Climax! (a.k.a. Climax Mystery Theater) was a television show that ran on the American network CBS from 1954 to 1958. It was an hour long anthology suspense/mystery drama.

In 1954, an episode of Climax! featured Ian Fleming's secret agent James Bond in a television adaptation of Casino Royale. It starred American Barry Nelson as an American secret agent "Jimmy Bond" and Peter Lorre as the villain Le Chiffre. This was the first screen adaptation of a James Bond novel, and was made before EON Productions acquired the Bond film rights. EON would not, in fact, obtain the rights to Casino Royale until the late 1990s. The Climax! presentation was a pilot for a potential series that never emerged, and it is the only episode of this anthology series currently available on DVD; it was included as a bonus feature on the MGM DVD release of the 1967 film adaptation of the novel.

Episodes

Season 1

• The Long Goodbye
• The Thirteenth Chair
• Casino Royale
• Sorry, Wrong Number
• The Gioconda Smile
• The After House
• An Error in Chemistry
• Epitaph For a Spy
• The White Carnation
• Nightmare in Copenhagen
• The Bigger They Come
• Escape From Fear
• The Mojave Kid
• The Leaf Out of the Book
• The Valiant Men
• The Box of Chocolates
• South of the Sun
• The Great Impersonation
• The Darkest Hour
• The Champion
• Private Worlds
• Flight 951
• The First and the Last
• The Deliverance of Sister Cecilia
• No Stone Unturned
• A Farewell to Arms
• The Unimportant Man
• The Dark Fleece
• To Wake at Midnight
• The Dance
• Wild Stallion
• The Escape of Mendes-France
• The Healer
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• One Night Stand
• Edge of Terror
• Fear Strikes Out
• Deal A Blow