Adventures in Paradise
Adventures in Paradise
TV ShowEnded

Adventures in Paradise

5.7 / 10
1959
3 seasons
91 episodes
Action & AdventureDrama

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

  • Ep 1

    1.The Pit of Silence

    05-10-195960m

    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.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Black Pearl

    12-10-195960m

    A native diver discovers a rare black pearl. The find causes a great deal of excitement among the passengers on Adam's schooner.

  • Ep 3

    3.Paradise Lost

    26-10-195960m
  • Ep 4

    4.Lady from South Chicago

    02-11-195960m

    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.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Derelict

    09-11-195960m

    The derelict in an attempt to abduct an oriental crown prince, Communist agents endager Adam's life and almost destroy his ship.

  • Ep 6

    6.Safari at Sea

    16-11-195960m
  • Ep 7

    7.Mission to Manila

    23-11-195960m

    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 circumstanc...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Raft

    30-11-195960m

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

  • Ep 9

    9.Peril at Pitcairn

    07-12-195960m

    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,...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Bamboo Curtain

    14-12-195960m

    In Hong Kong, Adam is approached by a pretty goverment agent who wants him to help her with an assignment.

  • Ep 11

    11.The Haunted

    21-12-195960m

    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 se...

  • Ep 12

    12.Somewhere South of Suva

    28-12-195960m

    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...

  • Ep 13

    13.Castaways

    04-01-196060m

    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 sur...

  • Ep 14

    14.The Archer's Ring

    11-01-196060m

    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 w...

  • Ep 15

    15.Nightmare on Napuka

    18-01-196060m
  • Ep 16

    16.Walk Through the Night

    25-01-196060m

    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.

  • Ep 17

    17.Judith

    01-02-196060m
  • Ep 18

    18.The Color of Venom

    08-02-196060m

    Adam agrees to transport a girl prisoner, Luana Monet, from Tahiti to police custody on the Island of Ralatea.

  • Ep 19

    19.Isle of Eden

    22-02-196060m

    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.

  • Ep 20

    20.Prisoner in Paradise

    29-02-196060m

    The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Samoa.

  • Ep 21

    21.The Siege of Troy

    07-03-196060m

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

  • Ep 22

    22.There Is An Island

    14-03-196060m

    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.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Amazon

    21-03-196060m

    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.

  • Ep 24

    24.The Violent Journey

    28-03-196060m

    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.

  • Ep 25

    25.The Forbidden Sea

    04-04-196060m

    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 dea...

  • Ep 26

    26.Passage to Tua

    11-04-196060m
  • Ep 27

    27.Heads You Lose

    18-04-196060m
  • Ep 28

    28.The Death-Divers

    25-04-196060m
  • Ep 29

    29.Beached

    02-05-196060m
  • Ep 30

    30.Whip Fight

    09-05-196060m

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