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 4 Episodes
A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.
The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, …
When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the ma…
As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, wh…
A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his h…
Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that h…
An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love wi…
Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.
Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his ento…
A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to …
A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing ove…
A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic att…
Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they'…
Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sherif…
On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prow…
A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living …
Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.
While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he …
Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but h…
A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store t…
Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two m…
Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent …
The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that bel…
In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and…
While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat u…
A large Manhattan law firm hires the tireless dedicated Timothy Colt, the young lawyer. As he rises in the firm the oppo…
In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police department becomes convinced that members of the…
This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a …
Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space.
A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his…
Leo Carson a businessman who worked his way up from machinist's helper to owner of a million-dollar business. He realize…
A young heiress marries a dancer after a whirlwind courtship, but soon comes to suspect he's responsible for the mysteri…
In Texas, during the 1880's, cattlemen resent the intrusion of homesteaders on their grazing lands. When cattleman Manno…
A song plugger making his daily rounds meets an attractive young singer in a recording executive's waiting room and, by …
José Aragon, wealthy Texas cattleman, is on a cattle-buying expedition on the Mexican border. After a gueling day looki…
When she loses her job, Gwen Dacres seeks economical lodgings in a boarding house run by a mysterious old woman, Mrs. Ga…
Shortly after Ann and Robert Brewster board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, Robert disappears with the fortun…
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