Lux Video Theatre: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Lux Video Theatre Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
The Return of Ulysses
Sep 1, 1952 · 60 min
An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.
Ile
Sep 8, 1952 · 60 min
The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.
Stone's Throw
Sep 15, 1952 · 60 min
A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.
Happily, But Not Forever
Sep 22, 1952 · 60 min
The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.
A Message for Janice
Sep 29, 1952 · 60 min
Dave Carter attempts to deliver a message from his deceased comrad-in-arms to a young girl, he meets unexpected rebuffs from his buddy's parents.
A Legacy for Love
Oct 6, 1952 · 60 min
A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.
The Country Lawyer
Oct 20, 1952 · 60 min
Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.
Three Hours Between
Oct 27, 1952 · 60 min
Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.
The Face of Autumn
Nov 3, 1952 · 60 min
A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.
Something to Celebrate
Nov 10, 1952 · 60 min
A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.
The Man Who Struck It Rich
Nov 17, 1952 · 60 min
An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.
The Hill
Nov 24, 1952 · 60 min
A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.
Amo, Amas, Amat
Dec 1, 1952 · 60 min
A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.
Fear
Dec 8, 1952 · 60 min
A drama about the reunion of two men who haven't seen each other for 25 years. One is a millionaire philanthropist and the other an ex-con.
Song for a Banjo
Dec 15, 1952 · 60 min
A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.
A Child is Born
Dec 22, 1952 · 60 min
Gene Lockhart and Fay Bainter will recreate the roles of the Innkeeper and his wife for the third year, of the Christmas television classic "A Child Is Born", Stephen Vincent Benet
The Key
Dec 29, 1952 · 60 min
A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.
Two for Tea
Jan 5, 1953 · 60 min
A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.
Thanks for a Lovely Evening
Jan 12, 1953 · 60 min
A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.
Ti Babette
Jan 19, 1953 · 60 min
A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.
The Inn of Eagles
Jan 26, 1953 · 60 min
A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.
The White Gown
Feb 2, 1953 · 60 min
A 16-year-old girl wears a very special dress on her first date with a college man and gives her parents anxious moments when she departs.
A Bouquet for Caroline
Feb 9, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.
Miss Marlow at Play
Feb 16, 1953 · 60 min
A reigning headliner of the British stage is accused by an irate father, of stealing the affections of his son from the girl of his choice.
Autumn Nocturne
Feb 23, 1953 · 60 min
Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.
A Time for Heroes
Mar 2, 1953 · 60 min
A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years to claim a son he had deserted.
One of These Things
Mar 9, 1953 · 60 min
A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.
The Wednesday Wish
Mar 16, 1953 · 60 min
A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.
One for the Road
Mar 23, 1953 · 60 min
Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.
The Brooch
Apr 2, 1953 · 60 min
A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.
With Glory and Honor
Apr 9, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.
Measure for Greatness
Apr 16, 1953 · 60 min
The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.
Long Distance
Apr 23, 1953 · 60 min
A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.
The Ascent of Alfred Fishkettle
Apr 30, 1953 · 60 min
Story concerns a young man whose scientific experiments disturb his entire neighborhood, especially when he discovers how to fly through the air with the greatest of ease.
Listen, He's Proposing
May 7, 1953 · 60 min
A small-town girl whose on-again off-again romance keeps the neighbors guessing. Their curiosity reaches an all-time high when the word gets around that a proposal is in the offing
The Betrayers
May 14, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.
Tunnel Job
May 21, 1953 · 60 min
Dan Carmody is the boss of a construction job 1,500 feet below the surface of a river. The job is fraught with danger and turmoil when he must make a life or death decision.
Lost Sunday
May 28, 1953 · 60 min
A middle-aged school teacher is in a one-woman battle with the international date line and the Bon Voyage Travel Bureau, trying to get back a golden day she lost on her wistful tri
Ten Days to Forever
Jun 4, 1953 · 60 min
A little known custom in Mississippi, permits a life prisoner 10 days furlough after several years of good behavior; and what happens to aristocratic Jeff Foster, convicted murdere
Make Believe Bride
Jun 11, 1953 · 60 min
A bewildered plane passenger agrees to pose as the husband of a fleeing and temporarily penniless, heiress who has just enough with her for the trip if she goes on the company's "h
Wind of the Way
Jun 18, 1953 · 60 min
A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".
This is Jimmy Merrill
Jun 25, 1953 · 60 min
When two feuding newscasters become involved in a mud-slinging campaign, an interesting situation is bound to develop. The instigator of the feud suddenly faces an expose of scanda
Force of Circumstance
Jul 2, 1953 · 60 min
A man is jailed for the hit-and-run death of a child, even though he couldn't possibly have committed the crime. He struggles to free himself of a web of evidence that has sent him
The Tango
Jul 9, 1953 · 60 min
A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.
The Corporal and the Lady
Jul 16, 1953 · 60 min
A G.I. camp in Korea is plagued by a mysterious pin-up picture thief. A meek corporal suffers from a strange ailment - he objects to pin-up girls around the barracks, particularly
A Man in the Kitchen
Jul 23, 1953 · 60 min
An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.
The Odyssey of Jeffrey Sewell
Jul 30, 1953 · 60 min
A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.
Something to Live For
Aug 6, 1953 · 60 min
The story concerns a retired stage star whose marriage to a theatrical producer is threatened by the ambitious and unscrupulous young star of his new play.
Lovely Day
Aug 13, 1953 · 60 min
Linda Russell is under strict instructions from husband Bill to have the family home good and ready for the dinner visit of Bill's efficiency obsessed boss Mr Marshall. Will she me
Women Who Wait
Aug 20, 1953 · 60 min
The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.
Some Call It Love
Aug 27, 1953 · 60 min
A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.