Climax! Season 2

(1955) September - August | # of Episodes : 45

Ratings

6.8

Series Details

Seasons: 4

Total Episodes: 166

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Networks: CBS

Status: Ended

First Air Date: Oct 7, 1954

Recent Air Date: Jun 26, 1958

Run Time: m

In Production: No

Original Language: English

Age Rating: NR

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Production Companies: CBS

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Main Cast

William Lundigan

Self - Host

Age : 61 | Popularity : 39%

Episodes

Episode 1

01 September 1955 - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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

Episode 2

08 September 1955 - Public Pigeon #1

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.

Episode 3

15 September 1955 - Silent Decision

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

Episode 4

22 September 1955 - Night of Execution

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.

Episode 5

29 September 1955 - Sailor on Horseback

As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.

Episode 6

13 October 1955 - Thin Air

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

Episode 7

20 October 1955 - House of Shadows

A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.

Episode 8

27 October 1955 - The Pink Cloud

An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.

Episode 9

10 November 1955 - Scheme to Defraud

An insurance underwriter and his secretary are both disgruntled over their dull, monotonous routine. They fall in love, and then discover a way to cash in on a $70,000 insurance claim.

Episode 10

17 November 1955 - A Promise to Murder

At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.

Episode 11

24 November 1955 - Portrait in Celluloid

Art Shaddick, formerly a writer, now a writer's agent, sits in his gaudy, pretentious office, on the bookcase reposes an Oscar, won by Art for his last picture. That was in 1929. Since then he has gone steadily downhill, shouting all the way. When suddenly a young writer appears with a great script, it is just what Art needs, a golden opportunity to rise again to greatness.

Episode 12

01 December 1955 - A Man of Taste

A cultured Englishman, living in Paris, becomes interested in art for purely mercenary reasons. He sponsors a young artist and goes to great lengths to keep his protege's canvases valuable.

Episode 13

08 December 1955 - The Passport

An American correspondent, assigned to Europe shortly after World War II, is offered part of a fortune in confiscated gems in return for letting a former Nazi officer use his passport.

Episode 14

22 December 1955 - The Day They Gave the Babies Away

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.

Episode 15

29 December 1955 - Bailout at 43,000 Feet

Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.

Episode 16

05 January 1956 - The Prowler

A rancher's wife is bored with her monotonous life. One night when her husband is away, her mother-in-law inadvertently suggest the "perfect escape" .

Episode 17

12 January 1956 - The Hanging Judge

One of the most despised men in the legal profession clings tenaciously to the belief that English law is infallible. Because of his fixation he even stands trial for a murder he did not commit.

Episode 18

26 January 1956 - The Secret of River Lane

The son of a respected lawyer is involved in a case of homicide over the shooting of a schoolmate. Even though the father suspects his son's guilt, he tries to protect him. The entire town is indignant when charges are not brought against the boy immediately for lack of sufficient evidence.

Episode 19

02 February 1956 - Gamble on a Thief

A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.

Episode 20

09 February 1956 - The Fifth Wheel

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

Episode 21

23 February 1956 - Nightmare by Day

The parents of a recently married young woman, whose husband claims she's taken a trip to New York, slowly become convinced she's been murdered.

Episode 22

01 March 1956 - The Sound of Silence

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

Episode 23

08 March 1956 - The Louella Parsons Story

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.

Episode 24

22 March 1956 - Pale Horse, Pale Rider

A young woman lives in fear that a recurring dream foretells real tragedy. The premonition persists when she falls in love with a young soldier about to leave for overseas duty.

Episode 25

29 March 1956 - An Episode of Sparrows

An 11-year old girl whose home has always been the slums, steals a packet of flower seeds from a playmate. In her search for a small bit of earth in which to grow flowers, she is befriended by a youthful gang leader.

Episode 26

05 April 1956 - Spin into Darkness

After gambling away the money her pilot husband gave her for the down payment on a plane, a woman takes a job as nurse to an alcoholic, who in a drunken stupor gives her $5,000 to recoup her losses and later reports to the police that the money was stolen.

Episode 27

19 April 1956 - The Lou Gehrig Story

Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.

Episode 28

26 April 1956 - Sit Down with Death

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

Episode 29

03 May 1956 - The Empty Room Blues

When her husband disappears with their savings and their son, a woman fears for the child's life. But she can't convince her friends or the police that the man is a pathological liar and a menace.

Episode 30

17 May 1956 - Flame-Out on T-6

Ten men are assigned to a drifting ice floe near the North Pole to test the effect of subzero weather on men supplied only with tents and meager rations. One of the men goes berserk from the strain and wrecks the group's radio so that no one can notify headquarters of their location.

Episode 31

24 May 1956 - The Shadow of Evil

The unsuspecting girlfriend of a young man whose brother is the head of a Rome narcotics ring arrives from the United States with an investigator at her heels.

Episode 32

31 May 1956 - Figures in Clay

After agreeing to defend an irrational old man charged with murder, an attorney finds that his partner believes he took the case for publicity reasons.

Episode 33

07 June 1956 - Faceless Adversary

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

Episode 34

14 June 1956 - To Scream at Midnight

A wealthy young woman breaks down and is placed in a sanitarium after being thrown over by the man she loves. Her psychiatrist becomes suspicious when the man reappears and claims he wants to marry her.

Episode 35

21 June 1956 - The Circular Staircase

A middle aged spinster decides to go to the country for the summer with her friend. They end up becoming involved in a murder mystery.

Episode 36

28 June 1956 - A Trophy for Howard Davenport

A Babe Ruth League team is perpetually in last place, because its compassionate manager tends to pick youngsters no other team wants. When the team has a chance to place in the finals, he turns down a boy's plea to pitch in the big game, and the boy then runs away from home.

Episode 37

05 July 1956 - Phone Call for Matthew Quade

A retired construction firm executive seeks a respite from enforced idleness and oncoming old age. While waiting for a phone call that will confirm or deny his request for a job back at his old firm, Matthew Quade relives his past.

Episode 38

12 July 1956 - Fear is the Hunter

A young man comes to the town of Brewster, his car in need of repairs, and is ordered to leave at once. He soon learns that the ruthless man after whom the town is named looks on any stranger as his potential murderer.

Episode 39

19 July 1956 - Fury at Dawn

When an atomic bomb mounted on a 200-foot-tall steel tower fails to detonate, a veteran nuclear physicist and his aides have to climb the rickety tower to disarm the bomb.

Episode 40

26 July 1956 - The Man Who Lost His Head

A young sailor collapses on the estate of a wealthy Englishman in the Orient and, upon reviving, is offered a strange bargain in exchange for his life.

Episode 41

02 August 1956 - Child of the Wind

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Episode 42

09 August 1956 - No Right to Kill

A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.

Episode 43

16 August 1956 - The 78th Floor

On a foggy afternoon just before a plane strikes the Empire State Building, a businessman recently gone blind is in one office dictating a suicide note to his wife, while in another office a young man is trying to persuade his fiancee to help him rob the firm she works for so they can be married.

Episode 44

23 August 1956 - Throw Away the Cane

A popular singer whose earnings are supporting his entire family returns to his home town for a visit and proceeds to make a play for the girlfriend of his twin brother, an aspiring concert pianist.

Episode 45

30 August 1956 - Dark Wall

An extreme form of disassociative reaction to stress in which two or more separate personalities exist. The person may shift from one personality to another, which is often very different. Each personality has no memories of the other's thoughts and actions.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Elliott Lewis Martin Manulis
Department	Role	Name

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