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).

Bold as a knight in white armor
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!

Adam Adamant Lives was a BBC production created by Verity Lambert and Tony Williamson. 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.

EPISODES

Series 1  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
Series 2  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