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The Best Episodes of Adventures in Paradise

Every episode of Adventures in Paradise ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of 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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:ABC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Pit of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Adventures in Paradise". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Paul Stanley and written by N/A, it aired on 10/5/1959. This episode scored NaN points higher than the second highest rated, "The Black Pearl".

  • The Pit of Silence
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    #1 - The Pit of Silence

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/1959

    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.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Black Pearl
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    #2 - The Black Pearl

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/1959

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

    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: N/A

  • Paradise Lost
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    #3 - Paradise Lost

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/26/1959

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gene Levitt

  • Lady from South Chicago
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    #4 - Lady from South Chicago

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/2/1959

    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.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Derelict
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    #5 - The Derelict

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/1959

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

    Director: Roy Del Ruth

    Writer: N/A

  • Safari at Sea
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    #6 - Safari at Sea

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/16/1959

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    Director: Robert Aldrich

    Writer: N/A

  • Mission to Manila
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    #7 - Mission to Manila

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/1959

    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.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • The Raft
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    #8 - The Raft

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/30/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Peril at Pitcairn
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    #9 - Peril at Pitcairn

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/1959

    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.

    Director: Roy Del Ruth

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bamboo Curtain
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    #10 - The Bamboo Curtain

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/1959

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: Gene Levitt

  • The Haunted
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    #11 - The Haunted

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1959

    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.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • Somewhere South of Suva
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    #12 - Somewhere South of Suva

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/28/1959

    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.

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: N/A

  • Castaways
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    #13 - Castaways

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1960

    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.

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: N/A

  • The Archer's Ring
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    #14 - The Archer's Ring

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/11/1960

    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.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A

  • Nightmare on Napuka
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    #15 - Nightmare on Napuka

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1960

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Walk Through the Night
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    #16 - Walk Through the Night

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/25/1960

    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.

    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • Judith
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    #17 - Judith

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1960

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    Director: Paul Stanley

    Writer: N/A

  • The Color of Venom
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    #18 - The Color of Venom

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/8/1960

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: William Froug

  • Isle of Eden
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    #19 - Isle of Eden

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1960

    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.

    Director: Gerd Oswald

    Writer: N/A

  • Prisoner in Paradise
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    #20 - Prisoner in Paradise

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/29/1960

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Siege of Troy
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    #21 - The Siege of Troy

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1960

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

    Director: Gerald Mayer

    Writer: N/A

  • There Is An Island
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    #22 - There Is An Island

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Amazon
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    #23 - The Amazon

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1960

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: William Froug

  • The Violent Journey
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    #24 - The Violent Journey

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/1960

    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.

    Director: Charles R. Rondeau

    Writer: N/A

  • The Forbidden Sea
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    #25 - The Forbidden Sea

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/4/1960

    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.

    Director: Bernard Girard

    Writer: N/A