S01E01 A Vintage Year For Scoundrels
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...
Adam Adamant Lives!
S01E06: The Terribly Happy Embalmers
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.
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.
Episodes
S01E02 Death Has a Thousand Faces...
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...
S01E03 More Deadly Than the Sword
After visiting a Japanese geisha house a government minister finds himself being blackmailed.
S01E04 The Sweet Smell of Disaster
Adam investigates the secrets of a high pressure sales campaign that seems to be something sinister.
S01E05 Allah Is Not Always With You
Investigating the last words of a dying girl leads Adam to become involved in a world of nightclubs and gambling.
S01E06 The Terribly Happy Embalmers
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...
S01E07 To Set A Deadly Fashion
Adam gets involved with murder and espionage when he enters the world of high fashion.
S01E09 Sing A Song of Murder
Adam and Georgina finds themselves in the music business after Georgina is accused of trying to rob a bank.
S01E11 Death By Appointment Only
A series of murders strikes terror into the hearts of the financial capitals in the world.
S01E12 Beauty Is an Ugly Word
Adam enters the world of bodybuilders and beauty pageants, when he learns of a plot that could destroy the world.
S01E13 The League of Uncharitable Ladies
A murder leads Adam to a club in Pall Mall run by three strange old ladies.
S01E15 The Village of Evil
Even a quiet holiday ends with Adam getting involved in a sinister mystery involving a young boy and a lonely mill.
S01E16 D For Destruction
Adam rejoins his old regiment to investigate a series of accidents.
Cast
Gerald Harper
Jack May
Juliet Harmer
Georgina Jones
