Adam Adamant Lives! — Season 1, Episode 6: The Terribly Happy Embalmers

Episode synopsis

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.

About Adam Adamant Lives!

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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1A Vintage Year For Scoundrels
• E2Death Has a Thousand Faces...
• E3More Deadly Than the Sword
• E4The Sweet Smell of Disaster
• E5Allah Is Not Always With You
• E7To Set A Deadly Fashion
• E8The Last Sacrifice
• E9Sing A Song of Murder
• E10The Doomsday Plan
• E11Death By Appointment Only
• E12Beauty Is an Ugly Word
• E13The League of Uncharitable Ladies