Adventures in Paradise

Episode 1

The Pit of Silence

Mon, Oct 5, 1959 48 mins

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.

Episode 2

The Black Pearl

Mon, Oct 12, 1959 50 mins

Adam Troy is transporting Trader One Arm from Tahiti to Australia to sell a priceless black pearl; en route, the trader is killed by a shark, his pearl nowhere to be found.

Episode 3

Paradise Lost

Mon, Oct 26, 1959 60 mins

Four bank robbers hijack the Tikki after their most recent job and plan to use it and Adam to make their escape. But with the help of the stars Adam hopes to foil their plans.

Episode 4

The Lady from South Chicago

Mon, Nov 2, 1959 60 mins

Adam helps an old friend, Victorine Reynaud, and her daughter deal with a murderous blackmailer in Noumea, New Caledonia.

Episode 5

The Derelict

Mon, Nov 9, 1959 60 mins

Adam much to his regret, lends a friend the Tikki to help him complete the transport of important clients that will result in a big payday. Once Captain Troy learns he has been deceived he sets out on the trail of the Tikki in order to rescue Oliver and a regal passenger.

Episode 6

Safari at Sea

Mon, Nov 16, 1959 48 mins

Adam takes an old friend and his wife on a scuba diving adventure to hunt moray eels. He finds his friends marriage in tatters and tries his best to help.

Episode 7

Mission to Manila

Mon, Nov 23, 1959 60 mins

Adam is asked by a wheelchair bound friend to find the wife of his recently deceased brother in Manila and bring her to Honolulu. Upon arrival in Manila Adam discovers there is more to the brothers death than originally thought.

Episode 8

The Raft

Mon, Nov 30, 1959 49 mins

A lady friend on a cruise from Hawaii to meet Adam in Tahiti, runs into trouble when the ship she is travelling on strikes a mine leftover from the war and sinks. Along with 3 other passengers they struggle to survive on a life raft. Given up for dead by the authorities Adam desperately searches to find them.

Episode 9

Peril at Pitcairn

Mon, Dec 7, 1959 60 mins

Adam travels to Pitcairn Island with 3 passengers one of which is murdered upon arrival. Upon discovering that the murder victims brother has recently died under mysterious circumstances, Adam is entrusted by their sister to investigate the deaths and apprehend the murderer.

Episode 10

The Bamboo Curtain

Mon, Dec 14, 1959 60 mins

An Intelligence crew recruits Troy to extract an important scientist from China.

Episode 11

Haunted

Mon, Dec 21, 1959 60 mins

A woman who believes she is being haunted by her dead husband seeks passage on the Tikki and Adam decides to get to the bottom of the mystery.

Episode 12

Somewhere South of Suva

Mon, Dec 28, 1959 48 mins

Adam Troy is contracted to search for a large diamond somewhere in the South Pacific. All he has to go on is a story he overheard in a bar some years ago of a bright red plane which came down in a lagoon on a remote island at the beginning of World War II.

Episode 13

Castaways

Mon, Jan 4, 1960 60 mins

Episode 14

The Archer's Ring

Mon, Jan 11, 1960 60 mins

A seaplane carrying eight elderly Chinese merchants from Vila to Siagon sends out a mayday message and goes missing. Sometime later, the grand-daughter of one of the men charters the services of Adam and Oliver to search for her grand-father when a rare ring he was carrying is found on an island in the opposite direction from Vila to where the plane should have been traveling.

Episode 15

Nightmare on Napuka

Mon, Jan 18, 1960 60 mins

Adam is desperately looking for a doctor in the islands who perform an appendectomy on Oliver. He finds a doctor involved in shady goings on who in order to protect himself from prosecution for a past crime is hesitant to help Adam.

Episode 16

Walk Through the Night

Mon, Jan 25, 1960 49 mins

Adam leads a somewhat shady group through the New Guinea jungle on a mission to rescue an injured man. In addition, they must hack their way through the almost impenetrable jungle while eluding a pursuing tribe of cannibals.

Episode 17

Judith

Mon, Feb 15, 1960 60 mins

At a remote Pacific weather station, Adam meets an old girlfriend of his.

Episode 18

The Color of Venom

Mon, Feb 8, 1960 60 mins

Adam Troy agrees to transport a female prisoner from Tahiti to police custody on the island of Ralatea. To make the trip profitable, he also books passage for a strange man.

Episode 19

Isle of Eden

Mon, Feb 22, 1960 49 mins

Episode 20

Prisoner in Paradise

Mon, Feb 29, 1960 49 mins

The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Somoa. A health officer on board informs Adam that the nurse is a runaway who must be returned to her home.

Episode 21

The Siege of Troy

Mon, Mar 7, 1960 60 mins

In Suva, Adam receives the bad news that he's just provided passage for two smugglers, which could cost him his boat

Episode 22

There Is an Island

Mon, Mar 14, 1960 60 mins

The Tiki is chartered to search for poet Francois Villlon's legendary island hideaway. But one of the passengers appears to have more than a historical interest in finding the place.

Episode 23

The Amazon

Mon, Mar 21, 1960 60 mins

When an international yacht-racing champion is unable to sail in a challenge race, she hires the Tiki.

Episode 24

The Violent Journey

Mon, Mar 28, 1960 60 mins

Adam marries a fortune hunter to an under age heiress and trouble ensues.

Episode 25

The Forbidden Sea

Mon, Apr 4, 1960 60 mins

Sailing to Gardner Island, the Tiki carries an aptly named passenger, Millicent Brass. (Joan Blondell) when a castaway suddenly appears to bring news that some natives are stranded on a nearby coral reef.

Episode 26

Passage to Tua

Mon, Apr 11, 1960 60 mins

A woman books passage to Tua, in order to scatter her father's ashes in a lagoon, but her three companions are more interested in the dead man's wealth.

Episode 27

Heads, You Lose

Mon, Apr 18, 1960 60 mins

Luciana Paluzzi plays a woman searching for a writer, who disappeared on a South Sea island, who convinces Adam to accompany her on her venture.

Episode 28

The Death-Divers

Mon, Apr 25, 1960 60 mins

Gena Rowlands plays an ethnologist who hires the Tiki to sail to the Pentecost Island to see the tribal rites, that are a test of manhood for boys of the Nambu tribe who hurtle from the tops of tall trees.

Episode 29

Beached

Mon, May 2, 1960 60 mins

Caught up in a storm, Troy ends up stranded on a desolate island with singer Lili Montego.

Episode 30

Whip-Fight!

Mon, May 9, 1960 60 mins

Adam Troy delivers a prize bull to Australia but finds the recipient to be poverty-stricken and the ranch in bad shape. It appears that the only way he will get paid is to pitch in and help straighten things out.