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The Best Episodes of Climax!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Climax! Season 2 Episode 25 - An Episode of Sparrows
    9.4/10(9 votes)

    #1 - An Episode of Sparrows

    S2:E25

    An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search for a small bit of earth in which to grow flowers, she is befriended by a youthful gang leader.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Climax! Season 2 Episode 14 - The Day They Gave the Babies Away
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #2 - The Day They Gave the Babies Away

    S2:E14

    While decorating a Christmas tree, narrator Joan Evans recalls the story of the Christmas of her ancestors during the 1860s in Wisconsin. A 12-year old boy becomes the head of his family when both parents die. On Christmas Eve he finds a way to provide homes for his five younger brothers and sisters.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Climax! Season 3 Episode 22 - The Long Count
    8.9/10(17 votes)

    #3 - The Long Count

    S3:E22

    After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threatens his career.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Climax! Season 1 Episode 37 - Fear Strikes Out
    8.8/10(9 votes)

    #4 - Fear Strikes Out

    S1:E37

    True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Climax! Season 3 Episode 39 - Payment for Judas
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #5 - Payment for Judas

    S3:E39

    When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to sell, the other ranchers turn against him, his wife scorns him and her brother is murdered.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Climax! Season 3 Episode 43 - Trail of Terror
    8.2/10(15 votes)

    #6 - Trail of Terror

    S3:E43

    Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Climax! Season 4 Episode 13 - The Devil's Brood
    8.1/10(23 votes)

    #7 - The Devil's Brood

    S4:E13

    Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Climax! Season 4 Episode 1 - Trial by Fire
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #8 - Trial by Fire

    S4:E1

    A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Climax! Season 4 Episode 7 - The Largest City in Captivity
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #9 - The Largest City in Captivity

    S4:E7

    An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter takes refuge after being wounded.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Climax! Season 2 Episode 4 - Night of Execution
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    #10 - Night of Execution

    S2:E4

    A mother watches her cruel and destructive husband continually expose their young son to all kinds of violence. Finally she feels she must take steps to save her son from this sinister influence.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Climax! Season 2 Episode 10 - A Promise to Murder
    7.5/10(22 votes)

    #11 - A Promise to Murder

    S2:E10

    At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Climax! Season 2 Episode 20 - The Fifth Wheel
    7.2/10(18 votes)

    #12 - The Fifth Wheel

    S2:E20

    Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Climax! Season 4 Episode 17 - Scream in Silence
    7.1/10(33 votes)

    #13 - Scream in Silence

    S4:E17

    Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Climax! Season 4 Episode 5 - Jacob and the Angels
    7.0/10(15 votes)

    #14 - Jacob and the Angels

    S4:E5

    A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Climax! Season 2 Episode 2 - Public Pigeon #1
    6.8/10(27 votes)

    #15 - Public Pigeon #1

    S2:E2

    Cafeteria worker Rusty is cheated by stock swindlers and winds up in jail, but the crooks have to break him out in order to recover their loot, which was stashed in Rusty's safety deposit box.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Climax! Season 1 Episode 34 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    6.7/10(104 votes)

    #16 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    S1:E34

    Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Gore Vidal

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  17. Climax! Season 2 Episode 27 - The Lou Gehrig Story
    6.6/10(32 votes)

    #17 - The Lou Gehrig Story

    S2:E27

    Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.

    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Climax! Season 1 Episode 1 - The Long Goodbye
    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #18 - The Long Goodbye

    S1:E1

    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.

    Director:William H. Brown Jr.
    Writer:E. Jack Neuman

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  19. Climax! Season 1 Episode 31 - Wild Stallion
    6.1/10(19 votes)

    #19 - Wild Stallion

    S1:E31

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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  20. Climax! Season 1 Episode 7 - An Error in Chemistry
    5.9/10(26 votes)

    #20 - An Error in Chemistry

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:William H. Brown Jr.
    Writer:David Dortort

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  21. Climax! Season 1 Episode 3 - Casino Royale
    5.6/10(1754 votes)

    #21 - Casino Royale

    S1:E3

    American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.

    Director:William H. Brown Jr.
    Writer:Charles Bennett

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  22. Climax! Season 2 Episode 23 - The Louella Parsons Story
    5.6/10(17 votes)

    #22 - The Louella Parsons Story

    S2:E23

    The Louella Parsons story, based on incidents in her autobiography ""The Gay Illiterate"", is a series of flashbacks. Teresa Wright portrays Miss Parson in the drama. As she speaks with the stars the cameras will re-create incidents in her long career. The time span is from the early twenties to 1948. We see Miss Parsons' early days as a newspaper reporter in Chicago. Here she loses her job and departs for New York. In New York she resumes her career, only to be stricken with tuberculosis. When she recovers from her illness, she meets the man who is to become her second husband, and her rise as Hollywood columnist begins. As a climax to tonight's drama, there will be a tribute from the stars of the movie industry.

    Director:John Frankenheimer
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Climax! Season 2 Episode 1 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    5.2/10(41 votes)

    #23 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    S2:E1

    Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:DeWitt Bodeen

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  24. Climax! Season 3 Episode 33 - The Disappearance of Amanda Hale
    4.2/10(21 votes)

    #24 - The Disappearance of Amanda Hale

    S3:E33

    An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her way to the theater, and she narrowly escapes injury from a falling sandbag.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Climax! Season 1 Episode 2 - The Thirteenth Chair
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Thirteenth Chair

    S1:E2

    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.

    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Walter Newman

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Best Episodes Summary

"An Episode of Sparrows" is the best rated episode of "Climax!". It scored 9.4/10 based on 9 votes. Directed by Allen Reisner and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/29/1956. This episode scored 0.5 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Day They Gave the Babies Away".