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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...
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Season 1

  • The Long Goodbye
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    The Long Goodbye

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/1954

    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

  • The Thirteenth Chair
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    The Thirteenth Chair

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1954

    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

  • Casino Royale
    5.6/101,572 votes
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    Casino Royale

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1954

    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

  • Sorry, Wrong Number
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    Sorry, Wrong Number

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/4/1954

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Gioconda Smile
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    The Gioconda Smile

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/11/1954

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The After House
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    The After House

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/1954

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • An Error in Chemistry
    5.5/1023 votes
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    An Error in Chemistry

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1954

    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

  • Epitaph for a Spy
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    Epitaph for a Spy

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1954

    An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The White Carnation
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    The White Carnation

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1954

    A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.

    Director: John Frankenheimer, Jack Smight, Don Medford

    Writer: Raymond Chandler

  • Nightmare in Copenhagen
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    Nightmare in Copenhagen

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/30/1954

    Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bigger They Come
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    The Bigger They Come

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1/6/1955

    Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Escape From Fear
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    Escape From Fear

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/13/1955

    An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Mojave Kid
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    The Mojave Kid

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/1955

    The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.

    Director: William H. Brown Jr., Tony Barr

    Writer: N/A

  • The Leaf Out of the Book
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    The Leaf Out of the Book

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 2/3/1955

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Valiant Men
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    The Valiant Men

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 2/10/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Box of Chocolates
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    The Box of Chocolates

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • South of the Sun
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    South of the Sun

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/1955

    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.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Great Impersonation
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    The Great Impersonation

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 3/10/1955

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Darkest Hour
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    The Darkest Hour

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/24/1955

    An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Champion
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    The Champion

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 3/31/1955

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Private Worlds
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    Private Worlds

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 4/7/1955

    A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • Flight 951
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    Flight 951

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 4/21/1955

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The First and the Last
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    The First and the Last

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1955

    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.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia
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    The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 5/5/1955

    A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • No Stone Unturned
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    No Stone Unturned

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 5/19/1955

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

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • A Farewell to Arms
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    A Farewell to Arms

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 5/26/1955

    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.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Unimportant Man
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    The Unimportant Man

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 6/2/1955

    The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dark Fleece
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    The Dark Fleece

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 6/16/1955

    A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • To Wake at Midnight
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    To Wake at Midnight

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 6/23/1955

    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.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Dance
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    The Dance

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 6/30/1955

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    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • Wild Stallion
    6.1/1018 votes
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    Wild Stallion

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 7/7/1955

    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: N/A

    Writer: DeWitt Bodeen

  • The Escape of Mendes-France
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    The Escape of Mendes-France

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 7/14/1955

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    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: N/A

  • The Healer
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    The Healer

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 7/21/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
    6.6/1088 votes
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    Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 7/28/1955

    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

  • One Night Stand
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    One Night Stand

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 8/4/1955

    In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • Edge of Terror
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    Edge of Terror

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 8/11/1955

    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.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A

  • Fear Strikes Out
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    Fear Strikes Out

    Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 8/18/1955

    True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Deal a Blow
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    Deal a Blow

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 8/25/1955

    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.

    Director: John Frankenheimer

    Writer: N/A