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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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#17 - Judith
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/1/1960
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Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: N/A
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
The Worst Episodes of Adventures in Paradise
Every episode of Adventures in Paradise ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst 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
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Pit of Silence" is the worst 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 lower than the second lowest rated, "The Black Pearl".