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Five budding young reports get involved in a series of adventures.

The publicity for this ITC show read "travel the world with The Adventurer, in a series of vital, new and dynamic situations in which every turn brings the zing of danger, drama and originality". Most viewers ended up wishing the hero of this particular television outing had stayed at home.

US action / adventure series

An oddity - a British made sitcom from the 1950s starring a US actress so it could be sold to America.

A six-part prequel to Treasure Island which explains how Ben Gunn became a pirate, where the buried treasure in Treasure Island came from, and how John Silver lost his leg.

A black mare is found with life-threatening wounds and nursed back to health by a caring family.

Sitcom following the adventures of a retired Army Brigadier, Garnet Wellington-Bull, a widowed career soldier who, now retired, is trying to come to terms with life on civvy street but not finding it very easy.

Cervantes in space: Don Quick (Ian Hendry), astronaut, is the anti-hero of this science fiction satire.

The Adventures of Hiram Holliday appeared on British television screens in 1960, three years after it had been cancelled by the US network NBC.

The adventures of an American frontiersman who roams the West, righting wrongs and helping those in need.