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The Best Episodes of Adventures in Paradise Season 1

Every episode of Adventures in Paradise Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Adventures in Paradise Season 1!

The Best Episodes of Adventures in Paradise Season 1

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...

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  1. Background image for The Pit of Silence
    7.4/10(26 votes)

    #1 - The Pit of Silence

    S1:E1

    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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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Black Pearl
    6.5/10(22 votes)

    #2 - The Black Pearl

    S1:E2

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Paradise Lost
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    #3 - Paradise Lost

    S1:E3

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
  4. Background image for Lady from South Chicago
    7.1/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Lady from South Chicago

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - The Derelict

    S1:E5

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

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    Director:Roy Del Ruth
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(19 votes)

    #6 - Safari at Sea

    S1:E6

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Mission to Manila
    7.8/10(10 votes)

    #7 - Mission to Manila

    S1:E7

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Raft
    6.6/10(13 votes)

    #8 - The Raft

    S1:E8

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Peril at Pitcairn

    S1:E9

    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.

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    Director:Roy Del Ruth
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Bamboo Curtain
    7.1/10(9 votes)

    #10 - The Bamboo Curtain

    S1:E10

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

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    Director:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Haunted
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    #11 - The Haunted

    S1:E11

    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.

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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Somewhere South of Suva
    6.8/10(15 votes)

    #12 - Somewhere South of Suva

    S1:E12

    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.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Castaways
    7.0/10(8 votes)

    #13 - Castaways

    S1:E13

    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.

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Archer's Ring
    6.8/10(10 votes)

    #14 - The Archer's Ring

    S1:E14

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Nightmare on Napuka
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Nightmare on Napuka

    S1:E15

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Walk Through the Night
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    #16 - Walk Through the Night

    S1:E16

    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.

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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Judith
    8.8/10(25 votes)

    #17 - Judith

    S1:E17

    No description available

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    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Color of Venom
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #18 - The Color of Venom

    S1:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
  20. Background image for Isle of Eden
    6.2/10(13 votes)

    #19 - Isle of Eden

    S1:E19

    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.

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Prisoner in Paradise
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    #20 - Prisoner in Paradise

    S1:E20

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - The Siege of Troy

    S1:E21

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

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    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for There Is An Island
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    #22 - There Is An Island

    S1:E22

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Amazon
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    #23 - The Amazon

    S1:E23

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Violent Journey
    6.5/10(9 votes)

    #24 - The Violent Journey

    S1:E24

    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.

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    #25 - The Forbidden Sea

    S1:E25

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Pit of Silence" is the best rated episode of "Adventures in Paradise" season 1. It scored 7.4/10 based on 26 votes. Directed by Paul Stanley and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/5/1959. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Black Pearl".