Richard L. Bare
Director
The Islanders (1960)
Season 1
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Released Oct. 3, 1960
Episode 60 min
None+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Production Companies: MGM Television
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Five O'Clock Friday
Oct. 2, 1960, midnight
S1E2 - Flight From Terror
Oct. 9, 1960, midnight
S1E3 - The Terrified Blonde
Oct. 16, 1960, midnight
S1E4 - Talent for Danger
Oct. 23, 1960, midnight
S1E5 - Operation Dollar Sign
Oct. 30, 1960, midnight
S1E6 - Hostage Island
Nov. 6, 1960, midnight
S1E7 - The Phantom Captain
Nov. 13, 1960, midnight
S1E8 - Our Girl in Saigon
Nov. 20, 1961, midnight
S1E9 - Forbidden Cargo
Nov. 27, 1960, midnight
S1E10 - The Cold War of Adam Smith
Dec. 4, 1960, midnight
S1E11 - Deadly Tomorrow
Dec. 11, 1960, midnight
S1E12 - The Widow From Richmond
Dec. 18, 1960, midnight
S1E13 - Duel of Strangers
Dec. 25, 1960, midnight
S1E14 - Episode 14
Jan. 1, 1961, midnight
S1E15 - The Twenty-Six Paper
Jan. 8, 1961, midnight
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S1E16 - The Generous Politician
Jan. 15, 1961, midnight
S1E17 - Episode 17
Jan. 22, 1961, midnight
S1E18 - Escape From Kaledau
Jan. 29, 1961, midnight
S1E19 - To Bell the Cat
Feb. 5, 1961, midnight
S1E20 - Willy's Millionaire
Willy decides to sell part interest in the airline to a man she thinks is a millionaire, only to have Zack learn the man plans to use them in a narcotics smuggling ring.
Feb. 12, 1961, midnight
S1E21 - The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo
Feb. 19, 1961, midnight
S1E22 - Island Witness
Feb. 26, 1961, midnight
S1E23 - A Rope for Charlie Mundy
March 5, 1961, midnight
S1E24 - Episode 24
March 12, 1961, midnight
S1E25 - The Pearls of Ratu
March 19, 1961, midnight
S1E26 - The Lacosta Vendetta
March 26, 1961, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 60 min.
Released: Oct. 3, 1960
Last Air Date: Nov. 20, 1961, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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