Climax!

- Season 1

(1954)

Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

A TV version of the Bayard Viellet play about a séance held to trap a murderer among the attendees.

American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss Le Chiffre while monitoring his actions.

While on the telephone, an invalid woman overhears what she thinks is a plot to murder her.

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

A steward aboard a yacht thinks his job is easy sailing, until the ship's officer is thrown overboard and another is hacked to death.

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.

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

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

A woman becomes the bait in a trap to catch a ruthless traitor.

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

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

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

After giving the daughter of an old friend a job, a successful businesswoman realizes the drawbacks of her generosity.

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

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.

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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.

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

A ruthless professional boxer, Midge Kelly (Rory Calhoun), tramples anyone he can to get to the top, including his loyal brother Connie (Tommy Cook). This is a TV version (adapted by Rod Serling) of the Ring Lardner story, filmed in 1949 as Champion, with Kirk Douglas as Midge, Arthur Kennedy as Connie.

TV version of the ahead-of-its-time film Private Worlds (1935), starring 'Claudette Colbert' repeating her role as a very caring psychiatrist facing discrimination in a mental hospital because she's female. Also has a much more progressive view of mental illness than usual in the era. Based on a story by the novelist Phyllis Bottome (_Mortal Storm, The (1940)_.

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

Keith Dorrant realizes his dream when offered the appointment as chief prosecutor for the Crown but his brother Larry is involved with a murder and creates a threat to the family name.

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

Scottish nationalist Ian Hamilton leads a group of like minded countrymen in stealing the games Stone of Scone. They intend to spirit it from London back to Scotland.

An affair between an English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I.

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

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

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.

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A rich southern widow's daughter has an older man engaged to marry her, a distinguished Argentine ex-officer. But he's actually a money seeking gigolo who sneaks out to see another girl every night.When he realizes the mother controls the wealth, he starts romancing her. The outraged son plots a murderous revenge against him.

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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.

A little known adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic.

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

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.

A young major league baseball player, Jimmy Piersall (Tab Hunter), battles mental illness and a harsh upbringing to succeed as a Boston Red Sox outfielder. Based on the memoir of the same title by Piersall. Made into a movie in 1957 starring Anthony Perkins as Piersall.

When a 16-year-old, neglected by his movie producer father, gets in trouble, his father doesn't believe his claim of self-defense.