7.1/1015 votes#1 - Trial by Fire
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/5/1957
A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#2 - The Secret of the Red Room
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/12/1957
The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.
Director: N/A
Writer: Charles Larson
- NaN/100 votes
#3 - Necessary Evil
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1957
When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#4 - Along Came a Spider
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1957
As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/1012 votes
#5 - Jacob and the Angels
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#6 - Mask for the Devil
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1957
Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to destroy his marriage.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Largest City in Captivity
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1957
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: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#8 - Tunnel of Fear
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1957
Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#9 - Keep Me in Mind
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/7/1957
Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - Two Tests on Tuesday
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/14/1957
A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/21/1957
A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in love with him is convinced he is innocent and helps him try to prove
Director: Robert Stevens
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#12 - Murder Has a Deadline
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/28/1957
A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1020 votes
#13 - The Devil's Brood
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/5/1957
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - Hurricane Diane
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/12/1957
Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social worker, a preacher, and the hotel owner's disturbed wife who claims she's a countess.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - To Walk the Night
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/19/1957
On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#16 - Shadow of a Memory
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/26/1957
A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1031 votes
#17 - Scream in Silence
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/2/1958
Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#18 - Thieves of Tokyo
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/16/1958
While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his American girlfriend.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - Sound of the Moon
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/23/1958
Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#20 - Burst of Fire
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/30/1958
A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store to pick up the cross, the store is held up by a masked gunman who steals the cross and makes his escape. The thief resembles the priest's brother. Then the third brother, a policeman, is assigned to investigate the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - Four Hours in White
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/6/1958
Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. Drawing on years of experience, he defies the pressures of time and personal fear to face one crucial moment of judgment.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - The Secret Love of Johnny Spain
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/20/1958
Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming movie pay-off. He pressures Julie, a young starlet, to pose as Spain's secret love.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#23 - Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/27/1958
The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that belied his reputation for brutality and impetuosity. He had a sense of confidence and presence, and because he was so sure of himself he was at ease with other people.
Director: N/A
Writer: Malvin Wald
- NaN/100 votes
#24 - The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1958
In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him permanently.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - So Deadly My Love
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1958
While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Climax! Season 4
Every episode of Climax! Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Climax! Season 4!
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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Network:CBS
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"Trial by Fire" is the best rated episode of "Climax!" season 4. It scored 7.1/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/5/1957. This episode is rated NaN points higher than the second-best, "The Secret of the Red Room".