Adam Adamant Lives

1 9 6 6 - 1 9 6 7 (UK)
29 x 50 minute episodes

A time travel tale with a twist - Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant was an Edwardian adventurer who was betrayed by his female companion, Louise, and injected with an eternal life drug in 1902 and condemned to "die forever" by his arch enemy, The Face, who then sealed him in a block of ice. 

64 years later he is found by workmen and revived in hospital. Now Adamant must face his most daring adventure yet - life in the Swinging London of 1966 (armed only with his sword-stick and a really big pair of eyebrows) - and this was 30 odd years before Austin Powers! 

Luckily he finds a couple of companions to help him navigate this strange, alien environment: Swinging Sixties dolly bird, Miss Georgina Jones, whose grandfather used to tell her stories about Adamant (and who is partial to the word "Zoink!") is Adam's "love interest", and William E. Simms, a former music hall artist who they discover running a Punch and Judy show in Blackpool, takes on the role of Adam's (limerick-quoting) valet. 

Adam also sorts himself out a nice little penthouse overlooking the Thames, and a sporty Mini Cooper S with the number plate AA 1000.

The show ran for two seasons, and due to the bizarre nature of some of the villains/plots foiled by the trio, comparisons were drawn with the more famous Cult TV classic - The Avengers, (unsurprising as it had some of the same writers).

Adam Adamant Lives was a BBC production. Notable guest stars included Charles Tingwell, Deryck Guyler, John Le Mesurier, Annette Andre, Patrick Troughton, Iain Cuthbertson, Jean Marsh, Windsor Davies and newsreader Kenneth Kendall.

Gerald Harper peeled off Adamant's fake eyebrows after two seasons and went on to find primetime popularity as a cool stately home owner in Hadleigh (ITV, 1969-76).

"Bold as a knight in white armour,
Cold as a shot from a gun.
If you should look,
For a man who loves danger,
To whom love is a stranger,
This man is the one.
Adam Adamant!  Adam Adamant!"

EPISODES
A Vintage Year For Scoundrels | Death Has a Thousand Faces | More Deadly Than the Sword | The Sweet Smell of Disaster | Allah Is Not Always With You | The Terribly Happy Embalmers | To Set A Deadly Fashion | The Last Sacrifice | Sing A Song of Murder | The Doomsday Plan | Death By Appointment Only | Beauty Is an Ugly Word | The League of Uncharitable Ladies | Ticket to Terror | The Village of Evil | D For Destruction | A Slight Case of Reincarnation | Black Echo | Conspiracy of Death | The Basardi Affair | The Survivors | Face In a Mirror | Another Little Drink | Death Begins at Seventy | Tunnel of Death | The Deadly Bullet | The Resurrectionists | Wish You Were Here | A Sinister Sort of Service

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Adam Adamant Gerald Harper Georgina Jones Juliet Harmer William E. Simms Jack May The Face Peter Ducrow Louise Mary Yeomans Theme sung by Kathy Kirby