Adam Adamant Lives! (1966)

Adventure · Sci-Fi

Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (293 votes)
Seasons: 2
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1966)

6.57 avg 15 episodes 7.1 → 7.7 50 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Vintage Year for Scoundrels	7.1	56
2	Death Has a Thousand Faces	6.7	42
3	More Deadly Than the Sword	5.4	33
4	The Sweet Smell of Disaster	5.9	31
5	Allah Is Not Always with You	6.1	28
6	The Terribly Happy Embalmers	6.7	29
7	To Set a Deadly Fashion	7.2	25
8	The Last Sacrifice	7.2	20
9	Sing a Song of Murder	6.9	22
10	The Doomsday Plan	5.9	25
11	Death by Appointment Only	7.2	21
12	Beauty Is an Ugly Word	6.3	25
13	The League of Uncharitable Ladies	6.2	37
15	The Village of Evil	6.0	20
16	D for Destruction	7.7	17

Season 2 (1966)

6.70 avg 5 episodes 7.3 → 5.9 50 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	A Slight Case of Reincarnation	7.3	9
2	Black Echo	6.3	22
8	Death Begins at Seventy	7.6	14
11	The Resurrectionists	6.4	15
13	A Sinister Sort of Service	5.9	20

Adam Adamant Lives! (1966)

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