Climax!

Climax! (later known as Climax Mystery Theater) 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 (using the massive TK-40A color cameras pioneered and manufactured by RCA, and used primarily by CBS' arch-rival network, NBC). 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.

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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 72092
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired October 7, 1954
  • Recent June 26, 1958
  • Airs Thursday, at 8:30pm
  • Network CBS
  • Average Runtime 45 minutes
  • Genres Drama
  • Original Country United States of America
  • Original Language English
  • On Other Sites TheMovieDB.com
  • Episode Screenshot Format 4:3 Screencap
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Season From To Episodes
All Seasons
Specials 0
Season 1 October 1954 August 1955 38
Season 2 September 1955 August 1956 45
Season 3 September 1956 August 1957 46
Season 4 September 1957 June 1958 37
Unassigned Episodes 0
Season From To Episodes
Specials 0
Unassigned Episodes 166
Absolute ordering places all episodes in a single ordered season. This is generally used for anime.
Season From To Episodes
Season 1 0
Unassigned Episodes 166
Name Number of Episodes Dates
John Frankenheimer 26 03/03/1955 - 06/14/1956
Allen Reisner 19 10/14/1954 - 03/29/1956
Buzz Kulik 5 03/28/1957 - 06/05/1958
Bernard Girard 3 01/13/1955 - 08/04/1955
Paul Nickell 2 10/24/1957 - 05/29/1958
Herbert Swope Jr. 2 07/07/1955 - 09/01/1955
David Swift 2 04/10/1958
Faith Baldwin 1 09/22/1955
William P. McGivern 1 03/24/1955
James Joseph 1 07/19/1956
Robert Louis Stevenson 1 07/28/1955
Mark Twain 1 09/01/1955
Fielder Cook 1 04/19/1956
William Irish 1 04/26/1956
Bing Crosby 1 08/04/1955
John Galsworthy 1 04/28/1955
Seymour Burns 1 09/08/1955
Arnold Shaw 1 05/29/1958
Oscar Wilde 1 11/17/1955
Ida Lupino 1 07/19/1956
Leo Gallen 1 02/09/1956
Don Medford 1 06/27/1957
Robert Stevens 1 11/21/1957
William H. Brown 1 10/21/1954
Jack Smight 1 10/11/1956
Gil Rodin 1 08/04/1955
Name Number of Episodes Dates
James P. Cavanagh 5 06/30/1955 - 10/11/1956
Whitfield Cook 5 05/19/1955 - 03/08/1956
Rod Serling 3 03/31/1955 - 11/24/1955
Devery Freeman 2 09/08/1955 - 10/20/1955
David Friedkin 2 12/09/1954 - 02/03/1955
William Kozlenko 2 03/10/1955 - 04/28/1955
DeWitt Bodeen 2 07/07/1955 - 09/01/1955
Morton Fine 2 12/09/1954 - 02/03/1955
John McGreevey 2 06/14/1956 - 07/19/1956
Gore Vidal 2 05/26/1955 - 07/28/1955
Paul Monash 2 09/29/1955 - 12/29/1955
Adrian Spies 2 03/24/1955 - 09/15/1955
Hagar Wilde 1 04/05/1956
Irving Wallace 1 05/29/1958
Harry Julian Fink 1 05/22/1958
John Cavanaugh 1 06/02/1955
E. Jack Neuman 1 03/03/1955
Gerald Douglass 1 10/24/1957
Ellis Kadison 1 03/28/1957
Walter Newman 1 10/14/1954
Gwen Bagni 1 12/19/1957
F.W. Durkee Jr. 1 03/22/1956
Robert Dozier 1 08/25/1955
Leonard Spigelgas 1 12/01/1955
Rowland Brown 1 10/03/1957
John Kneubuhl 1 11/17/1955
Eleanore Griffin 1 03/29/1956
Charles Hoffman 1 06/05/1958
Charles Bennett 1 10/21/1954
Wade Miller 1 03/03/1955
Mel Goldberg 1 04/19/1956
Rumer Godden 1 03/29/1956
Donald S. Sanford 1 12/09/1954
Lucille Fletcher 1 11/04/1954
George Bruce 1 03/01/1956
Irwin Gielgud 1 12/19/1957
Milton Geiger 1 04/21/1955
Irving Elman 1 08/11/1955
Saul Levitt 1 06/27/1957
Dale Eunson 1 12/22/1955
George Lowther 1 05/17/1956
Eric Ambler 1 10/11/1956
Arthur Geller 1 05/22/1958
Marie Baumer 1 06/02/1955
Marc Brandel 1 11/10/1955
Anthony Ellis 1 10/21/1954
Ian Fleming 1 10/21/1954
Mel Dinelli 1 04/07/1955
Katherine Funson 1 12/22/1955

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