

Adventures in Paradise
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
Cast
Seasons & Episodes
E1The Pit of Silence
Oct 5, 1959
Captain Troy has to pick up the Baron Andre, and soon discovers the Baron's body half eaten by a savage beast. Troy rules out accidental death and searchs for the murderer.
E2The Black Pearl
Oct 12, 1959
A native diver discovers a rare black pearl. The find causes a great deal of excitement among the passengers on Adam's schooner.
E3Paradise Lost
Oct 26, 1959
E4Lady from South Chicago
Nov 2, 1959
Mme. Victorine Reynard, a Frenchwoman, now lives in style in the South Seas. A friend who is actually an escaped convict from Australia, comes to see her.
E5The Derelict
Nov 9, 1959
The derelict in an attempt to abduct an oriental crown prince, Communist agents endager Adam's life and almost destroy his ship.
E6Safari at Sea
Nov 16, 1959
E7Mission to Manila
Nov 23, 1959
Dan Lynch, a friend of Captain Troy's, receives a brief note from his sister-in-law stating that Dan's brother has died. Lynch asks Troy to find the girl and learn the circumstances of her husband's death.
E8The Raft
Nov 30, 1959
One of Adam's girlfriends, is a passenger on a boat that has struck a mine.
E9Peril at Pitcairn
Dec 7, 1959
During a vacation in Papeete, Captain Troy lets himself be convinced to board some passengers and sail to Pitcairn Island. However, a few hours before their arrival on the island, one passenger is stabbed with a knife belongiing to the Tiki, Troy's schooner.
E10The Bamboo Curtain
Dec 14, 1959
In Hong Kong, Adam is approached by a pretty goverment agent who wants him to help her with an assignment.
E11The Haunted
Dec 21, 1959
Wealthy Vanessa Sutton Charles is plagued by mysterious apparitions of her dead husband. Strangely, the visitations occur on nights when Tahitians believe the dead come from the sea to haunt the living.
E12Somewhere South of Suva
Dec 28, 1959
Adam Troy and his pal Oliver Kee are hired to search for an aviatrix who disappeared years ago. The flier was apparently carrying a large uncut diamond and it is now suspected that she crashed on an uncharted island south of Suva.
E13Castaways
Jan 4, 1960
Troy is headed to the strife torn island of Mai Sai with a cargo of serum to fight a cholera epidemic. Troy and crew pick up three men stranded on a tiny atoll, who claim to be survivors of a shipwreck, but they're really gunrunners from a ship called the Punjab Trader, whose captain was murdered. The trio, led by the second mate, take over the Tiki, threatening to kill the nun who is transporting the serum, and go after the Punjab Trader.
E14The Archer's Ring
Jan 11, 1960
A beautiful young chinese woman, Monique Le Febure asks Adam Troy to charter his schooner ""Tiki"" to look for his grand-father. She tells the story of a group of old chinese men who for their retirement returned to their island with their personal belongings. They were in a seaplane, which apparently disappeared and sunk.
E15Nightmare on Napuka
Jan 18, 1960
E16Walk Through the Night
Jan 25, 1960
Adam stops at Jacob's trading post in New Guinea to pick up some crew members. A girl named Angel begs Troy to help save her fiance, who is trapped somewhere in the jungle.
E17Judith
Feb 1, 1960
E18The Color of Venom
Feb 8, 1960
Adam agrees to transport a girl prisoner, Luana Monet, from Tahiti to police custody on the Island of Ralatea.
E19Isle of Eden
Feb 22, 1960
On board schooner Tiki, Captain Troy hears the radio message from Lianne, a young woman held prisoner on Eden Island by a megalomaniac dictator called Zagreb.
E20Prisoner in Paradise
Feb 29, 1960
The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Samoa.
E21The Siege of Troy
Mar 7, 1960
Adam receives bad news from Suva and he has unknowingly provided passage for two smugglers.
E22There Is An Island
Mar 14, 1960
The Tiki is chartered to search for poet Francois Villon's legendary island hideaway. But one passenger seems to have more than a historical interest in the place.
E23The Amazon
Mar 21, 1960
Carla MacKinley owns the Amazon, an international yacht-racing champion, who hires the Tiki when her boat is unable to sail in a challenge race.
E24The Violent Journey
Mar 28, 1960
Troy marries a young couple not realizing that the young lady is actually underage and the man is a fortune hunter intent on securing his wife's father's fortune.
E25The Forbidden Sea
Apr 4, 1960
After rescuing a man and being led astray, Troy soon learns that the man has conned him into bringing his passengers to a military test site, to use their presence -- and their deaths, if necessary -- as a protest to halt nuclear bomb tests.
E26Passage to Tua
Apr 11, 1960
E27Heads You Lose
Apr 18, 1960
E28The Death-Divers
Apr 25, 1960
E29Beached
May 2, 1960
E30Whip Fight
May 9, 1960
E1Open for Diving
Oct 3, 1960
E2The Intruders
Oct 10, 1960
E3Once Around the Circuit
Oct 17, 1960
E4Away from It All
Oct 24, 1960
E5The Irishmen
Oct 31, 1960
E6A Whale of a Tale
Nov 7, 1960
E7Hangman's Island
Nov 21, 1960
E8One Little Pearl
Nov 28, 1960
E9The Big Surf
Dec 5, 1960
E10Daughter of Illusion
Dec 12, 1960
E11Sink or Swim
Dec 19, 1960
E12Incident in Suva
Dec 26, 1960
E13Treasure Hunt
Jan 9, 1961
E14The Perils of Penrose
Jan 16, 1961
E15Mister Flotsam
Jan 23, 1961
Date: 01/27/03: All I can remember about this episode is from when I appeared in it as a child actor of about 14. Very roughly, the story involved my family landing on an island in the Pacific (perhaps shipwrecked?). We were British and somehow ended up being imprisoned by someone. Also in the story with us was a very intelligent chimp (named Mr. Flotsam) who, when the chips were down, helped to free us through the use of a hand grenade or some such element. I regret I don't recall much more and the script I had was lost long ago. The show was filmed on a sound stage and in the backlot of 20th Century Fox's studio in what is now Century City, CA. I remember a set built to serve as the ocean and a beach of a remote island. As a kid, i was in awe of everything, including the chimp. I saw the show in its first run, but never again. I would love to see and or acquire a copy. If anyone can assist me in that, I would be very grateful, since I have very little to remember my childhood acting
E16The Good Killing
Jan 30, 1961
E17Man Eater
Feb 6, 1961
E18Act of Piracy
Feb 13, 1961
E19Captain Butcher
Feb 20, 1961
E20The Feather Cloak
Feb 27, 1961
E21Angel of Death
Mar 6, 1961
E22Who Is Sylvia?
Mar 13, 1961
E23The Wonderful Nightingale
Mar 27, 1961
E24The Jonah Stone
Apr 3, 1961
E25A Touch of Genius
Apr 10, 1961
E26The Serpent in the Garden
Apr 17, 1961
E27A Penny a Day
Apr 24, 1961
E28Wild Mangoes
May 1, 1961
E29Adam San
May 8, 1961
E30Hill of Ghosts
May 15, 1961
E31Flamin' Lady
May 22, 1961
E32Errand of Mercy
May 29, 1961
E33Command at Sea
Jun 5, 1961
Bert Elston is a former Navy man who plans to marry and settle down on a South Sea Island plantation. But Elston's dreams of domestic bliss are suddenly disturbed by memories of naval combat - Captain William Brooks, his wartime commancer appears on the scene.
E34Beach Head
Jun 12, 1961
E35Nightmare in the Sun
Jun 19, 1961
After a long absence, Barbara Lyons is returning to the island home of her father.
E1Appointment at Tara-Bi
Oct 1, 1961
E2The Reluctant Hero
Oct 8, 1961
E3Vendetta
Oct 15, 1961
E4Queens Back to Back
Oct 22, 1961
Inspector Bouchard needs a judge for the ""Miss Tahiti"" beauty contest. The job is a little hard to fill since the citizens of Tahiti generally turn the annual beauty contest into an annual Donnybrook.
E5The Closing Circle
Oct 29, 1961
Vincent Michelet finds that his mother, who he believed dead, is alive in a Swiss Hospital. And his mother tells him that another member of the family is also still alive, his Aunt Vivian, who has a price on her head for collaborating with the Nazis.
E6Show Me a Hero
Nov 5, 1961
Adam runs into an old war buddy named Scotty Bell and hires him as a temporary deck hand.
E7The Pretender
Nov 12, 1961
E8The Fires of Kanau
Nov 19, 1961
E9The Assassins
Nov 26, 1961
Just before the Tiki sails, two men plant a time bomb in the hold. The bomb is discovered and thrown overboard, but a big question still remains: which of Troy's four passengers was the bomb meant for?
E10One Way Ticket
Dec 3, 1961
There's a ticket for entertainer Nita Graham for a trip aboard the Tiki. Adam delivers the ticket in person, but Nita doesn't know what he's talking about, and she isn't planning any trips.
E11The Trial of Adam Troy
Dec 17, 1961
After a murder on the Tiki occurs, Adam is wrongfully accused of the crime and the passengers are asked for their testimonies at his trial.
E12The Inheritance
Dec 24, 1961
Mr. Grant, owner and sole inhabitant of a small island on the Pacific, has been killed in strange circumstances. His young and pretty niece, recently arrived in Papeete, claims the inheritance. During the investigation, a mysterious character is discovered on the island.
E13Survival
Dec 31, 1961
E14Hurricane Audrey
Jan 7, 1962
E15Once There Was a Princess
Jan 14, 1962
E16The Velvet Trap
Jan 21, 1962
E17Policeman's Holiday
Jan 28, 1962
E18Please Believe Me
Feb 4, 1962
E19The Quest of Ambrose Feather
Feb 11, 1962
E20Build My Gallows Low
Feb 18, 1962
E21The Secret Place
Feb 25, 1962
E22The Beach at Belle Anse
Mar 4, 1962
E23A Bride for the Captain
Mar 11, 1962
E24The Dream Merchant
Mar 18, 1962
E25The Baby Sitters
Mar 25, 1962
E26Blueprint for Paradise
Apr 1, 1962
Storyline
Adventures in Paradise is an American television series created by James Michener which ran on ABC from 1959 until 1962, starring Gardner McKay as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure. USA Network aired reruns of this series between 1984 and 1988. The plots deal with the romantic and detective stories of Korean War veteran Troy. The supporting cast, varying from season to season, features George Tobias, Guy Stockwell, and Linda Lawson.
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