Soldiers of Fortune is a 1955 syndicated half hour American television adventure series. It starred John Russell as Tim Kelly and Chick Chandler as his sidekick Toubo Smith who were international adventurers. Each episode would take place in a different country. Many of the film crew had worked at Republic Pictures studios with the show filmed on Republic's backlot then used by television's Revue Productions. The show was constantly rerun on American television into the 1960s. The show was sponsored for two years by 7 Up soft drink. One year after Soldiers of Fortune was cancelled, John Russell went on to star as Marshal Dan Troup in the successful ABC/Warner Brothers western series Lawman.
Tim Kelly
Toubo Smith
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29 episodes
A husband and wife hire Tim and Toubo to guide them through a jungle infested with dangerous animals and headhunters.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired by a big game hunter to guide him into remote African territory so he can hunt and photograph a secret native ritual involving poisonous snakes.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo become intrigued by reports of an island whose visitors are said never to return.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to transport a valuable painting through the jungle.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo investigate the disappearance of man who was supposedly slain by a monstrous animal.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are asked to return a young man to his real family so he can claim his rightful place as Prince of the Gypsy.
Runtime: 30 minAn elderly woman hires Tim and Toubo to guide her to a her gold mine deep in the Central American jungle. She plans to investigate the sudden drop in production.
Runtime: 30 minA wealthy man hires Tim and Toubo as bodyguards to protect his family from a bandit gang who is terrorizing the area.
Runtime: 30 minIn French Indo-China, Tim and Toubo are hired to negotiate a peace treaty between the French and a rebel band operating near Saigon.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo become friends with a war hero, but the man is actually a liar and a criminal.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo learn of a rich pearl bed from a dying man and decide to try their luck at pearl diving.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to locate a missing plane which disappeared into the Indian jungle carrying vital medicine. They are not the only searchers, however; two black marketeers are seeking the missing cargo, too.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to kill a whale responsible for the deaths of numerous fishermen.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo use magic tricks and an old cane to challenge a despotic Malayan ruler who routinely kills those who oppose him.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubu visit Crete to search for a relic over three thousand years old called "The Torch of the Olympiad".
Runtime: 30 minA doctor hires Tim and Toulo to guide him to a African chieftain in desperate need of medical attention, but the chief's rivals want to prevent the operation.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toulo investigate South American revolutionaries.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo investigate the death of a friend who was supposedly killed by an elephant on a rampage.
Runtime: 30 minTwo scientists hire Tim and Toubo to help them find a Central American tribe who are said to have a natural immunity to the deadly bite of a tick called "The Ruby Red."
Runtime: 30 minA chemical company hires to Tim and Toubo to negotiate the renewal of a contract with the leader of a Latin American country.
Runtime: 30 minWhile sitting in a bar in Algiers, Tim and Toubo become fascinated with a beautiful girl.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo attempt to locate a mysterious island that is said to appear and disappear.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo assist an Asian plantation owner from the attacks of Tibetan bandits.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to find a research scientist who failed to return from an expedition in remote Mexico.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo try to prove the existence of a notorious, and illegal, prison.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo try to help a lovely French woman whose son has been kidnapped by her brutal husband.
Runtime: 30 minAfter a series of accidents disrupt production, a movie company working in Africa hires Tim and Toubo to protect the crew.
Runtime: 30 minWhile on a fishing trip to the Virgin Islands, Tim and Toubo uncover a voodoo revival.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are unwelcome party crashers on an exclusive Hawaiian island.
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23 episodes
When a friend requests their help Tim and Toubo journey to Tibet, but are attacked en route by bandits.
Runtime: 30 minA professor hires Tim and Toubo to help locate a supposed lost tribe of white aborigines in a remote part of New Guinea.
Runtime: 30 minWhile visiting London, Tim and Toubo help Scotland Yard investigate a gang of jewel smugglers.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo search for the lost writings of James Boswell and a legendary monster while visiting a remote Scottish castle.
Runtime: 30 minTwo women hire Tom and Toubo to help them find men whose plane crashed in the Amazon jungle.
Runtime: 30 minAn Australian policeman insists Tim and Toubo interrupt their gold mining operations to help him captured an escaped convict.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to find a prospector thought lost in the Amazonian jungle. Their search is hindered by a tribe of angry headhunters.
Runtime: 30 minStruck by a hurricane in the South Pacific, Tim and Toubo's ship is wrecked on a remote island.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo investigate emerald smuggling in a small South American town.
Runtime: 30 minA niece and a chief of security conspire to murder a South African diamond mine owner so the niece can inherit the pit.
Runtime: 30 minA sister knife-throwing act working in North Africa hire Tim and Toubo as bodyguards.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to smuggle a Chinese gentleman out of England, not knowing that man is actually a leader of the London rackets pursued by the police.
Runtime: 30 minTim is captured and sold in an Arabian slave auction. Toubo desperately tries to organize a rescue.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired by a beautiful native girl to find her archaeologist boyfriend who is missing somewhere in the Indo-China jungle.
Runtime: 30 minWhile in Algers working for an oil company, Tim and Toubo are caught in a revolt of Arab tribesmen against the French colonial government.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo help the French Foreign Legion track down the men responsible for arming hostile Arab tribesmen.
Runtime: 30 minA archaeologist hires Tim and Toubo to guide him to an ancient Inca ruin deep in the jungle.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to find out the cause in the loss of production in an Arabian oil field. The first thing they discover is a murder.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are leading an African safari not realizing that one of their party is suffering from an emotional breakdown.
Runtime: 30 minWhile visiting Kenya, Tim and Toubo are hired to capture a prize lion.
Runtime: 30 minWhen a construction foreman runs into trouble building a tunnel under a Cuban harbor, he hires Tim and Toubo to find who is sabotaging his work.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to help a construction workers battle a cult who believes their gods will destroy their Far Eastern city if their building project is finished.
Runtime: 30 minTim and Toubo are hired to protect a ship's valuable cargo and must battle mutineers who want to take over the vessel.
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