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The Best Episodes of Climax! Season 4

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Climax! is an American 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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Climax! Season 4 Episode 1 - Trial by Fire
    8.0/10(15 votes)

    #1 - Trial by Fire

    S4:E1

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Climax! Season 4 Episode 2 - The Secret of the Red Room
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #2 - The Secret of the Red Room

    S4:E2

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Charles Larson

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  3. Climax! Season 4 Episode 3 - Necessary Evil
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #3 - Necessary Evil

    S4:E3

    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.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Climax! Season 4 Episode 4 - Along Came a Spider
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #4 - Along Came a Spider

    S4:E4

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Climax! Season 4 Episode 5 - Jacob and the Angels
    6.9/10(14 votes)

    #5 - Jacob and the Angels

    S4:E5

    A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own guilty conscience is on trial.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Climax! Season 4 Episode 6 - Mask for the Devil
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Mask for the Devil

    S4:E6

    Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to destroy his marriage.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Climax! Season 4 Episode 7 - The Largest City in Captivity
    7.8/10(11 votes)

    #7 - The Largest City in Captivity

    S4:E7

    An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter takes refuge after being wounded.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Climax! Season 4 Episode 8 - Tunnel of Fear
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Tunnel of Fear

    S4:E8

    Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Climax! Season 4 Episode 9 - Keep Me in Mind
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Keep Me in Mind

    S4:E9

    Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like the little boy who cried wolf, he discovers when he actually can identify a cop-killer, the cops and the newspapers and his press agent don't believe him. But the killer knows he isn't lying and determines to kill him next.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Climax! Season 4 Episode 10 - Two Tests on Tuesday
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - Two Tests on Tuesday

    S4:E10

    A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Climax! Season 4 Episode 11 - A Matter of Life and Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - A Matter of Life and Death

    S4:E11

    A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in love with him is convinced he is innocent and helps him try to prove

    Director:Robert Stevens
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Climax! Season 4 Episode 12 - Murder Has a Deadline
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Murder Has a Deadline

    S4:E12

    A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Climax! Season 4 Episode 13 - The Devil's Brood
    7.9/10(21 votes)

    #13 - The Devil's Brood

    S4:E13

    Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Climax! Season 4 Episode 14 - Hurricane Diane
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - Hurricane Diane

    S4:E14

    Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social worker, a preacher, and the hotel owner's disturbed wife who claims she's a countess.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Climax! Season 4 Episode 15 - To Walk the Night
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - To Walk the Night

    S4:E15

    On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Climax! Season 4 Episode 16 - Shadow of a Memory
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Shadow of a Memory

    S4:E16

    A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Climax! Season 4 Episode 17 - Scream in Silence
    7.1/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Scream in Silence

    S4:E17

    Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Climax! Season 4 Episode 18 - Thieves of Tokyo
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Thieves of Tokyo

    S4:E18

    While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his American girlfriend.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Climax! Season 4 Episode 19 - Sound of the Moon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Sound of the Moon

    S4:E19

    Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Climax! Season 4 Episode 20 - Burst of Fire
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Burst of Fire

    S4:E20

    A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store to pick up the cross, the store is held up by a masked gunman who steals the cross and makes his escape. The thief resembles the priest's brother. Then the third brother, a policeman, is assigned to investigate the case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Climax! Season 4 Episode 21 - Four Hours in White
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Four Hours in White

    S4:E21

    Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for another. Drawing on years of experience, he defies the pressures of time and personal fear to face one crucial moment of judgment.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Climax! Season 4 Episode 22 - The Secret Love of Johnny Spain
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Secret Love of Johnny Spain

    S4:E22

    Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming movie pay-off. He pressures Julie, a young starlet, to pose as Spain's secret love.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Climax! Season 4 Episode 23 - Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death

    S4:E23

    The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that belied his reputation for brutality and impetuosity. He had a sense of confidence and presence, and because he was so sure of himself he was at ease with other people.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Malvin Wald

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  24. Climax! Season 4 Episode 24 - The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes

    S4:E24

    In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him permanently.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Climax! Season 4 Episode 25 - So Deadly My Love
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - So Deadly My Love

    S4:E25

    While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.

    Director:Buzz Kulik
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Trial by Fire" is the best rated episode of "Climax!" season 4. It scored 8/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/5/1957. This episode is rated 8.0 points higher than the second-best, "The Secret of the Red Room".