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.
Season 2 Episodes
Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .
Cafeteria worker Rusty is cheated by stock swindlers and winds up in jail, but the crooks have to break him out in order…
A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband continually expose their young son to all kinds of violence. Finally …
As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.
An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story hims…
An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.
An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love, …
At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come t…
Art Shaddick, formerly a writer, now a writer's agent, sits in his gaudy, pretentious office, on the bookcase reposes an…
A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young arti…
An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated ge…
While decorating a Christmas tree, narrator Joan Evans recalls the story of the Christmas of her ancestors during the 18…
Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts d…
A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently …
One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Be…
The son of a respected lawyer is involved in a case of homicide over the shooting of a schoolmate. Even though the fathe…
A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.
Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!
The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convin…
A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
The Louella Parsons story, based on incidents in her autobiography ""The Gay Illiterate"", is a series of flashbacks. Te…
A young woman lives in fear that a recurring dream foretells real tragedy. The premonition persists when she falls in lo…
An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search…
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…
Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against a…
A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince…
Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied on…
The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United St…
After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took …
A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.
A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychi…
A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a m…
A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no othe…
A retired construction firm executive seeks a respite from enforced idleness and oncoming old age. While waiting for a p…
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…
When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides …
A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange ba…
A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.
On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one …
A popular singer whose earnings are supporting his entire family returns to his home town for a visit and proceeds to ma…
An extreme form of disassociative reaction to stress in which two or more separate personalities exist. The person may s…
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