Lux Video Theatre: Season 7
Season 7 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 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
Mildred Pierce
Sep 20, 1956 · 60 min
After her cheating husband leaves her, Mildred Pierce proves she can become independent and successful, but cannot seem to win the approval of her spoiled daughter.
Now, Voyager
Oct 4, 1956 · 60 min
Boston spinster blossoms under therapy and finds impossible romance.
The Guilty
Oct 11, 1956 · 60 min
Two sisters are in love with the same man. Then one of them is found murdered, which leads police to suspect the other girl.
Flamingo Road
Oct 18, 1956 · 60 min
A carnival dancer finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by a corrupt political boss. Complications arise when she becomes romantically involved with the local Sheriff.
Because of You
Oct 25, 1956 · 60 min
A female ex-con falls in love and hesitates to reveal her past.
You Can't Escape Forever
Nov 1, 1956 · 60 min
A newspaperman is given the "advice to the lovelorn" column to write after an argument with his boss. He resents the assignment but the job pays off when he gets the beat on the ho
Jezebel
Nov 8, 1956 · 60 min
A haughty headstrong Southern Belle in Antebellum Louisiana loses her fiancée due to her stubborn vanity and pride and vows to get him back.
The Glass Web
Nov 15, 1956 · 60 min
A beautiful but heartless television actress, uses seduction and tricks to blackmail the men in her life to a point, where she could get herself killed.
The Gay Sisters
Nov 22, 1956 · 60 min
Fiona, Evelyn and Susanna are sisters. Their mother dies on the Lusitania, their father is killed in France, they must manage their Fifth Avenue mansion by themselves. Fiona marrie
Old Acquaintance
Nov 29, 1956 · 60 min
Old friends Kit Marlowe and Millie Drake adopt contrasting lifestyles: Kit is a single, critically acclaimed author while married Millie writes popular pulp novels.
Christmas in Connecticut
Dec 13, 1956 · 60 min
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional
Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue
Dec 20, 1956 · 60 min
Todays theme is Hollywood's Musical Holiday Revue.
Michael and Mary
Dec 27, 1956 · 60 min
After being deserted by her husband, Mary falls in love with Michael. After a few years, they marry, raise a son, and Michael becomes a successful writer. However, her first husban
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Jan 3, 1957 · 60 min
A homeless New Yorker moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.
To Have and Have Not
Jan 17, 1957 · 60 min
During WWII, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a Free French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sexy lounge singer.
Vice Squad
Jan 24, 1957 · 60 min
When a police officer is shot arresting a car thief, Captain Barnaby uses his skills and contacts to track down the culprits and uncovers a bank heist plan in the process. Barnaby
One Sunday Afternoon
Jan 31, 1957 · 60 min
Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.
Dark Victory
Feb 14, 1957 · 60 min
A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether she'll meet her final days with dignity.
One Way Street
Feb 21, 1957 · 60 min
After stealing a gangster's money and his girlfriend, a doctor heads for a small village in Mexico.
Possessed
Feb 28, 1957 · 60 min
After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.
One Way Passage
Mar 7, 1957 · 60 min
A terminally ill woman and a debonair murderer facing execution meet and fall in love on a trans-Pacific crossing, each without knowing the other's secret.
Eileen
Mar 14, 1957 · 60 min
Irish rebel Barry O'Day has a price on his head from the English, so he disguises himself as a groom. But when he falls in love with a beautiful English girl, she'll have nothing t
The Great Lie
Mar 21, 1957 · 60 min
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is now pregnant with his child.
The Black Angel
Mar 28, 1957 · 60 min
When Kirk Bennett is convicted of a singer's murder, his wife tries to prove him innocent...aided by the victim's ex-husband.
Adam Had Four Sons
Apr 4, 1957 · 60 min
Emilie has been hired to care for the four sons of wealthy Adam Stoddard and his wife, Molly. After Molly dies, Adam and the boys grow to depend on Emilie even more. At the same ti
The Man Who Played God
Apr 25, 1957 · 60 min
After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.
The Hard Way
May 2, 1957 · 60 min
Embittered, ambitious Helen Sherman sees an opportunity to escape her drab small-town life by becoming a 'stage mother' to her musically-talented younger sister.
Stand-In for Murder
May 9, 1957 · 60 min
A night club musician, believing he is soon to die from an incurable disease, plans to carry out an unusual sacrifice in order to insure financial security for his family.
The Armed Venus
May 23, 1957 · 60 min
The wealthy owner of a Park Avenue night club falls in love with a beautiful girl who turns out to have secrets. His doubt and suspicions set him on a dangerous path.
The Latch Key
Jun 27, 1957 · 60 min
A bus crash results in the deaths of several passengers, whose identities are in dispute. A scorched latch key seems to be the key to the mystery, and in a series of flashbacks the
High Tension
Jul 25, 1957 · 60 min
The president of a power and light company is unaware that two of his associates plot to discredit him at an upcoming board meeting.
Barren Harvest
Aug 8, 1957 · 60 min
A law clerk schemes to murder his boss. He has help from the man's housekeeper. The two commit what they think is the perfect crime. Craig Stevens is the host.
Judge Not
Aug 15, 1957 · 60 min
A famous lawyer takes on the case of a man charged with a serious crime, which the lawyer himself has actually committed.
Diagnosis - Homicide
Aug 22, 1957 · 60 min
An elderly but wealthy woman is murdered, and the only clues the police have are a a bloody envelope, a toothpick and a dead mosquito.
Old Witch, Old Witch
Sep 5, 1957 · 60 min
A woman finds out that she has magical powers, and terrorizes the neighborhood and turns into a witch to scare the local kids. Her son sees his mother's new powers as a chance for
The Last Act
Sep 12, 1957 · 60 min
A fading actress is determined to control the lives of everyone around her, especially her family. She sets out to disinherit her grandson because she doesn't approve of the young