James A. Michener
Director
Adventures in Paradise (1959)
Season 1
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.
Released Oct. 5, 1959
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Keywords: tmdb.south-seas, tmdb.south-pacific, tmdb.sea-captain, tmdb.french-polynesia, tmdb.charter-sailor, tmdb.schooner, imdb.ex-soldier + 9 more, imdb.bare-chested-male, imdb.nautical, imdb.sea-adventure, imdb.tropical-setting, imdb.war-veteran, imdb.three-word-title, imdb.sailing, imdb.south-seas, imdb.boat
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - The Pit of Silence
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.
Oct. 5, 1959, midnight
S1E2 - The Black Pearl
A native diver discovers a rare black pearl. The find causes a great deal of excitement among the passengers on Adam's schooner.
Oct. 12, 1959, midnight
S1E3 - Paradise Lost
Oct. 26, 1959, midnight
S1E4 - Lady from South Chicago
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.
Nov. 2, 1959, midnight
S1E5 - The Derelict
The derelict in an attempt to abduct an oriental crown prince, Communist agents endager Adam's life and almost destroy his ship.
Nov. 9, 1959, midnight
S1E6 - Safari at Sea
Nov. 16, 1959, midnight
S1E7 - Mission to Manila
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.
Nov. 23, 1959, midnight
S1E8 - The Raft
One of Adam's girlfriends, is a passenger on a boat that has struck a mine.
Nov. 30, 1959, midnight
S1E9 - Peril at Pitcairn
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.
Dec. 7, 1959, midnight
S1E10 - The Bamboo Curtain
In Hong Kong, Adam is approached by a pretty goverment agent who wants him to help her with an assignment.
Dec. 14, 1959, midnight
S1E11 - The Haunted
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.
Dec. 21, 1959, midnight
S1E12 - Somewhere South of Suva
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.
Dec. 28, 1959, midnight
S1E13 - Castaways
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.
Jan. 4, 1960, midnight
S1E14 - The Archer's Ring
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.
Jan. 11, 1960, midnight
S1E15 - Nightmare on Napuka
Jan. 18, 1960, midnight
S1E16 - Walk Through the Night
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.
Jan. 25, 1960, midnight
S1E17 - Judith
Feb. 1, 1960, midnight
S1E18 - The Color of Venom
Adam agrees to transport a girl prisoner, Luana Monet, from Tahiti to police custody on the Island of Ralatea.
Feb. 8, 1960, midnight
S1E19 - Isle of Eden
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.
Feb. 22, 1960, midnight
S1E20 - Prisoner in Paradise
The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Samoa.
Feb. 29, 1960, midnight
S1E21 - The Siege of Troy
Adam receives bad news from Suva and he has unknowingly provided passage for two smugglers.
March 7, 1960, midnight
S1E22 - There Is An Island
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.
March 14, 1960, midnight
S1E23 - The Amazon
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.
March 21, 1960, midnight
S1E24 - The Violent Journey
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.
March 28, 1960, midnight
S1E25 - The Forbidden Sea
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.
April 4, 1960, midnight
S1E26 - Passage to Tua
April 11, 1960, midnight
S1E27 - Heads You Lose
April 18, 1960, midnight
S1E28 - The Death-Divers
April 25, 1960, midnight
S1E29 - Beached
May 2, 1960, midnight
S1E30 - Whip Fight
May 9, 1960, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Oct. 5, 1959
Last Air Date: April 1, 1962, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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