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.
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Episodes
30 episodes. Playback and audio depend on the available source.
S1:E1 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E2 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E3 Paradise Lost
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E4 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.
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The derelict in an attempt to abduct an oriental crown prince, Communist agents endager Adam's life and almost destroy his ship.
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Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E7 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E8 The Raft
One of Adam's girlfriends, is a passenger on a boat that has struck a mine.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E9 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.
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In Hong Kong, Adam is approached by a pretty goverment agent who wants him to help her with an assignment.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E11 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E12 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E13 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E14 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E15 Nightmare on Napuka
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E16 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E17 Judith
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E18 The Color of Venom
Adam agrees to transport a girl prisoner, Luana Monet, from Tahiti to police custody on the Island of Ralatea.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E19 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E20 Prisoner in Paradise
The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Samoa.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E21 The Siege of Troy
Adam receives bad news from Suva and he has unknowingly provided passage for two smugglers.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E22 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E23 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E24 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.
Not verifiedAudio unverifiedS1:E25 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.
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