Climax! - Season 2
Season 2
Network
DatesSep 1, 1955 - Aug 30, 1956
Episodes
Season 2Episode 160 min
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .
Sep 1, 1955
Season 2Episode 260 min
Public Pigeon #1
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.
Sep 8, 1955
Season 2Episode 360 min
Silent Decision
A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
Sep 15, 1955
Season 2Episode 460 min
Night of Execution
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.
Sep 22, 1955
Season 2Episode 560 min
Sailor on Horseback
As Jack London's reputation as a writer grows, his fame causes conflicts with his sister Eliza and his wife Charmain.
Sep 29, 1955
Season 2Episode 660 min
Thin Air
An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
Oct 13, 1955
Season 2Episode 760 min
House of Shadows
A woman keeps her elderly uncle locked up as a prisoner in his own home when a man decides to investigate the story himself.
Oct 20, 1955
Season 2Episode 860 min
The Pink Cloud
An ex-con returns to New York looking for the man responsible for the crime he did time for.
Oct 27, 1955
Season 2Episode 960 min
Scheme to Defraud
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.
Nov 10, 1955
Season 2Episode 1060 min
A Promise to Murder
At his wealthy aunt's insistence, a rising young London barrister submits to having his palm read. The prophecies come true with alarming accuracy.
Nov 17, 1955
Season 2Episode 1160 min
Portrait in Celluloid
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.
Nov 24, 1955
Season 2Episode 1260 min
A Man of Taste
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.
Dec 1, 1955
Season 2Episode 1360 min
The Passport
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.
Dec 8, 1955
Season 2Episode 1460 min
The Day They Gave the Babies Away
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.
Dec 22, 1955
Season 2Episode 1560 min
Bailout at 43,000 Feet
Three men prepare to test the ejector seat of a jet bomber. As they wait for favorable weather conditions, each reacts differently.
Dec 29, 1955
Season 2Episode 1660 min
The Prowler
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" .
Jan 5, 1956
Season 2Episode 1760 min
The Hanging Judge
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.
Jan 12, 1956
Season 2Episode 1860 min
The Secret of River Lane
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.
Jan 26, 1956
Season 2Episode 1960 min
Gamble on a Thief
A dedicated parole officer makes a daring effort to help a two-time loser who has violated the conditions of his parole.
Feb 2, 1956
Season 2Episode 2060 min
The Fifth Wheel
Two sports-minded priests, off for a fishing holiday, become involved with thieves, a stolen car and stolen money!
Feb 9, 1956
Season 2Episode 2160 min
Nightmare by Day
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.
Feb 23, 1956
Season 2Episode 2260 min
The Sound of Silence
A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
Mar 1, 1956
Season 2Episode 2360 min
The Louella Parsons Story
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.
Mar 8, 1956
Season 2Episode 2460 min
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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.
Mar 22, 1956
Season 2Episode 2560 min
An Episode of Sparrows
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.
Mar 29, 1956
Season 2Episode 2660 min
Spin Into Darkness
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.
Apr 5, 1956
Season 2Episode 2760 min
The Lou Gehrig Story
Baseball's ""Iron Horse,"" whose brilliant career was ended by a terminal illness, and who struggled valiantly against adversity.
Apr 19, 1956
Season 2Episode 2860 min
Sit Down with Death
A dinner party turns into a guest's nightmare as a murder plot is uncovered.
Apr 26, 1956
Season 2Episode 2960 min
The Empty Room Blues
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.
May 3, 1956
Season 2Episode 3060 min
Flame-Out on T-6
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.
May 17, 1956
Season 2Episode 3160 min
The Shadow of Evil
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.
May 24, 1956
Season 2Episode 3260 min
Figures in Clay
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.
May 31, 1956
Season 2Episode 3360 min
Faceless Adversary
A man suspected of a young woman's murder denies even knowing her and claims he's being framed.
Jun 7, 1956
Season 2Episode 3460 min
To Scream at Midnight
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.
Jun 14, 1956
Season 2Episode 3560 min
The Circular Staircase
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.
Jun 21, 1956
Season 2Episode 3660 min
A Trophy for Howard Davenport
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.
Jun 28, 1956
Season 2Episode 3760 min
Phone Call for Matthew Quade
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.
Jul 5, 1956
Season 2Episode 3860 min
Fear is the Hunter
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.
Jul 12, 1956
Season 2Episode 3960 min
Fury at Dawn
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.
Jul 19, 1956
Season 2Episode 4060 min
The Man Who Lost His Head
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.
Jul 26, 1956
Season 2Episode 4160 min
Child of the Wind
Aug 2, 1956
Season 2Episode 4260 min
No Right to Kill
A starving author tests his theory about people who think they are above the law by killing a pawnbroker.
Aug 9, 1956
Season 2Episode 4360 min
The 78th Floor
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.
Aug 16, 1956
Season 2Episode 4460 min
Throw Away the Cane
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.
Aug 23, 1956
Season 2Episode 4560 min
Dark Wall
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.
Aug 30, 1956
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