Climax! Season 2 Episodes

Episode 1

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Thu, Sep 1, 195560 mins

Huck and Tom discover buried treasure, while trying to keep it secret from Huck's father.

Episode 2

Public Pigeon #1

Thu, Sep 8, 195560 mins

Red plays a hapless man who is tricked into being a boiler room hustler for phony Uranium mine stock con men who have him believing they're G-men and he's helping the government. He's caught and sent to prison, but without his catching on, the real FBI and the warden get him to escape so he can recover the crooks' stolen cash.

Episode 3

Silent Decision

Thu, Sep 15, 1955

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

Episode 4

Night of Execution

Thu, Sep 22, 195560 mins

A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.

Episode 5

Sailor on Horseback

Thu, Sep 29, 1955

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

Episode 6

Thin Air

Thu, Oct 13, 195560 mins

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

Episode 7

House of Shadows

Thu, Oct 20, 1955

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

Pink Cloud

Thu, Oct 27, 1955

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

Episode 9

Schedule to Defraud

Thu, Nov 10, 1955

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

A Promise to Murder

Thu, Nov 17, 195560 mins

A young lawyer is strangely agitated when his aunt takes up with a palm reader. His agitation increases as the palm reader's predictions for him come true.

Episode 11

Portrait in Celluloid

Thu, Nov 24, 1955

The career of Oscar winning writer Art Shaddick has gone downhill since 1929. Suddenly, a young writer appears with a great script, and it's a golden opportunity for Art to rise to greatness again.

Episode 12

A Man of Taste

Thu, Dec 1, 1955

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

The Passport

Thu, Dec 8, 1955

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

The Day They Gave Babies Away

Thu, Dec 22, 195560 mins

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

Bailout at 43,000 Feet

Thu, Dec 29, 195560 mins

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

Episode 16

The Prowler

Thu, Jan 5, 195660 mins

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

The Hanging Judge

Thu, Jan 12, 195660 mins

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

The Secret of River Lane

Thu, Jan 26, 1956

Episode 19

Gamble on a Thief

Thu, Feb 2, 1956

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

Episode 20

The Fifth Wheel

Thu, Feb 9, 195660 mins

When the local minister buys a used car, he does not realize that bank robbers have hidden their loot in the spare tire.

Episode 21

Nightmare by Day

Thu, Feb 23, 1956

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

The Sound of Silence

Thu, Mar 1, 1956

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

Episode 23

The Louella Parsons Story

Thu, Mar 8, 195660 mins

Based on incidents in her autobiography, "The Gay Illiterate," the story of Louella Parsons is told in a series of flashbacks, from the early twenties to 1948.

Episode 24

Pale Horse, Pale Rider

Thu, Mar 22, 1956

Katherine Ann Porter's story of a young woman's dreams of death. The Pale Rider fills her dreams along with her lover.

Episode 25

An Episode of Sparrows

Thu, Mar 29, 195660 mins

Two children plant a garden in the grounds of a church.

Episode 26

Spin Into Darkness

Thu, Apr 5, 195660 mins

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

The Lou Gehrig Story

Thu, Apr 19, 195660 mins

Long-time New York Yankee star, first baseman Lou Gehrig battles ALS with the help of his wife, and of his teammate, catcher Bill Dickey. The disease cuts short Gehrig's great baseball career, and kills "The Iron Horse" within a few years.

Episode 28

Sit Down with Death

Thu, Apr 26, 1956

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

Episode 29

The Empty Room Blues

Thu, May 3, 1956

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

Flame-Out in T-6

Thu, May 17, 1956

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

The Shadow of Evil

Thu, May 24, 1956

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

Figures in Clay

Thu, May 31, 195660 mins

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

Faceless Adversary

Thu, Jun 7, 1956

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

Episode 34

To Scream at Midnight

Thu, Jun 14, 1956

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

The Circular Staircase

Thu, Jun 21, 1956

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

A Trophy for Howard Davenport

Thu, Jun 28, 1956

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

Phone Call for Matthew Quade

Thu, Jul 5, 1956

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

Fear Is the Hunter

Thu, Jul 12, 195660 mins

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

Fury at Dawn

Thu, Jul 19, 1956

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

The Man Who Lost His Head

Thu, Jul 26, 195630 mins

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

Child of the Wind/Throw Away the Cane

Thu, Aug 2, 195660 mins

John Kerr plays a popular singer who supports his twin brother, an aspiring concert pianist, and the rest of his family. When he returns to his home town for a visit he becomes romantically involved with his brother's girlfriend.

Episode 42

No Right to Kill

Thu, Aug 9, 1956

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

Episode 43

The 78th Floor

Thu, Aug 16, 1956

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

Dark Wall

Thu, Aug 30, 1956

Dr. Giffin patient Margaret Corey presents him with an exceptional challenge. She has three other distinct personalities and he must get to the reason for the dysfunction plus try to merge the identities into one.

Episode 45

Bury Me Later

Thu, Sep 6, 1956

English Vicar Tellworth believes in the innocence of John Philippson. Philippson, an artist, had made a drunken public threat against his heartless rural landlord, Tom Marshall, a farmer. John's partner, Mark Yorke, is having a love affair with the old landlord's young wife, Justina. When Marshall confronts Yorke about the affair, Yorke takes the opportunity to kill Marshall and hide his body. Due to John's lapse of memory and no alibi, it is not surprising that everyone believes the artist is responsible for the missing (and probably murdered) old man. It doesn't help that John had been painting a portrait of Justina as well. However, the vicar suspects the truth and gently pries the guilty secret from Justina, who is now a terrified conspirator of the man who killed her husband. With her help, the vicar solves the mystery and unmasks the real killer.

Episode 46

Burst of Violence

Thu, Sep 13, 1956

A Texas rancher whose opposition to slavery led him to fight for the Union in the Civil War returns home to find himself despised for betraying the South even by his family.

Episode 47

The Garsten Case

Thu, Sep 20, 1956

Two nuclear scientists, married to each other, are working on a top-secret experiment when the woman is accidentally exposed to atomic radiation. With only a week to live, she and her husband decide to perform a series of usually fatal experiments in the name of science, with her as the subject.

Episode 48

The Fog

Thu, Sep 27, 195660 mins

A strange, poisonous fog envelops a small town. In the struggle against death in the mysterious fog, several people re-evaluate their lives and those of others close to them.