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Climax!

TV Series · 1954

Climax!

60 min · Drama, Mystery · Ended

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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 of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.

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Season 1 (38 ep)
  • 1. The Long Goodbye

    Oct 7, 1954 · 60 min

    Private Detective Philip Marlowe decides to help out a friend Lennox when his wife is found brutally murdered. Marlowe winds up in jail accused of her murder and tries to solve the case after his release.

  • 2. The Thirteenth Chair

    Oct 14, 1954 · 60 min

    When his friend is murdered, Edward Wales sets out to capture the killer. He stages a seance and invites 13 people, any one of who may have killed the dead man, but it ends in chaos when the killer strikes again during a blackout.

  • 3. Casino Royale

    Oct 21, 1954 · 60 min

    American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions. The first dramatization of a James Bond novel.

  • 4. Sorry, Wrong Number

    Nov 4, 1954 · 60 min

    A neurotic invalid whose only contact with the outside world is her phone. One night, because of a crossed wire, she hears plans for a murder which turns out to be her own. Her frantic efforts to get help and her growing terror and realisation of the truth chill you to the bone.

  • 5. The Gioconda Smile

    Nov 11, 1954 · 60 min

    The death of his crippled wife causes upheaval for the husband and his mistress. Only his family friend believes in his innocence.

  • 6. The After House

    Nov 25, 1954 · 60 min

    A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing until the dream voyage turns into a nightmare. The ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death who is next.

  • 7. An Error in Chemistry

    Dec 2, 1954 · 60 min

    A carnival huckster ingratiates himself with an elderly farmer and his naïve daughter; she soon falls for her new suitor and marries him, only to wind up dead shortly afterwards, the husband quick to confess.

  • 8. Epitaph for a Spy

    Dec 9, 1954 · 60 min

    An unsuspecting Iron Curtain refugee is used as a pawn by two French traitors while he is at a resort in France.

  • 9. The White Carnation

    Dec 16, 1954 · 60 min

    A woman receives some mysterious white carnations, which seem to be an innocent gift but lead to terror.

  • 10. Nightmare in Copenhagen

    Dec 30, 1954 · 60 min

    Thru romantic eyes she knew not what he was.

  • 11. The Bigger They Come

    Jan 6, 1955 · 60 min

    Private investigators Cool and Lam become involved in this suspenseful tale of thugs, thieves and legal chicanery.

  • 12. Escape From Fear

    Jan 13, 1955 · 60 min

    An American engineer in Germany crosses over into the Soviet Zone on business and becomes entangled with the secret police.

  • 13. The Mojave Kid

    Jan 27, 1955 · 60 min

    The Mojave Kid is warned to stay away from a small town feud.

  • 14. The Leaf Out of the Book

    Feb 3, 1955 · 60 min

    The story revolves around two women, one a successful career woman, the other an ambitious girl. After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, the successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.

  • 15. The Valiant Men

    Feb 10, 1955 · 60 min

    Lt. Comm. Knowles is assigned to skipper the USS Hamilton from England back to New York. While he and his crew celebrate New Year's Eve 1943, an unknown danger lurks nearby.

  • 16. The Box of Chocolates

    Feb 24, 1955 · 60 min

    A hated columnist becomes involved in murder after receiving an innocent-looking box of chocolates with a note from the manufacturer asking him to try them.

  • 17. South of the Sun

    Mar 3, 1955 · 60 min

    They were strangers to each other, even the married ones, and they all dreamed in human ways. But the least of these eight persons did something about his little dream. In so doing, he bound the strangers in an intimate circle, whether they knew it or not. He touched them all in passing and changed their lives and dreams forever, according to their own choices. In one turn of the earth something happened.

  • 18. The Great Impersonation

    Mar 10, 1955 · 60 min

    The action of this tale of intrigue and espionage takes place in the jungles of East Africa in 1914. The destinies of Germany and Great Britain are dependent upon one man whose decision is influenced by one of the two women in his life.

  • 19. The Darkest Hour

    Mar 24, 1955 · 60 min

    An ex-cop is released from San Quentin after five years and sets out on revenge against the men who framed him for manslaughter.

  • 20. The Champion

    Mar 31, 1955 · 60 min

    The famous story deals with a boxer whose rise to fame has been at the expense of friends and associates. Through flashbacks, we see how Midge Kelly rose from the Chicago slums to a world championship.

  • 21. Private Worlds

    Apr 7, 1955 · 60 min

    A woman doctor probes the twisted minds of her patients in a mental institution.

  • 22. Flight 951

    Apr 21, 1955 · 60 min

    A doctor forsakes the medical profession following a court trial where he was the defendant. Now a successful businessman travelling under an assumed name, he must decide between keeping his secret and saving the eyesight of a fellow passenger.

  • 23. The First and the Last

    Apr 28, 1955 · 60 min

    The threat of scandal, revolving around the death of a man in London, prompts an ambitious lawyer to disregard both legan and moral principles. His concern for his own career puts an innocent man's life in jeopardy.

  • 24. The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia

    May 5, 1955 · 60 min

    A courageous nun suffers ordeals while trying to escape from behind the Iron Curtain.

  • 25. No Stone Unturned

    May 19, 1955 · 60 min

    A Scottish student has the historical Stone of Scone stolen from Westminster Abbey. His purpose is to get England to recognize Scotland's independence.

  • 26. A Farewell to Arms

    May 26, 1955 · 60 min

    An American, in the Italian Army during World War I, who meets a nurse and falls in love with her. Together they try to find a haven from the turbulence around them.

  • 27. The Unimportant Man

    Jun 2, 1955 · 60 min

    The life of an ordinary, mild-mannered man is changed when he identifies the murderer of his employer's brother.

  • 28. The Dark Fleece

    Jun 16, 1955 · 60 min

    A gold miner returns to his righteous California hometown, circa1857. He has great wealth, but also a burdened conscious; he has killed a man.

  • 29. To Wake at Midnight

    Jun 23, 1955 · 60 min

    All the pent-up prejudices and hatreds of postwar Europe are revived when a Nazi lieutenant recovers consciousness in a British hospital after being in a coma for years.

  • 30. The Dance

    Jun 30, 1955 · 60 min

  • 31. Wild Stallion

    Jul 7, 1955 · 60 min

    A handsome, devil-may-care fortune hunter [from South America] makes his home with a well-to-do Southern family. He is attracted at first to the daughter, until he discovers the mother is the one who holds the key to the family fortune.

  • 32. The Escape of Mendes-France

    Jul 14, 1955 · 60 min

  • 33. The Healer

    Jul 21, 1955 · 60 min

    A brilliant surgeon, burdened with a self-centered wife and a beautiful heiress who's in love with him, becomes tormented by doubts about his ability after losing a patient during a difficult operation.

  • 34. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    Jul 28, 1955 · 60 min

    Classic Stevenson tale of a scientist whose experiments into the duality of man transform him into the misshapen, murderous Mr. Hyde.

  • 35. One Night Stand

    Aug 4, 1955 · 60 min

    In 1937, the members of a jazz ensemble come to the aid of one of their colleagues who is stricken with tuberculosis.

  • 36. Edge of Terror

    Aug 11, 1955 · 60 min

    A small town banker and his family are threatened with death if he identifies the leader of the gang that tried to rob his bank.

  • 37. Fear Strikes Out

    Aug 18, 1955 · 60 min

    True story of ballplayer battling mental illness and domineering father.

  • 38. Deal a Blow

    Aug 25, 1955 · 60 min

    A teenage boy gets into a dispute with an abusive movie theater manager Mr. Grubbs. The boy's father Tom Ditmar accepts the manager's somewhat twisted version of the incident and doesn't give his son a chance to explain his side of the matter.

Season 2 (45 ep)
  • 1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    Sep 1, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 2. Public Pigeon #1

    Sep 8, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 3. Silent Decision

    Sep 15, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 4. Night of Execution

    Sep 22, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 5. Sailor on Horseback

    Sep 29, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 6. Thin Air

    Oct 13, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 7. House of Shadows

    Oct 20, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 8. The Pink Cloud

    Oct 27, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 9. Scheme to Defraud

    Nov 10, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 10. A Promise to Murder

    Nov 17, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 11. Portrait in Celluloid

    Nov 24, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 12. A Man of Taste

    Dec 1, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 13. The Passport

    Dec 8, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 14. The Day They Gave the Babies Away

    Dec 22, 1955 · 60 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.

  • 15. Bailout at 43,000 Feet

    Dec 29, 1955 · 60 min

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

  • 16. The Prowler

    Jan 5, 1956 · 60 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" .

  • 17. The Hanging Judge

    Jan 12, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 18. The Secret of River Lane

    Jan 26, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 19. Gamble on a Thief

    Feb 2, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 20. The Fifth Wheel

    Feb 9, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 21. Nightmare by Day

    Feb 23, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 22. The Sound of Silence

    Mar 1, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 23. The Louella Parsons Story

    Mar 8, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 24. Pale Horse, Pale Rider

    Mar 22, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 25. An Episode of Sparrows

    Mar 29, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 26. Spin into Darkness

    Apr 5, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 27. The Lou Gehrig Story

    Apr 19, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 28. Sit Down with Death

    Apr 26, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 29. The Empty Room Blues

    May 3, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 30. Flame-Out on T-6

    May 17, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 31. The Shadow of Evil

    May 24, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 32. Figures in Clay

    May 31, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 33. Faceless Adversary

    Jun 7, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 34. To Scream at Midnight

    Jun 14, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 35. The Circular Staircase

    Jun 21, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 36. A Trophy for Howard Davenport

    Jun 28, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 37. Phone Call for Matthew Quade

    Jul 5, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 38. Fear is the Hunter

    Jul 12, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 39. Fury at Dawn

    Jul 19, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 40. The Man Who Lost His Head

    Jul 26, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 41. Child of the Wind

    Aug 2, 1956 · 60 min

  • 42. No Right to Kill

    Aug 9, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 43. The 78th Floor

    Aug 16, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 44. Throw Away the Cane

    Aug 23, 1956 · 60 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.

  • 45. Dark Wall

    Aug 30, 1956 · 60 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.

Season 3 (46 ep)
  • 1. Bury Me Later

    Sep 6, 1956 · 60 min

    An English vicar believes in the innocence of an artist, thought by everyone to be the murderer of a missing farmer. With the help of the murdered man's wife, he solves the mystery and unmasks the real killer.

  • 2. Burst of Violence

    Sep 13, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 3. The Garsten Case

    Sep 20, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 4. The Fog

    Sep 27, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 5. Island in the City

    Oct 4, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 6. Journey Into Fear

    Oct 11, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 7. The Midas Touch

    Oct 18, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 8. Night of the Heat Wave

    Oct 25, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 9. Flight to Tomorrow

    Nov 8, 1956 · 60 min

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

  • 10. Night Shriek

    Nov 15, 1956 · 60 min

    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

  • 11. The Chinese Game

    Nov 22, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 12. The Secret Thread

    Nov 29, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 13. Savage Portrait

    Dec 6, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 14. Strange Hostage

    Dec 20, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 15. Ten Minutes to Curfew

    Dec 27, 1956 · 60 min

    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.

  • 16. Carnival at Midnight

    Jan 3, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 17. The Gold Dress

    Jan 17, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 18. Circle of Destruction

    Jan 24, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 19. The Trouble at Number 5

    Jan 31, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 20. The Stalker

    Feb 7, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 21. Stain of Honor

    Feb 14, 1957 · 60 min

    The son of a former governor who was assassinated is himself running for the same office when the son of the killer, who was shot while trying to escape, arrives in town under an alias. The candidate confronts the newcomer and makes it clear he plans to use the assassination to further his own career.

  • 22. The Long Count

    Feb 21, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 23. And Don't Ever Come Back

    Feb 28, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 24. Night of a Rebel

    Mar 7, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 25. Let It Be Me

    Mar 21, 1957 · 60 min

    Corruption in the recording industry plays out just as the music plays in.

  • 26. Strange Sanctuary

    Mar 28, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 27. Don't Touch Me

    Apr 4, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 28. Mad Bomber

    Apr 18, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 29. Avalanche at Devil's Pass

    Apr 25, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 30. Strange Deaths at Burnleigh

    May 2, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 31. Bait for the Tiger

    May 16, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 32. The Hand of Evil

    May 23, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 33. The Disappearance of Amanda Hale

    May 30, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 34. Mr. Runyon of Broadway

    Jun 6, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 35. The Man Who Stole the Bible

    Jun 13, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 36. A Taste for Crime

    Jun 20, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 37. The Trial of Captain Wirtz

    Jun 27, 1957 · 60 min

    During the Civil War, thousands of captured Union soldiers were confined in the Andersonville stockade in Georgia. Conditions there were so bad that over 12,000 prisoners died and the infamous reputation of the Andersonville stockade spread. When the war ended, steps were taken to bring to justice those responsible. The trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison and the charge--conspiracy to commit atrocities and murder among the prisoners. The Union prosecutor is determined to prove that Wirz himself shot down one of the prisoners.

  • 38. False Witness

    Jul 4, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 39. Payment for Judas

    Jul 11, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 40. Walk a Tightrope

    Jul 18, 1957 · 60 min

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

  • 41. The High Jungle

    Jul 25, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 42. The Giant Killer

    Aug 1, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 43. Trail of Terror

    Aug 8, 1957 · 60 min

    Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

  • 44. Murder is a Witch

    Aug 15, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 45. The Stranger Within

    Aug 22, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

  • 46. Deadly Climate

    Aug 29, 1957 · 60 min

    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.

Season 4 (1 ep)
  • 37. Cabin B-13

    Jun 26, 1958 · 60 min

    Shortly after Ann and Robert Brewster board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, Robert disappears with the fortune he received as a wedding present from Ann. Ann reports her husband's disappearance to the captain. To her astonishment he informs her that there is no record of either herself or her husband as passengers, and that the cabin number she has given is non-existent.

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