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 3 Episodes
An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. Wit…
A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself…
Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exp…
A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-e…
A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the …
A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.
The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. B…
After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by ch…
A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.
The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to be…
A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his…
On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates,…
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…
The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose…
A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a …
The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealou…
Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.
A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.
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…
A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.
The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who…
After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe ow…
A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed…
A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see …
Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.
In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far aw…
A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is stil…
Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a sl…
Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been fol…
At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. Th…
Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inherit…
Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited ha…
An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her …
New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers…
At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, an…
To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces wit…
During the Civil War, thousands of captured Union soldiers were confined in the Andersonville stockade in Georgia. Condi…
A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testif…
When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to …
A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.
A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy vot…
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 …
Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.
After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operation for her mother, a young man agrees to g…
A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South America when the woman claims she's being poisone…
A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a murder while walking in the woods. But no one…
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