The Islanders

8.060m19601 season

DramaAction & Adventure

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..

Cast

William Reynolds

Sandy Wade

Diane Brewster

Wilhelmina 'Steamboat Willy' Vanderveer

James Philbrook

Zack Malloy

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Five O'Clock Friday

1960-10-02 · 60m

Flight From Terror

1960-10-09 · 60m

The Terrified Blonde

1960-10-16 · 60m

Talent for Danger

1960-10-23 · 60m

Operation Dollar Sign

1960-10-30 · 60m

Hostage Island

1960-11-06 · 60m

The Phantom Captain

1960-11-13 · 60m

Our Girl in Saigon

1961-11-20 · 60m

Forbidden Cargo

1960-11-27 · 60m

The Cold War of Adam Smith

1960-12-04 · 60m

Deadly Tomorrow

1960-12-11 · 60m

The Widow From Richmond

1960-12-18 · 60m

Duel of Strangers

1960-12-25 · 60m

Episode 14

1961-01-01 · 60m

The Twenty-Six Paper

1961-01-08 · 60m

The Generous Politician

1961-01-15 · 60m

Episode 17

1961-01-22 · 60m

Escape From Kaledau

1961-01-29 · 60m

To Bell the Cat

1961-02-05 · 60m

Willy's Millionaire

1961-02-12 · 60m

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

1961-02-19 · 60m

Island Witness

1961-02-26 · 60m