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The Best Episodes of Climax!

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...

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  1. Background image for The Day They Gave the Babies Away
    8.9/10(13 votes)

    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Long Count
    8.3/10(16 votes)

    #2 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Payment for Judas
    8.1/10(11 votes)

    #3 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Devil's Brood
    7.9/10(20 votes)

    #4 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Largest City in Captivity
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #5 - 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.

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    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Night of Execution
    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #6 - 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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Trail of Terror
    7.6/10(14 votes)

    #7 - Trail of Terror

    S3:E43

    Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for A Promise to Murder
    7.5/10(20 votes)

    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Scream in Silence
    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #9 - Scream in Silence

    S4:E17

    Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Trial by Fire
    7.1/10(15 votes)

    #10 - Trial by Fire

    S4:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Fifth Wheel
    7.0/10(16 votes)

    #11 - The Fifth Wheel

    S2:E20

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

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Public Pigeon #1
    6.7/10(24 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    6.6/10(94 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Gore Vidal
  15. Background image for Jacob and the Angels
    6.6/10(12 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Long Goodbye
    6.3/10(12 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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  17. Background image for The Lou Gehrig Story
    6.2/10(28 votes)

    #16 - 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.

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    Director:Fielder Cook
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Wild Stallion
    6.1/10(18 votes)

    #17 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
  19. Background image for Casino Royale
    5.6/10(1.6k votes)

    #18 - 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.

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  20. Background image for The Louella Parsons Story
    5.6/10(17 votes)

    #19 - 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.

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  21. Background image for An Error in Chemistry
    5.5/10(23 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.

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  22. Background image for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    5.1/10(39 votes)

    #21 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    S2:E1

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

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    Director:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Disappearance of Amanda Hale
    4.1/10(22 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Thirteenth Chair
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - 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.

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    #24 - Sorry, Wrong Number

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Allen Reisner
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Gioconda Smile
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    #25 - The Gioconda Smile

    S1:E5

    The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Day They Gave the Babies Away" is the best rated episode of "Climax!". It scored 8.9/10 based on 13 votes. Directed by Allen Reisner and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/22/1955. This episode scored 0.6 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Long Count".