Adam Adamant
Real Name: Adam Adamant
Identity/Class: Normal human
Occupation: Adventurer
Affiliations: Georgina Jones, William Simms
Enemies: The Face, Margot Kane, Dr.Mort, Louise
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: a penthouse in London
in Victorian times 26a Auberly Street, London
First Appearance: Adam Adamant Lives! "A Vintage Year For Scoundrels" (BBC 1, 23rd June 1966)
Powers/Abilities: Excellent swordsman. Keen mind.
History: Adam Adamant was a Victorian/Edwardian adventurer who fought crime and solved mysteries. In 1902 the woman he loved, Louise, was kidnapped and Adam raced to her rescue, only to discover the abduction had been a ruse, luring him into an ambush. Captured by his arch enemy, the Face, Adam was shocked to discover Louise was the villain's mistress. Rather than kill Adam, the Face thought to inflict a much crueler fate; he injected his foe with a drug which would grant him an eternal life, but frozen, unable to move, a living death.
In 1966 workmen discovered Adam and he was revived. Georgina Jones, whose grandfather once met Adam, had grown up listening to tales of his adventures, and became his guide in the strange new world he found himself in. Another ally was his butler, William Simms. Though the world had changed much, Adam soon found villainy was eternal, and returned to crimefighting; 1960's criminals swiftly discovered why he had been a scourge of villainy in his own era. However the Face also subsequently returned to menace the world, renewing their old feud.
Comments: Adam was played by Gerald Harper. His sidekick, Georgina Jones, was played by Juliet Harmer. Simms was played by Jack May. The Face, who returned in the second season, was played by Peter Ducrow.
The series ran for two seasons plus an unaired pilot, for a total of 30 episodes.
Adam Adamant Lives!
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
He also appeared in a short lived comic strip in TV Comic, and had an annual which included seven new stories, three comic strips and four text stories.
CLARIFICATIONS: None.
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