Climax!

Season 2 (45 Episodes)

4 Seasons 1955 NR 1h 00m 6.7

This was an anthology series that presented a different story and different set of characters on each episode. It ran from 1954 to 1958 and featured Casino Royale of James Bond fame, which led to two theatrical movies of the same name.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 2 Public Pigeon #1

2. Public Pigeon #1

Aired: Sep 8, 1955

Red plays a hapless man who is tricked into being a boiler room hustler for p...

Episode 3 Silent Decision

3. Silent Decision

Aired: Sep 15, 1955

A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into hi...

Episode 4 Night of Execution

4. Night of Execution

Aired: Sep 22, 1955

A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband ...

Episode 5 Sailor on Horseback

5. Sailor on Horseback

Aired: Sep 29, 1955

As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with...

Episode 6 Thin Air

6. Thin Air

Aired: Oct 13, 1955

An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.

Episode 7 House of Shadows

7. House of Shadows

Aired: Oct 20, 1955

A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when ...

Episode 8 Pink Cloud

8. Pink Cloud

Aired: Oct 27, 1955

An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime h...

Episode 9 Schedule to Defraud

9. Schedule to Defraud

Aired: Nov 10, 1955

An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their du...

Episode 10 A Promise to Murder

10. A Promise to Murder

Aired: Nov 17, 1955

A young lawyer is strangely agitated when his aunt takes up with a palm reade...

Episode 12 A Man of Taste

12. A Man of Taste

Aired: Dec 1, 1955

A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely ...

Episode 13 The Passport

13. The Passport

Aired: Dec 8, 1955

An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is ...

Episode 16 The Prowler

16. The Prowler

Aired: Jan 5, 1956

A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husban...

Episode 17 The Hanging Judge

17. The Hanging Judge

Aired: Jan 12, 1956

One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to th...

Episode 19 Gamble on a Thief

19. Gamble on a Thief

Aired: Feb 2, 1956

A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who...

Episode 20 The Fifth Wheel

20. The Fifth Wheel

Aired: Feb 9, 1956

When the local minister buys a used car, he does not realize that bank robber...

Episode 21 Nightmare by Day

21. Nightmare by Day

Aired: Feb 23, 1956

The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's tak...

Episode 22 The Sound of Silence

22. The Sound of Silence

Aired: Mar 1, 1956

A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.

Episode 26 Spin Into Darkness

26. Spin Into Darkness

Aired: Apr 5, 1956

After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment...

Episode 27 The Lou Gehrig Story

27. The Lou Gehrig Story

Aired: Apr 19, 1956

Long-time New York Yankee star, first baseman Lou Gehrig battles ALS with the...

Episode 28 Sit Down with Death

28. Sit Down with Death

Aired: Apr 26, 1956

A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.

Episode 29 The Empty Room Blues

29. The Empty Room Blues

Aired: May 3, 1956

When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears f...

Episode 30 Flame-Out in T-6

30. Flame-Out in T-6

Aired: May 17, 1956

Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the e...

Episode 31 The Shadow of Evil

31. The Shadow of Evil

Aired: May 24, 1956

The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rom...

Episode 32 Figures in Clay

32. Figures in Clay

Aired: May 31, 1956

After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorn...

Episode 33 Faceless Adversary

33. Faceless Adversary

Aired: Jun 7, 1956

A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims ...

Episode 38 Fear Is the Hunter

38. Fear Is the Hunter

Aired: Jul 12, 1956

A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is...

Episode 39 Fury at Dawn

39. Fury at Dawn

Aired: Jul 19, 1956

When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate,...

Episode 42 No Right to Kill

42. No Right to Kill

Aired: Aug 9, 1956

A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the ...

Episode 43 The 78th Floor

43. The 78th Floor

Aired: Aug 16, 1956

On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a...

Episode 44 Dark Wall

44. Dark Wall

Aired: Aug 23, 1956

Dr. Giffin patient Margaret Corey presents him with an exceptional challenge....

Episode 45 Bury Me Later

45. Bury Me Later

Aired: Aug 30, 1956

An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone ...


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Info about Climax!

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Drama