Climax!
Climax!

Climax!

1954 4 Seasons 166 Episodes ⭐ 3.8 Drama Mystery

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Long Goodbye

Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe w

EP 2

The Thirteenth Chair

When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any

EP 3

Casino Royale

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatiz

EP 4

Sorry, Wrong Number

A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hea

EP 5

The Gioconda Smile

The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his

EP 6

The After House

A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's office

EP 7

An Error in Chemistry

A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suito

EP 8

Epitaph for a Spy

An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.

EP 9

The White Carnation

A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.

EP 10

Nightmare in Copenhagen

Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

EP 11

The Bigger They Come

Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.

EP 12

Escape From Fear

An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret poli

EP 13

The Mojave Kid

The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.

EP 14

The Leaf Out of the Book

The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daught

EP 15

The Valiant Men

Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate

EP 16

The Box of Chocolates

A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the

EP 17

South of the Sun

They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eig

EP 18

The Great Impersonation

The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Ge

EP 19

The Darkest Hour

An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for mansl

EP 20

The Champion

The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashb

EP 21

Private Worlds

A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.

EP 22

Flight 951

A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessma

EP 23

The First and the Last

The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both lega

EP 24

The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

EP 25

No Stone Unturned

A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to rec

EP 26

A Farewell to Arms

An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to

EP 27

The Unimportant Man

The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.

EP 28

The Dark Fleece

A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious

EP 29

To Wake at Midnight

All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a

EP 30

The Dance

EP 31

Wild Stallion

A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is a

EP 32

The Escape of Mendes-France

EP 33

The Healer

A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormente

EP 34

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murder

EP 35

One Night Stand

In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.

EP 36

Edge of Terror

A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob h

EP 37

Fear Strikes Out

True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

EP 38

Deal a Blow

A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts

EP 1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .

EP 2

Public Pigeon #1

Cafeteria worker Rusty is cheated by stock swindlers and winds up in jail, but the crooks have to break him out in order

EP 3

Silent Decision

A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.

EP 4

Night of Execution

A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband continually expose their young son to all kinds of violence. Finally

EP 5

Sailor on Horseback

As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.

EP 6

Thin Air

An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.

EP 7

House of Shadows

A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story hims

EP 8

The Pink Cloud

An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.

EP 9

Scheme to Defraud

An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love,

EP 10

A Promise to Murder

At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come t

EP 11

Portrait in Celluloid

Art Shaddick, formerly a writer, now a writer's agent, sits in his gaudy, pretentious office, on the bookcase reposes an

EP 12

A Man of Taste

A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young arti

EP 13

The Passport

An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated ge

EP 14

The Day They Gave the Babies Away

While decorating a Christmas tree, narrator Joan Evans recalls the story of the Christmas of her ancestors during the 18

EP 15

Bailout at 43,000 Feet

Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts d

EP 16

The Prowler

A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently

EP 17

The Hanging Judge

One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Be

EP 18

The Secret of River Lane

The son of a respected lawyer is involved in a case of homicide over the shooting of a schoolmate. Even though the fathe

EP 19

Gamble on a Thief

A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.

EP 20

The Fifth Wheel

Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!

EP 21

Nightmare by Day

The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convin

EP 22

The Sound of Silence

A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.

EP 23

The Louella Parsons Story

The Louella Parsons story, based on incidents in her autobiography ""The Gay Illiterate"", is a series of flashbacks. Te

EP 24

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

A young woman lives in fear that a recurring dream foretells real tragedy. The premonition persists when she falls in lo

EP 25

An Episode of Sparrows

An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search

EP 26

Spin into Darkness

After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment on a plane, a woman takes a job as nurse t

EP 27

The Lou Gehrig Story

Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against a

EP 28

Sit Down with Death

A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.

EP 29

The Empty Room Blues

When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince

EP 30

Flame-Out on T-6

Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied on

EP 31

The Shadow of Evil

The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United St

EP 32

Figures in Clay

After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took

EP 33

Faceless Adversary

A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.

EP 34

To Scream at Midnight

A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychi

EP 35

The Circular Staircase

A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a m

EP 36

A Trophy for Howard Davenport

A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no othe

EP 37

Phone Call for Matthew Quade

A retired construction firm executive seeks a respite from enforced idleness and oncoming old age. While waiting for a p

EP 38

Fear is the Hunter

A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is ordered to leave at once. He soon learns t

EP 39

Fury at Dawn

When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides

EP 40

The Man Who Lost His Head

A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange ba

EP 41

Child of the Wind

EP 42

No Right to Kill

A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.

EP 43

The 78th Floor

On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one

EP 44

Throw Away the Cane

A popular singer whose earnings are supporting his entire family returns to his home town for a visit and proceeds to ma

EP 45

Dark Wall

An extreme form of disassociative reaction to stress in which two or more separate personalities exist. The person may s

EP 1

Bury Me Later

An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. Wit

EP 2

Burst of Violence

A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself

EP 3

The Garsten Case

Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exp

EP 4

The Fog

A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-e

EP 5

Island in the City

A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the

EP 6

Journey Into Fear

A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.

EP 7

The Midas Touch

The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. B

EP 8

Night of the Heat Wave

After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by ch

EP 9

Flight to Tomorrow

A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.

EP 10

Night Shriek

The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to be

EP 11

The Chinese Game

A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his

EP 12

The Secret Thread

On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates,

EP 13

Savage Portrait

After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire mon

EP 14

Strange Hostage

The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose

EP 15

Ten Minutes to Curfew

A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a

EP 16

Carnival at Midnight

The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealou

EP 17

The Gold Dress

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.

EP 18

Circle of Destruction

A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.

EP 19

The Trouble at Number 5

A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs fo

EP 20

The Stalker

A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.

EP 21

Stain of Honor

The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who

EP 22

The Long Count

After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe ow

EP 23

And Don't Ever Come Back

A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed

EP 24

Night of a Rebel

A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see

EP 25

Let It Be Me

Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.

EP 26

Strange Sanctuary

In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far aw

EP 27

Don't Touch Me

A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is stil

EP 28

Mad Bomber

Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a sl

EP 29

Avalanche at Devil's Pass

Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been fol

EP 30

Strange Deaths at Burnleigh

At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. Th

EP 31

Bait for the Tiger

Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inherit

EP 32

The Hand of Evil

Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited ha

EP 33

The Disappearance of Amanda Hale

An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her

EP 34

Mr. Runyon of Broadway

New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers

EP 35

The Man Who Stole the Bible

At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, an

EP 36

A Taste for Crime

To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces wit

EP 37

The Trial of Captain Wirtz

During the Civil War, thousands of captured Union soldiers were confined in the Andersonville stockade in Georgia. Condi

EP 38

False Witness

A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testif

EP 39

Payment for Judas

When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to

EP 40

Walk a Tightrope

A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.

EP 41

The High Jungle

A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy vot

EP 42

The Giant Killer

A short man who's sensitive about his height picks a fight on the job over the issue. Then his wife gives him a pair of

EP 43

Trail of Terror

Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

EP 44

Murder is a Witch

After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operation for her mother, a young man agrees to g

EP 45

The Stranger Within

A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South America when the woman claims she's being poisone

EP 46

Deadly Climate

A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a murder while walking in the woods. But no one

EP 1

Trial by Fire

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

EP 2

The Secret of the Red Room

The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color,

EP 3

Necessary Evil

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the ma

EP 4

Along Came a Spider

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, wh

EP 5

Jacob and the Angels

A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his h

EP 6

Mask for the Devil

Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that h

EP 7

The Largest City in Captivity

An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love wi

EP 8

Tunnel of Fear

Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.

EP 9

Keep Me in Mind

Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his ento

EP 10

Two Tests on Tuesday

A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to

EP 11

A Matter of Life and Death

A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing ove

EP 12

Murder Has a Deadline

A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic att

EP 13

The Devil's Brood

Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they'

EP 14

Hurricane Diane

Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sherif

EP 15

To Walk the Night

On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prow

EP 16

Shadow of a Memory

A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living

EP 17

Scream in Silence

Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

EP 18

Thieves of Tokyo

While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he

EP 19

Sound of the Moon

Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but h

EP 20

Burst of Fire

A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store t

EP 21

Four Hours in White

Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two m

EP 22

The Secret Love of Johnny Spain

Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent

EP 23

Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death

The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that bel

EP 24

The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes

In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and

EP 25

So Deadly My Love

While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat u

EP 26

The Great World and Timothy Colt

A large Manhattan law firm hires the tireless dedicated Timothy Colt, the young lawyer. As he rises in the firm the oppo

EP 27

On the Take

In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police department becomes convinced that members of the

EP 28

The Volcano Seat

This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a

EP 29

Shooting for the Moon

Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space.

EP 30

The Deadly Tattoo

A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his

EP 31

The Big Success

Leo Carson a businessman who worked his way up from machinist's helper to owner of a million-dollar business. He realize

EP 32

The Disappearance of Daphne

A young heiress marries a dancer after a whirlwind courtship, but soon comes to suspect he's responsible for the mysteri

EP 33

Time of the Hanging

In Texas, during the 1880's, cattlemen resent the intrusion of homesteaders on their grazing lands. When cattleman Manno

EP 34

The Push-Button Giant

A song plugger making his daily rounds meets an attractive young singer in a recording executive's waiting room and, by

EP 35

Spider Web

José Aragon, wealthy Texas cattleman, is on a cattle-buying expedition on the Mexican border. After a gueling day loo

EP 36

House of Doubt

When she loses her job, Gwen Dacres seeks economical lodgings in a boarding house run by a mysterious old woman, Mrs. Ga

EP 37

Cabin B-13

Shortly after Ann and Robert Brewster board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, Robert disappears with the fortun

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