- 9.0/101 votesLoading...
#1 - Survival
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/31/1961
No description available
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Writer: Fred Freiberger, James A. Michener
- 8.8/1025 votesLoading...
#2 - Judith
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1960
No description available
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/1010 votesLoading...
#3 - Show Me a Hero
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1961
Adam runs into an old war buddy named Scotty Bell and hires him as a temporary deck hand.
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson, James Michener
- 8.0/109 votesLoading...
#4 - 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
- 7.6/107 votesLoading...
#5 - Daughter of Illusion
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/12/1960
No description available
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1024 votesLoading...
#6 - 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
- 7.3/1013 votesLoading...
#7 - A Bride for the Captain
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1962
No description available
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/108 votesLoading...
#8 - 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
- 7.1/1010 votesLoading...
#9 - 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
- 7.1/1012 votesLoading...
#10 - Sink or Swim
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/19/1960
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: William Froug
- 7.0/108 votesLoading...
#11 - 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
- 7.0/1011 votesLoading...
#12 - Nightmare on Napuka
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/18/1960
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/108 votesLoading...
#13 - A Penny a Day
Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 4/24/1961
No description available
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Fred Freiberger
- 7.0/1010 votesLoading...
#14 - Vendetta
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1961
No description available
Director: Jus Addiss
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/108 votesLoading...
#15 - Please Believe Me
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1962
No description available
Director: Don Medford
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1014 votesLoading...
#16 - 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
- 6.8/1015 votesLoading...
#17 - Once Around the Circuit
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1960
No description available
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: Fred Freiberger
- 6.8/1012 votesLoading...
#18 - The Big Surf
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/5/1960
No description available
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/109 votesLoading...
#19 - 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
- 6.7/108 votesLoading...
#20 - Man Eater
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1961
No description available
Director: Felix E. Feist
Writer: Michael Pertwee
- 6.7/109 votesLoading...
#21 - The Assassins
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1961
Just before the Tiki sails, two men plant a time bomb in the hold. The bomb is discovered and thrown overboard, but a big question still remains: which of Troy's four passengers was the bomb meant for?
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Fred Freiberger
- 6.7/109 votesLoading...
#22 - Policeman's Holiday
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/28/1962
No description available
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Carey Wilber
- 6.6/1012 votesLoading...
#23 - 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
- 6.5/1021 votesLoading...
#24 - 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
- 6.4/107 votesLoading...
#25 - 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 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
"Survival" is the best rated episode of "Adventures in Paradise". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by David Orrick McDearmon and written by Fred Freiberger, James A. Michener, it aired on 12/31/1961. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Judith".