Gene Barry stars in the Adventurer as a globe trotting secret agent who cover is an internationally famous actor. Lots of fun particularly if you like 70's fashion. Not the best of the ITC stable but passable.
The Adventurer Episode Guide
1. Miss Me Once, Miss Me Twice, and Miss Me Once Again
First aired: 9/30/1972Writer: Marty Roth Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane) , Stuart Nichol (Man in Corridor), Elaine Montgomerie (Woman Delegate), Keith Ashley (Manservant), Ray Chiarella (Hotel Clerk), Margaretta Scott (Lady Hargrom), Bernard Kay (Nicholos Zentner), Alex Scott (Gregory Varna), John Barrie (Vladimir Horvic), Ed Bishop (Wayne), Paul Greaves (Aide) Global rating: 5.7
Perminter orders Bradley to pose as a potential murder victim.
2. Poor Little Rich Girl
First aired: 10/7/1972Writer: Donald James Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane) , Judy Geeson (Suzy Dolman), John Savident (Consul), Maurice Browning (Zavar), Marc Zuber (Karanek), Nik Zaran (Charolais), John Serret (Cafe Proprietor), Sean Hewitt (Marco), Aharon Ipalé (Driver), Stuart Damon (Vince) Global rating: 5.9
Bradley and Diane help out a spoiled rich heiress.
3. Thrust and Counter-Thrust
First aired: 9/8/1973Writer: Frank Telford Director: Paul Dickson Guest star: Garrick Hagon (Gavin), Catherine Schell (Diane) , Stephen Sheppard (Stephen), Stanley Lebor (Guard), David Lawton (Anton Jurzyck), Clifford Evans (Baron Drovotkin), Eunice Gayson (Countess Marie), Simon Lack (Colonel), Wensley Pithey (Nicholas) Global rating: 5.0
Bradley goes to a consular party in Nice to rescue a defector.
4. The Bradley Way
First aired: 9/15/1973Writer: Gerald Kelsey Director: Val Guest Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane) , Warren Stanhope (Brett), Sean Caffrey (Borislav), Norman Caro (General Schlessen), Anthony Ainley (Kerston), Joanna Dunham (Gerda Hoffman), Janet Key (Virginia), Richard Marner (Werner von Beck) Global rating: 7.3
Bradley sets out to save a retired general from the clutches of foreign agents.
5. Skeleton in the Cupboard
First aired: 9/22/1973Writer: Donald James Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Lance Percival (Carl Gardner), Johnny Wade (Johnson), Edwin Brown (Farmer), Basil Dignam (John Ballard), Roy Kinnear (Marks), Sylvia Syms (Karen Ballard), Richard Vernon (Sir Richard) Global rating: 7.0
Bradley tries to find out why a respected university professor has turned thief and faked his own death.
6. Action!
First aired: 9/29/1973Writer: Brian Clemens Director: Barry Morse Guest star: Norman Atkyns (Shopkeeper), Stuart Sherwin (Driver), John Dunbar (Police Inspector), Paddy Ryan (Zenn), Natasha Pyne (Ann Somerby), Hugh Walters (Pestrade), Robert Cartland (Peter Maller), Alexandra Bastedo (Lola Wells), David Lampson (Carl Bruner), Karl Held (Major), Cec Linder (General McCready), John Collin (John Campbell) Global rating: 5.3
Bradley is acting strangely when he goes to Scotland but carefully avoids his fans, then misses an appointment with a general whose life has been threatened.
7. Target!
First aired: 10/6/1973Writer: Philip Broadley Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Michael Godfrey (Captain Arilla), Dennis McCarthy (II) (Porter), Leslie Crawford (Jan), Tristan Rogers (Dieter), Guy Deghy (Mosselman), Alan Downer (Inspector), Astrid Frank (Astrid), George Sewell (Venner) Global rating: 6.5
Bradley tries to expose a Dutch illegal arms dealer.
8. Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
First aired: 11/23/1973Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Val Guest Guest star: Christopher Sandford (Lanik), Norman Chappell (Janitor), Sue Gerrard (Jane), Laraine Humphrys (The Co-Star), Michael Forrest (Dino), Barrie Cookson (Carl), Robert Raglan (Beavis), Lionel Murton (Chris Jefford), Ronald Chenery (Edwards), Sandor Elès (Laroche), Rio Fanning (Kelly), Anouska Hempel (Milena), Eric Pohlmann (Luigi) Global rating: 5.9
Bradley investigates the disappearance of his good friend, Mike Kelly.
9. Return to Sender
First aired: 11/30/1973Writer: Marty Roth Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Brian Hewitt-Jones (Mr. Pinter), Franco De Rosa (Hotel Clerk), Debbie Russ (Debbie), Patrick Mower (Fleming), Donald Churchill (Gorman), Sharon Gurney (Valerie Green), Pamela Salem (Michele) Global rating: 7.0
Bradley discovers a dead girl in the room of his hotel on the French Riviera.
10. Counterstrike
First aired: 12/7/1973Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Paul Dickson Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , John Herrington (Andrei Korony), John Malcolm (Jansen), Frederick Schiller (Woodsman), Anna Kilpinen (Waitress), George Mikell (Lanik), Kara Wilson (Karen Voriska), Martin Wyldeck (Prokov) Global rating: 5.7
Bradley tries to rescue a defecting scientist who has inadvertently ended up in Central Europe.
11. Love Always, Magda
First aired: 12/14/1973Writer: Philip Broadley Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Jerry Stovin (Al Graham), John Horseley (John Burdett), Vera Fusek (Simone Laforque), David Cargill (Narouz), Sue Gerrard (Jane), Larry Taylor (Angelo), Kerima (Belly Dancer), Paul Maxwell (Fleming), Cyd Hayman (Magda), Stefan Kalipha (Maurice), Kieron Moore (Nessim) Global rating: 5.8
Bradley flies to Beirut to discover the truth about the departure of his lost love, Magda.
12. Nearly the End of the Picture
First aired: 12/21/1973Writer: Philip Broadley Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Milton Johns (Alex), Mark Jones (IV) (Alden), David Buck (Martin), Fiona Lewis (Clarissa), Dennis Price (Brandon), Angela Scoular (Dorinda) Global rating: 4.9
A beautiful painting leads Bradley into danger in the south of France.
13. Deadlock
First aired: 12/28/1973Writer: Donald James Director: Val Guest Guest star: Robert Rietty (Bank Director), Al Garcia (Police Inspector), Howard Goorney (Hotel Clerk), Burt Kwouk (Johnny), Mervyn Johns (Franz Kolmar), Jennie Linden (Kay Masterson), Wolfe Morris (Sakuma) Global rating: 5.4
Bradley goes to Istanbul to retrieve stolen documents that are being ransomed for one million dollars.
14. Full Fathom Five
First aired: 1/4/1974Writer: Donald James Director: Val Guest Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Rona Newton-John (Nurse), Judy Matheson (Claire Adams), Donald Eccles (Andre Gustave), Peter Jeffrey (Ryman), André Morell (Fr. Antonius), Prunella Ransome (Maria Gustave), Michael Wynne (Sir Richard) Global rating: 6.9
Bradley and Father Antonius try to retrieve some priceless stained glass windows.
15. I'll Get There Sometime
First aired: 1/11/1974Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Val Guest Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Andrew Bradford (Max), John Levene (Tony), Frank Barrie (Werner), Patrick Jordan (Ryker), Pippa Steel (Karen) Global rating: 7.0
Bradley gets himself in trouble when he comes to the assistance of a man being attacked in a hotel room.
16. To the Lowest Bidder
First aired: 1/18/1974Writer: Donald James Director: Val Guest Guest star: Gillian Bailey (Lizzy), John York (Johnny), David Kelly (Carlson), Alf Joint (Gaston), David Pugh (Milkman), Jane Asher (Sarah Cookson), Sheila Gish (Laura), Anthony Nicholls (Samuel Cookson), Carl Rigg (Forrester) Global rating: 7.4
Bradley investigates a crooked construction company bidding for the contract for a new road.
17. Going, Going…
First aired: 1/25/1974Writer: Gerald Kelsey Director: Val Guest Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , George Little (Rostov), Robert James (Auctioneer), Norman Ettlinger (Lynsky), Mischa de la Motte (Bolton), Burt Kwouk (Taiho), Bridget Armstrong (Yvette), Norman Bird (Brooks), Arnold Diamond (Eisen) Global rating: 8.9
Bradley comes under suspicion when a scientist, who has been given asylum in the U.K., disappears.
18. The Not-So-Merry Widow
First aired: 2/1/1974Writer: Marty Roth Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Alan Judd (Sir Walter Battersley), David Rayner (Reporter), Maurice Kaufmann (Geoffrey Gains), Geoffrey Russell (Hotel Manager), Nicholas Evans (Reporter), Angela Douglas (Vanessa), Charles Kay (Inspector Chilton), Barbara Murray (Lady Diana), Dennis Price (Brandon) Global rating: 7.5
Bradley is perplexed when a woman he has never met before claims to be his girfriend.
19. Mr. Galloway Is a Very Cautious Man
First aired: 2/8/1974Writer: Donald James Director: Barry Morse Guest star: Anthony Rowlands (Soames), John Stuart (Records Clerk), Robert Gillespie (Customs Officer), Nancie Watt (Secretary), David Hargreaves (Russell), Anne Sharp (Laura Darnley), Freddie Jones (Calloway), Paul Daneman (Stopford), Victor Lucas (Inspector Tribe), Toby Robins (Ingrid) Global rating: 6.2
Bradley sets himself up to be arrested and sent to jail so he can look into the case of a man who has been reported dead but seems very much alive.
20. Double Exposure
First aired: 2/15/1974Writer: Marty Roth Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Donald Houston (Jan de Groote), Carl Duering (Colonel Kazan), George Little (Rostov), Ingrid Pitt (Elayna) Global rating: 7.7
Bradley goes to Amsterdam to investigate when a multi-millionaire industrialist has been replaced by an impostor.
21. The Case of the Poisoned Pawn
First aired: 2/22/1974Writer: Philip Broadley Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Max Latimer (Max), Paul Williamson (Superintendent), Christine Donna (Secretary), David Blagden (Grant), Dennis Price (Brandon), Cyril Luckham (Lord Franklin), Michael Martin (Bank Official), Dawn Addams (Lady Anne), Martin Benson (Asteri), Jenny Hanley (Julia Franklin), Stuart Wilson (Hamilton) Global rating: 5.5
Bradley takes part in a high-stakes poker game, hoping to find out the source of a young gambler's income.
22. The Solid Gold Hearse
First aired: 3/1/1974Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Val Guest Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane), Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Peter Birrel (The Assistant Director), Ken Wayne (The Director), Sydney Tafler (Wyvern), Janos Kurucz (Riener), Kevin Stoney (Miesner), David Weston (Fairley) Global rating: 5.9
Bradley has to help prevent a huge gold bullion shipment from leaving the country.
23. Make It a Million
First aired: 3/8/1974Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Barry Morse Guest star: Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , Bernard Severn (First Businessman), Martin Carroll (Second Businessman), Doug Fisher (Merrick), Geoffrey Reed (Butler), Anthony Dawes (Lawson), Paul Hardwick (Winters), Gail Galih (Stewardess), George Pravda (Newbury), Paul Eddington (Charlesworth), Joanne Jones (Julia), Ronald Radd (Hilverston) Global rating: 6.7
Bradley discovers that a confidence trickster has been impersonating him, and decides to impersonate himself.
24. Icons Are Forever
First aired: 3/15/1974Writer: Tony Williamson Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Marc Boyle (Miguel), Stephanie Beacham (Contessa), Alan Lake (Carlo), Alfred Marks (Darron), Richardson Morgan (Security Man), Noel Willman (Holvera) Global rating: 7.0
A terrier star of dog food commercials witnesses his master's murder, but can he help collar the killer?
25. Somebody Doesn't Like Me
First aired: 3/22/1974Writer: Donald James Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Garrick Hagon (Gavin) , James Ware (Reynolds), William Abney (Co-Pilot), Jeremy Higgins (Barman), Edward Dentith (Commissionaire), Robin Hawdon (Buckley), Penelope Horner (Krista), Reginald Marsh (Sorenson), Peter Vaughan (Roberts), Jim Norton (I) (Morgan) Global rating: 3.4
A contract is put on Bradley's head.
26. The Good Book
First aired: 3/29/1974Writer: Lou Shaw Director: Cyril Frankel Guest star: Catherine Schell (Diane) , Stuart Damon (Vince), Perry Soblosky (Gigilo), Ben Kingsley (Pierre), Adrienne Corri (Nita), Gabrielle Drake (Marian), John Moffat (Armand) Global rating: 3.4
Parminster believes that Bradley has overplayed his hand, and sets out to prove it.
