Series

Adventurer

1987 · 1 season · Action & Adventure

Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the IIMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship's captain is none other than his brother-in-law, Lt.Harry Anderson. The two men have quarreled violently in the past over Anderson's treatment of Vincent's sister, and now Anderson subjects him to particularly harsh and humiliating treatment. Vincent stages a successful mutiny, casting Anderson and those loyal to him adrift, and plans to sail to America. When the Success is shipwrecked, Vincent is one of three survivors; but Anderson also survives the storm, and vows to pursue Vincent until he sees him hanged at Execution Dock. So begins a fight for survival for Vincent and his crew, complete with hostile natives, unscrupulous sea-traders, crazed prophets and buried treasure.

Oliver Tobias

Jack Vincent

Temuera Morrison

Maru

Paul Gittins

Lt. Anderson

Peter Hambleton

Cassidy

Marshall Napier

Mason

• Chris BaileyDirector

First aired

July 23, 1987

Last aired

August 28, 1987

Status

Ended

Original language

English

Episodes

12

Genres

Action & Adventure

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  Season 112 episodes · 1987