Adventures of the Seaspray

Season

1966

8.4

The story centred on widowed journalist Dan Wells, who is sailing the Pacific with on his 25-metre schooner "Seaspray", with his three children Mike, Noah and Sue, assisted by their Fijian crewman.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Mutiny on the Seaspray

Noah is confined to his room after breaking a valuable radio part. Bored, he puts a message in a bottle claiming that he's being held against his will on the Seaspray and tosses it overboard. The bottle is found and the Fijian police take the note seriously, since a native chief's son has been reported missing. The boy decided to stowaway on the Seaspray and the Captain Wilder is arrested for kidnapping him.

S1 • E1

Voyage Into Danger

The Seaspray's rudder is in desperate need of repair. While sailing to the nearest port, Willyum spots a rowboat adrift with two men lying unconscious inside. When the men recover, the Wells family discovers that the men are criminals who plan to hijack their schooner.

S1 • E2

Survival

The Seaspray makes landfall at what the Wells family assumes is a deserted island in order to replenish their water supply. The sound of a gunshot shows them that the island is not uninhabited after all and find a man, left on the island for survival training, being pursued by Japanese soldiers who are unaware that World War II ended more than twenty years earlier.

S1 • E3

Battle of Copra Island

The Seaspray makes landfall on Fiji near a vast copra plantation. The Wells family hears a native boy cry for help. When they investigate, they learn that the crooked plantation manager has imprisoned the owner and forced the local tribesmen to work as slaves. Before they can leave to notify the authorities, Captain Wells and his sons are captured and forced to join the other workers.

S1 • E4

Stalemate

The Fijian police warn Captain Wells that bank robbers may try to use the Seaspray to escape. Later, Wells is attacked by thugs, but a tourist comes to his aid. In gratitude, Wells offers the man and his wife passage off the island. Too late, Wells discovers that these are the thieves for whom the police are searching.

S1 • E5

Trapped

The adventurers land on an island that at one time was occupied by NAZIS and encounter harrowing booby-traps that still function after 20 years .

S1 • E6

The Power of Davu

The native chief of a remote Fijian island warns Captain Wells that the tribe's witch doctor has fallen under the influence of a crook who plans to plunder the island's mineral deposits.

S1 • E7

The Hostages

While climbing a glacier in New Zealand, the crew of the Seaspray stumbled upon a badly injured man. Leaving Mike and Sue to care for the victim, Willyum and Captain Wells head down the mountain for help, but the man turns out to be a criminal who is not as wounded as he appears and takes both teenagers hostage.

S1 • E8

The Hunt

The Wells family is visiting a gold mine on Fiji when Willyum witnesses two men robbing the mine's manager.

S1 • E9

Smuggled Cargo

Captain Wells agrees to take an elderly Oriental man on as a passenger, but becomes concerned when the man refuses to discuss the reason for his journey or his mysterious cargo.

S1 • E10

The Switch

While visiting New Zealand, the Wells family gets involved with a gang of horse thieves.

S1 • E11

The Haunted Island

Intrigued by reports than an isolated island along their route is haunted, the Seaspray crew decides to investigate. While walking along a jungle path, they hear moans, groans and shrieks that cannot be accounted for.

S1 • E12

The Loaded Cocanut

Captain Wells agrees to ship a seemingly harmless cargo of coconuts, only to discover that a rival captain has created a monopoly shipping the products and will brook no interlopers. The Seaspray narrowly escapes destruction when one of the coconuts in the hold turns out to contain a bomb.

S1 • E13

Bareknuckle Bay

The Seaspray crew receives a decidedly unfriendly reception when they attempt to visit a small New Zealand fishing village on Bareknuckle Bay.

S1 • E14

The Fugitive

Captain Wells finds an old man hiding on-board the Seaspray. An animal lover, he's been taking potshots at loggers whom he believes are ruining his friends' habitat and now the loggers are out for revenge.

S1 • E15

Monster of Tauro

The crew of the Seaspray attempt to foil the kidnapping of a famous scientist off a yacht by a gang using a submarine.

S1 • E16

Treasure of Ruala

The crew of the Seaspray encounters a missionary who believes in spreading the Gospel with the muzzle of her rifle.

S1 • E17

Cave of Death

While visiting New Guinea, the crew of the Seaspray go exploring and nearly have a fatal adventure.

S1 • E18

The Surfers

After the Seaspray docks in Sydney, Australia, Mike and Sue Wells immediately head for Bondi Beach to learn how to surf. Their pretty instructor turns out to be part of a gang responsible for stealing a valuable art collection.

S1 • E19

Three Mile Limit

After celebrating Sue's birthday in a coastal New Guinea town, the Wells family returns to the Seaspray and find it occupied by a large man and his two unsavory companions who insist they own the boat - and have the papers to prove it.

S1 • E20

Evil Spirit

Captain Wells discovers his old friend, the skipper of a rival schooner, has contracted a deadly tropical disease which he has spread among the natives with whom he has done business.

S1 • E21

Sky Spy

The Seaspray's crew finds a strange looking capsule floating in the ocean. Captain Wells discovers it was an orbiting camera recently fallen to earth and also learns that enemy agents are searching for the device.

S1 • E22

The Death Dancers

The crew of the Seaspray try to prevent a "payback murder" where one tribe kills a member of another whenever one of its members dies for any reason.

S1 • E23

Rain of Death

The Seaspray crew was looking forward to their New Zealand trout-fishing holiday until they discover that pollution has killed all the trout. Captain Wells believes the fish kill was caused by indiscriminate crop dusting by a fleet of planes owned by Clint Hardin.

S1 • E24

Deadly Magic

While in New Guinea waters, Captain Wells spots a column of smoke from a remote island that he interprets as a distress signal. Upon investigation, Wells and the Seaspray crew discover that a pair of white men searching for gold are forcing the natives to assist them by means of their magic tricks.

S1 • E25

Dangerous Waters

When Mike discovers an oyster bed which yields enormous pearls, his activities attract the attention of a deadly gang of pearl thieves.

S1 • E26

Shipwrecked

While battling a storm near the coast of New Guinea, the crew of the Seaspray receive a distress signal and sail to the rescue.

S1 • E27

The Black Sapphire

While visiting the farm of an old family friend, Sue Wells goes exploring and discovers a dying prospector in a remote cabin. The old man entrusts Sue with a note for a "Miss Daisy" and a valuable sapphire that he wants her to deliver for him.

S1 • E28

A Strange Charter

The Melbourne police ask Captain Wells to make excuses to delay sailing after a man charters the Seaspray to take him to Fiji.

S1 • E29

The Dangerous Trek

The crew of the Seaspray attempts to help a female sheep rancher whose neighbor is trying to force her to sell her farm by using crooked business tactics.

S1 • E30

A Deadly Game

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S1 • E31

Doublecross

Captain Wells and his family fish a man out of the Melbourne, Australia harbor. He claims that enemy agents are after him and he requests political asylum. In actuality, he's a jewel thief who double-crossed his partners and now both the police and his former accomplices are searching for him.

S1 • E32

Forgotten Island

The Wells family discovers an uncharted island. While exploring its interior, they are captured by descendants of The HMS Bounty's mutineers who insist that the Seaspray's crew remain on the island so their whereabouts will remain a secret. When Dan Wells attempts to escape, he and his companions are sentenced to death by the islanders' tribunal.