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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.
Episode 30 : Whip Fight
May. 09,1960
Episode 29 : Beached
May. 02,1960
Episode 28 : The Death-Divers
April. 25,1960
Episode 27 : Heads You Lose
April. 18,1960
Episode 26 : Passage to Tua
April. 11,1960
Episode 25 : The Forbidden Sea
April. 04,1960
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.
Episode 24 : The Violent Journey
March. 28,1960
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.
Episode 23 : The Amazon
March. 21,1960
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.
Episode 22 : There Is An Island
March. 14,1960
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.
Episode 21 : The Siege of Troy
March. 07,1960
Adam receives bad news from Suva and he has unknowingly provided passage for two smugglers.
Episode 20 : Prisoner in Paradise
February. 29,1960
The Tiki is commissioned to pick up two nuns and a nurse who are working on a volcanic island near Samoa.
Episode 19 : Isle of Eden
February. 22,1960
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.
Episode 18 : The Color of Venom
February. 08,1960
Adam agrees to transport a girl prisoner, Luana Monet, from Tahiti to police custody on the Island of Ralatea.
Episode 17 : Judith
February. 01,1960
Episode 16 : Walk Through the Night
January. 25,1960
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.
Episode 15 : Nightmare on Napuka
January. 18,1960
Episode 14 : The Archer's Ring
January. 11,1960
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.
Episode 13 : Castaways
January. 04,1960
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.
Episode 12 : Somewhere South of Suva
December. 28,1959
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.
Episode 11 : The Haunted
December. 21,1959
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.
Episode 10 : The Bamboo Curtain
December. 14,1959
In Hong Kong, Adam is approached by a pretty goverment agent who wants him to help her with an assignment.
Episode 9 : Peril at Pitcairn
December. 07,1959
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.
Episode 8 : The Raft
November. 30,1959
One of Adam's girlfriends, is a passenger on a boat that has struck a mine.
Episode 7 : Mission to Manila
November. 23,1959
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.
Episode 6 : Safari at Sea
November. 16,1959
Episode 5 : The Derelict
November. 09,1959
The derelict in an attempt to abduct an oriental crown prince, Communist agents endager Adam's life and almost destroy his ship.
Episode 4 : Lady from South Chicago
November. 02,1959
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.
Episode 3 : Paradise Lost
October. 26,1959
Episode 2 : The Black Pearl
October. 12,1959
A native diver discovers a rare black pearl. The find causes a great deal of excitement among the passengers on Adam's schooner.
Episode 1 : The Pit of Silence
October. 05,1959
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.
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