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The Islanders (1960)

October. 02,1960
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The Islanders

1960

The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..

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Seasons & Episode

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Seasons 1 : 1960

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26 Episode

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Episode 1 - Five O'Clock Friday
October. 02,1960

Episode 2 - Flight From Terror
October. 09,1960

Episode 3 - The Terrified Blonde
October. 16,1960

Episode 4 - Talent for Danger
October. 23,1960

Episode 5 - Operation Dollar Sign
October. 30,1960

Episode 6 - Hostage Island
November. 06,1960

Episode 7 - The Phantom Captain
November. 13,1960

Episode 8 - Our Girl in Saigon
November. 20,1961

Episode 9 - Forbidden Cargo
November. 27,1960

Episode 10 - The Cold War of Adam Smith
December. 04,1960

Episode 11 - Deadly Tomorrow
December. 11,1960

Episode 12 - The Widow From Richmond
December. 18,1960

Episode 13 - Duel of Strangers
December. 25,1960

Episode 14 - Episode 14
January. 01,1961

Episode 15 - The Twenty-Six Paper
January. 08,1961

Episode 16 - The Generous Politician
January. 15,1961

Episode 17 - Episode 17
January. 22,1961

Episode 18 - Escape From Kaledau
January. 29,1961

Episode 19 - To Bell the Cat
February. 05,1961

Episode 21 - The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo
February. 19,1961

Episode 22 - Island Witness
February. 26,1961

Episode 23 - A Rope for Charlie Mundy
March. 05,1961

Episode 24 - Episode 24
March. 12,1961

Episode 25 - The Pearls of Ratu
March. 19,1961

Episode 26 - The Lacosta Vendetta
March. 26,1961

The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr..

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William Reynolds, Diane Brewster
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