrey Totter
Paul Langton
Onslow Stevens
Hanna Landy
Synopsis:
A young woman informs police she has been witness to a murder. But the man

she accuses cleverly convinces authorities the woman is insane and seeks to

have her committed to an asylum. [RF]
*Note: Based on the 1954 movie.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Ernest Borgnine.
 

6.19 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GREEN PROMISE

02-Feb-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay Ed James
Based on the original screenplay by Monte Collins
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

James Barton

Jean Howell

Sandy Descher
Synopsis:
A farmer refuses to change his way of doing things

 when he almost loses the farm.

 

6.20 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE STAR

09-Feb-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Dale Eunson
Directed by Richard Goode
starring

Mary Astor

William Hopper

Jim Backus
Synopsis:
A one-time film star is arrested for drunk driving when

a stranger bails her out and helps her back on her feet.

*NOTE: During this episode, the annual "Photoplay Gold Medal Awards" are presented.

The recipients are Jennifer Jones, Buddy Adler and William Holden.

Jennifer Jones is in Europe so Deborah Kerr accepts on her behalf.
 

6.21 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NIGHT SONG

16-Feb-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on the original screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen,

Frank Fenton and Dick Irving Hyland
Directed by Buzz Kulik
starring

Richard Contino

Barbara Rush

Synopsis:
A women falls in love with a blind pianist

and she lets him believe that she too is blind.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Dick Powell.

 

6.22 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HIRED WAY

23-Feb-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ben Simcoe
Story by George Beck
Based on the original screenplay by Richard Connell & Gladys Lehman
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Anne Bancroft ....... Kendal Browning

Lex Barker ........ Stephen Dexter

Synopsis:
A secretary helps her boss out of a legal problem by becoming his wife.

 

6.23 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HERE COMES THE GROOM

01-Mar-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ed James
Story by Liam O'Brien & Robert Riskin
Based on the original screenplay by Myles Connolly & Virginia Van Upp
Directed by Norman Morgan
Hosted by Frank Capra
starring
Patricia Crowley
Steve Dunne
Robert Sterling
Synopsis:
A carefree foreign correspondent returns to the U.S. with two orphans. He can keep

 them only if he weds within two weeks - and thus begins his hectic search for a wife. [RF]

*Note: Released in 1951, the film version starred Bing Crosby,

Jane Wyman, Franchot Tone and Alexis Smith.

 

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Angela Lansbury.
 

6.24 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CRIMINAL CODE

08-Mar-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on a play by Martin Flavin
From the original screenplay by Seton I. Miller & Fred Niblo Jr.
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Hosted by Otto Kruger

starring

Dewey Martin

Nancy Hale
Onslow Stevens
Synopsis:

Now the warden of a penitentiary, a man tries to help a convict he sent to

 prison three years earlier for accidentally killing a man in a fight. [RF]

*Note: Based on the original film released in 1931 and starring Walter Huston.

 

6.25 [--] Lux Video Theatre: LITTLE BOY LOST

15-Mar-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Turnley Walker
From the story by Marghanita Laski
Based on the original screenplay by George Seaton & William Perlberg
Directed by Earl Eby
Hosted by Otto Kruger
starring
Carl Esmond
Dennis O'Keefe
Johnny Crawford
Jacqueline Beer
Synopsis:
After the war, a radio commentator returns to France to seek his child.

 His wife was killed by the Nazis during the occupation of Paris. He has his

 doubts that the youngster found in an orphanage is really his son. [RF]
*Note: Based on the original film released in 1954

and starred Bing Crosby and Claude Dauphin.
 

6.26 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE STEEL TRAP

22-Mar-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Original screenplay by Andrew L. Stone
Directed by Norman Morgan
starring
Howard Duff
Margo Lee
Synopsis:
An assistant bank manager steals one million at Friday closing, hops

a plane accompanied by his wife who has no clue about the crime.
 

6.27 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IT STARTED WITH EVE

29-Mar-1956 NBC Thur

Producer Cal Kuhl
Teleplay by James Allardice
Story by Hanns Kraly
Directed by Fred Carney
Hosted by Otto Kruger
starring
Thomas Mitchell ... John Reynolds Sr.
David Janssen .... Johnny Reynolds Jr.
Joan Weldon ....... Anne
Taylor Holmes ..... Dr. Harvey
A.E. Gould-Porter.. Roberts
Joan Sinclair ..... Gloria
Lillian Culver .... Mrs. Pennington
Ellen Corby ....... Nurse
Alexander Campbell. Walters
James McCallion ... Frank
Synopsis:
When a dying man asks to meet his son's fiancee, the young man, in desperation,

gets a hat-check girl to act as a stand-in. The situation is complicated by the recovery

 of the father and the real fiancee's demand for an explanation. [RF]
 

6.28 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TABLOID

05-Apr-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Original screenplay by Elwood Ullman & Charles R. Marion
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Scott Brady

Anthony Caruso

Karen Sharpe

Gloria Blondell
Robert Dix
Synopsis:
A reporter is determined to bring down a gambling kingpin.

 

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Sal Mineo.

 

6.29 [--] Lux Video Theatre: TEMPTATION

12-Apr-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Based on a play by James B. Fagan
From Robert Hichens novel "Bella Donna"
Original screenplay Robert Thoeren
Directed by Norman Morgan
Hosted by Otto Kruger
starring
Sarah Churchill .... Ruby
Ludwig Stössel ..... Professor Müller
Patrick Aherne ..... Dr. Issacson
Jean Del Val ....... Professor Dupont
Lisa Montel ........ Yvonne
Dayton Lummis ...... Nigel
Nan Boardman ....... Marie
Carolyn Craig ...... Jean
John Bentley ....... Baroudi
Charles La Torre ... Ahmed
Gail Bonney ........ Mrs. McCormick
Synopsis:
A beautiful but sinister woman plots her husband's murder

so that she will be free to marry another man. [RF]
*Note: Based on the 1946 movie "Temptation" starring Merle Oberon,

George Brent, Charles Korvin and Paul Lukas.
 

6.30 [--] Lux Video Theatre: I MARRIED A STRANGER

19-Apr-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Herbert Abbott Spiro
Story by George Moskov
Original screenplay by Philip Yordan & Dennis J. Cooper
Directed by Fred Carney
starring

Marilyn Erskine

Robert Horton

Patrick O'Neal

Synopsis:
A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show

 up a month later when he is accused of murder.
 

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Leif Erickson & Brian Donlevy.

 

6.31 [--] Lux Video Theatre: IMPACT

26-Apr-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
From a story by Jay Dratler
Based on an original screenplay by Dorothy Reid

Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Brian Donlevy ..... Walter Williams

Leif Erickson ..... Jim Torrance
Synopsis:
A self-made businessman buys three factories. His wife Irene is unable

to travel due to illness so he asks his cousin Jim take her instead.

Unaware that Jim is Irene's lover and they plan to murder him.

 

*NOTE: The 1949 film "Impact" starred Brian Donlevy & Helen Walker.

 

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is  Peggie Castle.

 

6.32 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HAS ANYBODY SEEN MY GAL?

03-May-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ed James
Story by Eleanor H. Porter
From the screenplay by Joseph Hoffman

Directed by Norman Morgan
starring

Gene Lockhart ..... Samuel Fulton
Diane Jergens ..... Millicent Blaisdell
Synopsis:
Old Samuel Fulton has no family of his own and decides to leave

his estate to the family of his first true love.

NOTE: The 1952 film "Has Anybody Seen My Gal?" starred Charles Coburn,

Piper Laurie and Rock Hudson.
 

6.33 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE NIGHT OF JANUARY SIXTEENTH

10-May-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
From the play by Ayn Rand
Based on the original screenplay by Robert Pirosh & Delmer Daves
Directed by Fred Carney
starring
Phyllis Thaxter
Les Tremayne
Helen Westcott
Richard Shannon
Synopsis:
A tycoon's death is shrouded in mystery after his fall from his apartment

window, especially when his assistant is accused of the deed.

 

NOTE: The 1941 film "Night of January 16th" starred Robert Preston,

Ellen Drew and Margaret Hayes.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Alfred Hitchcock.
 

6.34 [--] Lux Video Theatre: PRINCESS O'ROURKE

17-May-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Story by Norman Krasna
Directed by Earl Eby
starring

Diana Lynn ....... Princess Maria

Ed Kemmer
Torin Thatcher
Russell Hicks
Synopsis:
A pilot falls in love with a woman he believes is heading cross country

to become a maid, little suspecting that she's actually a princess.

NOTE: The 1943 film "Princess O'Rourke" starred Olivia DeHavilland,

Robert Cummings and Jack Carson.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Natalie Wood.

 

6.35 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MILLIE'S DAUGHTER

24-May-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Stanley H. Silverman
From the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke
Based on the original screenplay by Edward Huebsch
Directed by Norman Morgan
starring

June Havoc

Olive Sturgess
Hope Emerson
Synopsis:
A divorced mother stages phony charity events to support her family

 until one of her 'benefits' runs into problems with the law.

NOTE: The 1947 film "Millie's Daughter" starred Gladys George,

Paul Campbell and Norma Varden.

 

6.36 [--] Lux Video Theatre: INDISCREET

31-May-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Mortimer Braus
From the original screenplay by Leo McCarey
Directed by Fred Carney
starring
Margaret Lindsay
John Dehner
Marcia Henderson
Marjorie Rambeau
Leslie Bradley
Synopsis:
The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy

due to his wife's past which eventually catches up to her.

NOTE: The 1931 film "Indiscreet" starred Gloria Swanson,

Ben Lyon and Barbara Kent.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Jan Sterling.
 

6.37 [--] Lux Video Theatre: SHE MARRIED HER BOSS

07-Jun-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
From the original screenplay by Sidney Buchman
Based on the story by Thyra Samter Winslow
Directed by Earl Eby
starring
Patric Knowles
Jan Sterling
Synopsis:
In order to keep a valuable employee, he marries her. When she discovers

the truth she starts divorce proceedings but he has fallen in love with her for real.

NOTE: The 1935 film "She Married Her Boss" starred Claudette Colbert

and Melvyn Douglas.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Victoria Shaw.
 

6.38 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A HOUSE OF HIS OWN

14-Jun-1956 NBC Thur

Written by Loring Mandel
Directed by Norman Morgan
starring
Richard Boone ..... Vincent Giel
Mabel Albertson ... Mrs. Cavanaugh
Gage Clarke ....... Brenner
Charles Meredith .. Dr. Lederer
Victoria Shaw ..... Mona
Synopsis:
An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole.

All are in favor except for one member.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Bob Hope.
 

6.39 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE CORRIGAN CASE

21-Jun-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by S.H. Barnett
Story by Larry Riley
Directed by James P. Yarborough
starring
Anne Bancroft ..... Ann Sommers
Frances Bavier
Steve Brodie
Synopsis:
A woman acquitted of murdering her husband but the cloud of suspicion still

surrounds her. Her daughter and a tenant in the family rooming house

set out to find the real killer of her father.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Lex Barker.
 

6.40 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A YANKEE COUSIN

28-Jun-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Ben Simcoe
Based on Ben Simocoe's play
Directed by Earl Eby
starring
Kurt Kasznar ...... Mike Garcia
Synopsis:
A man moves his family from Puerto Rico to New York City in the hopes of

making a success for himself. He soon finds out that by signing for what he

wants the creditors are soon after him.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Joel McCrea.
 

6.41 [--] Lux Video Theatre: A MARRIAGE DAY

05-Jul-1956 NBC Thur

Written by Merle Miller
Director Michael Drefuss
Hosted by Ken Carpenter from Hollywood
starring
Marilyn Erskine
Ray Collins
Andrew Duggan
Cloris Leachman
Fredd Wayne
Synopsis:
A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected

in her marriage to a handsome young man. [RF]

 

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Burt Lancaster & James Hill.

 

6.42 [--] Lux Video Theatre: STING IN THE TAIL

12-Jul-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Stanley H. Silverman
Based on the play by T.A.W. Purefoy
Directed by James P. Yarborough
starring
Vincent Price ..... Joseph Bently
Mabel Albertson
Ellen Corby
Synopsis:
Greedy Joseph Bently is working hard on his plan to inherit the estate

of a rich relative. Things change when his sister confesses that she murdered

her husband and in order to avoid any scandal he takes extreme

measures to protect his respectability.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Maria Palmer.
 

6.43 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NO ONE TO CRY WITH

19-Jul-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Marguerite Chapman

Constance Ford

John Bentley
Synopsis:
A woman recently released from a mental institute gets a job as a housekeeper.

Things turn for the worse when her employer's wife, an actress arrives

 causing stress and conflict to the rest of the household.

 

6.44 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MISS MABEL

26-Jul-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Harry Kronman
Based on the play by R.C. Sherriff
Directed by Michael Dreyfuss
starring

Elsa Lanchester

Frederick Worlock

Irene Anders

Synopsis:
After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will

of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.

 

6.45 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

02-Aug-1956 NBC Thur

Teleplay by Clarke Reynolds
Story by Jack Leonard
Directed by Norman Morgan
starring
Jimmy Hawkins ..... Pete Nelson
Ray Danton
James Whitmore
Karen Steele
Keith Larsen
Synopsis:
A Sioux guide leads a wagon train West. A gambler on the trip is suspicious

and believes the guide is leading them into an ambush.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is George Marshall.
 

6.46 [--] Lux Video Theatre: REBUKE ME NOT

09-Aug-1956 NBC Thur

Written by Herbert Abbott Spiro
Directed by James P. Yarborough
starring
Jan Sterling
Forrest Tucker
Synopsis:
An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife,

especially since he had been carrying on an affair with her nurse.

** Lux Video Theatre intermission guest is Rod Steiger.
 

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7.01 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE WAYWARD SAINT

30-Aug-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Sallie Brophy

Ann B. Davis

Liam Redmond

Roland Winters

 

7.02 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ROAD OF FEAR

06-Sep-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Scott Brady

Catherine McLeod

Jimmy Baird

Johnny Crawford

 

7.03 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE TOP RUNG

13-Sep-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Lee Bowman

Irene Hervey

William Hopper

 

7.04 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MILDRED PIERCE

20-Sep-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the novel by James M. Cain

starring

Virginia Bruce as Mildred Pierce

Zachary Scott as Monte Beragon

Patric Knowles

*Note: Based on the 1945 film starring Joan Crawford and Jack Carson.

 

7.05 [--] Lux Video Theatre: ONLY YESTERDAY

27-Sep-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Don Taylor

Joan Caulfield

Richard Eyer

 

7.06 [--] Lux Video Theatre: NOW, VOYAGER

04-Oct-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

starring

Richard Carlson

Laraine Day

Herbert Marshall

*Note: Based on the 1942 film starring Bette Davis, Paul Henreid and Claude Rains.

 

7.07 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GUILTY

11-Oct-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the Cornell Woolrich story "He Looked Like Murder"

starring

Ralph Meeker

Carol Ohmart

Skip Homeier

Synopsis:
Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them

 is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl. [RF]
*Note: Based on the 1947 movie starring Bonita Granville.

 

7.08 [--] Lux Video Theatre: FLAMINGO ROAD

18-Oct-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Raymond Burr as Dan Reynolds

Joanne Dru as Lane Bellamy

Robert Middleton as Titus Semple

 

7.09 [--] Lux Video Theatre: BECAUSE OF YOU

25-Oct-1956 NBC Thur

Based on a story by Thelma Robinson

starring

Vera Miles

Sandy Descher

Irene Hervey

*Note: Loretta Young and Jeff Chandler starred in the 1952 movie.

 

7.10 [--] Lux Video Theatre: YOU CAN'T ESCAPE FOREVER

01-Nov-1956 NBC Thur Color

Based on a story by Hector Chevigny

starring

Don DeFore

Virginia Gregg

Leon Askin ....... Mike Czerny

Synopsis:
After an argument with his boss, a reporter is assigned to do the

advice-to-the-lovelorn column, much against his will. Unexpectedly

 it leads him to one of the biggest scoops of his career. [RF]
*Note: George Brent and Brenda Marshall starred in the 1942 movie

on which this episode is based.

 

7.11 [--] Lux Video Theatre: JEZEBEL

08-Nov-1956 NBC Thur

Based on a play written by Owen Davis Sr.

starring

Martha Hyer

*Note: Based on the 1938 film starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda

 

7.12 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GLASS WEB

15-Nov-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the novel by Max Simon Ehrlich

starring

George Nader

Synopsis:
When a designing television starlet is murdered. Four men are

 suspected: her ex-husband, a TV writer, the researched on the series

and the producer of the show. [RF]
*Note: Based on the 1953 film starring Edward G. Robinson, John Forsythe and Kathleen Hughes.

 

7.13 [--] Lux Video Theatre: THE GAY SISTERS

22-Nov-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the novel by Stephen Longstreet

starring

Alexis Smith

Tim Hovey

Karen Steele

Helen Westcott

Synopsis:
Three sisters discover their inheritance is melting away because

 of legal entanglements created by one man. [RF]
*Note: The 1942 film "The Gay Sisters" starred Barbara Stanwyck and George Brent.

 

7.14 [--] Lux Video Theatre: OLD ACQUAINTANCE

29-Nov-1956 NBC Thur

Based on the stage play by John Van Druten
starring
Ruth Hussey ..... Kit Marlowe
Lynn Bari ...... Millie Drake
Joan Evans ..... Deirdre Drake
Synopsis:
The friendship of two career women, both eminently successful novelists,

 is strained to the breaking point when one accuses the other of being

involved in a romance with her husband. [RF]
*Note: Bette Davis and Miriam Hopkins starred in the 1943 movie
 

7.15 [--] Lux Video Theatre: CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT

13-Dec-1956 NBC Thur

Story by Aileen Hamilton
Hosted by Gordon McRae
starring
Mona Freeman ..... Elizabeth Lane
Leon Askin ....... Felix Bassenak
Synopsis:
A woman magazine columnist writes about a non-existent farm and family.

She finds herself in a predicament when called upon to produce

 the farm, husband and child in person. [RF]
*Note: Based on the Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan and

Sydney Greenstreet 1945 movie of the same name.
 

7.16 [--] Lux Video Theatre: HOLLYWOOD'S MUSICAL HOLIDAY REVUE

20-Dec-1956 NBC Thur

starring

Shirley Jones

Nelson Eddy

Jeanette MacDonald

 

7.17 [--] Lux Video Theatre: MICHAEL AND MARY