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Climax!

Season 1 1954 - 1955

  • 1954-10-08T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 1h
  • 1d 14h (38 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • 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.

38 episodes

Series Premiere

1954-10-08T01:30:00Z

1x01 The Long Goodbye

Series Premiere

1x01 The Long Goodbye

  • 1954-10-08T01:30:00Z1h

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 case after his release.

1954-10-15T01:30:00Z

1x02 The Thirteenth Chair

1x02 The Thirteenth Chair

  • 1954-10-15T01:30:00Z1h

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 chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.

1954-10-22T01:30:00Z

1x03 Casino Royale

1x03 Casino Royale

  • 1954-10-22T01:30:00Z1h

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

1954-11-05T01:30:00Z

1x04 Sorry, Wrong Number

1x04 Sorry, Wrong Number

  • 1954-11-05T01:30:00Z1h

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 frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.

1954-11-12T01:30:00Z

1x05 The Gioconda Smile

1x05 The Gioconda Smile

  • 1954-11-12T01:30:00Z1h

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

1954-11-26T01:30:00Z

1x06 The After House

1x06 The After House

  • 1954-11-26T01:30:00Z1h

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 next.

1954-12-03T01:30:00Z

1x07 An Error in Chemistry

1x07 An Error in Chemistry

  • 1954-12-03T01:30:00Z1h

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, the husband quick to confess.

1954-12-10T01:30:00Z

1x08 Epitaph for a Spy

1x08 Epitaph for a Spy

  • 1954-12-10T01:30:00Z1h

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

1954-12-17T01:30:00Z

1x09 The White Carnation

1x09 The White Carnation

  • 1954-12-17T01:30:00Z1h

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

1954-12-31T01:30:00Z

1x10 Nightmare in Copenhagen

1x10 Nightmare in Copenhagen

  • 1954-12-31T01:30:00Z1h

Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

1955-01-07T01:30:00Z

1x11 The Bigger They Come

1x11 The Bigger They Come

  • 1955-01-07T01:30:00Z1h

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

1955-01-14T01:30:00Z

1x12 Escape From Fear

1x12 Escape From Fear

  • 1955-01-14T01:30:00Z1h

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

1955-01-28T01:30:00Z

1x13 The Mojave Kid

1x13 The Mojave Kid

  • 1955-01-28T01:30:00Z1h

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

1955-02-04T01:30:00Z

1x14 The Leaf Out of the Book

1x14 The Leaf Out of the Book

  • 1955-02-04T01:30:00Z1h

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 realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.

1955-02-11T01:30:00Z

1x15 The Valiant Men

1x15 The Valiant Men

  • 1955-02-11T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1955-02-25T01:30:00Z

1x16 The Box of Chocolates

1x16 The Box of Chocolates

  • 1955-02-25T01:30:00Z1h

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.

1955-03-04T01:30:00Z

1x17 South of the Sun

1x17 South of the Sun

  • 1955-03-04T01:30:00Z1h

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, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.

1955-03-11T01:30:00Z

1x18 The Great Impersonation

1x18 The Great Impersonation

  • 1955-03-11T01:30:00Z1h

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 decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.

1955-03-25T01:30:00Z

1x19 The Darkest Hour

1x19 The Darkest Hour

  • 1955-03-25T01:30:00Z1h

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

1955-04-01T01:30:00Z

1x20 The Champion

1x20 The Champion

  • 1955-04-01T01:30:00Z1h

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 a world championship.

1955-04-08T01:30:00Z

1x21 Private Worlds

1x21 Private Worlds

  • 1955-04-08T01:30:00Z1h

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

1955-04-22T01:30:00Z

1x22 Flight 951

1x22 Flight 951

  • 1955-04-22T01:30:00Z1h

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 keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.

1955-04-29T00:30:00Z

1x23 The First and the Last

1x23 The First and the Last

  • 1955-04-29T00:30:00Z1h

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 an innocent man's life in jeopardy.

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

1955-05-20T00:30:00Z

1x25 No Stone Unturned

1x25 No Stone Unturned

  • 1955-05-20T00:30:00Z1h

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

1955-05-27T00:30:00Z

1x26 A Farewell to Arms

1x26 A Farewell to Arms

  • 1955-05-27T00:30:00Z1h

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.

1955-06-03T00:30:00Z

1x27 The Unimportant Man

1x27 The Unimportant Man

  • 1955-06-03T00:30:00Z1h

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

1955-06-17T00:30:00Z

1x28 The Dark Fleece

1x28 The Dark Fleece

  • 1955-06-17T00:30:00Z1h

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

1955-06-24T00:30:00Z

1x29 To Wake at Midnight

1x29 To Wake at Midnight

  • 1955-06-24T00:30:00Z1h

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.

1955-07-01T00:30:00Z

1x30 The Dance

1x30 The Dance

  • 1955-07-01T00:30:00Z1h

1955-07-08T00:30:00Z

1x31 Wild Stallion

1x31 Wild Stallion

  • 1955-07-08T00:30:00Z1h

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 mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.

1x32 The Escape of Mendes-France

  • 1955-07-15T00:30:00Z1h

1955-07-22T00:30:00Z

1x33 The Healer

1x33 The Healer

  • 1955-07-22T00:30:00Z1h

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 a difficult operation.

1955-07-29T00:30:00Z

1x34 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

1x34 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

  • 1955-07-29T00:30:00Z1h

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

1955-08-05T00:30:00Z

1x35 One Night Stand

1x35 One Night Stand

  • 1955-08-05T00:30:00Z1h

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

1955-08-12T00:30:00Z

1x36 Edge of Terror

1x36 Edge of Terror

  • 1955-08-12T00:30:00Z1h

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.

1955-08-19T00:30:00Z

1x37 Fear Strikes Out

1x37 Fear Strikes Out

  • 1955-08-19T00:30:00Z1h

True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

1955-08-26T00:30:00Z

1x38 Deal a Blow

1x38 Deal a Blow

  • 1955-08-26T00:30:00Z1h

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 doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.

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