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Adventures in Paradise

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First Aired:October 5, 1959
Seasons:3 seasons
Episodes:91
Status:Ended

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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Seasons & Episodes

E1The Pit of Silence

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Oct 26, 1959

E4Lady from South Chicago

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Nov 16, 1959

E7Mission to Manila

60m

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

60m

Nov 30, 1959

One of Adam's girlfriends, is a passenger on a boat that has struck a mine.

E9Peril at Pitcairn

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Jan 18, 1960

E16Walk Through the Night

60m

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

60m

Feb 1, 1960

E18The Color of Venom

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Mar 7, 1960

Adam receives bad news from Suva and he has unknowingly provided passage for two smugglers.

E22There Is An Island

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Apr 11, 1960

E27Heads You Lose

60m

Apr 18, 1960

E28The Death-Divers

60m

Apr 25, 1960

E29Beached

60m

May 2, 1960

E30Whip Fight

60m

May 9, 1960

E1Open for Diving

60m

Oct 3, 1960

E2The Intruders

60m

Oct 10, 1960

E3Once Around the Circuit

60m

Oct 17, 1960

E4Away from It All

60m

Oct 24, 1960

E5The Irishmen

60m

Oct 31, 1960

E6A Whale of a Tale

60m

Nov 7, 1960

E7Hangman's Island

60m

Nov 21, 1960

E8One Little Pearl

60m

Nov 28, 1960

E9The Big Surf

60m

Dec 5, 1960

E10Daughter of Illusion

60m

Dec 12, 1960

E11Sink or Swim

60m

Dec 19, 1960

E12Incident in Suva

60m

Dec 26, 1960

E13Treasure Hunt

60m

Jan 9, 1961

E14The Perils of Penrose

60m

Jan 16, 1961

E15Mister Flotsam

60m

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

60m

Jan 30, 1961

E17Man Eater

60m

Feb 6, 1961

E18Act of Piracy

60m

Feb 13, 1961

E19Captain Butcher

60m

Feb 20, 1961

E20The Feather Cloak

60m

Feb 27, 1961

E21Angel of Death

60m

Mar 6, 1961

E22Who Is Sylvia?

60m

Mar 13, 1961

E23The Wonderful Nightingale

60m

Mar 27, 1961

E24The Jonah Stone

60m

Apr 3, 1961

E25A Touch of Genius

60m

Apr 10, 1961

E26The Serpent in the Garden

60m

Apr 17, 1961

E27A Penny a Day

60m

Apr 24, 1961

E28Wild Mangoes

60m

May 1, 1961

E29Adam San

60m

May 8, 1961

E30Hill of Ghosts

60m

May 15, 1961

E31Flamin' Lady

60m

May 22, 1961

E32Errand of Mercy

60m

May 29, 1961

E33Command at Sea

60m

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

60m

Jun 12, 1961

E35Nightmare in the Sun

60m

Jun 19, 1961

After a long absence, Barbara Lyons is returning to the island home of her father.

E1Appointment at Tara-Bi

60m

Oct 1, 1961

E2The Reluctant Hero

60m

Oct 8, 1961

E3Vendetta

60m

Oct 15, 1961

E4Queens Back to Back

60m

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

60m

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

60m

Nov 5, 1961

Adam runs into an old war buddy named Scotty Bell and hires him as a temporary deck hand.

E7The Pretender

60m

Nov 12, 1961

E8The Fires of Kanau

60m

Nov 19, 1961

E9The Assassins

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m

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

60m9.0

Dec 31, 1961

E14Hurricane Audrey

60m

Jan 7, 1962

E15Once There Was a Princess

60m

Jan 14, 1962

E16The Velvet Trap

60m7.0

Jan 21, 1962

E17Policeman's Holiday

60m

Jan 28, 1962

E18Please Believe Me

60m

Feb 4, 1962

E19The Quest of Ambrose Feather

60m

Feb 11, 1962

E20Build My Gallows Low

60m

Feb 18, 1962

E21The Secret Place

60m

Feb 25, 1962

E22The Beach at Belle Anse

60m

Mar 4, 1962

E23A Bride for the Captain

60m

Mar 11, 1962

E24The Dream Merchant

60m

Mar 18, 1962

E25The Baby Sitters

60m

Mar 25, 1962

E26Blueprint for Paradise

60m

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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