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03x23 - A Bride For The Captain

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.

03x23 - A Bride For The Captain

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you get an education car we are happy to welcome your safety thanks inspector you

have purchased each Chandler er from the point yes if you need any ship supplies

I hope you woke me up what I imagined you will have Matt friend captain Troy as a customer well my brother just about

my closest friends I'll be glad to see him again indeed I had no idea tell me has he been staying out of

trouble they got a problem you know how it is some of us can turn over clean

page and some of us can Captain Troy's one of our finest citizens there it's

men like Adam Troy that restore our faith in human nature man can be reclaimed there is dignity in the human

soul nice to meet you inspector you saying you're a friend of captain Troy

captain Adam try I'm the best friend he's got in the world and he's mine you might say that my

biggest ambition in life is to see Adam Troy happily married why because I've

made four trips of the altar while he laughed on the sidelines turnabout is fair play was inspected mm-hm

I've never seen the girl that could get Adam to the altar I'll let you know when I got her picked out see you in church

inspector [Music]

gartner McKay in James a Michener's adventures in paradise with guys stock

well as Chris Parker and James Holden as play Baker guest star ray Bolton

and starring Gardner McCain as Adam Troy [Music]

Frank you old son of a g*n I heard you were into here yeah we're getting a

little thin on apart we lover boy you're getting wrinkled you still have 3x y no oh I thought you looked Haggard what's

all this we give up the cargo plane Nelly her ticker gave out and have to

pour out the pasture hey come on in oh I can't imagine you settling behind a

counter yeah I've got four ex-wives to keep an alimony for have you ever learned all I signed for the course four

times that's more than you've done don't be bitter all by the way we're taking a lady after a year for it one Jonas sure

[Music] anyone I know

no no friend of mine people how old now

stop getting ideas 15 toy I saw your Jeep outside oh I picked up

Boosh our wishes to see you oh yeah what does he want Victor Bouchard does not confide in me

but makes you Matheny and miss you all to where he needs off not again Mike Fenian O'Toole I haven't seen those old

reprobate since Hong Kong ah you go ahead if you're worried about the young

lady I'll be delighted to fill in for you I imagine you will don't you trust me after Hong Kong you shouldn't have

rushed off Lily was a beautiful girl I didn't want to marry her you never even met her exactly and you had no right to go to a

father and arrange a marriage contract you were rotten sport about the whole thing I'll be a rut in their sport if

you ever try anything like that again keys are in the Jeep I'll ride with you Louie

hey what's her name oh yeah mr. Claude

Dean Miller the girl with the Helio teller and meet me outside the police station I know right now I'll regret

this I don't understand you I'm your best friend all I want is to see you married before I die if that's why you came to

the Healey are barking up the wrong tree face it Chum you can't remain Huckleberry Finn forever

[Music]

miss Miller yes mr. Troy's been delayed I'm Frank Hogue the relief man oh come

in are you taking me to the airport no

we're meeting at him in half an hour I I

understand you're from Massachusetts you came a long way such a short visit

didn't seem too far for weekend in paradise you've been reading travel

folders no Adams letters every bit as beautiful as he said it was if Adams been writing

to you you must be someone very special no I'm afraid I was just the girl next

door just the girl next door don't sell that short every red-blooded American

youth always has a special feeling for the girl next door of course he does he's just a little

shot why don't you stay a little longer I'm sure I don't would be delighted he

hasn't said so miss Miller I think you

and I ought to have a long serious talk about it Adam because you are the one

who persuaded me to let these Rascals land on Tahiti oh they're all powder Samara tantrum how do they'll you just

tell me that we do our jobs as you know this your tool comes here with the

reputation is a very bad at it pocket badge I wish one of the best dwell on

that and quite familiar with your record also the accomplishments of the c-max II need it is a forgery and there have been

a rash of petty crimes ever since your tool and rotoiti petty crimes hate crimes is for amateurs would you excuse

Picasso or painting a billboard I thought you claimed to have a tired well we did it we degenerated and a

decent law-abiding citizens leading decent law-abiding lives right in spite

of being constantly harassed and you did by the law there any charges

inspector no confound them I have no evidence false arrest it you enter the rest you

were brought in for questioning I want you to be aware Emmett as blind as they would like to think I am you

keep your eyes on your friends Adam you are their sponsor I know and I will listen I hate to cut this short

inspector fit to stand and chat with you all day about this but I've got to put a lady on the 12 o'clock plane all right

all right take these gentlemen with you before the Beckham ends in their mouth goodbye [Music]

what are you trying to do Frank mr. plane for it I have a safe driving member can you say as much Frank but

feeding a to Lanai our old children whenever Frank used to hit town I always knew I was in for some kind of trouble

I usually female usually female but we've all calmed down a little since

then I think how nice what's the matter nothing she's crying

because she's so happy to be leaving hey Claudia you're crying

I just did something in my eye oh you mean something like a tear don't you

worry about a thing

mrs. McCready used to cry when she thought I didn't understand her more likely she cried because she thought you

did women are devious you're sounder so you didn't like women I adore them until I

marry them mrs. McPhee nee was unlike any other woman in the world when she died

I retired the name I should have retired mine before I started passing it out my

trouble is I'm a compulsive loser so well as the man said tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost

at all there's never been a mrs. O'Toole what are you doing back so soon where's party what is on the plane where

do you think oh look you guys I'm sailing after lunch and I'll need some supplies from your dump let's go where's she still crying or some woman

always cry at airports you're putting our song you know very well that young woman's in love with you and you've

broken her heart oh it's a nice try Fred but Claudia's engaged a fellow named

George Bevins I hope you get this junk on the ship yeah she didn't come all the way to Tahiti to see anybody named

George Bennett she came all the way to the easy to tell me about a fellow named George Bevins you're putting me on that

don't put me on she's gonna marry George I hope George is broad-minded I'll lay off that stuff will ya and there's a

family where you been darling daughter oh I cannot tell a lie mother I spent the weekend without him Troy now that's not even funny I don't think so either

look Claudia and I we're neighbors buddies we're supposed to love our neighbors but within bound I don't think

they'll consider Tahiti within bounds ago oh I've gotta find but your friends

don't I saved you two from inspector Bouchard this morning and who loaned you the money to get out of Hong Kong I

should say she loves George I George is a fine fellow the best yeah and there never was anything

between Claudine and I and there's never gonna be anything between are we still gonna stay all day yes we're still gonna

sail today our captain banned the sooner the better

I've never seen Adam so crotchety I he needs a woman's gentle influence he

certainly does you shouldn't let you did in Hong Kong when he had that idea about Lily I've

been waiting for years to settle that score now what score well Adam did was to put out the seed you forget who married Lily

Hong Kong home you better watch your step Frank there might be a fifth mrs. hold no no not this time this time

there's going to be a first mrs. Troy mrs. Adam

[Music]

suppose you Bonjour Louis I was in the post office so I brought the mail for you and for

the tikki she doing this morning Thanks would you mind dropping off my

alimony payments on your way back one two three four an American male

subsidizes an ex wife until she traps another man from plodding Miller from

Claudine river from Claudine Miller and he's trying to tell me she wants George

you can't see anything your envelope is too thick will you tell capitaine toy inspector

Bouchet would like to see him if he's earlier company on see what this time Oh welcome back from the briny hotel you

have two lip oh lordy thirteen whoo yeah Morgan won yes

Oh sometime you're very pleased with you I loved you your unit I will k*ll a

specter of Bashar you have returned you tell him to stop breathing down my neck at the Spade harbor goodbye what's new

from George you mean you haven't steamed him yet I haven't that time

dear Adam think everything so nice to me in a recent visit it was wonderful saying it again after all these years you haven't changed a bit

once a dumbhead always a dump hit the HEDIS wonderful you're wonderful I had a

wonderful time that's why I cried all the way back at the airport it isn't anything you're not reading between the

lines when it comes to women I graduated magna laude well why don't you hold

classes or something there's an idea I might get some return on my wrinkles you

know you're pretty much an idiot but I think you're a funny guy you better go down to see Inspector Bouchard he's not

in a very good humor these days really what's up evidently there's been an epidemic of

not at ease [Music]

this time I have evidence McFeely

O'Toole we just learned some well they're old friends see go talk to your

friends the Jean dongs and how can you talk to a John damn we were social outcasts he needed togetherness and I'm

the devil always finds work for idle hands mission which can't be so fortunate it's to be born good like you

are you McFeely forged a check Feeny

okay wait for such a small amount is hardly worth mentioning I just lifted a few francs all tool you think was a

thousand the fuss is making one or a thousand it's still a criminal offense good night I took it from someone who

could spare it whether I could spare it just completely beside the point you didn't pick inspector bouchard's

pocket did you I thought he had a sense of humor not about breaking the law now

he tells me Monsieur this time you are caught dead to rights and you are going to the penal

colony at Lumiere we meant no harm inspector don't throw us in that dungeon

over are we joke myself absolutely not you could see your way clear they're just they picture that goes too often to

the whale is that last broken and that is me the broken picture inspector we'll

give you our word of honor your what this is my cell I didn't mean any harm it was just a small prank hey that's all

right what we'll never do it again I will take the pledge crime does not pay

no practical jokes I am resolved not to stop the chicken laugh at a joke as long

as I can but I have not seen you laugh so uproariously when the joke is on you what indeed well there is one way I will

consider turning them loose again and that is if you personally take full responsibility for them me well I'm not

always around to watch them but dear boy they have taken the pledge you heard them criminals anonymous

trustus Lodi trustus we die for you dar cannot refuse take it for me laddie

you will live to regret it no I they're gonna be rehabilitated

[Music]

look at me you boys it through you will know you've done an honest day's work

what's this legally speaking laddie we're in Durance vile sl*ve labor Adams

I myself anymore I know you're Reggie and unhappy without quite knowing why

aren't you chum I am edgy and unhappy and I know exactly why you've lost your appetite and you don't sleep too well

with my duty I sleep perfectly well I do know it's impossible to sleep when you're in love in love haha of course

that's why he's been brimming with meaning I am NOT brimming with meanness hah he's in love I am not in love you

don't know your own symptoms look Frank I don't care what you may say or what you may do I am NOT gonna be in love

with Claudine who said anything about 40 you said Claudine you see how it is

laddie the truth will out all right you guys are through is your

money remember inspector Bouchard says that I'm responsible for you

[Music]

my hands feel like bread puddings sort of mine will soak em in oil tonight how

would you like to do something to even things up with Adam revenge is sweet

the freedom sweeter oh I don't want you to do anything really dishonest just

write a letter in Adams handwriting and sign his name

yeah dry run first blogs every here two

fingerprints Lonnie use Adam stationery huh I never thought I'd see the day when

I'd be forging Adam it's gonna be very angry yes - make up your mind Mac Feeny I can

get someone else you know timbrel is in town okay narrator could spark Emily's work well he's not emotionally involved

I'm not emotionally involved Adam was a good friend when he was one but Adam

isn't what he was anymore they change his spots no I did like the young lady

she favored mrs. McPhee knee around the eyes yes or no Mike Feeny

yes it's his own good but if you can't see that for himself then someone else mercy for him far away

my darling Claudine I have been thinking

about you ever since you got on that plane I can't understand why I was fool

enough to let you get on my very dear

could you possibly entertain the thought of marrying me

[Music]

back to adventures in paradise

[Music]

came I couldn't believe it but I must have believed it because here I am do you know what I did when I read your

letter I got so excited I started to cry and I got tears all over it kiss me yes

I called right up for a plane reservation and I left that very same night I've been in the air more than I've been on the ground the last week

but why not my head's in the clouds please kiss me Adam I'm so happy I'm so

happy at him are you as happy as I am no I mean yes I mean this isn't making any

sense to me I know it didn't me either every once awhile on a plane down here I

said to myself it isn't true it didn't happen I didn't read it I thought I read

then I'd read your letter again and I'd be right back in the cloud Mary don't

you remember what you wrote but not exactly oh I'm keeping this letter for as long

as I live Oh fourteen yeah there's something I have to tell you

but I'll tell you later [Music]

he's gone alright or to operation pickpocket [Music]

it isn't funny I cannot think what I have enjoyed it isn't so bad I want to

arrest it why no they wrote a proposal

of marriage in my handwriting it's signed by name for their arrest

[Music]

[Applause] [Music]

a dungeon party right now

[Music]

hi honey I need that I need that letter

don't ask me to explain now definitely when I get it back you want it back you

know I do come on it was in my coat pocket well

maybe you left it around here somewhere else no I put it here has anybody else

been in here with you I've been any of myself I took a bath and a nap where's that window open

I don't remember oh I hear I wouldn't

leave vegetables like this lying around I'll be back babe Alec break down a door

[Music]

well what's new jump you know exactly what's you and you know

that I know that you know exactly what's new hey would you mind running through that again there's only one mind in this world that

could have conceived of such a plan only one pair of hands it could have written that letter only one pair of hands I

could have stolen that letter and when I get my hands on those hands I'm gonna tear them off with the wrists ah Dave

wrists you're an estate friend you got to keep cool in the tropics you're not making

sense where's McGee Nino - whoo yeah babe Oh feel and make to me

there's no time to be funny where are they well I'll be your responsibility if

you've mislaid them it's hardly fair to come yelling at bean I don't know it keeps me I'm k*lling you well for

starters shall we say the law you know that Claudine came all the way down here from Massachusetts to get married to George oh no she didn't come down here

from Massachusetts to marry George wrong with my hearing shop she came here to marry me congratulations

count on me for a pair of silver candlesticks where's McBean E&O - I don't know but if they come in I'll tell

them that you were asking for all right it's gone far enough you've got to tell him what you did I

don't dig your chump what am I gonna say to her well I'm afraid I can't help you

there every man and maid have to find their own communication system you know

I didn't write that letter didn't you all right I'll tell her

myself I'll see you in church [Music]

[Applause]

[Applause]

Telenet if you thought we were the only people in the world yeah I wanted to

talk to you someplace where we could be completely alone you know privacy isn't always so easy to find on an island

beautiful everything is well surely it wasn't this beautiful a few days ago I

suppose you're wondering why I was gone so much today well you haven't been wandering I know you're busy and no I

ride without any warning there's something I've got to explain to you you

don't have to explain anything to me at him I'm not going to be one of those nagging wives and what to know where her

husband is every hour do you know what

mother said when she read your letter good she said My aren't you a lucky girl

and daddy said he couldn't have wished anything better for me yeah what did George say George was perfectly

wonderful he said I guess the best man won well that's not putting out much of

a fight George says people must marry for love and that if I love you he has

no right to stand in the way

there's something I have to tender yes Adam

[Music] I'll tell you tonight now what would you

like to have for dinner tonight French food Tahitian Chinese food better dance with

me Adam why didn't I once tell you a lady always waits to be asked okay

you did but I was only 10 and very cynical I knew you were saying it just

keeping dancing well I had to dance for you had to your mother made me what

fifty cents an hour to teach you how to dance gigolo that was hard work mowing lawns

was fifty cents an hour and that was easier to know you've been proved die I mean you used to spend most your time

dancing on top of my feet didn't you think you did a good job well I think

somebody has I cried when you went away to college I was jealous of all the

girls you were going to beat I remember you you asked me to marry you when you

were 13 I knew that was a terrible disadvantage but I was desperate do you

know what your answer was something salty not

you said if you still feel the same way when you go with school ask me again

and now here we are and I didn't have to ask you it all came true

[Music]

Adam what did you want to tell me [Music] tomorrow

[Music]

how to hit you right in the face sure

why did you marry her who Lily what her

father was willing to settle for second best as a matter of fact he insisted on it since her lover I became very very

fond of Lily in time have you ever been

in love many times how did you know a

man knows he's in love when a woman tells him i seven to kid about

oh hello - hello McPhee

he said today we simply had to have a long serious talk you know you haven't

said a single word but I've been thinking you know for about four or five

years my life's been a ship see and

what's yours been growing up getting educated getting launched in society

yeah when you came down there a couple of weeks ago huh why did you come down

George asked me to marry him and I found myself unable to the answer yes oh no without seeing you again you see

when a girl grows up with one idea in her mind she has to find out whether she's in love with a reality or in love

with a romantic figure she's made of herself if you hadn't gotten that letter

from me would you have married George I don't know but I think it we've been

very unfair to George up ahead

well I'm happy you hear me I'm happy you're here

[Music]

dear George George dear George and Adams handwriting you saw how he looked when

he came in the bar last night he was desperate we got him into this and we're gonna get him out of it well here the last man I thought would ever develop a

conscience I'm surprised myself but I felt sorry for him last night he he looked as though he'd gone into shock

start writing Mac Nene dear George the

more time I spend with Claudine the more I realize you're the man for her she

needs someone who goes to work in the morning and comes home at night and I am

a wanderer

bring over about a dozen Navy garage this is going to be a party hey what's the happy occasion

ah Dean and I are engaged well I'm certainly glad to hear that

what did you say he will matchmaker you knew my mind Bela knighted ha ha and

so did my old chums yeah you're not angry any longer laddie angry you've

made me a very happy man we I hear congratulations are in order then I'm surprised aren't you how much

surprised is hardly the word we're little surprised ourselves

the letter we took it to the plane just like you saying get it back but the planes already gone well watched it take

off what's wrong Adam wants to marry Claudine he wants to get married

look at him you're a troublemaker I'm

inclined to agree with you

gentlemen laughing [Music]

mrs. Adam Troy oh what a lovely name I'm gonna have it printed on stationery

monogrammed on sheet engraved on silver this is Adam Troy me sounds like a

little girl playing house I've known you all my life and yet I've so much to learn about you are you early American

or contemporary what do I have to be one of the other most now I just got out one

way or the other well I'm a Hurley schooner all right I'll do a whole house

like a ship no a shippers ship can't be landlocked

I want you to have a house where you'll feel at home well honey I haven't been

in too many houses the past few years I'm in there there aren't any walls at

sea ships igual no they don't ship serve all kids you're gonna be a captain's

wife you're gonna have to start learning the terms hi sir

join our claws there death right you don't go down this stairway you go down

the companionway mm-hmm look at the porthole and you open that door door

how'd they happen to allow that landlubbers word on board yeah door now

the world isn't it mm-hmm Adam I'm afraid I have to work with the

bad in way everything's going up and down

[Music]

you're not seasick late I am but darling

tied up to the dock [Music]

now you keep your mouth shut about what's it worth to you you heard me

oh the wife of a sailor his true love must be your home and down

[Music]

[Music]

right here's something interests you

well this cable is addressed to Claudine well it since when did we begin standing on formalities you'll find the contents

of great interest Lodi it's from George oh well then it's really for me

[Music]

well how do you feel fine I'm sorry Adam I should have taken a motion sickness

till yesterday it's okay yeah yeah I guess he'll never like the Tiki tikis lovely.i who she is

perfectly safe of course I'm sure she must be it's just I've never been out of

really old vote before ship well I thought when there was no they were both

the Tiki displaces 73 tons she's 85 feet along the deck she's a two-masted

schooner carry six passengers four crewmen and makes seven knots and a good breeze she's not small wonderful I mean

it's really wonderful and so you see with E I didn't mean to hurt your feelings

what's it's all right I don't know much about sailing I get seasick at a

fairy-book ferry ship yeah very boat very sir not ships

don't ship ships both very confusing I guess it is it's kind of a pity I'm just

looking forward to taking you out on the Tiki one day Oh Oh go all I have to do

take a pill of it for hours now be able to stand it yeah we see yeah see that's no way to go to sea I mean on pills the

other like it or you don't

I got a long letter from mother she wants no one were coming home and daddy

wants you to work with him in Massachusetts but that's rude Addie lives darling yes but but darling I live

here factories in Massachusetts I thought you liked to needy well I'd love

to Evie it's a beautiful place to visit but you wouldn't want to live here all

the time it's been done let's be fair

about it at him I mean now the one of us wants to bully the other let's spend the

winters in Massachusetts in the summers in Tahiti that's fair isn't it what am I gonna do with the old Tiki

cellar no of course not it'll be wonderful for outings when it's

all painted and picked up things

I take my hair done I see a boat a later [Music]

they say there's always a period of readjustment but no two people are born

in the world understanding each other I know I just naturally assumed that you

wanted to live part of the time in Massachusetts I know you can give it a

thought I guess we're both pretty dense huh I guess so

little workout don't worry [Music]

Oh No I hope you're in a better humor

than you sound I'm not well a short life but a merry one uh Chum I I'm afraid

I've got you in a little hot water and it seems to be the best thing to do is to make a clean breast of things yeah

well I I've sent for George George Bennett ah what well I thought that you

wanted out of things with Claudine and it seemed to me the best thing to do was to get good old George down here so I had Mac fini write him a letter in your

handwriting where you stand still I'm just trying to keep out of striking range all right what did you say that

George ain't my hand well I uh well I said speaking for you that Claudine was

the kind of a girl who wanted a house in the suburbs and that George seemed to be the kind of a man who wanted a girl who

wanted a house in the suburbs and that you were a seafaring man who couldn't even stand a port LeBron well that was

just about it except that I you suggested that he gets an X plane down

here and talk some sense into Claudine and take her back where she belongs he thinks I wrote that letter he must have just found out he's on the 12

o'clock plane he's coming down actually thinking that I'll step aside so that he

can marry Claudine yes good good good

now you keep out of this [Music]

you don't know right

right [Music]

sure [Music]

a lucky man George I know and I've gotta say you've been darn decent about the

whole thing not at all I think the important thing here is our Dean's happiness I hope I didn't hurt

you Adam well muddle through you know we

never really could have been happy with George's ghost standing between us well

I hate to break this up but if we're gonna catch our plane just a second I wanted to tell you that I don't think

there's ever been a nicer girl next door you'll always be my first up Adam thank

you goodbye mr. Toulouse mr. Feeny goodbye bag goodbye

[Music]

yeah they make a really handsome couple I'm glad we got them together I told you

she loved George well she's got him fine young man George hey the best and I told

you she didn't love me okay you were right and there was never anything between us except when you cooked up a

smart boy so sh**ting all right I was right all the time wasn't it you're out

of it aren't you what's the matter with you I guess I miss her where you going back to see mo voyage

you'll find him another wife

to the first mrs. Troi wherever you may be [Music]

now Gardner McKay in our next adventures in Paradise you'll see a South Seas

konma and actually practice the ancient art of separating people from their money not to me not after all we've been

through the film is even gonna take them into the business a wonderful in the numbers game in Jersey City hello

Charlie if you'll excuse me mr. Troy I don't have time oh and Charlie I looked right

now look if you think you got to make any trouble now forget it everything I did was perfectly legal it can't be it is it's nothing but up oh

oh worthless Rock do you have a Cornelius corn to eight

registered here nope Reginald Rosencrantz no Phineas Washington Jones

no Johann Sebastian Smith he's k*lled

himself I hope you'll be with us when

guest stars Larry Blyden Constance Ford and Patricia Breslin join me in a story

we call the dream merchants next hundred ventures in Paradise until then thank

you for watching what makes a woman beautiful [Music]