The Adventurer

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The Adventurer DVD cover.

TV Series (1972-1973)

Starring:
Gene Barry (Gene Bradley)
Barry Morse (Mr. Parminter)
Catherine Schell (Diane Marsh)
Garrick Hagon (Gavin Jones)
Dennis Price (Brandon)
Stuart Damon (Vince)

Basically an updating of Gene Barry's "Amos Burke, Secret Agent" character, Gene Bradley is a wealthy government agent, who, posing as an American movie star, travels the globe in search of adventure, intrigue and danger.
Original episode listing was wrong and fixing is underway (done for the first ten ones). Those with only a "?" may be considered with prudence.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II

Ep. 02 Poor Little Rich Girl.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II

Ep. 05 Return to Sender.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II.

Aérospatiale SA 318B Alouette II.

Schleicher ASK 13

Ep. 06 Counterstrike.

Schleicher ASK 13.

Schleicher ASK 13.

Schleicher ASK 13.

Ending as a jet glider !

Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub

Ep. 06 Counterstrike.
Reg. D-ATRG Piper PA-18-150 Super Cub not found among databases. A British G-ATRG is found but it's a PA-11 Cub Special.

Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 400B

Ep. 07 Love Always, Magda.

Footage used again in Ep. 15 I'll Get There Sometime.

Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 400.

Ep. 15 I'll Get There Sometime.
Reg. G-AYOJ Hawker Siddeley HS-125-400B c/n 25246 delivered to Hatfield (HTF/ EGTH), UK - England on 2 September 1971 for use as a demonstrator.

Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident

Ep. 09 Deadlock.

Boeing 747-121

Ep. 09 Deadlock.

Boeing 747-121 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Boeing 747-121 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Sud Aviation SA 313B Alouette II

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?

Sud Aviation SA 313B Alouette II.

Sud Aviation SA 313B Alouette II.

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle VI-R & Douglas DC-8 & Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident 1C

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
Nice mix of Swissair (DC-8), BEA-British European Airways (Hawker Siddeley HS-121 Trident 1C) and Iberia (SE Caravelle VI-R) airliners.

Convair 990A Coronado

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
Swissair used two 880 and eight 990. This one is the 990A Coronado (see on the tail fin).
Same aircraft's footage in other movies at IMPDb: Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing) seen at Aéroport International de Génève/Aéroport de Genève-Cointrin (GVA/LSGG).

Convair 990A Coronado of Swissair.

Bristol 175 Britannia 312

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?

Bristol 175 Britannia 312 of Monarch Airlines.

BAC 111-517FE One-Eleven

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?

BAC 111-517FE One-Eleven of Court Line.

Hawker Siddeley HS.125

Ep. 10 Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly?
Seems registred G-ANLF, but it correspond to a Douglas C-47 of 1942...

Hawker Siddeley HS.125.

Hawker Siddeley HS.125.

Fokker F27 Friendship & Douglas DC-3

Ep. 15 I'll Get There Sometime.
Supposedly set in Sydney, Australia.

Fokker F27 Friendship and Douglas DC-3.

Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Series 1

Ep. 18 The Not-So Merry Widow
Reg. G-ASEC the fourth Hawker Siddeley HS.125 Srs.1, c/n 25004 as seen in 1963. Re-engined with Viper 521's in 1969, which went on to be registered as G-FIVE, and was finally Withdrawn from Use (WFU) in 1985.
Same aircraft in other movies at Frequently Seen Aircraft (Civil Fixed-Wing).

Boeing 707

Ep. 18 The Not-So Merry Widow
Wing of a Boeing 707 showing the extrados vortex generator between the two Pratt & Whitney JT3 engines. This footage is a travelling showing first its front landing gear facing a Douglas DC-8.

Boeing 747-121

Ep. 23 Make It a Million.

Boeing 747-121 of Pan Am-Pan American World Airways.

Lockheed Constellation (desk model)

Ep. 23 Make It a Million.
A Swissair poster showing the port engines of a Douglas DC-8. Face to the camera, the desk model of a Lockheed Constellation and another one on the left edge (B.O.A.C. Boeing 707 ?).

Hawker Siddeley Harrier G.R.1 (desk model)

Ep. 23 Make It a Million.

Fictional Airliner

Ep. 23 Make It a Million.
Air One 90 "not required an airfield despite one hundred passengers".
Loosely a Concorde fitted with horizontal stabilizer, two additional tails and other various devices above engine and rear fuselage

Not Yet Found or Checked

Boeing 707-328

NOT in Ep. 01 .

Boeing 707-328 of Air France.

Hughes 269

NOT in Ep. 03 .
Registration PH-???.

Hughes 269.

McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 & Boeing 707-321 & Boeing 747 & Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident

NOT in Ep. 03 .
Luchthaven Schiphol. From left to right, a DC-9 from KLM, and from Swissair (foreground), a Boeing 747 (far background), a Boeing 707 from Pan Am and fuselage nose of Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident of BEA on the right.

Various aircraft at Amsterdam's Luchthaven Schiphol.

Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III & McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 & Douglas DC-8

NOT in Ep. 14 Full Fathom Five
Luchthaven Schiphol. At least a Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle III from Air France in the center. Probably a Douglas DC-8 of SAS-Scandinavian Airlines System in the background and at left, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 from KLM.

Bell 47G-5A

Ep. 23 Make It a Million.
Registration G-AZVX, c/n 25085.

Bell 47G-5A.

Bell 47G-5A.

Piper PA28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II

Ep. 26 The Good Book.

Piper PA28R-200 Cherokee Arrow II.

Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident

Ep. 26 The Good Book.
In the background, a batch of airliners at London Heathrow Airport very likely. One of them is actually a Trident, probably from BEA-British European Airways.

Hawker Siddeley HS.121 Trident.

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See also

• The Adventurer at IMDb
• The Adventurer at Wikipedia
• The Adventurer at IMCDb