"Lux Video Theatre" (1950) TV series 1950-1959

Directors:

Norman Foster
Nate Watt

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

Release Date:

2 October 1950 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars. Initially, the show was a 30-minute weekly show but when it moved to NBC in August 1954...

Plot Keywords:

Anthology | Company Sponsor Name In Title | Based On Film | Based On Novel

Awards:

Nominated for 5 Primetime Emmys.

Cast

Ken Carpenter	...	Himself - Announcer / ... (193 episodes, 1953-1957)
Jay Jackson	...	Himself - Announcer / ... (137 episodes, 1950-1953)

Series Directed by
Richard Goode		(111 episodes, 1950-1957)
Fielder Cook		(61 episodes, 1950-1953)
Buzz Kulik		(47 episodes, 1952-1956)
Earl Eby		(36 episodes, 1953-1956)
Norman Morgan		(25 episodes, 1956-1957)
James P. Yarbrough		(18 episodes, 1956-1957)
David Orrick McDearmon		(14 episodes, 1956-1957)
Fred Carney		(4 episodes, 1956)
Michael Dreyfuss		(4 episodes, 1956)
Peter Godfrey		(3 episodes, 1953)
Harold Loeb		(3 episodes, 1953)
George Roy Hill		(3 episodes, 1955)
Larry Goldwasser		(2 episodes, 1950)
Richard Dunlap		(2 episodes, 1952-1955)
Norman Foster		(unknown episodes)
Nate Watt		(unknown episodes)

Series Writing credits
S.H. Barnett		(66 episodes, 1952-1957)
Richard P. McDonagh		(13 episodes, 1952-1957)
Anne Howard Bailey		(11 episodes, 1951-1957)
Stanley H. Silverman		(9 episodes, 1956-1957)
Robert Cenadella		(8 episodes, 1950-1951)
John Whedon		(8 episodes, 1951-1955)
Harry W. Junkin		(7 episodes, 1951-1953)
Mac Shoub		(7 episodes, 1951-1952)
Rod Serling		(7 episodes, 1952-1953)
Ed James		(7 episodes, 1956-1957)
Elinor Lenz		(6 episodes, 1951-1953)
Charles Bennett		(6 episodes, 1955-1957)
Ben Simcoe		(6 episodes, 1955-1956)
Eric Hatch		(5 episodes, 1950-1954)
J.M. Barrie		(4 episodes, 1950-1955)
Ellis Marcus		(4 episodes, 1950-1953)
Carey Wilber		(4 episodes, 1952-1953)
Lenore J. Coffee		(4 episodes, 1955-1957)
Harry Kronman		(4 episodes, 1955-1956)
Paul Franklin		(4 episodes, 1957)
Stephen Vincent Benet		(3 episodes, 1950-1952)
Walter C. Brown		(3 episodes, 1951-1953)
James Truex		(3 episodes, 1951-1953)
Lawrence DuPont		(3 episodes, 1951)
Irwin Blacker		(3 episodes, 1952-1957)
Roy Chanslor		(3 episodes, 1953-1957)
William Faulkner		(3 episodes, 1953-1957)
Joseph Cochran		(3 episodes, 1953-1955)
Cornell Woolrich		(3 episodes, 1954-1957)
Mortimer Braus		(3 episodes, 1954-1956)
Robert Thoeren		(3 episodes, 1954-1956)
Charles Brackett		(3 episodes, 1954-1955)
Preston Sturges		(3 episodes, 1954-1955)
Billy Wilder		(3 episodes, 1954-1955)
Ranald MacDougall		(3 episodes, 1955-1957)
Casey Robinson		(3 episodes, 1955-1957)
James B. Allardice		(3 episodes, 1955-1956)
DeWitt Bodeen		(3 episodes, 1955-1956)
Catherine Turney		(3 episodes, 1955-1956)
Julius J. Epstein		(3 episodes, 1955)
Philip G. Epstein		(3 episodes, 1955)
Norman Krasna		(3 episodes, 1956)
Percival Wilde		(2 episodes, 1950-1951)
Lawrence G. Blochman		(2 episodes, 1951-1957)
Carol Warner Gluck		(2 episodes, 1951-1952)
David Goodis		(2 episodes, 1952-1956)
George Kelly		(2 episodes, 1952-1954)
Bernard Drew		(2 episodes, 1952-1953)
John Gay		(2 episodes, 1952-1953)
S. Lee Pogostin		(2 episodes, 1952-1953)
Jack Barden		(2 episodes, 1952)
Henry Denker		(2 episodes, 1952)
Bellamy Partridge		(2 episodes, 1952)
Lawrence Kimble		(2 episodes, 1953-1957)
A.A. Milne		(2 episodes, 1953-1956)
Will La Jolla		(2 episodes, 1953-1954)
Frank D. Gilroy		(2 episodes, 1953)
George Lowther		(2 episodes, 1953)
Seymour Stern		(2 episodes, 1953)
Al C. Ward		(2 episodes, 1953)
Reginald Denham		(2 episodes, 1954-1957)
Ladislas Fodor		(2 episodes, 1954-1957)
John McGreevey		(2 episodes, 1954-1957)
James M. Cain		(2 episodes, 1954-1956)
Ketti Frings		(2 episodes, 1954-1956)
Philip Yordan		(2 episodes, 1954-1956)
Harry Brown		(2 episodes, 1954-1955)
Andrew Solt		(2 episodes, 1954-1955)
Edward S. Fox		(2 episodes, 1954)
Laurence Heath		(2 episodes, 1954)
Lois Landauer		(2 episodes, 1954)
Frederic Manley		(2 episodes, 1954)
Emmett Murphy		(2 episodes, 1954)
Kalman Phillips		(2 episodes, 1954)
Michael Blankfort		(2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Oscar Brodney		(2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Daniel Fuchs		(2 episodes, 1955-1957)
Viña Delmar		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Ayn Rand		(2 episodes, 1955-1956)
Dwight V. Babcock		(2 episodes, 1955)
Geza Herczeg		(2 episodes, 1955)
Bertram Millhauser		(2 episodes, 1955)
Alma Reville		(2 episodes, 1955)
Jean Holloway		(2 episodes, 1956-1957)
William Hurlbut		(2 episodes, 1956-1957)
Fred Niblo Jr.		(2 episodes, 1956)
Herbert Abbott Spiro		(2 episodes, 1956)
Ronald Elwy Mitchell		(2 episodes, 1957)
Joel Malone		(2 episodes, 1957)

Series Produced by
Cal Kuhl	....	producer / executive producer / ... (272 episodes, 1950-1956)
Stanley Quinn	....	executive producer / supervising producer / ... (100 episodes, 1955-1957)
Earl Eby	....	producer / executive producer (49 episodes, 1956-1957)
Marshall Grant	....	associate producer (3 episodes, 1953)
Jack J. Gross	....	producer (3 episodes, 1953)
Philip N. Krasne	....	producer (3 episodes, 1953)

Series Original Music by
Rudy Schrager		(6 episodes, 1953-1957)

Series Cinematography by
Frederick Gately		(2 episodes, 1953)

Series Film Editing by
Edward A. Biery		(1 episode, 1953)
Chester W. Schaeffer		(1 episode, 1953)

Series Casting by
Harold Loeb		(92 episodes, 1950-1952)

Series Production Design by
William Smith		(4 episodes, 1951-1955)

Series Art Direction by
William Craig Smith		(296 episodes, 1950-1957)
Gerry Decker		(11 episodes, 1957)
Leroy Coleman		(10 episodes, 1956)
Mel Bourne		(3 episodes, 1950)
John Robert Lloyd		(3 episodes, 1950)
Robert MacKichan		(3 episodes, 1952)

Series Set Decoration by
Gerry Decker		(4 episodes, 1955)

Series Costume Design by
Olaja		(38 episodes, 1956-1957)
Dina Joseph		(6 episodes, 1957)
June Campbell		(5 episodes, 1957)

Series Makeup Department
Paul Stanhope	....	makeup artist / key makeup artist (48 episodes, 1956-1957)

Series Production Management
Stanley Quinn	....	production supervisor (55 episodes, 1954-1955)
Sil Caranchini	....	unit manager (4 episodes, 1957)

Series Sound Department
Howard Cooley	....	audio (48 episodes, 1956-1957)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Del Jack	....	lighting director / lighting / ... (47 episodes, 1956-1957)
Joe Viera	....	lighting (2 episodes, 1957)

Series Music Department
Rudy Schrager	....	musical director / music editor / ... (192 episodes, 1953-1957)
Wladimir Selinsky	....	musical director / music supervisor / ... (139 episodes, 1950-1953)

Series Other crew
Richard P. McDonagh	....	story editor / production accountant / ... (155 episodes, 1954-1957)
Joe Strauss	....	technical director / story editor (89 episodes, 1955-1957)
Lou Onofrio	....	technical director (7 episodes, 1956)

Production Companies

• J. Walter Thompson Agency

Distributors

• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1950-1954) (USA) (TV)
• National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (1954-1957) (USA) (TV)
• Moviecraft (1997) (USA) (VHS)

Also Known As:

"Summer Video Theatre" - USA (summer title)

Runtime:

USA:30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

J. Walter Thompson Agency

Trivia:

During the last two years of production, scripts were condensed versions of projects under consideration by various studios as feature films, although none were ever produced as such.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Jeopardy!: Episode #22.82" (2006)

James Mason and Buzz Kulik

In the 1954-55 season when James Mason was host, Buzz Kulik plied his trade as a director on this show before moving on to direct episodes of 'The Twilight Zone'. Charles Bennett, famous for his Hitchcock and DeMille collaborations in the 30's and 40's also wrote 'The Browning Version' which was aired on the 7th April 1955.