Climax!

Season 3 (46 Episodes)

4 Seasons 1956 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 3 Episodes:

Episode 1 Island in the City

1. Island in the City

Aired: Sep 6, 1956

A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getti...

Episode 2 Journey into Fear

2. Journey into Fear

Aired: Sep 13, 1956

A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes ...

Episode 3 The Midas Touch

3. The Midas Touch

Aired: Sep 20, 1956

The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the c...

Episode 5 Flight to Tomorrow

5. Flight to Tomorrow

Aired: Oct 4, 1956

A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to...

Episode 6 Night Shriek

6. Night Shriek

Aired: Oct 11, 1956

The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's ...

Episode 7 The Chinese Game

7. The Chinese Game

Aired: Oct 18, 1956

A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he pla...

Episode 8 The Secret Thread

8. The Secret Thread

Aired: Oct 25, 1956

On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in ...

Episode 9 Savage Portrait

9. Savage Portrait

Aired: Nov 8, 1956

After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist d...

Episode 10 Strange Hostage

10. Strange Hostage

Aired: Nov 15, 1956

The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to b...

Episode 12 Carnival at Midnight

12. Carnival at Midnight

Aired: Nov 29, 1956

The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he disc...

Episode 13 The Gold Dress

13. The Gold Dress

Aired: Dec 6, 1956

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows ...

Episode 15 The Trouble at No. 5

15. The Trouble at No. 5

Aired: Dec 27, 1956

A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in a...

Episode 16 The Stalker

16. The Stalker

Aired: Jan 3, 1957

A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is no...

Episode 17 Stain of Honor

17. Stain of Honor

Aired: Jan 17, 1957

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows ...

Episode 18 The Long Count

18. The Long Count

Aired: Jan 24, 1957

After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fight...

Episode 20 Night of a Rebel

20. Night of a Rebel

Aired: Feb 7, 1957

A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the paren...

Episode 21 Let It Be Me

21. Let It Be Me

Aired: Feb 14, 1957

The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the ...

Episode 22 Strange Sanctuary

22. Strange Sanctuary

Aired: Feb 21, 1957

In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a ma...

Episode 23 Don't Touch Me

23. Don't Touch Me

Aired: Feb 28, 1957

A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to w...

Episode 24 The Mad Bomber

24. The Mad Bomber

Aired: Mar 7, 1957

Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats ...

Episode 27 Bait for the Tiger

27. Bait for the Tiger

Aired: Apr 4, 1957

Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose a...

Episode 28 The Hand of Evil

28. The Hand of Evil

Aired: Apr 18, 1957

Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructo...

Episode 32 A Taste for Crime

32. A Taste for Crime

Aired: May 23, 1957

To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealt...

Episode 34 Locked in Fear

34. Locked in Fear

Aired: Jun 6, 1957

A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing b...

Episode 35 Payment for Judas

35. Payment for Judas

Aired: Jun 13, 1957

When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts t...

Episode 36 Walk a Tightrope

36. Walk a Tightrope

Aired: Jun 20, 1957

A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims ...

Episode 37 The High Jungle

37. The High Jungle

Aired: Jun 27, 1957

A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is t...

Episode 38 The Giant Killer

38. The Giant Killer

Aired: Jul 4, 1957

A short man who's sensitive about his height picks a fight on the job over th...

Episode 40 Murder Is a Witch

40. Murder Is a Witch

Aired: Jul 18, 1957

After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operat...

Episode 41 The Stranger Within

41. The Stranger Within

Aired: Jul 25, 1957

A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South Americ...

Episode 42 Deadly Climate

42. Deadly Climate

Aired: Aug 1, 1957

A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a mu...

Episode 43 Trial by Fire

43. Trial by Fire

Aired: Aug 8, 1957

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brand...

Episode 45 Necessary Evil

45. Necessary Evil

Aired: Aug 22, 1957

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico c...

Episode 46 Along Came a Spider

46. Along Came a Spider

Aired: Aug 29, 1957

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receive...


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Info about Climax!

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Country: United States

Genres: Drama