The Islanders
Season 1
Created by: Richard L. Bare
Network: ABC
Season aired: 1960-10-02
Overview
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..
Episodes · 26
Five O'Clock Friday
Flight From Terror
The Terrified Blonde
Talent for Danger
Operation Dollar Sign
Hostage Island
The Phantom Captain
Our Girl in Saigon
Forbidden Cargo
The Cold War of Adam Smith
Deadly Tomorrow
The Widow From Richmond
Duel of Strangers
Episode 14
The Twenty-Six Paper
The Generous Politician
Episode 17
Escape From Kaledau
To Bell the Cat
Willy's Millionaire
Willy decides to sell part interest in the airline to a man she thinks is a millionaire, only to have Zack learn the man plans to use them in a narcotics smuggling ring.
The Strange Courtship of Danny Koo
