Season 4 • Episode 37
LatestShortly after Ann and Robert Brewster board a luxury liner for their honeymoon cruise, Robert disappears with the fortune he received as a wedding present from Ann. Ann reports her husband's disappearance to the captain. To her astonishment he informs her that there is no record of either herself or her husband as passengers, and that the cabin number she has given is non-existent.
Climax! is an American 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. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
Acting
Live-or-die theatrical stakes, no second takes.
Production
Early color broadcast experiments that sometimes exploded.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Most episodes were recorded via kinescope — a film camera pointed at a TV — making surviving copies ghostly artifacts of live moments.
This series helped establish the anthology format that would dominate prestige television until serialized drama took over in the 1980s.
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