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The Islanders
Overview
The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..
Key Crew
Producer: Richard L. Bare
Top Cast
Seasons
Season 1 (1960)
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26 episodes
Episodes
Episode 1: Five O'Clock Friday
1960-10-02Episode 2: Flight From Terror
1960-10-09Episode 3: The Terrified Blonde
1960-10-16Episode 4: Talent for Danger
1960-10-23Episode 5: Operation Dollar Sign
1960-10-30Episode 6: Hostage Island
1960-11-06Episode 7: The Phantom Captain
1960-11-13Episode 8: Our Girl in Saigon
1961-11-20Episode 9: Forbidden Cargo
1960-11-27Episode 10: The Cold War of Adam Smith
1960-12-04Episode 11: Deadly Tomorrow
1960-12-11Episode 12: The Widow From Richmond
1960-12-18Episode 13: Duel of Strangers
1960-12-25Episode 14: Episode 14
1961-01-01Episode 15: The Twenty-Six Paper
1961-01-08Episode 16: The Generous Politician
1961-01-15Episode 17: Episode 17
1961-01-22Episode 18: Escape From Kaledau
1961-01-29Episode 19: To Bell the Cat
1961-02-05Episode 20: Willy's Millionaire
1961-02-12Willy decides to sell part interest in the airline to a man she thinks is a millionaire, only to have Zack learn the man plans to use them in a narcotics smuggling ring.
Runtime: 60 min
