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Climax!

1954 ★ 3.8 4 seasons 166 eps TV-MA
Drama
Mystery

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 Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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Climax! is available to stream on Nabby via 6 verified sources, aggregated from publicly available embed providers. The drama has 4 seasons and 166 total episodes, rated 3.8/10 by 12 viewers.

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Episodes 166 total across 4 seasons

38 episodes19543 watched
S1 · E1
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The Long Goodbye✓
Oct 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.
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The Thirteenth Chair✓
Oct 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.
S1 · E3
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Casino Royale✓
Oct 21, 1954★ 5.5
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
S1 · E4
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Sorry, Wrong Number✓
Nov 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.
S1 · E5
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The Gioconda Smile✓
Nov 11, 1954
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
S1 · E6
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The After House✓
Nov 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.
S1 · E7
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An Error in Chemistry✓
Dec 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.
S1 · E8
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Epitaph for a Spy✓
Dec 9, 1954
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
S1 · E9
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The White Carnation✓
Dec 16, 1954
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
S1 · E10
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Nightmare in Copenhagen✓
Dec 30, 1954
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
S1 · E11
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The Bigger They Come✓
Jan 6, 1955
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
S1 · E12
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Escape From Fear✓
Jan 13, 1955
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
S1 · E13
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The Mojave Kid✓
Jan 27, 1955
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
S1 · E14
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The Leaf Out of the Book✓
Feb 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.
S1 · E15
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The Valiant Men✓
Feb 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.
S1 · E16
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The Box of Chocolates✓
Feb 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.
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South of the Sun✓
Mar 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.
S1 · E18
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The Great Impersonation✓
Mar 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.
S1 · E19
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The Darkest Hour✓
Mar 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.
S1 · E20
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The Champion✓
Mar 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.
S1 · E21
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Private Worlds✓
Apr 7, 1955
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
S1 · E22
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Flight 951✓
Apr 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.
S1 · E23
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The First and the Last✓
Apr 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.
S1 · E24
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The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia✓
May 5, 1955
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
S1 · E25
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No Stone Unturned✓
May 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.
S1 · E26
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A Farewell to Arms✓
May 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.
S1 · E27
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The Unimportant Man✓
Jun 2, 1955
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
S1 · E28
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The Dark Fleece✓
Jun 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.
S1 · E29
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To Wake at Midnight✓
Jun 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.
S1 · E30
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The Dance✓
Jun 30, 1955
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Wild Stallion✓
Jul 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.
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The Escape of Mendes-France✓
Jul 14, 1955
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The Healer✓
Jul 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.
S1 · E34
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde✓
Jul 28, 1955★ 7.0
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
S1 · E35
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One Night Stand✓
Aug 4, 1955
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
S1 · E36
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Edge of Terror✓
Aug 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.
S1 · E37
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Fear Strikes Out✓
Aug 18, 1955
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
S1 · E38
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Deal a Blow✓
Aug 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.

Frequently asked

How many seasons does Climax! have?

Climax! has 4 seasons with 166 episodes in total.

Is Climax! still on the air?

Climax! has ended and is no longer in production.

What network airs Climax!?

Climax! airs on CBS.

When did Climax! first air?

Climax! first aired on October 7, 1954.

William Lundigan
William Lundigan
Self - Host
Mary Costa
Mary Costa
Self - Host

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