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Adam Adamant Lives!
1966 - 1967 7.5 (4 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Drama Comedy Action & Adventure Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
BBC One
Created By
Sydney Newman

Adam Adamant Lives!

Overview

Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.

Key Crew

Producer: Verity Lambert

Top Cast

Gerald Harper
Gerald Harper

Jack May
Jack May

Juliet Harmer
Juliet Harmer

Georgina Jones

Seasons

Season 1 (1966)

No overview available.

16 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Vintage Year For Scoundrels
1966-06-23

In 1902, Adam Adamant is lured into a trap by his arch nemesis 'The Face' and frozen in ice for eternity. That is until he is accidentally freed by workmen in 1966. Bewildered to find himself in the Swinging Sixties, Adamant is taken in by mod girl and lifelong fan Georgina Jones. When Georgie's grandfather is killed by a couple of thugs, Adamant decides his services are once again needed.

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Episode 2: Death Has a Thousand Faces...
1966-06-30

Adamant rescues Georgie from two motorcyclists who were chasing her because of a stick of rock candy. Inside they find a incomprehensible diagram which leads them to Blackpool to investigate. When Punch and Judy man William E. Simms overhears the villains plotting to kill Adamant, he decides to intervene.

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Episode 3: More Deadly Than the Sword
1966-07-07

After visiting a Japanese geisha house a government minister finds himself being blackmailed.

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Episode 4: The Sweet Smell of Disaster
1966-07-14

Adam investigates the secrets of a high pressure sales campaign that seems to be something sinister.

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Episode 5: Allah Is Not Always With You
1966-07-21

Investigating the last words of a dying girl leads Adam to become involved in a world of nightclubs and gambling.

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Episode 6: The Terribly Happy Embalmers
1966-08-04

The conveniently-timed deaths of a number of rich businessmen appear to have taken place shortly before they were due to receive large tax demands, arousing the suspicions of the Inland Revenue. The only common factor seems to have been their psychiatrist; Adam Adamant, posing as a harassed financier, makes an appointment with the man, who concludes from his patient's unusual mental history that he is suffering severe delusions and takes the opportunity to prescribe a stay at a sinister health resort.

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Episode 7: To Set A Deadly Fashion
1966-08-11

Adam gets involved with murder and espionage when he enters the world of high fashion.

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Episode 8: The Last Sacrifice
1966-08-18

Adam gets involved in a murky world of black magic.

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Episode 9: Sing A Song of Murder
1966-08-25

Adam and Georgina finds themselves in the music business after Georgina is accused of trying to rob a bank.

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Episode 10: The Doomsday Plan
1966-09-01

Adam tangles with prophet of doom, Dr. Mort.

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Episode 11: Death By Appointment Only
1966-09-08

A series of murders strikes terror into the hearts of the financial capitals in the world.

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Episode 12: Beauty Is an Ugly Word
1966-09-15

Adam enters the world of bodybuilders and beauty pageants, when he learns of a plot that could destroy the world.

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Episode 13: The League of Uncharitable Ladies
1966-09-22

A murder leads Adam to a club in Pall Mall run by three strange old ladies.

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Episode 14: Ticket to Terror
1966-09-29

Adam is called in when 400 passengers disappeared into thin air.

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Episode 15: The Village of Evil
1966-10-06

Even a quiet holiday ends with Adam getting involved in a sinister mystery involving a young boy and a lonely mill.

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Episode 16: D For Destruction
1966-10-13

Adam rejoins his old regiment to investigate a series of accidents.

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Season 2 (1966)

No overview available.

13 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: A Slight Case of Reincarnation
1966-12-31

Adam has to protect an african leader from assassins and meets an old enemy.

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Episode 2: Black Echo
1967-01-07

Adam investigate a sinister country estate and again meets the dreaded face.

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Episode 3: Conspiracy of Death
1967-01-14

Adam investigates the murder of an old wartime colleague of Simms'

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Episode 4: The Basardi Affair
1967-01-21

Adam helps the ruler of oil rich country who is being intimidated.

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Episode 5: The Survivors
1967-01-28

Adam investigates when investors are being killed in sinister circumstanses.

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Episode 6: Face In a Mirror
1967-02-04

The Face is determined to rid the world of Adam Adamant.

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Episode 7: Another Little Drink
1967-02-11

Georgina finds a new soft drink is not as sweet as it sounds.

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Episode 8: Death Begins at Seventy
1967-02-18

Adam and Simms investigate sinister happenings at an old folks home.

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Episode 9: Tunnel of Death
1967-02-25

Adam realises The Face is planning his biggest ""event"" yet after Georgina is nearly arrested.

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Episode 10: The Deadly Bullet
1967-03-04

Adam investigates following the murders of magician The Great Manton.

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Episode 11: The Resurrectionists
1967-03-11

Are agents of The Face behind the sinister disapperance of a scientist?

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Episode 12: Wish You Were Here
1967-03-18

Simms uncovers a sinister plot when his mother is arrested for disturbing peace.

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Episode 13: A Sinister Sort of Service
1967-03-25

Is The Face behind a series of robberies?

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