Climax! — Season 1
Episodes
- No preview
E01 The Long Goodbye
Oct 7, 1954 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E02 The Thirteenth Chair
Oct 14, 1954 · 1h
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.

E03 Casino Royale
★ 6.0Oct 21, 1954 · 1h
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.
- No preview
E04 Sorry, Wrong Number
Nov 4, 1954 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E05 The Gioconda Smile
Nov 11, 1954 · 1h
The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.
- No preview
E06 The After House
Nov 25, 1954 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E07 An Error in Chemistry
Dec 2, 1954 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E08 Epitaph for a Spy
Dec 9, 1954 · 1h
An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.
- No preview
E09 The White Carnation
Dec 16, 1954 · 1h
A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.
- No preview
E10 Nightmare in Copenhagen
Dec 30, 1954 · 1h
Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.
- No preview
E11 The Bigger They Come
Jan 6, 1955 · 1h
Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.
- No preview
E12 Escape From Fear
Jan 13, 1955 · 1h
An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.
- No preview
E13 The Mojave Kid
Jan 27, 1955 · 1h
The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.
- No preview
E14 The Leaf Out of the Book
Feb 3, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E15 The Valiant Men
Feb 10, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E16 The Box of Chocolates
Feb 24, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E17 South of the Sun
Mar 3, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E18 The Great Impersonation
Mar 10, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E19 The Darkest Hour
Mar 24, 1955 · 1h
An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.
- No preview
E20 The Champion
Mar 31, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E21 Private Worlds
Apr 7, 1955 · 1h
A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.
- No preview
E22 Flight 951
Apr 21, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E23 The First and the Last
Apr 28, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E24 The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia
May 5, 1955 · 1h
A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.
- No preview
E25 No Stone Unturned
May 19, 1955 · 1h
A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.
- No preview
E26 A Farewell to Arms
May 26, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E27 The Unimportant Man
Jun 2, 1955 · 1h
The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.
- No preview
E28 The Dark Fleece
Jun 16, 1955 · 1h
A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.
- No preview
E29 To Wake at Midnight
Jun 23, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E30 The Dance
Jun 30, 1955 · 1h
- No preview
E31 Wild Stallion
Jul 7, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E32 The Escape of Mendes-France
Jul 14, 1955 · 1h
- No preview
E33 The Healer
Jul 21, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E34 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
★ 7.0Jul 28, 1955 · 1h
Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.
- No preview
E35 One Night Stand
Aug 4, 1955 · 1h
In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.
- No preview
E36 Edge of Terror
Aug 11, 1955 · 1h
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.
- No preview
E37 Fear Strikes Out
Aug 18, 1955 · 1h
True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.
- No preview
E38 Deal a Blow
Aug 25, 1955 · 1h
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.