Climax! - Season 2

Climax! - Season 2

Season 2

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DatesSept. 1, 1955 - Aug. 30, 1956
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Episodes

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Season 2Episode 160 min

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Huck and Jim once again embark on their adventure-filled trek down the Mississippi .
Sept. 1, 1955
Public Pigeon #1
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.
Sept. 8, 1955
Silent Decision
Season 2Episode 360 min

Silent Decision

A surgeon finds out about his wife's unfaithfulness and takes matters into his own hands.
Sept. 15, 1955
Night of Execution
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.
Sept. 22, 1955
Sailor on Horseback
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.
Sept. 29, 1955
Thin Air
Season 2Episode 660 min

Thin Air

An advertising executive's wife disappears during a summer vacation.
Okt. 13, 1955
House of Shadows
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.
Okt. 20, 1955
The Pink Cloud
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.
Okt. 27, 1955
Scheme to Defraud
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
A Promise to Murder
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
Portrait in Celluloid
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
A Man of Taste
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.
Dez. 1, 1955
The Passport
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.
Dez. 8, 1955
The Day They Gave the Babies Away
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.
Dez. 22, 1955
Bailout at 43,000 Feet
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.
Dez. 29, 1955
The Prowler
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
The Hanging Judge
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
The Secret of River Lane
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
Gamble on a Thief
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
The Fifth Wheel
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
Nightmare by Day
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
The Sound of Silence
Season 2Episode 2260 min

The Sound of Silence

A priest becomes involved in murder when the killer confesses his crime to him.
März 1, 1956
The Louella Parsons Story
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.
März 8, 1956
Pale Horse, Pale Rider
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.
März 22, 1956
An Episode of Sparrows
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.
März 29, 1956
Spin Into Darkness
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
The Lou Gehrig Story
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
Sit Down with Death
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
The Empty Room Blues
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.
Mai 3, 1956
Flame-Out on T-6
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.
Mai 17, 1956
The Shadow of Evil
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.
Mai 24, 1956
Figures in Clay
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.
Mai 31, 1956
Faceless Adversary
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.
Juni 7, 1956
To Scream at Midnight
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.
Juni 14, 1956
The Circular Staircase
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.
Juni 21, 1956
A Trophy for Howard Davenport
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.
Juni 28, 1956
Phone Call for Matthew Quade
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.
Juli 5, 1956
Fear is the Hunter
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.
Juli 12, 1956
Fury at Dawn
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.
Juli 19, 1956
The Man Who Lost His Head
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.
Juli 26, 1956
Child of the Wind
Season 2Episode 4160 min

Child of the Wind

Aug. 2, 1956
No Right to Kill
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
The 78th Floor
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
Throw Away the Cane
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
Dark Wall
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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