Adam
Adamant Lives!
Gerald
Harper stars as the Edwardian crime-fighter Adam Adamant, in Adam Adamant
Lives! which ran on BBC Television from 1966 until 1967. Adamant has
for the past sixty-four years been in suspended-animation after being injected
with a drug which paralysed him. He had then been frozen in a block of ice by
his arch-nemesis The Face (Peter Ducrow).
In
1966, a group of demolition workers discover Adam in his frozen state in
the building where he has languished for over half a century. Adam is revived
and later learns that The Face has also made the transition into the middle
of the twentieth century
Following
the huge success of Danger Man and The Saint on ITV, the BBC came
up with Adam Adamant Lives! This short-lived series followed the exploits
of Adam Llewellyn De Vere Adamant (Gerald Harper) who awakens from his
frozen state to find he has been transported in time from his Edwardian era into
a society which seems to be its antithesis. The storylines for the series rely
to a large degree on the contrasting juxtaposition of the two.
