• Air date: 07 Oct '54 38 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (38)
    • 1. The Long Goodbye

      07 Oct '54
      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.
    • 2. The Thirteenth Chair

      14 Oct '54
      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.
    • 3. Casino Royale

      21 Oct '54
      American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
    • 4. Sorry, Wrong Number

      04 Nov '54
      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.
    • 5. The Gioconda Smile

      11 Nov '54
      The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
    • 6. The After House

      25 Nov '54
      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.
    • 7. An Error in Chemistry

      02 Dec '54
    • 8. Epitaph for a Spy

      09 Dec '54
      An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
    • 9. The White Carnation

      16 Dec '54
    • 10. Nightmare in Copenhagen

      30 Dec '54
      Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
    • 11. The Bigger They Come

      06 Jan '55
      Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
    • 12. Escape From Fear

      13 Jan '55
      An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
    • 13. The Mojave Kid

      27 Jan '55
    • 14. The Leaf Out of the Book

      03 Feb '55
      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.
    • 15. The Valiant Men

      10 Feb '55
      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.
    • 16. The Box of Chocolates

      24 Feb '55
    • 17. South of the Sun

      03 Mar '55
      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.
    • 18. The Great Impersonation

      10 Mar '55
      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.
    • 19. The Darkest Hour

      24 Mar '55
      An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
    • 20. The Champion

      31 Mar '55
      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.
    • 21. Private Worlds

      07 Apr '55
      A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
    • 22. Flight 951

      21 Apr '55
      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.
    • 23. The First and the Last

      28 Apr '55
      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.
    • 24. The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

      05 May '55
    • 25. No Stone Unturned

      19 May '55
      A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.