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19544 Seasons60m episodes3.8

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

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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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Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 7, 1954
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS

Time to finish

166 hrs

166 episodes. About 24 weeks at an hour a night.

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Cast

William Lundigan

Self - Host

Mary Costa

Self - Host

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SERIES

19544 Seasons60m episodes3.8

Drama, Mystery

TMDB3.8

Votes12

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Drama
Origin: US

About

Where to watch

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Stream

Best tv ever Amazon Channel

Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.

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E1 · Airs Oct 7, 1954 · 1h 0m
The Long Goodbye
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.
E2 · Airs Oct 14, 1954 · 1h 0m
The Thirteenth Chair
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.
E3 · Airs Oct 21, 1954 · 1h 0m · ★ 5.5
Casino Royale
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
E4 · Airs Nov 4, 1954 · 1h 0m
Sorry, Wrong Number
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.
E5 · Airs Nov 11, 1954 · 1h 0m
The Gioconda Smile
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
E6 · Airs Nov 25, 1954 · 1h 0m
The After House
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.
E7 · Airs Dec 2, 1954 · 1h 0m
An Error in Chemistry
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.
E8 · Airs Dec 9, 1954 · 1h 0m
Epitaph for a Spy
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
E9 · Airs Dec 16, 1954 · 1h 0m
The White Carnation
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
E10 · Airs Dec 30, 1954 · 1h 0m
Nightmare in Copenhagen
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
E11 · Airs Jan 6, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Bigger They Come
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
E12 · Airs Jan 13, 1955 · 1h 0m
Escape From Fear
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
E13 · Airs Jan 27, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Mojave Kid
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
E14 · Airs Feb 3, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Leaf Out of the Book
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.
E15 · Airs Feb 10, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Valiant Men
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.
E16 · Airs Feb 24, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Box of Chocolates
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.
E17 · Airs Mar 3, 1955 · 1h 0m
South of the Sun
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.
E18 · Airs Mar 10, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Great Impersonation
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.
E19 · Airs Mar 24, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Darkest Hour
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
E20 · Airs Mar 31, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Champion
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.
E21 · Airs Apr 7, 1955 · 1h 0m
Private Worlds
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
E22 · Airs Apr 21, 1955 · 1h 0m
Flight 951
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.
E23 · Airs Apr 28, 1955 · 1h 0m
The First and the Last
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.
E24 · Airs May 5, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
E25 · Airs May 19, 1955 · 1h 0m
No Stone Unturned
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.
E26 · Airs May 26, 1955 · 1h 0m
A Farewell to Arms
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.
E27 · Airs Jun 2, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Unimportant Man
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
E28 · Airs Jun 16, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Dark Fleece
A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.
E29 · Airs Jun 23, 1955 · 1h 0m
To Wake at Midnight
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.
E30 · Airs Jun 30, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Dance
E31 · Airs Jul 7, 1955 · 1h 0m
Wild Stallion
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.
E32 · Airs Jul 14, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Escape of Mendes-France
E33 · Airs Jul 21, 1955 · 1h 0m
The Healer
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.
E34 · Airs Jul 28, 1955 · 1h 0m · ★ 7.0
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
E35 · Airs Aug 4, 1955 · 1h 0m
One Night Stand
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
E36 · Airs Aug 11, 1955 · 1h 0m
Edge of Terror
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.
E37 · Airs Aug 18, 1955 · 1h 0m
Fear Strikes Out
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
E38 · Airs Aug 25, 1955 · 1h 0m
Deal a Blow
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.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Oct 7, 1954
Network: CBS
Studio: CBS

Time to finish

166 hrs

166 episodes. About 24 weeks at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

William Lundigan

Self - Host

Mary Costa

Self - Host

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