Lux Video Theatre: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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 6 Progress Shield
The Enchanted Cottage
Sep 29, 1955 · 60 min
A homely maid and a scarred ex-GI meet at the cottage where she works and where he was to spend his honeymoon prior to his accident. The two develop a bond and agree to marry, more
The Amazing Mrs. Halliday
Oct 6, 1955 · 60 min
An American teacher rescues a group of orphans during an Asian war and finds she has problems trying to get them thru immigration.
The Two Dollar Bettor
Oct 13, 1955 · 60 min
A bank employee gets hooked on horse racing and starts to take money from the bank when his funds run low.
The Human Jungle
Oct 20, 1955 · 60 min
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with juvenile delinquency, petty crimes, graft and also a recent unsolved murder of a s
The Lady Gambles
Oct 27, 1955 · 60 min
A desperate husband tries to find help for his wife suffering from addictive gambling.
Appointment for Love
Nov 3, 1955 · 60 min
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which in
Bedtime Story
Nov 10, 1955 · 60 min
Playwright tries to stop his wife from retiring so he can star her in his next play.
The Hunted
Nov 17, 1955 · 60 min
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
Miss Susie Slagle's
Nov 24, 1955 · 60 min
Baltimore, 1910. Miss Susie Slagle opens a boarding house for medical students.
The Web
Dec 1, 1955 · 60 min
An attorney acting as a body guard, apparently kills a man in defense of his employer's life, and later believes the victim was set up to be murdered.
Suspicion
Dec 8, 1955 · 60 min
A shy young English woman marries a charming gentleman, then begins to suspect him of trying to kill her.
Branded
Dec 15, 1955 · 60 min
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.
Holiday Affair
Dec 22, 1955 · 60 min
Connie Ennis, widowed mother to young son Timmy, has avoided accepting the marriage proposal of her longtime boyfriend Carl. While he patiently awaits her saying "yes," Connie clin
Cover-Up
Dec 29, 1955 · 60 min
An insurance detective is sent to investigate the sudden death of a man.
Hands Across the Table
Jan 5, 1956 · 60 min
A loafer and a manicurist, both planning to marry money, meet and form an uneasy alliance.
The Unfaithful
Jan 12, 1956 · 60 min
Chris Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her lover and she had posed for an incrimina
Ivy
Jan 19, 1956 · 60 min
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Witness to Murder
Jan 26, 1956 · 60 min
A woman's sanity comes into question, after she claims to have witnessed a murder from her apartment window.
The Green Promise
Feb 2, 1956 · 60 min
A stubborn old farmer won't listen to any of his neighbors about how to improve the efficiency of his farm with modern methods, as he thinks "the old ways" were just fine. His thre
The Star
Feb 9, 1956 · 60 min
A washed-up movie queen finds romance, but still desires a come-back.
Night Song
Feb 16, 1956 · 60 min
Cathy Mallory, beautiful socialite who prefers classical music, is taken by friends to a back-alley dance club. There, she meets blind pianist Dan Evans, who plays in Chick Morgan'
Hired Wife
Feb 23, 1956 · 60 min
Kendal, a secretary, helps to her boss Stephen Dexter out of a legal problem by becoming his wife. What was supposed to be temporary becomes something more after many obstacles.
Here Comes the Groom
Mar 1, 1956 · 60 min
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Criminal Code
Mar 8, 1956 · 60 min
After a failed attempt at running for governor, D.A. Mark Brady is appointed warden of the state prison where many of the criminals he prosecuted are incarcerated.
Little Boy Lost
Mar 15, 1956 · 60 min
A war correspondent who was stationed in Paris during WW II married a French girl who was murdered by the Nazis. After the war he returns to to try to find his son, whom he lost du
The Steel Trap
Mar 22, 1956 · 60 min
A Bank officer discovers a flaw in the U.S. extradition treaty with Brazil and decides to take advantage of it. On Friday, he steals a million dollars from the bank, knowing it won
It Started With Eve
Mar 29, 1956 · 60 min
A young man asks a hat check girl to pose as his fiancée in order to make his dying father's last moments happy. However, the old man's health takes a turn for the better and now h
Temptation
Apr 12, 1956 · 60 min
In a flashback, late-Victorian beauty Ruby, a divorcée with a shady past, calculatingly marries rich Egyptologist Nigel, who installs her at his Cairo estate while he digs for mumm
Betrayed
Apr 19, 1956 · 60 min
A man abandons his bride on their wedding night only to show up a month later when he is accused of murder.
Impact
Apr 26, 1956 · 60 min
An unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding, and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy
Has Anybody Seen My Gal?
May 3, 1956 · 60 min
Wealthy Samuel Fulton is getting older and has no family of his own. He decides to leave his estate to the family of his first love, who turned down his marriage proposal years ago
The Night of January Sixteenth
May 10, 1956 · 60 min
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also
Princess O'Rourke
May 17, 1956 · 60 min
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.
Millie's Daughter
May 24, 1956 · 60 min
Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert L
Indiscreet
May 31, 1956 · 60 min
The political future of the Governor of the Caribbean is in jeopardy due to his wife's past, which eventually catches up to her.
She Married Her Boss
Jun 7, 1956 · 60 min
A super-efficient secretary at a department store falls for and marries her boss, but finds out that taking care of him at home (and especially his spoiled-brat daughter) is a lot
A House of His Own
Jun 14, 1956 · 60 min
An inmate feels he has paid his debt in prison and files for parole. All are in favor except for one member.
The Corrigan Case
Jun 21, 1956 · 60 min
A woman is 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
A Yankee Cousin
Jun 28, 1956 · 60 min
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 after
A Marriage Day
Jul 5, 1956 · 60 min
A plain but wealthy heiress does not find the happiness she expected in her marriage to a handsome young man.
Sting in the Tail
Jul 12, 1956 · 60 min
Greedy Joseph Bently is working hard on his plan to inherit the estate of a rich relative, but things change when his sister confesses that she murdered her husband.
No One to Cry With
Jul 19, 1956 · 60 min
A woman recently released from a mental institute gets a job as a housekeeper. Things turn for the worse when her employer's wife arrives, causing stress and conflict for the rest
Miss Mabel
Jul 26, 1956 · 60 min
After Miss Mabel poisons her spiteful sister, she rewrites the will of her dead sibling to leave the estate to the locals.
The Quick and the Dead
Aug 2, 1956 · 60 min
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.
Rebuke Me Not
Aug 9, 1956 · 60 min
An innocent man is about to be convicted of murdering his hypochondriac wife.