The Beachcomber

📊 Series Specifications

Network Network Broadcast
Episode Runtime ~30 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 39
Original Language EN

The Beachcomber (1962)

Created by Walter Newman
⭐ 4.5 / 5 (1 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 39 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron Mitchell, the series followed a rich executive who retired from the rat-race to become a beachcomber on a small South Pacific island.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 The Brooch

Lackland's nearly broke---and facing deportation. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Crippen: Sebastian Cabot. Mika: Rosael Lopez. Ah Ling: Benson Fong. Loeuwan: Wilton Graff. Mrs. Loeuwan: Dolores Donlong. Saluku: Frank Puglia.

E3 Pat Hand

Lackland's evening at the Icehouse Bar is interrupted by a poker player itching for action. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Taffy: Laya Raki. Dibley: Dub Taylor.

E4 The Hijackers

Trader Peter Noord suspects his son has joined a band of pirates---who are hijacking his ships. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Carl: Wynn Pearce. Malola: Allen Jaffe. Sim: Al Ruscio. Lah-Ring: Arthur Batanides. Chris: Jim Ricketts. Kollea: Santy Josol.

E5 Forbidden Island

Searching for a missing aviatrix, Lackland and a newspaperman meet hostile islanders. Davis: Warren Arnett. Borlund: Robert Cannon. Constance: Mary Sullivan. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell.

E7 Captain Huckabee's Beard

Customs officers have a suspicion that a new arrival is a wanted thief. Howland: Hugh Sanders. Beth: Lisa Gaye. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Kollea: Santy Josol. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell.

E8 The Taming of Andrew
E9 Death Do Us Part

Success has eluded artist Patrick Wrightwood and now his wild fits of temper are threatening his marriage. Peggy: Grace Raynor. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Butcher: Don Haggerty. Captain: Bob Cannon. Policeman: Art Spector.

E10 The Larcenous Lover
E17 The Floating Fortune
E21 Rongorongo Man

Hidden treasure is the lure when Maeva Ormsby and Carl Bensinger come to Amura in search of a Rongorongo man. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Maeva: Rhea Vernon. Bensinger: Charles Martin. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Kollea: Santy Josol. Hatura: Francis McDonald. Alfy: Bill Hess.

E22 The Day of the Whale
E23 The Fugitive

The day after a GI is married to a Polynesian girl, he's found murdered. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Tahia: Mary Stevens. Ross: Raymond Guth. Womack: Don O'Kelly. Kahiuti: Allen Jung. Lovaina: Anita Sands. Weldan: Warren Arnett.

E24 The Mask of Talugi
E25 Home to Roost

Huckabee wagers Lackland's ketch---and loses. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Boyle: Hal Baylor. Diaz: Johnny Golden.

E26 Devil in Paradise

Lackland takes a wounded youth to the island surgeon---then discovers the medic lost a hand during the war. Duval: John Vivyan. Martone: Michael Constantine. Taki: Mark Randall. Tara: Jill Chen. Mana: Alice Pruitt.

E27 The Reward

Huckabee joins a police search for a murder suspect. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Dominguez: Frank Silvera. Selas: Michael Pate.

E28 Tribal Law

The chief's brother has appendicitis---but it's a taboo to cut a man with a knife. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Wahilla: Gordon Kee. Mahkei: Arthur Batanides. Sartal: Allen Jaffe. Kahlana: Dana Ivey.

E29 Flight to Freedom

Lackland tries to help a sailor from behind the Iron Curtain who has jumped ship. Guben: Grant Lockwood. Krasny: Cesar Romero. Ilana: Frances Fong. Slovenz: Larry Chance. Garvey: Terence de Marney. Kollea: Santy Josol.

E30 Long Live the Sultan
E31 The Prodigal Pretender
E32 The Spaniard

Joaquin Perez claims his daughter has been kidnapped and asks Lackland to find her. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Gabrielle: Anita Sands. Riola: Happy Ison. Amkers: Grant Lockwood.

E34 The Ransom

Huckabee's boasts of wealth incite a stranger to seek easy money. Varda: Frank Silvera. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Tanya: Lisa Gaye. Jagat: Earl Parker. Constable: Joe Budd.

E35 The Search for Robert Herrick
E36 The Two-Sided Triangle

Knute Erickson's convinced Maria Mitsui is a fortune hunter and plots to expose her. Erickson: Walter Brooke. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Huckabee: Don Megowan. McBride: Alan Hale.

E37 A Rooster Named Red

A man leaves his daughter in the care of Huckabee, who wastes no time in turning the responsibility over to Lackland. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Lily: Marianna Hill. Dinty: Hal Baylor.

E38 Roll of Thunder

Lackland helps the police search for dynamite peddlers. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Brink: Russ Bender. Tate: Wade Jones. Huckabee: Don Megowan.

E39 Paradise Lost

A missionary's daughter falls in love with an amnesic, but her father questions the man's past. Jimmy: Carleton Carpenter. Liane: Anne Helm. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Snow: George Mitchell. Native: Lou English.