Lux Video Theatre: Season 4
Season 4 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 3.
- 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 4 Progress Shield
Message in a Bottle
Sep 3, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a once successful business executive whose delusions of grandeur cost him a career and a fortune.
The Second Meeting
Sep 10, 1953 · 60 min
The story of two ex-GI's in a secluded hunting lodge. One brings home a bride, and she is the woman who jilted the buddy ten years earlier.
Witness for the Prosecution
Sep 17, 1953 · 60 min
Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.
Return to Alsace
Sep 24, 1953 · 60 min
The story of an ex-GI who makes some amazing discoveries when he goes to Europe to return a necklace stolen during the War by one of his buddies.
Anniversary
Oct 1, 1953 · 60 min
Even the haunting spectre of death fails to dampen the gaiety of an anniversary celebration when it is pitted against a plucky woman's resolve.
The Moon for Linda
Oct 8, 1953 · 60 min
Story about a doting mother of an ungrateful, headstrong, adopted daughter.
Guilty Knowledge
Oct 15, 1953 · 60 min
Harry discovers that his best friend is responsible for a storage in the company's books.
The Cruel Time
Oct 22, 1953 · 60 min
A frustrated piano teacher longs for recognition as a concert performer. A wealthy young matron offers to sponsor his concerts - against the wishes of his wife, who feels that the
The Return of Socko Bernard
Oct 29, 1953 · 60 min
A hungry and jobless former football star is embarrassed when he secures a job as a waiter at a hotel. He discovers too late that he is to serve dinner at a reunion of former class
Will Power
Nov 5, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a cantankerous millionaire who arouses the ire of his family by changing his will.
The Moment of the Rose
Nov 19, 1953 · 60 min
Story of a penniless waiter who tries to give his daughter a better way of life.
Three Just Men
Dec 10, 1953 · 60 min
The story set in a frontier cabin, involves three self-appointed vigilantes hunting down a Confederate soldier turned horse thief.
A Bouquet for Millie
Dec 17, 1953 · 60 min
Millie loves flowers and constantly beseaches Tim to bring her a bouquet. Tim thinks flowers are sissy and refuses to buy them. An argument ensues and leads to a black eye for Mill
Call Off the Wedding
Jan 7, 1954 · 60 min
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.
All Dressed in White
Jan 14, 1954 · 60 min
The macabre gift of a revolver with a single bullet in its chamber traps a sadistic killer at a wedding.
The Bachelor of Grandby Oaks
Jan 21, 1954 · 60 min
A chronic bachelor is plagued by women in a small community overrun by them.
A Place in the Sun
Jan 28, 1954 · 60 min
A poor boy gets a job working for his rich uncle and ends up falling in love with two women.
The Small Glass Bottle
Feb 4, 1954 · 60 min
A nagging wife suspects her husband of trying to kill her.He gives her some pills for her headache and she thinks he has given her poison.
Shall Not Perish
Feb 11, 1954 · 60 min
The story of a sharecropper's wife and a banker who both lost sons in Korea.
Borrowed Wife
Feb 25, 1954 · 60 min
An author borrows his friend's wife in order to ward off a young girl's attentions.
Miracle at the Waldorf
Mar 4, 1954 · 60 min
A once famed Viennese throat specialist is struggling to establish a practice in America.
Call Me Mrs.
Mar 11, 1954 · 60 min
A brainy secretary gives up her career to be the wife of a "shrinking violet" construction engineer.
The Exposure of Michael O'Reilly
Mar 18, 1954 · 60 min
The story of a man who posed for 30 years as a hero of the Irish Easter Rebellion of 1916.
Spent in Silence
Mar 25, 1954 · 60 min
A deaf mute tries to find love and a career despite her handicap and parental opposition.
The Way I Feel
Apr 1, 1954 · 60 min
The story of a teenager preparing to wed after graduation from high school, who is shocked when her fiance, the school's football hero, disgraces himself.
Pick of the Litter
Apr 8, 1954 · 60 min
A young veterinarian saves the life of a boy's dog and gives a cynical gambler a lesson in human kindness and understanding.
The Girl Who Couldn't Cry
Apr 15, 1954 · 60 min
A schoolteacher with a malicious teenage student trying to ruin the teachers reputation.
Gavin's Darling
Apr 22, 1954 · 60 min
A young woman is distraught over her secure but loveless marriage to an elderly man.
A Chair for a Lady
Apr 29, 1954 · 60 min
A man is freed from a loveless marriage by the death of his invalid wife and becomes suspect until the unscrupulous nurse comes into question.
Two Dozen Roses
May 6, 1954 · 60 min
A famous novelist attempts to prevent her daughter's marriage to the son of a stage star.
The Queen's English
May 13, 1954 · 60 min
Drama about a spinster teacher who is brought to trial by the school board on charges of prejudice. She is accused of flunking the son of a wealthy man because of an injustice the
Blind Fury
May 20, 1954 · 60 min
A railroad agent is forced to a crucial decision when an attempt to wreck a train from his post is attempted.
I'll Never Love Again
May 27, 1954 · 60 min
Lee suffers paralysis but the the love of a good man Nick helps her in her recovery.
The Outside Witness
Jun 3, 1954 · 60 min
The outside witness is a window washer who, while performing his task, has his attention drawn to a supposedly respectable couple. He indeed overhears them discussing a murder plan
Waiting for Onorio
Jun 10, 1954 · 60 min
A headstrong Italian immigrant and restaurant owner deserts his family in a fit of temper because his wife won't obey him and sign a bill of sale.
The Pretext
Jun 17, 1954 · 60 min
A pretty young graduate student is caught in the cross-fire of an emotional conflict between her father and her fiance.
Perished Leaves
Jun 24, 1954 · 60 min
A wealthy bachelor dies suddenly, leaving his lawyer with unWritten instructions that the woman he loves should benefit from his estate. He never names the woman and the lawyer is