Climax! — Season 2
Episodes
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E01 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Sep 1, 1955 · 1h
Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .
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E02 Public Pigeon #1
Sep 8, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E03 Silent Decision
Sep 15, 1955 · 1h
A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
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E04 Night of Execution
Sep 22, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E05 Sailor on Horseback
Sep 29, 1955 · 1h
As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.
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E06 Thin Air
Oct 13, 1955 · 1h
An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
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E07 House of Shadows
Oct 20, 1955 · 1h
A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.
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E08 The Pink Cloud
Oct 27, 1955 · 1h
An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.
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E09 Scheme to Defraud
Nov 10, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E10 A Promise to Murder
Nov 17, 1955 · 1h
At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.
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E11 Portrait in Celluloid
Nov 24, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E12 A Man of Taste
Dec 1, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E13 The Passport
Dec 8, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E14 The Day They Gave the Babies Away
Dec 22, 1955 · 1h
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.
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E15 Bailout at 43,000 Feet
Dec 29, 1955 · 1h
Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.
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E16 The Prowler
Jan 5, 1956 · 1h
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" .
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E17 The Hanging Judge
Jan 12, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E18 The Secret of River Lane
Jan 26, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E19 Gamble on a Thief
Feb 2, 1956 · 1h
A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.
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E20 The Fifth Wheel
★ 10.0Feb 9, 1956 · 1h
Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!
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E21 Nightmare by Day
Feb 23, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E22 The Sound of Silence
Mar 1, 1956 · 1h
A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
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E23 The Louella Parsons Story
Mar 8, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E24 Pale Horse, Pale Rider
Mar 22, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E25 An Episode of Sparrows
Mar 29, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E26 Spin into Darkness
Apr 5, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E27 The Lou Gehrig Story
Apr 19, 1956 · 1h
Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.
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E28 Sit Down with Death
Apr 26, 1956 · 1h
A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
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E29 The Empty Room Blues
May 3, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E30 Flame-Out on T-6
May 17, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E31 The Shadow of Evil
May 24, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E32 Figures in Clay
May 31, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E33 Faceless Adversary
Jun 7, 1956 · 1h
A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.
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E34 To Scream at Midnight
Jun 14, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E35 The Circular Staircase
Jun 21, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E36 A Trophy for Howard Davenport
Jun 28, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E37 Phone Call for Matthew Quade
Jul 5, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E38 Fear is the Hunter
Jul 12, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E39 Fury at Dawn
Jul 19, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E40 The Man Who Lost His Head
Jul 26, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E41 Child of the Wind
Aug 2, 1956 · 1h
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E42 No Right to Kill
Aug 9, 1956 · 1h
A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.
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E43 The 78th Floor
Aug 16, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E44 Throw Away the Cane
Aug 23, 1956 · 1h
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.
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E45 Dark Wall
Aug 30, 1956 · 1h
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.