Climax!
Climax!
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Climax!

3.3 / 10
1954
4 seasons
166 episodes
DramaMystery

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

  • Ep 1

    1.The Long Goodbye

    07-10-195460m

    Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Thirteenth Chair

    14-10-195460m

    When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chao...

  • Casino Royale

    3.Casino Royale

    6.0
    21-10-195460m

    American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.

  • Ep 4

    4.Sorry, Wrong Number

    04-11-195460m

    A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her fra...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Gioconda Smile

    11-11-195460m

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

  • Ep 6

    6.The After House

    25-11-195460m

    A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death who is...

  • Ep 7

    7.An Error in Chemistry

    02-12-195460m

    A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, t...

  • Ep 8

    8.Epitaph for a Spy

    09-12-195460m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.The White Carnation

    16-12-195460m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.Nightmare in Copenhagen

    30-12-195460m

    Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Bigger They Come

    06-01-195560m

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

  • Ep 12

    12.Escape From Fear

    13-01-195560m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.The Mojave Kid

    27-01-195560m

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

  • Ep 14

    14.The Leaf Out of the Book

    03-02-195560m

    The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman real...

  • Ep 15

    15.The Valiant Men

    10-02-195560m

    Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's Eve 1943, an unknown danger lurks nearby.

  • Ep 16

    16.The Box of Chocolates

    24-02-195560m

    A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.

  • Ep 17

    17.South of the Sun

    03-03-195560m

    They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing...

  • Ep 18

    18.The Great Impersonation

    10-03-195560m

    The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose dec...

  • Ep 19

    19.The Darkest Hour

    24-03-195560m

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

  • Ep 20

    20.The Champion

    31-03-195560m

    The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to...

  • Ep 21

    21.Private Worlds

    07-04-195560m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.Flight 951

    21-04-195560m

    A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between k...

  • Ep 23

    23.The First and the Last

    28-04-195560m

    The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts...

  • Ep 24

    24.The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

    05-05-195560m

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

  • Ep 25

    25.No Stone Unturned

    19-05-195560m

    A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.

  • Ep 26

    26.A Farewell to Arms

    26-05-195560m

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

  • Ep 27

    27.The Unimportant Man

    02-06-195560m

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

  • Ep 28

    28.The Dark Fleece

    16-06-195560m

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

  • Ep 29

    29.To Wake at Midnight

    23-06-195560m

    All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.

  • Ep 30

    30.The Dance

    30-06-195560m
  • Ep 31

    31.Wild Stallion

    07-07-195560m

    A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mo...

  • Ep 32

    32.The Escape of Mendes-France

    14-07-195560m
  • Ep 33

    33.The Healer

    21-07-195560m

    A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during...

  • Ep 34

    34.Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    28-07-195560m

    Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.

  • Ep 35

    35.One Night Stand

    04-08-195560m

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

  • Ep 36

    36.Edge of Terror

    11-08-195560m

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

  • Ep 37

    37.Fear Strikes Out

    18-08-195560m

    True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

  • Ep 38

    38.Deal a Blow

    25-08-195560m

    A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and...

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