

Climax!
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
07-10-195460mPrivate 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
14-10-195460mWhen 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...

3.Casino Royale
6.021-10-195460mAmerican 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
04-11-195460mA 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
11-11-195460mThe 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
25-11-195460mA 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
02-12-195460mA 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
09-12-195460mAn 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
16-12-195460mA woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
- Ep 10
10.Nightmare in Copenhagen
30-12-195460mThru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
- Ep 11
11.The Bigger They Come
06-01-195560mPrivate investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
- Ep 12
12.Escape From Fear
13-01-195560mAn 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
27-01-195560mThe Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
- Ep 14
14.The Leaf Out of the Book
03-02-195560mThe 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
10-02-195560mLt. 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
24-02-195560mA 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
03-03-195560mThey 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
10-03-195560mThe 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
24-03-195560mAn 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
31-03-195560mThe 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
07-04-195560mA woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
- Ep 22
22.Flight 951
21-04-195560mA 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
28-04-195560mThe 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
05-05-195560mA courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
- Ep 25
25.No Stone Unturned
19-05-195560mA 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
26-05-195560mAn 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
02-06-195560mThe 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
16-06-195560mA 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
23-06-195560mAll 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
07-07-195560mA 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
21-07-195560mA 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
28-07-195560mClassic 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
04-08-195560mIn 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
11-08-195560mA 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
18-08-195560mTrue story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
- Ep 38
38.Deal a Blow
25-08-195560mA 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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