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03x02 - The Reluctant Hero

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Adventures in Paradise". Aired: October 5, 1959 – April 1, 1962.*
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Gardner McKay starred as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure.

03x02 - The Reluctant Hero

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and yet look are you sure they're really here's a guy named Markham the jumper my good Boston found it when I made a point

of that his plane got in two hours ago where's all wait you know what I think I

think he's in trouble yeah I'll get help but be in trouble a guy with a name like

Markham Jones [Music]

[Applause] [Music]

reservation for Martha Jones yeah mm-hmm Markham Jones of Boston which rides

anything wrong

will do I pass inspection you're welcome Jones of course I am who you Adam Troy this charter for food of

course the skipper of the Tiki I'm delighted to meet you captain this is my mate Chris Parker how do you do mr.

Jones how you Miss Parker the word you've been here plane landed two hours ago I walked left my back at the airport

you you didn't fly in from the United States and that oh sure I didn't look

like a tourist what a one dangerous character a scruple and that's all we

need on the Tiki

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gartner McKay in James a Michener's adventures in paradise with guys start

well as Chris Parker and James Holden as play Baker guest stars d*ck York

Susan Oliver and starring gardener McKay as Adam Troy

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whatever you say there I'm looking for captain Troy

I'm Adam Troy captain oh my this is going to be fun you know

Michael Jones cruise guests we're going sailing with you on your snoop the TP we

call her the Tiki she's a scooter if you don't mind oh I don't mind you'll see about putting my things on board won't

you well they're over in that hotel mr. Jones didn't mention any guests Jonesy

of course I'm going why we've been practically engaged for years

oh I'm sure it's all right mr. Brown I could check with him really Kelly uh have you seen Markham

Jones yes sir Adam Tony he wanted to see the sights Chris took him along when we're not the spare parts for the auxilary

that was three hours ago no sight seen captain why don't we save a lot of time

and just put my things on board now I think I'd much rather stay here on the ship the boat to the schooner than in

that hotel I've got nothing better to do I just soon ask him shall we

[Music]

[Applause]

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now this is more like this place you know what I mean no mr. bout here oh

wait wait wait this is like something gotta Somerset Maugham or Jack London got atmosphere yeah it sure has that

let's go wait wait Christmas is adventure two

more special don't be a spoilsport hey too bad huh

what about him why he's got a roll on him with Joker

horse don't ease you would wait for our chance

well did you learn anything they were in there an hour ago the bartender said they took off for the Lotus cafe what's

that it's a bucket of blood probably the worst in the society's sobral a day and

no reason to start one adventure long

man wave

how do you really meet you

[Music] two more specials please no I can film

offended karma money right now [Music]

let's fight that's a good idea we fight such a net blows

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

Hey look he's charting himself a ship come on let's get him out of here

[Music] are you

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how you just got here for the finish monster hey how did he start yeah well

mr. Jones and I were drinking how special yeah he was looking for

adventure yes of course adventure it's all a little hazy inspector naturally I have a vague recollection of someone

saying he could look anybody in the house and who was this insane creature huh it could have been me inspector Shh

if mr. Zhou is here now what possessed you to take a tourist into a place like

this hey I didn't take him he took me yeah

damn I like to have a word with this chart of yours where is he

yes captain Troy where is he I don't understand why do you want to

give me meas money back oh that's a trouble with you this jump you don't think so alright take his money and

we'll lose the chance of millions

well are you there for a time I didn't think he was gonna come out of it get

here who you mr. Casey and this year's my friend mr. the Shump

I shot a Monsieur v200 hit me no we did

a way to find that out we just drug you out of there before them cops come why why why did you bother what did you

expect to get out of it well we was gonna take your money

why didn't you well we discovered you how to chop on a sheep the teacake what

is that got to do with it we could use a boat ride and we like you

to take it along with you well I guess

you've got a right to this well nice

meeting will appeal Oh mr. Jones I I

guess we was wrong about you the way you talked about it benching all the things you wanted to do here I guess you just

give us a bum steer well thanks for the money

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put your proposition treasure buried treasure

haha come boy you don't expect us to tell you everything here how do I know

you're not conning me you don't you just gotta take a chance on us a sentence we've taken one on you but we're taking

the biggest chance mr. Jones cost us millions out there millions Japanese w*r load did you ever

go after it before because it takes money in this yep kind of kind of friends we've got we couldn't go tell

them about it boy we just whine about our throats cut after they'd squeeze the information out

of us why are you telling me all of this

because you're an honest man mr. Jones JUnit the kind of man who goes around k*lling people for money and it'll be a

three-way split exactly what do you want me to do get us on board the Tiki once

we're there we'll tell you where to go but nobody should know we're aboard I'll

have to tell the captain you tell anybody mr. Jones and it's no deal how

can I get you on board without the skipper's permission well that's for you to figure out but it should be easy

no it sounds risky sure it's risky and frenchers all was risky mr. Jones I have

to think about it well you know there's no real saw mr. Jones a and er don't go

telling anybody about this otherwise we might all wind up without roads cut

[Music]

my friend were very frank with him was to find to a certain point

let me tell you something a male about making a circuit when he's smart like this one yeah gotta tell him the truth

up to a point that is

the Jones [Music]

well well well here we all are I am I

guess you are entitled to an explanation captain explanation yes yes sir like an

explanation I've been looking for you since three o'clock this afternoon you involved my mate in a beef in the Lotus

bar you involved me you almost got us arrested we try to be law-abiding citizens how do

you do this in one afternoon your first day in Tahiti oh well you see it was this way what are

you doing here oh when I heard what you were up to I took the first plane out Oh oh darling this is gonna be such fun

nice will you get off my lap please fine welcome what's he doing here anyway she's your guest in the Tiki isn't she

over my dead body she is okay now there's no sense acting prudence you know that you're one of the reasons I

came out here in the first place to get away from you and all the other conniving females who try to wear pants and try to put bars around the men and

turn them into some kind of a domesticated lapdog you read about in the home and garden magazines fine way

to talk to your fiance prudence I never asked you to marry me then I'm just good

for years you see mark and the celli impractical someone has to be with him to keep him out of trouble

that is not so captain I don't want her aboard the Tiki when we sail in that's final your chin wobbles when you're

angry you can't do it without mr. Jones's permission that's ridiculous

sure not serious are you doing captain how so can we sail anytime we're

provision and all the stores are bored can we sail tonight yes then we sail tonight prudence you

were wrong to think you were going to come along as my nursemaid you could be wrong about a lot of other things too

[Music] I know what he meant by that

I'll take care of the deck watch the rest is up to you earlier I wouldn't

have given much more chances what made him decide the pickers are known who cares as long as we go oh it's you mr.

Jones that's me just thought I'd come aboard earlene get the peeler Thanks uh-huh

anyone else on board no what was that you were singing hold on it's a heated

that's nice I'd like to hear it again sure

although we are [Music]

I know my [Music]

do something no go ahead [Music]

Kelly get forward loosen the lines Chris go below check the diesel breakout the charts Jones thank you below gets you

acquainted in familiar with the ship [Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

all right scrape I haven't slept so well in ages Rock the sleep captain rock to

sleep like a baby to slumber land

the idea what you want to make your first port of call mr. Jones Oh Jonesy

please I don't like mister and I hate marker do you wanna play scroll down

Romans Island Rubens huh sure it's not much of a place as a call read for

Lagoon few natives in a residency I'd like to go there your charter Chris will

go below and plot a course sailor pulling the boy you four days of

his wind holes they want to go to rumens Island to remote sounds uncivilized they

got against civilization nothing except they've had too much of it you know

captain you're a lucky man your family lets you grow up and when

you're grown up they let you make a life for yourself you look successfully grown up I have been trained and developed like been

champion at the Westminster Dog Show and I don't want to be bench champion this want to be an alley dog what about Miss

Brown she's a nice girl he's pretty affectionate make some man a

wonderful wife but she is part of what I'm trying to escape now it seems all a

man wants to do is to be free and all anyone else wants to do is put a leash on

that's the course

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make it stop what have we here seems to be a stone means we'll have to turn

around and take her back maybe we could just throw her overboard Markham Jones don't you dare captain Troy I demand

protection that won't be necessary miss Browne you see there's a law of the sea

concerning stowaways what do you mean find out soon enough

hey boy [Music]

hey boy next time empty that stuff to lure hey lazy no-good boy get back to

those onions

now get this mr. captain Adam Troy I am NOT a boy I resent being called a boy

and I'm not going to peel another onion or stump any more slop mr. Parker aye

aye sir take the ships boy forward and put them below in irons wouldn't take a wheel

now get this once and for all times mr. Brown you were a stowaway on my ship and

as captain of this ship I have a right to make you work your passage there is no classification on a vessel of this

size to fit your particular situation except that of ships for you are carrying on the cruise manifest as a

stowaway and you will work the remainder of this passage as ship's boy now return

to your duties or label own ships irons for the remainder of the trip

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other studies hi captain why [Music]

glad you get our Center room in Siler that's fine little dish of ever you are

you sure you know what this precious buried oh quit worrying I know exactly where it is no look you'd better get

back on board because somebody misses you right nice too bad we don't really

have any buried treasure for him I'm done thinking about him I'm thinking about survey I don't know why

information was correct Oh be still on the island is there I could have run away again

not this time this time you had no way of knowing we were comin

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[Applause]

what's this tears from a ship's boy I'm

not a boy I'm a girl brought it on

myself well I guess we were a little

rough on you tell you what I'll give you a stateroom first thing in the morning I suppose

Markham will never want to speak to me again you think a lot of him don't would I be

out here if I didn't you get such crazy ideas you never know what that boy is

gonna do next that's what his mother used to say you never know what that boy

is gonna do next and his father mm-hmm what about his father Michaelmas

disappointment to his father why he was different I mean son of Markham Jones

the third has a position to live up to there are certain clubs he should join charitable organizations he's supposed

to serve on business things you know getting married to a suitable girl such

as me it was decided from the time we

were born we would marry everybody expected it why we've rolled the same

baby carriage now who decided all that just decided that's all

Dustin rather awful doesn't having everything decided before you like that you see Mike the knife from the same

background in it it all seems so right I suppose he'll never want to even look at

me again love him

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[Applause]

[Music]

wait the table in slip ashore [Music]

hello Kevin Troy hello just me nice to see you again

um utterly weary of this place permit me to introduce sergeant be now at the

island police so how do you feel very well Monsieur no this doesn't have

reason for being well imagine and this lousy little island which nobody comes

to we have captured a criminal ready to steal some pigs in yet thanks James

four million francs Monsieur four million francs at the bank at Noumea a year ago a machine machine this man this

server has been under our noses for months what about the money Oh their money was

never recovered but he has already said so much to

suffer it before it does all like talk on his bones [Music]

delightful good company cognac s'il vous plait one is often alone on this

wretched Island and tomorrow we will be alone again bean I was going to take away his prisoner and that's it you

captain well it depends on mr. Jones he also chart on the Tiki mr. Jones isn't

talking Monsieur Jame what sort of man is the

survey oh poor little red of a man one could almost feel sorry for him

imagine taking all this money I might be able to spend a sue why not oh he was

running at them he hid the money and ran afraid to spend any event because it

might attract some attention he seemed to be greatly relieved to surrender

I think he double-crossed his accomplices and he was more afraid of

them than of the law did he identify his accomplices for you oh yes he talked and

thought it was impossible to shut him up he's a mortally afraid of these two

accomplices this.kc he was the brains behind the robbery and the son the sump

is a real bed apart what did you say their names were Casey

and MLD some real dangerous man I think

I need some here would you excuse me please [Music]

but I got them excuse me at least won't

you stay and keep me company [Music]

what is it hello kissy well we just come

to get you out of here No

[Music]

[Music] well mr. Jones no no everything's fine

[Music]

Casey - ah Jones will have no business

down here Kelly where the two men over here - men what are you talking about

you come back there

wonder what happened to him what are you

two up to captain I've got to tell you something

not all began that first day back into heat it seems there were these two men

[Music]

even gave me my watch back that's the story Adam I brought him on board sounds you the

world's biggest fool okay see if this are starting to come back here Kelly you

and Jones go over and get Chris in the resident bring it back don't anybody go get in sudden or anything like that what

do you want we're gonna borrow your boat captain where's your first mate sure

let's we'll have to do without him take Jones and a girl back and lock him

in a cabin [Music]

I was you know deck on the you gonna take his well we tell you that go now

[Music]

he would stop moving around I'm trying to listen what are we going to do these men are desperate they're K*llers they

say they're looking for the Tiki this complicates matters we must work fast let's talk to something

all right Safari we ain't got much time where's the money you will k*ll me if I tell you you will k*ll me anyway

maybe I'd better tell you what kind of a jam you're really in you're an accessory to m*rder

what are you talking about the guard Amelia was a little quick with a stabber that guards dead but they had nothing to

do with it now do you think anybody who believed that it means the guillotine

what a very smart fella would do he'd get that money follow us all right he'd

take his shiny run as far as it would take him now that's what a smart fellow would do and you know something you might even get away with it how can I

trust you you ain't got a choice

behind the door anything else

the doors unlocked captain joy come on up we want to talk elite you've got to come in here mr. Brown isn't feeling too

well you don't come out right now let's probably feeling a lot worse and come on

slow [Music]

where you taking well you recover pretty fast didn't you please got a little bargaining session

[Music] yeah we're in a bit of a mess here we

have your beautiful ship and a destination but nobody can navigate that is why we must appeal to you that's

understand each other gentlemen it'll save you sleepless nights I won't help you but you have no alternative captain

but if you care for the security of your passengers and crew we have exactly 15 minutes to make up your mind at the end

of that time you're still stubborn one of your goes over the side what difference does it make you can't spare any one of us we start with a girl if

you're a reasonable captain Troy will set your friends on an island where they can be rescued and then you can take us

on where we want to go then we have already made extraordinary concessions captain you could hardly ask for more

that's the hug Kelly and Dallas the force what are you doing captain Troy I'm

gonna anchor this show expect me to take it through that surf do you

[Music]

chart shows a waterfall Indiana I didn't stay there

come on put a move on I'm sorry now how much better that makes

me feel [Music]

get out I remember just keep moving don't brick don't look back

[Music]

[Music]

[Applause] all right captain get underway the head of the sails I

will take wheel miss yours please be kind enough to raise the anchor at your pleasure captain dry

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

the shocked will finishing very clever this shop oh what a darling piece of

business that is don't tell me what we go for a navigator I'm hungry they're

supposed to be wild pigs or goats or something on these islands will you get

that idea so books people get shipwrecked they live on goats never

write books on this island worrying about that i'm tahni the shots we heard

he must have tried to make a break

prudence I'm sorry oh stop it Johnny would you listen to me I was wrong about

a lot of things it was wrong to try to

relive a past that mean you didn't even exist except in books or adventure story

adventure was supposed to be something brave and fine I didn't realize it being

hungry bitten by insects being afraid

poor Johnny I don't want you to feel sorry for me a man doesn't want that

from the woman don't feel sorry for me doesn't want

that [Music]

I guess you know Eileen [Music]

and i'm tahni that you're a goner yeah me too coming ashore soon as it gets

light they need a navigator that they're looking for you Kelly maybe somebody could swim out to the boat while they're ashore these boys are

no dummies they'll be expecting just that sort of thing no we'll have to get them when they come ashore it's fine

they've got g*ns what do we have four do you suggest can't we hide maybe they'll go away

after a while then what are you suicide to tackle those three men Markham are

you afraid no did any sensible man would

be afraid no forcing you to do anything mr. Jones all right what's your plan

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

that's okay I want you to pull out of way get a clear view of that fleet if anybody crosses it you know what to do

[Music]

jonesy help them [Music]

nevermind prudence ease all mine topic

you move and I'll k*ll you alright Casey is where you get yours you're gonna bounce

[Music]

you wanted adventure

they purpose vows for your captain I earned it it looks Margot I brought this

with me just in case and Jonesy just made it official no more adventuring oh maybe a ride in a

swan boat when Jonesy feels the wild God's calling don't long dear we have a plane to catch

yes Jonesy I guess it's a goodbye yeah end of the line huh I guess so Oh not the end Jonesy the beginning oh

that's what she says you know something maybe she's right wait a minute bye

Chris so long next time if there is a next time but to

charter this vessel a couple of nice old ladies [Music]

[Applause]

[Music]