About this season
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 (16)
1. A Vintage Year For Scoundrels
10.0Aired 23 June 1966
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.
2. Death Has a Thousand Faces...
10.0Aired 30 June 1966
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.
3. More Deadly Than the Sword
10.0Aired 7 July 1966
After visiting a Japanese geisha house a government minister finds himself being blackmailed.
4. The Sweet Smell of Disaster
10.0Aired 14 July 1966
Adam investigates the secrets of a high pressure sales campaign that seems to be something sinister.
5. Allah Is Not Always With You
10.0Aired 21 July 1966
Investigating the last words of a dying girl leads Adam to become involved in a world of nightclubs and gambling.
6. The Terribly Happy Embalmers
10.0Aired 4 August 1966
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.
7. To Set A Deadly Fashion
10.0Aired 11 August 1966
Adam gets involved with murder and espionage when he enters the world of high fashion.
8. The Last Sacrifice
10.0Aired 18 August 1966
Adam gets involved in a murky world of black magic.
9. Sing A Song of Murder
10.0Aired 25 August 1966
Adam and Georgina finds themselves in the music business after Georgina is accused of trying to rob a bank.
10. The Doomsday Plan
10.0Aired 1 September 1966
Adam tangles with prophet of doom, Dr. Mort.
11. Death By Appointment Only
10.0Aired 8 September 1966
A series of murders strikes terror into the hearts of the financial capitals in the world.
12. Beauty Is an Ugly Word
10.0Aired 15 September 1966
Adam enters the world of bodybuilders and beauty pageants, when he learns of a plot that could destroy the world.
13. The League of Uncharitable Ladies
10.0Aired 22 September 1966
A murder leads Adam to a club in Pall Mall run by three strange old ladies.
14. Ticket to Terror
10.0Aired 29 September 1966
Adam is called in when 400 passengers disappeared into thin air.
15. The Village of Evil
10.0Aired 6 October 1966
Even a quiet holiday ends with Adam getting involved in a sinister mystery involving a young boy and a lonely mill.
16. D For Destruction
10.0Aired 13 October 1966
Adam rejoins his old regiment to investigate a series of accidents.