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Climax! is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color.read more

Climax! is an American television anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live, and although the series was transmitted in color, only black-and-white kinescope copies of some episodes survive to the present day. The series finished at #22 in the Nielsen ratings for the 1955-1956 season and #26 for 1956-1957.

Original Release

10/07/1954 on CBS

US Release

10/07/1954

Cast

(see additional cast & crew)
# Title Air Date
1 Jacob and the Angel Thursday, 03 October 1957
2 Mask for the Devil Thursday, 10 October 1957
3 The Largest City in Captivity Thursday, 17 October 1957
4 Tunnel of Fear Thursday, 24 October 1957
5 Keep Me in Mind Thursday, 07 November 1957
6 Two Tests for Tuesday Thursday, 14 November 1957
7 A Matter of Life and Death Thursday, 21 November 1957
8 Murder Has a Deadline Thursday, 28 November 1957
9 The Devil's Brood Thursday, 05 December 1957
10 Hurricane Diane Thursday, 12 December 1957
11 To Walk the Night Thursday, 19 December 1957
12 Shadow of a Memory Thursday, 26 December 1957
13 Scream in Silence Thursday, 02 January 1958
14 Thieves over Tokyo Thursday, 16 January 1958
15 Sound of the Moon Thursday, 23 January 1958
16 Burst of Fire Thursday, 30 January 1958
17 Four Hours in White Thursday, 06 February 1958
18 The Secret Love of Johnny Spain Thursday, 20 February 1958
19 Albert Anastasia - His Life and Death Thursday, 27 February 1958
20 The Thief with the Big Blue Eyes Thursday, 06 March 1958
21 So Deadly My Love Thursday, 13 March 1958
22 The Great World and Timothy Colt Thursday, 27 March 1958
23 On the Take Thursday, 03 April 1958
24 The Volcano Seat Thursday, 10 April 1958
25 Shooting for the Moon Thursday, 24 April 1958
26 The Deadly Tattoo Thursday, 01 May 1958
27 The Big Success Thursday, 08 May 1958
28 The Disappearance of Daphne Thursday, 15 May 1958
29 Time of the Hanging Thursday, 22 May 1958
30 The Push-Button Giant Thursday, 29 May 1958
31 Spider Web Thursday, 05 June 1958
32 Volcano Seat, the #2 Thursday, 12 June 1958
33 House of Doubt Thursday, 19 June 1958
34 Cabin B-13 Thursday, 26 June 1958
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Directors

Buzz Kulik, Allen Reisner, John Frankenheimer, Paul Nickell, Jack Smight, Ralph Nelson, Robert Stevens, Don Medford, William H. Brown Jr., Arthur Hiller, Herbert B. Swope Jr., David Swift, Tom Donovan, Russell Stoneham, Tony Barr, Seymour Berns, Bernard Girard, Ida Lupino, Fielder Cook

Writers

John McGreevey, James P. Cavanagh, Oliver Crawford, Charles Larson, Adrian Spies, Whitfield Cook, DeWitt Bodeen, Gwen Bagni, Irwin Gielgud, John Kneubuhl, Mel Goldberg, Rod Serling, Bernard Girard, Malvin Wald, Hagar Wilde, Jerome Gruskin, Eileen Pollock, Robert Pollock, Ellis St. Joseph, Leonard Spigelgass, F.W. Durkee, Al C. Ward, E. Jack Neuman, Marc Brandel, Irving Wallace, Katherine Albert, William Kozlenko, John Monks Jr., Dick Stenger, Dale Eunson, Leo Lieberman, William Faulkner, Leslie Edgley, Morton S. Fine, Eric Ambler, David Friedkin, Devery Freeman, Ben Starr, Henry F. Greenberg, Jerry Davis, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Nicholas Monsarrat, Victor Wolfson, Eliot Asinof, Paul Monash, Russell S. Hughes, Antony Ellis, David Swift, Charles Bennett, Raymond Chandler, Mann Rubin, Gore Vidal, William Roerick, Aldous Huxley, Fred Freiberger, Robert Blees, Thomas Coley, Gil Rodin, Frank Slaughter, Joseph Hergesheimer, William Brinkley, Phyllis Bottome, E. Phillips Oppenheim, H. William Miller, Anthony Berkins, Martha Albrand, Shirley Gordon, Elizabeth McCoy, Frank Glicksman, Margaret Cousins, Frances Lockridge, Richard Lockridge, Dorothy B. Hughes, Robert Tallman, George Batson, Elliot West, June Robbins, Jhan Robbins, Don Quinn, Ward Hawkins, John Hawkins, Larry Berns, Milton Geiger, George Lowther, Ellis Marcus, Lowell Barrington, Arzoo Govitrikar, Howard Leeds, William Jerome Fay, Ian Fleming, Mabel Seeley, Arnold Shaw, Arthur Geller, Nancy Rutledge, Ian Gordon, Paul N. Williams, Todd O. Thoman Jr., Frederick C. Davis, Ronald Sercombe, Gerald Douglass, Clemmie Galloway, Walter Reilly, Ursula Curtiss, M.L. Vallons, Grace Zaring Stone, Dorothy Black, H.F.M. Prescott, Morton Prince, Louis Auchincloss, Tom Coffey, Margaret Coffey, John Bingham, Gordon Gaskill, Leo Gallen, Dorothy Hechtlinger, Anne Morrison Chapin, Rumer Godden, Jack de Witt, Nona Coxhead, Laura Z. Hobson, James P. Canagh, Howard Browne, Leonard Lee, Frank Gruber, Bob Crosby, Ernest Hemingway, Shelley Smith, Louella Parsons, Stephen Vincent Benét, F. Scott Fitzgerald, A.J. Cronin, Cornell Woolrich, Katherine Anne Porter, Patricia Highsmith, Irving Stone, Louis L'Amour, Charlotte Armstrong, Erle Stanley Gardner, John Dickson Carr, Arthur Rowe, Mel Dinelli, Jean Holloway, John Vlahos, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ellis Kadison, Sheldon Stark, Rowland Brown, Faith Baldwin, Harry Julian Fink, Ring Lardner, Gil Doud, John D. MacDonald, Eleanore Griffin, David Dortort, Irving Elman, Charles Hoffman, Walter Newman, Lucille Fletcher, Evan Hunter, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Robert Dozier, Jerry McNeely, Harold Jack Bloom, Dale Wasserman, Richard H. Landau, Bayard Veiller, Seeleg Lester, Mary Loos, George Bruce, John Galsworthy, Mark Twain, Donald S. Sanford, Will Lorin, James Joseph, Gene Levitt, Oscar Wilde, Saul Levitt, Raymond Massey

Cast

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