45 episodes

Climax! - Season 2

First aired Sep 1, 1955Season 2

Browse all 45 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

NR
Sep 1, 195560 min

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

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Episode 2

Public Pigeon #1

NR
Sep 8, 195560 min

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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Episode 3

Silent Decision

NR
Sep 15, 195560 min

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

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Episode 4

Night of Execution

NR
Sep 22, 195560 min

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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Episode 5

Sailor on Horseback

NR
Sep 29, 195560 min

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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Episode 6

Thin Air

NR
Oct 13, 195560 min

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

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Episode 7

House of Shadows

NR
Oct 20, 195560 min

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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Episode 8

The Pink Cloud

NR
Oct 27, 195560 min

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

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Episode 9

Scheme to Defraud

NR
Nov 10, 195560 min

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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Episode 10

A Promise to Murder

NR
Nov 17, 195560 min

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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Episode 11

Portrait in Celluloid

NR
Nov 24, 195560 min

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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Episode 12

A Man of Taste

NR
Dec 1, 195560 min

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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Episode 13

The Passport

NR
Dec 8, 195560 min

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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Episode 14

The Day They Gave the Babies Away

NR
Dec 22, 195560 min

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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Episode 15

Bailout at 43,000 Feet

NR
Dec 29, 195560 min

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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Episode 16

The Prowler

NR
Jan 5, 195660 min

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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Episode 17

The Hanging Judge

NR
Jan 12, 195660 min

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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Episode 18

The Secret of River Lane

NR
Jan 26, 195660 min

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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Episode 19

Gamble on a Thief

NR
Feb 2, 195660 min

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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Episode 20

The Fifth Wheel

10.0
Feb 9, 195660 min1 votes

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

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Episode 21

Nightmare by Day

NR
Feb 23, 195660 min

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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Episode 22

The Sound of Silence

NR
Mar 1, 195660 min

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

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Episode 23

The Louella Parsons Story

NR
Mar 8, 195660 min

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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Episode 24

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

NR
Mar 22, 195660 min

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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Episode 25

An Episode of Sparrows

NR
Mar 29, 195660 min

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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Episode 26

Spin into Darkness

NR
Apr 5, 195660 min

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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Episode 27

The Lou Gehrig Story

NR
Apr 19, 195660 min

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

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Episode 28

Sit Down with Death

NR
Apr 26, 195660 min

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

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Episode 29

The Empty Room Blues

NR
May 3, 195660 min

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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Episode 30

Flame-Out on T-6

NR
May 17, 195660 min

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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Episode 31

The Shadow of Evil

NR
May 24, 195660 min

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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Episode 32

Figures in Clay

NR
May 31, 195660 min

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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Episode 33

Faceless Adversary

NR
Jun 7, 195660 min

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

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Episode 34

To Scream at Midnight

NR
Jun 14, 195660 min

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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Episode 35

The Circular Staircase

NR
Jun 21, 195660 min

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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Episode 36

A Trophy for Howard Davenport

NR
Jun 28, 195660 min

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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Episode 37

Phone Call for Matthew Quade

NR
Jul 5, 195660 min

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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Episode 38

Fear is the Hunter

NR
Jul 12, 195660 min

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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Episode 39

Fury at Dawn

NR
Jul 19, 195660 min

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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Episode 40

The Man Who Lost His Head

NR
Jul 26, 195660 min

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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Episode 41

Child of the Wind

NR
Aug 2, 195660 min

TMDB has not published a written overview for this episode yet.

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Episode 42

No Right to Kill

NR
Aug 9, 195660 min

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

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Episode 43

The 78th Floor

NR
Aug 16, 195660 min

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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Episode 44

Throw Away the Cane

NR
Aug 23, 195660 min

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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Episode 45

Dark Wall

NR
Aug 30, 195660 min

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.