
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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Air Date: 1954-10-07
Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlow...
Air Date: 1954-10-14
When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, a...
Air Date: 1954-10-21
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first drama...
Air Date: 1954-11-04
A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she ...
Air Date: 1954-11-11
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in h...
Air Date: 1954-11-25
A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's off...
Air Date: 1954-12-02
A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new sui...
Air Date: 1954-12-09
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
Air Date: 1954-12-16
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
Air Date: 1954-12-30
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
Air Date: 1955-01-06
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
Air Date: 1955-01-13
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret p...
Air Date: 1955-01-27
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
Air Date: 1955-02-03
The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the dau...
Air Date: 1955-02-10
Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebr...
Air Date: 1955-02-24
A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from t...
Air Date: 1955-03-03
They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these ...
Air Date: 1955-03-10
The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of...
Air Date: 1955-03-24
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for ma...
Air Date: 1955-03-31
The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through fla...
Air Date: 1955-04-07
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
Air Date: 1955-04-21
A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful busines...
Air Date: 1955-04-28
The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both l...
Air Date: 1955-05-05
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
Air Date: 1955-05-19
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to ...
Air Date: 1955-05-26
An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try ...
Air Date: 1955-06-02
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
Air Date: 1955-06-16
A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened consci...
Air Date: 1955-06-23
All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in...
Air Date: 1955-06-30
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Air Date: 1955-07-07
A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He i...
Air Date: 1955-07-14
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Air Date: 1955-07-21
A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes torme...
Air Date: 1955-07-28
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, mur...
Air Date: 1955-08-04
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
Air Date: 1955-08-11
A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to ro...
Air Date: 1955-08-18
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
Air Date: 1955-08-25
A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar acce...