Climax!: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Climax! Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
Trial by Fire
Sep 5, 1957 · 60 min
A forest fire spreads with fury, threatens a town with destruction, and brands a boy a murderer.
The Secret of the Red Room
Sep 12, 1957 · 60 min
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 reme
Necessary Evil
Sep 19, 1957 · 60 min
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 vow
Along Came a Spider
Sep 26, 1957 · 60 min
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 retur
Jacob and the Angels
Oct 3, 1957 · 60 min
A criminal lawyer makes a desperate gamble to defend a boy charged with murder. Risking his career, his love, even his health, he faces an even greater terror when he finds his own
Mask for the Devil
Oct 10, 1957 · 60 min
Tom Gardener invites the invalid widow of a man he accidentally killed to live with himself and his wife, unaware that her facade of sweetness and gentleness conceals a scheme to d
The Largest City in Captivity
Oct 17, 1957 · 60 min
An American newspaperman in West Berlin and an East German freedom fighter in the anti-Soviet underground are in love with the same woman, in whose apartment the freedom fighter ta
Tunnel of Fear
Oct 24, 1957 · 60 min
Drama about the men who struggle to move rivers and dig tunnels.
Keep Me in Mind
Nov 7, 1957 · 60 min
Publicity hungry, Las Vegas lounge singer, Mike Owens stages a hoax publicity stunt making the local police and his entourage furious with him, especially his press agent. And like
Two Tests on Tuesday
Nov 14, 1957 · 60 min
A college professor tries to help an ex-GI with a history of mental illness whose anxiety over low grades caused him to cheat on his final exam.
A Matter of Life and Death
Nov 21, 1957 · 60 min
A man wakes up with a hangover one morning believing he is responsible for a murder. All he can remember is standing over a body holding a broken bottle in his hand. The girl in lo
Murder Has a Deadline
Nov 28, 1957 · 60 min
A ruthless gossip columnist who's been receiving threatening letters asks for police protection and then, in a panic attack, barricades himself in his apartment.
The Devil's Brood
Dec 5, 1957 · 60 min
Two fugitives, hoping for a life of ease and respectability, leave for Australia to buy a sheep ranch, not knowing they're being followed by a blackmailer.
Hurricane Diane
Dec 12, 1957 · 60 min
Among the people seeking shelter from a flood at a rundown Southern hotel are a man accused of murder, the deputy sheriff to whom he's handcuffed, a compassionate young social work
To Walk the Night
Dec 19, 1957 · 60 min
On a snowy Christmas eve, police detective Ed Brooks hopes to be able to get away early. But a call comes in that a prowler, who has murdered several women, has struck again.
Shadow of a Memory
Dec 26, 1957 · 60 min
A woman returns to the cottage owned by her late husband and tries to settle in, but a body is discovered in the living room and she is accused of murder.
Scream in Silence
Jan 2, 1958 · 60 min
Medical student tries to help depressed neighbor.
Thieves of Tokyo
Jan 16, 1958 · 60 min
While on the trail of a black-market ring in Tokyo, an undercover man runs across a murder. During the investigation he begins to date a pretty Japanese dancer, which upsets his Am
Sound of the Moon
Jan 23, 1958 · 60 min
Facing a personal crisis on a coast-to-coast flight, an airline hostess appeals for help to a doctor on the plane, but he claims he's too busy to see her.
Burst of Fire
Jan 30, 1958 · 60 min
A singer orders a copy made of an antique cross for an old friend of hers, a priest. While she is in the jewelry store to pick up the cross, the store is held up by a masked gunman
Four Hours in White
Feb 6, 1958 · 60 min
Trapped in a crossfire of human emotions, a hospital chief surgeon fights his own conscience to decide the fate of two men. He must weigh the possible sacrifice of one life for ano
The Secret Love of Johnny Spain
Feb 20, 1958 · 60 min
Four days before his movie is to be released, singing idol Johnny Spain is killed in an airplane crash. His press agent decides he must dig up some publicity to make the up-coming
Albert Anastasia, His Life and Death
Feb 27, 1958 · 60 min
The story of Murder Inc. and the 1957 barber shop rub-out of mob czar Albert Anastasia. Anastasia had an appeal that belied his reputation for brutality and impetuosity. He had a s
The Thief With the Big Blue Eyes
Mar 6, 1958 · 60 min
In Rome, an American actor and his wife come upon an Italian street urchin who appoints himself their guardian angel and after awhile begins trying to cajole them into adopting him
So Deadly My Love
Mar 13, 1958 · 60 min
While on a date with her boyfriend a woman runs into her erratic estranged husband. Later that night two ruffians beat up the boyfriend and kidnap the woman.
The Great World and Timothy Colt
Mar 27, 1958 · 60 min
A large Manhattan law firm hires the tireless dedicated Timothy Colt, the young lawyer. As he rises in the firm the opportunity to see the conflict between ethics and ambition are
On the Take
Apr 3, 1958 · 60 min
In trying to clean up the local bookmakers, the Washington, D.C. Police department becomes convinced that members of the force are accepting payoff money. Lt. Todd Thoman is assign
The Volcano Seat
Apr 10, 1958 · 60 min
This true story involving the crew of an in-air refueling operation for Air Force bombers who take a training team on a dangerous mission. RAF Flight Lieutenant MacKenzie Barton i
Shooting for the Moon
Apr 24, 1958 · 60 min
Engineer Frank Colby and his staff have developed a nose cone capable of launching into outer space.
The Deadly Tattoo
May 1, 1958 · 60 min
A detective is assigned to investigate a series of murders in which the killer left a heart-shaped tattoo on each of his victims.
The Big Success
May 8, 1958 · 60 min
Leo Carson a businessman who worked his way up from machinist's helper to owner of a million-dollar business. He realizes too late that the important things in life, his family hav
The Disappearance of Daphne
May 15, 1958 · 60 min
A young heiress marries a dancer after a whirlwind courtship, but soon comes to suspect he's responsible for the mysterious disappearance of his former dancing partner.
Time of the Hanging
May 22, 1958 · 60 min
In Texas, during the 1880's, cattlemen resent the intrusion of homesteaders on their grazing lands. When cattleman Mannon Tate's brother is sentenced to hang for the murder of a ho
The Push-Button Giant
May 29, 1958 · 60 min
A song plugger making his daily rounds meets an attractive young singer in a recording executive's waiting room and, by passing himself off as her manager, begins climbing to the t
Spider Web
Jun 5, 1958 · 60 min
José Aragon, wealthy Texas cattleman, is on a cattle-buying expedition on the Mexican border. After a gueling day looking over the stock, Aragon returns to his hotel, tired and di
House of Doubt
Jun 19, 1958 · 60 min
When she loses her job, Gwen Dacres seeks economical lodgings in a boarding house run by a mysterious old woman, Mrs. Garr. Strange noises and incidents disturb Gwen's peace of min
Cabin B-13
Jun 26, 1958 · 60 min
Shortly 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