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Climax! (1954)
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.
Seasons & episodes
Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail acc…
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…
E3American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bo…
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 murd…
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
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 overboa…
A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, o…
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend…
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 194…
A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking…
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 some…
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 Bri…
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
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 Mi…
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under…
The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral princip…
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's i…
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 t…
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a m…
All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital af…
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 t…
A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about h…
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
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.
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
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 somew…
Cast
William LundiganSelf - Host
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7.6Them
6.7Solos
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