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The Best Episodes of Adventures in Paradise Season 1

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 17 - Judith
    8.8/10(25 votes)

    S1:E17

    No description available

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 1 - The Pit of Silence
    7.6/10(27 votes)

    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.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 10 - The Bamboo Curtain
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    S1:E10

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  4. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 7 - Mission to Manila
    7.4/10(10 votes)

    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.

    Director:Bernard Girard
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 12 - Somewhere South of Suva
    7.2/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 4 - Lady from South Chicago
    7.0/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 14 - The Archer's Ring
    6.9/10(10 votes)

    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.

    Director:Bernard Girard
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 15 - Nightmare on Napuka
    6.9/10(12 votes)

    S1:E15

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 8 - The Raft
    6.8/10(13 votes)

    S1:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 2 - The Black Pearl
    6.6/10(21 votes)

    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.

    Director:Robert Aldrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 16 - Walk Through the Night
    6.6/10(16 votes)

    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.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 22 - There Is An Island
    6.5/10(8 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 24 - The Violent Journey
    6.5/10(9 votes)

    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.

    Director:Charles R. Rondeau
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 6 - Safari at Sea
    6.2/10(19 votes)

    S1:E6

    No description available

    Director:Robert Aldrich
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 11 - The Haunted
    6.2/10(12 votes)

    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.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 19 - Isle of Eden
    6.0/10(13 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 3 - Paradise Lost
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E3

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Gene Levitt

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  18. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 5 - The Derelict
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E5

    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:Unknown

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  19. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 9 - Peril at Pitcairn
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Roy Del Ruth
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 13 - Castaways
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 18 - The Color of Venom
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E18

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William Froug

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  22. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 20 - Prisoner in Paradise
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E20

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 21 - The Siege of Troy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S1:E21

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

    Director:Gerald Mayer
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 23 - The Amazon
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:William Froug

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  25. Adventures in Paradise Season 1 Episode 25 - The Forbidden Sea
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    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.

    Director:Bernard Girard
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Judith" is the best rated episode of "Adventures in Paradise" season 1. It scored 8.8/10 based on 25 votes. Directed by Paul Stanley and written by Unknown, it aired on 2/1/1960. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "The Pit of Silence".