Adam Adamant Lives!
Title card from the opening titles
Genre	Action Adventure
Running time	50 min.
Creator(s)	Sydney Newman
Starring	Gerald Harper, Juliet Harmer
Country of origin	UK
Original channel	BBC
Original run	23 June 1966–25 March 1967
No. of episodes	29

Adam Adamant Lives! was a television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC. The show was the BBC's attempt to emulate the success of ITV's The Avengers, with a comedy adventure theme that would take a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian. The plots of the Austin Powers movies are similar to the plots in Adam Adamant Lives! Image File history File links Adamadamantlives. ... Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917—October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ... Gerald Harper (born 15 February 1929 in London, England) is an actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title role in both Adam Adamant Lives! and Hadleigh. ... Juliet Harmer in Adam Adamant Lives! (BBC TV 1966-7) Juliet Harmer (born 11 May 1943 [1]) is an English actress who was best known in the role of Georgina Jones in the BBC TV series Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-7). ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... June 23 is the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 191 days remaining. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... March 25 is the 84th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (85th in leap years). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... ITV (Independent Television) is the name popularly given to the original network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. In England, Wales and southern Scotland, the network has been rebranded to ITV1 by ITV plc, the owners of... The Avengers is a British 1960s television series featuring secret agents in a fantasy 1960s Britain. ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... Mike Myers as Austin Powers in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. ...

The Adamant character

The main character, Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant, was an Edwardian Gentleman Adventurer, frozen in a block of ice in 1902 by his arch-nemesis 'The Face' and revived in 1966. On emerging from a hospital and collapsing on the London streets, Adam was rescued by a typical swinging sixties chick called Georgina Jones and he soon became embroiled in the criminal world of the 1960s when Georgina was threatened after becoming witness to a murder. Subsequently, Adam rebuilt his old home on the top of a multi-storey car park in central London and purchased a Mini Cooper S. During an adventure in Blackpool he acquired a manservant in the form of former music hall artiste William E. Simms. In terms of fashion, the series captured well the gradual shift in 1966-7 from the "mod" styles of "Swinging London" to the more Bohemian, eventually hippie, styles, that characterised the late sixties. The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... London (pronounced ) is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... Blackpool is a seaside town in north-western England. ... In modern usage, the term Bohemian (sometimes shortened to boho) is applied to people who live unconventional, usually artistic, lives. ... Singer at contemporary Russian Rainbow gathering Hippie, occasionally spelled hippy, refers to a subgroup of the 1960s counterculture that began in the United States, becoming an established social group by 1965 before declining in the 1970s. ...

The series

Adam Adamant Lives! starred Gerald Harper as Adam Adamant, Juliet Harmer as Miss Georgina Jones, Jack May as William E. Simms, and Peter Ducrow as The Face. The show was created by Sydney Newman and produced by Verity Lambert (also the creator and first producer respectively of Doctor Who). Gerald Harper (born 15 February 1929 in London, England) is an actor, best known for his work on television, having played the title role in both Adam Adamant Lives! and Hadleigh. ... Juliet Harmer in Adam Adamant Lives! (BBC TV 1966-7) Juliet Harmer (born 11 May 1943 [1]) is an English actress who was best known in the role of Georgina Jones in the BBC TV series Adam Adamant Lives! (1966-7). ... Juliet Harmer, as Georgina Jones, with Gerald Harper (Adam Adamant) in a scene from Adam Adamant Lives! (BBC 1966-7) Miss Georgina Jones was a fictional modish young woman living in the Soho area of London in the mid 1960s. ... Jack May (23 April 1922—19 September 1997) was an English actor most well known for his portrayal of wine bar owner Nelson Gabriel in the long-running BBC radio drama, the Archers. ... Sydney Cecil Newman OC (April 1, 1917—October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, best remembered for the pioneering work he undertook in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. ... Verity Lambert (born November 27, 1935 in London, England, UK) is a British television and film producer, best known for producing the science-fiction series Doctor Who for the BBC for its first two years, from 1963 to 1965. ... This article is becoming very long. ...

There were originally 29 black and white episodes composing two series, plus one unbroadcast pilot (elements of which were used in the opening episode). Many of these were held on video tape but wiped by the BBC in the 1970s (in one case, a 35mm film recording is known to have been destroyed). The result is that only sixteen episodes remained in the archives when the BBC realised the value of such material, including the first and last episodes in broadcast order. These were mainly in the form of the original broadcast 35mm film recordings, with a handful of episodes as 16mm film recordings or reduction prints. The episode D For Destruction, thought among those lost forever, was however recovered in 2003 – it was found at the BBC in a mislabelled film can. It has since been screened every year at the Missing Believed Wiped event. All 17 surviving episodes were released in a Region 2 DVD box set in the UK by 2entertain Ltd on 24 July 2006, complete with various bonus features, including a documentary in which Harper and Harmer were reunited after almost forty years. Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... The video cassette recorder (or VCR, less popularly video tape recorder) is a type of video tape recorder that uses removable cassettes containing magnetic tape to record audio and video from a television broadcast so it can be played back later. ... Wiping or junking is an economic move by radio and television companies in which old audiotapes, videotapes and telerecordings are wiped (deleted) and reused or destroyed. ... Simulated 35 mm film with soundtracks _ The outermost strips (on either side) contain the SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal. ... Simulated 35 mm film with soundtracks _ The outermost strips (on either side) contain the SDDS soundtrack as an image of a digital signal. ... 16 mm film was initially created in the 1920s as an inexpensive amateur alternative to the conventional 35 mm film format. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The following is an excerpt of the article entitled DVD. For the sake of convenience, the terms Region 0, Region 1, Region 2, Region 3, Region 4, Region 5, Region 6, Region 7 and Region 8 redirect to this page. ... DVD (sometimes called Digital Versatile Disc, or Digital Video Disc) is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. ... July 24 is the 205th day (206th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 160 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Episode list

All of series one is held by the BBC, with the exception of episode 14. Series two has not fared so well, with only episodes 2 and 13 in existence.

Series 1

• 01. A Vintage Year For Scoundrels - 23 Jun 66
• 02. Death Has a Thousand Faces... - 30 Jun 66
• 03. More Deadly Than the Sword - 07 Jul 66
• 04. The Sweet Smell of Disaster - 14 Jul 66
• 05. Allah Is Not Always With You - 21 Jul 66
• 06. The Terribly Happy Embalmers - 04 Aug 66
• 07. To Set A Deadly Fashion - 11 Aug 66
• 08. The Last Sacrifice - 18 Aug 66
• 09. Sing A Song of Murder - 25 Aug 66
• 10. The Doomsday Plan - 01 Sep 66
• 11. Death By Appointment Only - 08 Sep 66
• 12. Beauty Is an Ugly Word - 15 Sep 66
• 13. The League of Uncharitable Ladies - 22 Sep 66
• 14. Ticket to Terror - 29 Sep 66
• 15. The Village of Evil - 06 Oct 66
• 16. D For Destruction - 13 Oct 66

Series 2

• 01. A Slight Case of Reincarnation - 31 Dec 66
• 02. Black Echo - 07 Jan 67
• 03. Conspiracy of Death - 14 Jan 67
• 04. The Basardi Affair - 21 Jan 67
• 05. The Survivors - 28 Jan 67
• 06. Face In a Mirror - 04 Feb 67
• 07. Another Little Drink - 11 Feb 67
• 08. Death Begins at Seventy - 18 Feb 67
• 09. Tunnel of Death - 25 Feb 67
• 10. The Deadly Bullet - 04 Mar 67
• 11. The Resurrectionists - 11 Mar 67
• 12. Wish You Were Here - 18 Mar 67
• 13. A Sinister Sort of Service - 25 Mar 67

External links

• British Film Institute Screen Online
• Video clips from the BBC
• BBC Treasure Hunt
• Adam Adamant Lives! at the Internet Movie Database