
The Adventurer
Basically an updating of Gene Barry's "Amos Burke, Secret Agent" character, Gene Bradley is a wealthy government agent, who, posing as an American movie star, travels the globe in search of adventure, intrigue and danger.
- 1972-1974
- 1 season
- Action & Adventure
Basically an updating of Gene Barry's "Amos Burke, Secret Agent" character, Gene Bradley is a wealthy government agent, who, posing as an American movie star, travels the globe in search of adventure, intrigue and danger.
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1972 - 1973
Episode 1
Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice, and Miss Me Once Again...
26 mins
The Adventurer plays the most dangerous role of his career...as stand-in for a potential murder victim.

Episode 2
Poor Little Rich Girl
26 mins
A young and beautiful oil heiress who wants to sell her controlling interest to the Communists learns the hard way how to live with her multi-millions, thanks to a little help from the Adventurer.

Episode 3
Thrust and Counter-Thrust
A consulate party in Nice has some unexpected guests - and gives Bradley's romantic interlude with Countess Marie a touch of intrigue and danger.
Episode 4
The Bradley Way
26 mins
The Adventurer plays on a husband's jealousy to help save a retired General from the dangerous attention of foreign agents.
Episode 5
Return to Sender
30 mins
A holiday has hazards for The Adventurer - and for the girl he is with.
Episode 6
Counterstrike
26 mins
Gene vows to help an East European defector who has gone to ground. He infiltrates the East in a glider and makes contact with the man's niece. However, as the authorities close in, she is revealed as an imposter working for the security forces. Gene must find a way to get the man out before they are both captured.
Episode 7
Love Always. Magda
When he receives a cable from his friend Don Fleming, saying that he has met Magda, the girl whom Bradley loved, but who walked out on him suddenly, the Adventurer flies to Beirut to learn the truth about her departure.

Episode 8
Nearly the End of the Picture
26 mins
Two beautiful girls and a beautiful Rembrandt painting involve The Adventurer in a puzzle that is not at all easy to put together.

Episode 9
Deadlock
53 mins
Gene arrives in Istanbul to pay a 1 million dollar ransom for the return of a microfilm stolen from a business partner. He meets Kay, a woman working for the man behind the scheme, Johnny Morrison. Matters become complicated when Morrison dies and his partner, a dangerous crook named Sakuma, changes the terms of exchange.

Episode 10
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
26 mins
In Geneva, Gene goes looking for his old friend Mike Kelly, who has been missing for a month. After finding a glamorous young woman living in Kelly's apartment, he discovers that crooks are coercing Kelly into using his company to ship arms to an African state. Gene finds a way to foil the plot.

Episode 11
Skeleton in the Cupboard
25 mins
Why should a respected University Professor turn thief, fake his own death and place his whole future in jeopardy? The Adventurer finds himself very personally involved.

Episode 12
Target!
26 mins
The Adventurer sets himself up as a deliberate target when masquerading as an illegal arms buyer in a danger-laden plan to trap arms smugglers.

Episode 13
Action!
26 mins
The Adventurer is programmed for murder when brain-washed to carry out a film killing for real.
Episode 14
Full Fathom Five
26 mins
The Adventurer's friendship with a Belgian abbot charts the way to drama-packed efforts to retrieve hidden glass windows.

Episode 15
I'll Get There Sometime
26 mins
An incident in Australia leads to drama in Germany when The Adventurer goes to the aid of a man being attacked in a hotel room. And Mr.Parminter has to become a knight errant to help a damsel in distress!
Episode 16
To the Lowest Bidder
26 mins
Competition for the contract to build a new European highway takes an ominous tone when a girl's life is placed in danger. The contract - or death. This is the grim situation for The Adventurer to tackle.

Episode 17
Going, Going...
26 mins
The Adventurer is suspected of playing a double game when a foreign scientist, given asylum in Britain, disappears. Mr. Parminter believes The Adventurer knows where he is, and turns the heat on.

Episode 18
The Not-So Merry Widow
Bradley finds himself in a confusing situation when a woman has no recollection of ever meetin, claims to be his girlfriend.

Episode 19
Mr. Calloway Is a Very Cautious Man
26 mins
A dead man who appears to be very much alive occupies the attentions of The Adventurer, who deliberately allows himself to be arrested and face a jail sentence in his efforts to learn the truth.

Episode 20
Double Exposure
25 mins
In Amsterdam, Gene's industrialist friend Jan de Groote has been replaced with a lookalike working for an Eastern bloc government. Gene employs his own double as part of the plan to expose the imposter and rescue the real man, who is being held by enemy agents inside their embassy.
Episode 21
The Case of the Poisoned Pawn
26 mins
The Adventurer checkmates a suave young gambler whose source of money is a puzzle which has to be unraveled.

Episode 22
The Solid Gold Hearse
25 mins
All that glitters may not be gold. At the same time, a coffin may contain anything but a human body. In this case, it's a very golden boy indeed!

Episode 23
Make It a Million
26 mins
Gene discovers that he is being impersonated when an ingenious, big-scale confidence trick is being planned. But there are difficulties when he impersonates the impersonator.

Episode 24
Icons Are Forever
30 mins
What is the secret of a closely-guarded Russian icon is an old Italian castle? Gene Bradley has personal reasons for breaking the secrecy barrier - and for helping a lovely young Contessa to elope.

Episode 25
Somebody Doesn't Like Me
26 mins
A contract is out for The Adventurer - a big reward for whoever kills him. Someone, clearly, doesn't like him, but who is the unseen figure in the background?

Episode 26
The Good Book
25 mins
The Adventurer sows the seeds of distrust into the fertile soil of espionage in the glitter and glamour of the Riviera jet-set.
