The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.

Measure for Greatness

Fielder Cook

Long Distance

With Glory and Honor

An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.

The Return of Ulysses

The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.

A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.

Stone's Throw

The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.

Happily, But Not Forever

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 Message for Janice

A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.

A Legacy for Love

Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.

The Country Lawyer

Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.

Three Hours Between

A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.

The Face of Autumn

A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.

Something to Celebrate

An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.

The Man Who Struck It Rich

A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.

The Hill

A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.

Amo, Amas, Amat

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.

Fear

A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.

Song for a Banjo

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's story of the Nativity.

A Child is Born

A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.

The Key

A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.

Two for Tea

A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.

Thanks for a Lovely Evening

A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.

Ti Babette

A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.

The Inn of Eagles

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.

The White Gown

Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.

A Bouquet for Caroline

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.

Miss Marlow at Play

Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.

Autumn Nocturne

A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years

to claim a son he had deserted.

A Time for Heroes

A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.

One of These Things

A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.

The Wednesday Wish

Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.

One for the Road

A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.

The Brooch

Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.

A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.

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.

The Ascent of Alfred Fishkettle

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.

Listen, He's Proposing

Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.

The Betrayers

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.

Tunnel Job

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 trip around the World.

Lost Sunday

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 murderer, on his 10-day return.

Ten Days to Forever

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 "half-fare-for-wives" plan.

Make Believe Bride

A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".

Wind of the Way

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 scandal in his own family.

This is Jimmy Merrill

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 to prison.

Force of Circumstance

A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.

The Tango

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 when the happen to be his wife!

The Corporal and the Lady

An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.

A Man in the Kitchen

A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.

The Odyssey of Jeffrey Sewell

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.

Something to Live For

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 meet Bill's expectations or will the evening end in disaster.

Lovely Day

The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.

Women Who Wait

A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.

Some Call It Love

Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

Measure for Greatness

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