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02x26 - Serpent In The Garden

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Adventures in Paradise". Aired: October 5, 1959 – April 1, 1962.*
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Gardner McKay starred as Adam Troy, the captain of the schooner Tiki III, which sailed the South Pacific looking for passengers and adventure.

02x26 - Serpent In The Garden

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think you're pretty smart don't you what do you mean he pushed me overboard pushed me off my own ship and I'll bet

you put him up to it [Music]

what those bottles back but you you stay out of this sister

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is he alright you didn't let me hit him on the head I gave him fair warning

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James a Michener's adventures in paradise

during Gardner McKay as Adam joins with

James Holden as play Baker the serpent in the garden guest stars Marilyn

Maxwell Alan Hale [Music]

[Applause] I do miss Virginia don't we all say love

what is this lemon squash belly wash wings Virginia coming back with my gym

two or three days now look blokes birches bring back a mixed bag there's something for everyone

there's whiskey for the American tourists a gin for you colonel brandy for the Frenchie and oh snaps for

the Dutchman where's she go for it Hong Kong honey the silver she should be

coming back suing them don't bet your Bob on it tell me back on the tiki isn't

you yeah by where the waters but feel the air there's not a breath of wind so

there's a storm blowing come found it sailor you're no meteorologist you

landlubbers will never understand there's a storm blowing up a big one is

a good strong ship [Music]

Lucy can break through the silence

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gotta get this cargo over the side

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calling all ships and stations commend please [Music]

you find the trouble pay Tony did he lock on the radio yet Kelly you nobody

answer I'll keep trying I'll have this engine fixed soon little winch off these rocks and be on our way

[Music]

had a good haul Kimo what's the matter lady mu free it them natives ain't gonna

bother us all thing me scared calling all ships and stations come in

please

does XP t wo one woman please hurry up

Fargo ain't got all day hey Tony radio

this is a schooner Tiki calling all ships kam you calling all ships

what's the matter that two-bit skipper here is running our ground who am I

talking to this is HP t wo Motor Vessel Queen Liz the second butcher captain

butcher to you mr. got an opening for a deckhand play sign on and I'll teach you how to be a sailor

this isn't funny butcher we need help listen off you get the Tiki off

them rocks the best way you can we don't need help with a Tiki the skipper and a woman passenger were washed overboard

last night during the storm may the Saints have mercy he was a fine skipper

butcher sober up and listen what's your position we're on the north side of an

island they were washed overboard on the east side of manna just after we cleared the rocks well check it will ya sure

sure cruise around the lagoon and see if you see him or any signs of cargo washed up on the shore cargo what kind of cargo

sixty three cases of we had to jettison a deck cargo in order to secure loose

oil drum in the hole oh now I was just joking a little while ago you can always

depend on old butcher to lend a helping hand I'll find your chump over and out

forget the oysters Kimo we've got more important work to do we got a cargo to Salvage

[Music]

her cheek I brought you breakfast in bed

told Mimi are you all right

you brought it on yourself don't lecture me captain Troy it's Dave below where I

put you everything to be all right well that card will meant a lot to me the tikki your book was insured Sarge a

liqueur yeah but by the time I could collect to bring in another shipment I'll be out of business I love to tell

me your customers were so loyal sure they're loyal thirsty too they'll find another joint and it's all your fault my

listen I've written out two hurricanes and one full Gale without even breaking one bottle we're stuck here so a mess

we'll be friends have some breakfast

you know we can probably solve it gelateria cargo yeah the shores littered with cases right now

the kitty now friendly curtain a soft bottom the stuffs rolling in I don't believe you

keep yourself you know I am hungry let's get to work

[Music] right me I thought they'd sink

the current must have rolled them along the bottom after the storm well if we

had some help we could get it all what

is it must be an outcast must have

broken a taboo of his tribe you fella come out here we won't hurt you

[Music]

you fellas seen schooners me fella help sure you fill the help ketchup boxes

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No

I better go with him Virgie but my cargo look thicker first things first

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Adam Troy Master the SCOOTER Tiki Troy Tunney Paul

Island fella say you good fellow too much junk or they spell of virtue she

friends along me you drinkin cooler - Troy Danny too much Brad you go that

follow belong boot come here fella belong boat that son will have gone look

unzip it on us bat foul Steve oyster you help Molly sure Molly I'll talk to him

that a good fellow too much and maybe you help Adam Troy cargo belong Virgie

lady wash off Tiki we need help catch him cargo what think cargo Philly you

have

liquor seemed full of whiskey fella we need men and divers no Molly

why whiskey bad fellow short any bats all all thing bad fella too much sure

went over big with him well this pig is here cargo did

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come on Bertie snap out of it I can't help it

we'll salvage enough to keep it going you won't go broke won't end up on the beach not again

that's pretty rough I guess what do you know about the beach you don't know

anything about living in sleazy hotels a little backwater towns what it means to

be hungry great people look at you I've known tough times you're a man just

different with a woman there's a sign of over my place that

reads the Tradewinds Virgie Shackleford prop but what it really says is verges

not on the beach verges somebody [Music]

okay Burgi okay then I keep on until we salvage all your car

[Music] Oh birdie chip now come on chin up

look up at the moon

there's a little old man who sits on hasn't anything better to do any time he

sees anyone crying in his moonlight he writes the name - and in the morning

when they turn his moon off they add up all the names so that they got a lot of

names if they get enough names they're gonna turn the moon off for good there

won't be any moonlight left for anybody deny it will be left to the to the

chicken thieves people who hide in the shadows you wouldn't want that to happen

you know I'm sure you why or what a

tropical island be without all night [Music]

hmm if I had my liquor back I'd be pretty worried about them turning them

on off we've already got half you let her back we'll get the other half back tomorrow

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captain Troy I presume small world may I cut in what are you

doing here butcher

well strike me blind flicker what a

setup a South Sea Island a beautiful blonde and enough food to last for a year it's all been salvaged oh but I

heard what you said a little while ago it's only half been salvaged you've been a you stopping right along butcher the cargo belongs to her we're

now courting the laws of Salvage it's up for grabs and I intend to get my share of it don't get in my way

oh I'm not getting in your way you're getting in mind [Music]

wait a minute Kimo hold it right here [Music]

captain butcher [Music]

damn fast me don't let him know you're scared Smith get alright feel it too much

[Applause] [Music] then natives ain't gonna bother you come

for the little captain what you're sitting here tip out blow me hey Thomas face you've been pop get on to me

Chaplin here take it easy keep home go ahead triggers in these parts for over a hundred years

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] in

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[Music] that'll teach him a lesson Kamri those

shells him fellow man too much we go along now little bird shot at 50 yards

eight hurt nobody [Music]

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Queen Liz calling schooner Tiki queenless calling schooner Tiki wheel is

calling schooner Tiki come in please this is a schooner Tiki is that you

skipper it's me are you all right yeah we're both fine listen how soon can you

get here oh where are you skipper Pelican Reef on mana we're hard aground

on Coco Rica we're getting the engine takes to get power to shove off I think I can make it by tomorrow night Kimo

hold it right here

butchers coming back aboard I've got a high he's trying to beat us to 4G Skaar go over now

Queen Liz Kali schooners Tiggy Tiggy

go ahead Queen Liz are you calling me Oh

you answered awful quick Adam is the all right given the girl are both fine let me talk

dumb they both went ashore sorry clay what are your plans butcher

leaving for silver in the morning can you meet us there in our condition it'll

take five days let me pick them up there can't wait I got a cargo to deliver I

can pick them up in 40 hours I'll meet you Bert come here over and

out that'll keep the Tiki out of my hair

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give me more than a few pounds out there we worked real hard we'll be out of here by this time tomorrow

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I was afraid something had happened to you I the Hydra but you came back the board then you didn't get to the radio

no I got to the radio the Tiki ran aground and took a Rico

alright yeah [Music]

I don't like this place then butcher got on the radio neato clear to meet us and

silver silver what for butcher what's that cargo noise we don't

have any divers or the equipment is giving richness of Guinea he's gonna beat us to that cargo isn't

he we'll find it before he does

oh hi there aboard the Queen Liz kept Batson what do you want I want to come

aboard and talk with you Kimo go get her

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well your friends already a diver I

picked up do some pearl diving for me I'd like a glass please oh I suppose I

could find a glass somewhere aboard the Queen Liz yeah here we are

you didn't find my whiskey yet did you I'll find it this is a big Lagoon all I

need is time I've got plenty of that you don't have as much time as you think oh come on now you wouldn't be trying to

scare all butcher ticky we'll be here any day now suppose she does show up I

know where my cargo is so do I somewhere inside the reef Wow I know exactly where

well the Tiki won't be here well how do you know I talked with clay over the radio he wants me to take you enjoy the

video good hello captain

down the hatch

brought three bottles huh that's right all for me what just be friendly and

what's your proposition well I thought

since I know where the whiskey is and you have a boat and a diver I might make a deal well it's just

there's cases in cases of liquor out there on the bottom waiting to be salvaged and you're gonna buy old

butcher or three bottles come in laddie

the devil are you know what his

proposition is you fella get finished where'd you get up meat fish em fella

come net blown me that's all can you take me back the same spot

Kimo take the lady ashore we're shoving off

you thought let's get finished too much you take me back where you found these bottles I'll give you plenty of things

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perché fight you genius if your brain

was in a bird it would fly sideways yeah mm-hmm what's the matter Archer with his head in the basket well he found my

whiskey and right now he's leaving butcher to it that's a real butcher Thanks see the outcast is worthy for us how I

loo but you wouldn't believe you so that made him a sucker to believe him

come on

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[Music] what's this all about well Kamali

troit any this belong you that's right that's part of my shipment titania you

finished a long design and altogether you take little canoe you go now where

you catch some Bach fella belong me put in yon gonna taboo taboo chief I did not

give your people whiskey you lie you take the woman and the canoe and go it

always put your father was the evil one with a ship in the lagoon the man with a g*n he catch him whiskey you make that

fella leave or how can i he he has g*ns we do not make him leave

your ancestors would have known how to make the evil one leave are you sure

this is the place you found the whiskey too much I'll tell you now bucko if

you're lying to me I'll have your hide for it befell a fan borrowed here who

sent you you found whiskey for a ban back Troy sent you didn't he you're lying never fella try again he's

had plenty much money eat better buy another dive team Oh

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destroys to eat potato stroke well hoist

me up [Music] here he is now

think you're pretty smart don't you what do you mean that basket head you said to leave me on a wild to chase

oh you mean you didn't find the whiskey he pushed me overboard pushed me off my

own ship you hear that birds e.push I fell overboard I was pushed and I'll bet

you put him up [Music]

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I'm warning you stay away from my whiskey that's right hi buying a woman's

skirt alright if you want to fight come on out here [Music]

but you stay out of this sister [Music]

is he alright I didn't hurt him you hit him on the head I gave the fair warning

[Music]

take him up a second back of this ship

[Music] tell them if he comes back here sick

Virgie on it again [Music]

but what happens now he's gonna have an awful headache when he wakes up

now he wants to take you all those rocks and nothing flat

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you feel plenty alright who hit me lady

Trotter lady she ain't no bleep long

shot [Music] what we do now boss gonna pay a visit to

mr. Adam Troy having them shells

they can chef Butch around early huh nobody can chef butcher around nobody

boss listen

drums I move here

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they've been dumping all afternoon now oh just a celebration of some kind are

you sure these people quit honey heads they haven't done that for 70 or 80 years well then why do they keep the

skulls of a meeting house they heard after us doctor butcher I'll be all

right

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look at it this way we salvaged all your carcass well do us any good if we lose

our heads just a little copper party it's been going on for a long time these things

run on for days sometimes it run until they run out of something to do so for an encore they start hunting heads on

your feet Troy what's happening butcher you sent me off on a wild goose chase

today but you finish the salvage uh-huh so the booze you salvaged today belongs to me and I'm getting out of here with

it belonged to Virgie it's mine possession is nine-tenths of the law

exactly and I'm taking possession I'll take you to court over this no you won't

now come on let's start packing this down the Queen Liz come on sister you can start picking up some of those loose

bottles don't try anything funny

come on come on step lively we haven't got all night you hear those drums but you don't talk

to me about drums Troy they want you yeah one more load now be gone now get

those cases topside there

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Troi what's that there with the skull

[Applause] seems to be a DSC

British decoration Edith yeah Bobby belong to the guy you are in my head

[Music] [Applause] murdering scum

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do for a nest [Applause]

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[Music] you can't k*ll us we're done [Applause]

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stop that jabbering and speak up in English no we're gonna become oh I know what'd he say he said he Atanas on Queen

Liz take this path let's go [Music]

we're saved chemo Oh Kiki

all right ash or send us a boat

there was nothing chemo I could do sad we just came on the hunt and drug him right up chop their heads off

I can't believe it it's the truth the Saints have mercy on

their souls break out the g*ns and ammunition k*ller we're going ashore atta boy clay I'm with you I wouldn't do

that if I were you you know [Music]

what did you say I said captain butcher I wouldn't do that if I were you I see

everybody's here Allyson Troy do you hear that murdering Savage you can speak perfect English of

course captain butcher you see I was a sergeant major with His Majesty's own vision scouts during the last w*r I

learned English at Queens College and silver will that be you two been in

cahoots I spotted the metal around his neck for a minute then he lapsed into perfect English when he got mad about

the whiskey everybody ganged up on butcher naturally we were happy here

before you came we took our living from the sea our island was like the Garden

of Eden but you keep its tool our shell and won't leave captain Troy and lady

came among us with temptation so we had to drive the serpents from the garden

you mean you knew they weren't headhunters all this time I didn't feel like a tell you above why are you

miserable you see you lose your own head too easily well this whole thing has been a put up

job well I kind of Troy I'm gonna mangle both of you take the cheap chemo

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I love you I love you

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and I mean you [Music] [Applause]

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