Climax! - Season 3 (1956)

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

A recreation of the trial of Captain Henry Wirz, commandant of the Andersonville prison during the Civil War. The charge--conspiracy to commit atrocities and murder among the prisoners.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Murdered doctor had been researching a rare disease.

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.

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.

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.

A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.

The technical notes say that this television drama was in black and white. But I remember its being broadcast in color, one of the very few broadcasts in color at that time. I remember because my father was trying out, on loan, a new color television set, and we saw this broadcast as a test of the color quality of the broadcast and of the set. The quality was good for this broadcast, as I recall, but not for all broadcasts.

When a man with the reputation of a fast gun turns up in a small New Mexico community, the townspeople, including the man's son, want no part of him. Then two brothers who have vowed revenge on the gunfighter ride into town.

As she's leaving to meet her daughter at the airport, a psychoanalyst receives a phone call from one of her patients, who tells her he's just killed a man. When the two women return home the patient, who is waiting for them, pulls a gun, forces the daughter into a room, and locks the door.