Climax! Season 3 Episodes

Episode 1

Island in the City

Thu, Oct 4, 1956

A Puerto Rican detective in the big city tries to keep a youngster from getting into trouble, but is suspended from the force for alleged brutality to the boy.

Episode 2

Journey into Fear

Thu, Oct 11, 1956

A munitions expert goes on an arms smuggling mission to Istanbul and becomes a target for Nazi agents.

Episode 3

The Midas Touch

Thu, Oct 18, 195660 mins

The owner of a mine comes to a small South American town to investigate the cave-in, which caused his brother's death. But the townspeople refuse to co-operate.

Episode 4

Night of the Heat Wave

Thu, Oct 25, 1956

After serving a six-year sentence for jewel robbery, a man is released from prison. He and his wife are threatened by characters from the underworld who believe the ex-convict knows where a missing $150,000 star-brilliant is hidden.

Episode 5

Flight to Tomorrow

Thu, Nov 8, 195630 mins

A co-owner of a small charter service plans to fake a plane crash in order to steal a casino's cash.

Episode 6

Night Shriek

Thu, Nov 15, 1956

The young bride of a Jamaica plantation owner is frightened by her husband's violent outbursts of rage. She begins to believe the rumors that he was responsible for the death of his first wife, whose body was never found

Episode 7

The Chinese Game

Thu, Nov 22, 1956

A newspaper columnist buys an unusual Chinese game at a curio shop. As he plays this game, he sees himself murdering his wife for another woman.

Episode 8

The Secret Thread

Thu, Nov 29, 1956

On a visit to his childhood home, a man discovers a cache of stolen goods in the attic. He is injured by falling crates, and, unable to leave, finds himself at the mercy of the leader of the gang that stole the goods.

Episode 9

Savage Portrait

Thu, Dec 6, 1956

After the loss of his patron and the failure of his one-man show, an artist decides that the only way he can acquire money is to steal it.

Episode 10

Strange Hostage

Thu, Dec 20, 195660 mins

The kidnapping of a retired doctor whom the criminals mistakenly believe to be wealthy is witnessed by a young boy whose story no one believes.

Episode 11

Ten Minutes to Curfew

Thu, Dec 27, 1956

A paroled convict and a hoodlum are both in love with the same girl. The hoodlum tries to provoke the ex-convict into a violation of his parole.

Episode 12

Carnival at Midnight

Thu, Jan 3, 195760 mins

The elderly owner of a carnival is infatuated with the bareback rider he discovered. She rejects his love and his jealousy drives him to plot murder.

Episode 13

The Gold Dress

Thu, Jan 17, 1957

Richard leaves Louella, from a prominent family, to marry Jean. Louella vows vengeance even if it's from the grave.

Episode 14

Circle of Destruction

Thu, Jan 24, 195760 mins

A ruthless convict breaks out of prison and intimidates his family into helping him stay free.

Episode 15

The Trouble at No. 5

Thu, Jan 31, 195760 mins

A middle-aged woman takes a job as a wealthy old lady's housekeeper and, in an attempt to gain the security she longs for, plots to dispose of her employer.

Episode 16

The Stalker

Thu, Feb 7, 1957

A businessman who testifies against a gangster learns that the criminal is now out of jail.

Episode 17

Stain of Honor

Thu, Feb 14, 1957

Episode 18

The Long Count

Thu, Feb 21, 1957

After a cocky American boxer on a European tour is defeated by a French fighter, he is befriended by a beautiful cafe owner who tries to rouse him from the depression that threatens his career.

Episode 19

And Don't Ever Come Back

Thu, Feb 28, 1957

A man wrongly accused of murder is released from prison only after the guilty man confesses to the crime on his deathbed. A newspaper reporter seeks to learn if the townspeople will accept the ex-convict in their midst now that it has been proved he was innocent of the crime.

Episode 20

Night of a Rebel

Thu, Mar 7, 1957

A young boy is ashamed of his father's bootlegging activities. When the parents of his girlfriend refuse to let her see him, he decides to run away to the big city to become a success.

Episode 21

Let It Be Me

Thu, Mar 21, 1957

Episode 22

Strange Sanctuary

Thu, Mar 28, 195760 mins

In the old southwest, a pair of bank robbers must ride out after killing a man. They intend on eventually getting far away, but one seeks to reunite with his daughter in a nearby convent. When he is wounded in a gunfight, they end up hiding out there, though the men from town are a mob out for their blood,sanctuary or not.

Episode 23

Don't Touch Me

Thu, Apr 4, 1957

A successful woman designer returns to her small home town in an attempt to ward off an emotional breakdown. She is still tormented by the memory of a murder she witnessed as a child.

Episode 24

The Mad Bomber

Thu, Apr 18, 1957

Months after the arrest of New York's notorious mad bomber, new bomb threats terrorize the city. A detective begins a slow, painstaking effort to solve the case.

Episode 25

Avalanche at Devil's Pass

Thu, Apr 25, 195760 mins

Among the passengers on a train trapped by an avalanche are a possessive woman, the irresponsible playboy she's been following, a man hunting for a drug addict, and a conductor awaiting news of the birth of his first child.

Episode 26

The Strange Deaths at Burnleigh

Thu, May 2, 195730 mins

At the turn of the century, Scotland Yard receives letters accusing a village doctor of killing some of his patients. The detective sent to investigate is opposed by the townspeople and the doctor's attractive young niece.

Episode 27

Bait for the Tiger

Thu, May 16, 195760 mins

Two swindlers in Italy hire a hungry novelist to find a woman who will pose as a missing countess entitled to an inheritance. Their plans go haywire when one conspirator is driven to murder.

Episode 28

The Hand of Evil

Thu, May 23, 1957

Poison pen letters threaten the career of a brilliant young college instructor whose pregnant wife has just inherited half a million dollars.

Episode 29

The Disappearance of Amanda Hale

Thu, May 30, 1957

An actress is plagued with dread before opening night when her leading man suddenly falls ill, a man follows her on her way to the theater, and she narrowly escapes injury from a falling sandbag.

Episode 30

Mr. Runyon of Broadway

Thu, Jun 6, 1957

New York sportswriter Damon Runyon becomes interested in a young boxer and backs him in an upcoming bout, which gamblers try to make him throw by involving his wife in a rigged crap game.

Episode 31

The Man Who Stole the Bible

Thu, Jun 13, 195730 mins

At carnival time in Havana an American salesman rescues an attractive woman from revelers, spends some time with her, and finds his hotel room ransacked when he returns.

Episode 32

A Taste for Crime

Thu, Jun 20, 1957

To prove his connection between body chemistry and the criminal mind, a wealthy society doctor secretly joins forces with a hunted fugitive.

Episode 33

The Trial of Captain Wirtz

Thu, Jun 27, 195760 mins

A recreation of the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison during the Civil War. The charge--conspiracy to commit atrocities and murder among the prisoners.

Episode 34

Locked in Fear

Thu, Jul 4, 1957

A man dies in an unfortunate accident at an remote hunting lodge. A passing bum who saw the accident threatens to testify that the death was no accident-- unless the widow and her mother give him cash and a home.

Episode 35

Payment for Judas

Thu, Jul 11, 1957

When one of the ranchers resisting an unscrupulous railroad agent's efforts to buy them out breaks ranks and decides to sell, the other ranchers turn against him, his wife scorns him and her brother is murdered.

Episode 36

Walk a Tightrope

Thu, Jul 18, 1957

A man arrested for a murder that was committed for no apparent reason claims he was hired by the victim's wife.

Episode 37

The High Jungle

Thu, Jul 25, 1957

A steel tycoon finds that his company is threatened by a younger man who is trying to gain control through the proxy votes of the shareholders. The older man approaches his late partner's widow in an effort to gain her support, but learns that she has already promised to help the young man.

Episode 38

The Giant Killer

Thu, Aug 1, 1957

A short man who's sensitive about his height picks a fight on the job over the issue. Then his wife gives him a pair of shoes designed to make him look taller.

Episode 39

Trail of Terror

Thu, Aug 8, 195759 mins

Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

Episode 40

Murder Is a Witch

Thu, Aug 15, 1957

After meeting a woman who tells him she desperately needs money for an operation for her mother, a young man agrees to go along with a friend planning a robbery.

Episode 41

The Stranger Within

Thu, Aug 22, 195760 mins

A young man is visiting the sister of a friend who was killed in South America when the woman claims she's being poisoned by her doctor stepfather and begs the young man to help her.

Episode 42

Deadly Climate

Thu, Aug 29, 1957

A woman vacationing off the New England coast reports that she witnessed a murder while walking in the woods. But no one in the small island town believes her except a reporter who finds a shoe at the scene of the alleged crime.

Episode 43

Trial by Fire

Thu, Sep 5, 1957

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

Episode 44

The Secret of the Red Room

Thu, Sep 12, 1957

The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.

Episode 45

Necessary Evil

Thu, Sep 19, 1957

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.

Episode 46

Along Came a Spider

Thu, Sep 26, 1957

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.