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- Lux Video Theatre
- Season 3
- Episode 43
Force of Circumstance
Lux Video Theatre - S3 - E43
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.
Lux Video Theatre: Season 3 - 51 Episode s
3x1 - The Return of Ulysses
September 1, 1952
An explorer returns home after 15 years and finds his wife and son bitter and reproachful over his long absence.
3x2 - Ile
September 8, 1952
The captain of a whaling vessel whose indomitable will and greed for oil drives his men to mutiny and his wife to insanity.
3x3 - Stone's Throw
September 15, 1952
A romantic comedy about a young writer and a rugged forest ranger in a vacation housing problem.
3x4 - Happily, But Not Forever
September 22, 1952
The comedy deals with a college professor whose job is in jeopardy through an over-zealous student body.
3x5 - A Message for Janice
September 29, 1952
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.
3x6 - A Legacy for Love
October 6, 1952
A Parisian model discovers that wealth doesn't solve all her problems.
3x7 - The Country Lawyer
October 20, 1952
Story of a Country lawyer takes care of his community for 50 years.
3x8 - Three Hours Between
October 27, 1952
Nancy Holmes childhood romance is revived when her first beau visits her at midnight to while away the hours between planes.
3x9 - The Face of Autumn
November 3, 1952
A fight manager risks his family's savings to back the comeback of an ex-champ.
3x10 - Something to Celebrate
November 10, 1952
A humble bookkeeper is out for that long-postponed raise from his boss.
3x11 - The Man Who Struck It Rich
November 17, 1952
An Alaskan sourdough returns home from Alaska is faced with the problem of distributing his wealth.
3x12 - The Hill
November 24, 1952
A hard-boiled newspaperwoman meets with some opposition from her male colleagues when she is assigned to Korea as a war correspondent.
3x13 - Amo, Amas, Amat
December 1, 1952
A girl engaged to an intern too poor to marry, gets a job tutoring a rich young man.
3x14 - Fear
December 8, 1952
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.
3x15 - Song for a Banjo
December 15, 1952
A cattle drover is falsely accused of swindling his boss.
3x16 - A Child is Born
December 22, 1952
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.
3x17 - The Key
December 29, 1952
A shock victim of an airplane accident effects a small miracle by nursing a group of war veteran flyers similarly affected.
3x18 - Two for Tea
January 5, 1953
A young man caught on the rebound becomes enmeshed in a hilarious series of matrimonial situations.
3x19 - Thanks for a Lovely Evening
January 12, 1953
A shy business executive finds a romantic mentor in one of his brash truck drivers.
3x20 - Ti Babette
January 19, 1953
A Canadian backwoods lass is transformed into a glamorous debutante.
3x21 - The Inn of Eagles
January 26, 1953
A wartime bomber pilot returns after nine years to his squadron's rendezvous, where his sweetheart vowed she would wait for him.
3x22 - The White Gown
February 2, 1953
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.
3x23 - A Bouquet for Caroline
February 9, 1953
Story of a retired concert singer is unable to accept obscurity.
3x24 - Miss Marlow at Play
February 16, 1953
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.
3x25 - Autumn Nocturne
February 23, 1953
Story of two sanitarium patients on road to new health.
3x26 - A Time for Heroes
March 2, 1953
A lonely adventurer returns home after 12 years to claim a son he had deserted.
3x27 - One of These Things
March 9, 1953
A skilled and devastating "man about town" offers some sage advice about how to land your prey. The intended catch a lovely Angela Gray.
3x28 - The Wednesday Wish
March 16, 1953
A compassionate matron has a fondness for hobos and a longing for a refrigerator with a light inside.
3x29 - One for the Road
March 23, 1953
Drama of a veteran newsman and his final big headline story.
3x30 - The Brooch
April 2, 1953
A young man and his wife confront the meddling mother, take control of the unhappy situation, and live, presumably, happily ever after.
3x31 - With Glory and Honor
April 9, 1953
Story of a tortured son of a man, condemned to die in the electric chair.
3x32 - Measure for Greatness
April 16, 1953
The story of the parents of a pre-med student who feels that his family fails to live up to his ideals.
3x33 - Long Distance
April 23, 1953
A frenzied wife tries desperately to halt the execution of her husband who is about to die in the electric chair.
3x34 - The Ascent of Alfred Fishkettle
April 30, 1953
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.
3x35 - Listen, He's Proposing
May 7, 1953
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.
3x36 - The Betrayers
May 14, 1953
Story of a man unwittingly involved in hi-jacking, finds himself pursued by police and killers.
3x37 - Tunnel Job
May 21, 1953
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.
3x38 - Lost Sunday
May 28, 1953
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.
3x39 - Ten Days to Forever
June 4, 1953
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.
3x40 - Make Believe Bride
June 11, 1953
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.
3x41 - Wind of the Way
June 18, 1953
A young widow of a war hero is reminded that "love is a gift not a debt".
3x42 - This is Jimmy Merrill
June 25, 1953
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.
3x43 - Force of Circumstance
July 2, 1953
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.
3x44 - The Tango
July 9, 1953
A frustrated dancer has been sitting next to the telephone for many years, waiting for a theatrical agent to keep his promise.
3x45 - The Corporal and the Lady
July 16, 1953
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!
3x46 - A Man in the Kitchen
July 23, 1953
An ad executive switches places with his wife while he writes the "Great American novel" at home.
3x47 - The Odyssey of Jeffrey Sewell
July 30, 1953
A disdainful young man gets a lesson on modern art appreciation from a stern and knowing lady artist.
3x48 - Something to Live For
August 6, 1953
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.
3x49 - Lovely Day
August 13, 1953
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.
3x50 - Women Who Wait
August 20, 1953
The distraught wife of a pilot whose plan has crashed, realizes that another woman also awaits him just as fervently.
3x51 - Some Call It Love
August 27, 1953
A Washington Senator has a difficult time convincing his secretary that she should marry him.