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EPISODES: 33,
including pilot.
LENGTH: 30
Mins.
FORMAT: Colour, Film.
(Pilot: Mono, Film).
PRODUCTION:
1965
- 1966 Pacific Films Production, in association with Screen
Gems.
RUNNING
ORDER: Official.
NETWORK: ABC.
CAST:
Captain
Dan Wells.......WALTER BROWN
Sue Wells.......SUSAN
HAWORTH
Mike Wells.......GARY GRAY
Willyum
Lesi.......LEONE LESIANAWAI
Noah Wells.......RODNEY PEARLMAN
(Eps 1 - 7)
CREW:
Producer.......ROGER
MIRAMS
Production Consultant.......EDDIE DAVIS
Production
Manager.......Chris
Stewart
Music.......Eric
Gross (& John Egginton)
Script
Editor.......BILL STRUTTON
Assistant Directors.......David
Morgan
.......DAVID SEIDLER
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EPISODE
TITLES
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Mutiny On The Seaspray Pilot
episode
1.
Voyage Into Danger
2. Survival
3. Battle Of Copra
Island
4. Stalemate
5. Trapped
6. Forgotten
Island
7. The Power Of Davu
8. The Hostages
9. The
Hunt
10. Smuggled Cargo
11. The Switch
12. Haunted
Island
13. Loaded Coconut
14. Bareknuckle Bay
15.
The Fugitive
16. The Monster Of Tauro
17. The Treasure
Of Ruala
18. The Cave Of Death
19. The Surfers
20.
Three Mile Limit
21. The Evil Spirit
22. Sky Spy
23.
The Death Dancers
24. Rain Of Death
25. Deadly Magic
26.
Dangerous Waters
27. Shipwrecked
28. Black Sapphire
29.
A Strange Charter
30. Dangerous Trek
31. A Deadly
Game
32. Double Cross
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THE
CRUISE OF THE SEASPRAY
Mutiny
On The Seaspray
Capt.
Wilder.......Joe McCormick
Policeman.......Leone
Lesianawai
Script.......Robert
Summerfield
Director.......Joe McCormick
Synopsis:
When Noah is confined to his room after breaking the last radio
valve on the Seaspray, he jokingly sends out a rescue note in a
bottle saying he is being kept prisoner. He is unaware that
Artoo, son of a native chief on an island they have just visited,
has stowed away, and the chief as well as the Fiji police take the
note seriously. The Seaspray is intercepted and Captain
Wilder is arrested for kidnapping.
Notes: Pilot
episode, filmed in black and white. Series title: The
Cruise Of The Seaspray.
Features Joe McCormick as the ship's American captain Dan Wilder,
with Susan Haworth, Gary Gray and Rodney Pearlman as his
children. Leonei Lesianawai appears in a cameo role as his
real-life character, a Fijian policeman.
Airdate: Never
screened.
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Pilot
ep: Susan Haworth and Joe McCormick
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1. Voyage Into Danger
.......Liza
Goddard
.......Peter Aanensen
.......Jack
Allen
.......John Gray
.......Lois Ramsey
.......Barbara
Joss
Script.......David Seidler
Director.......Joe
McCormick
Synopsis: Captain Wells discovers that
the Seaspray's rudder requires an overhaul and he makes for the
nearest port. En route, Willyum notices a rowboat adrift, and
upon a closer look, they discover that there are two unconscious
men in it. The two men turn out to be desperate criminals who
try to hijack the Seaspray.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 27/3/67
Adelaide & SA regional 10/4/67
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Ep.
1: Susan Haworth, Gary Gray, Walter Brown, Leone Lesianawai,
Rodney Pearlman, Peter Aanensen and John Gray
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2. Survival
Flight
Officer Max Barker.......John Gregg
Wing Commander
West.......Leslie Wright
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Joe McCormick
Synopsis:
Captain Wells lands on a deserted island to replenish the
Seaspray's water supply when suddenly a shot rings out. The
Seaspray crew come across a man left on the island for survival
training, and they also find evidence of Japanese soldiers who are
unaware that that the war has ended.
Airdate:
Adelaide
& SA regional 11/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 13/4/67
3.
Battle Of Copra Island
Charlie
Watts.......Eric Reiman
Script.......David
Seidler
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
When the Seaspray arrives at a Fijian copra plantation island,
Captain Wells and his crew see a young Fijian on shore yelling for
help. Upon investigating, Wells and his sons are held
prisoner by Charlie Watts, the corrupt manager of the plantation,
who rules his workers by force. He is also holding the
plantation's owner prisoner, but Wells plans an escape and gathers
the natives on the island to overpower Watts.
Notes:
Filmed in Fiji.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 25/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 22/5/67
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Ep.
2: John Gregg and Walter Brown
Walter
Brown and Gary Gray.
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4. Stalemate
John
Miller.......Lloyd Lamble
Mildred Miller.......Diana
Davidson
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
After a bank robbery on the Fijian island of Levuka, police
suspect that the bandits may attempt to use the Seaspray as a
means of escape. When some thugs attack Captain Wells, he is
assisted by John Miller, a tourist. Wells offers Miller and
his wife passage, but Noah finds money from the robbery in their
cabin, proving that Miller is in fact the robber. Miller
holds Wells at gunpoint, but a stalemate develops when Wells
threatens to tip the money overboard.
Notes: Filmed in
Fiji.
Airdate:
Adelaide
& SA regional 12/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 27/4/67
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Susan
Haworth, Rodney Pearlman, Leone Lesianawai, Gary Gray and Walter
Brown
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5. Trapped
Shopkeeper.......Bachtava
Patek
Fortune teller.......Bidar Singh
Script.......John
Pinkney
Director.......David Baker
Synopsis:
The Wells children are shopping in the Fijian town of Lavtoka when
they are told by a strange fortune-teller to beware of danger
lurking everywhere. Subsequently the Seaspray crew explore
an island laced with booby-traps set by Nazis.
Notes:
Filmed in Fiji.
Airdate:
Adelaide
& SA regional 13/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 26/4/67
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Ep.
5: Gary Gray, Susan Haworth and Rodney Pearlman
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6. Forgotten Island
Robert.......David
Copping
Tobias.......Vaughan Tracey
Nathan.......Kit
Taylor
Benjamin.......Paul Stockman
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......David Baker
Synopsis:
On an uncharted Pacific isle, Captain Wells and his family
encounter descendants of some survivors of the ‘Bounty’
mutiny.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 11/5/67
7.
The Power Of Davu
Script.......David
Seidler
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
On a remote Fijian island, Captain Well's friend Chief Polandi
tells him that Davu, the village witch doctor, is under the
control of a white man who wants possession of the island's rich
minerals.
Notes: Final episode featuring Rodney
Pearlman.
Airdate:
Adelaide
& SA regional 17/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 2/5/67
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Gary
Gray, Rodney Pearlman and Susan Haworth
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8. The Hostages
Criminal.......Paul
Karo
John Hansell.......Kit Denton
Inspector.......G. B.
Wilson
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
Mike and Sue are left to care for an injured man they find on a
New Zealand glacier, while Captain Wells and Willyum go for help.
The man turns out to be a criminal fugitive who takes Mike and Sue
hostage.
Notes: Filmed in New Zealand, with extensive
scenes shot on the Tasman Glacier on the south island.
Airdate:
Adelaide & SA regional 18/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 3/5/67
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Ep.
8: Walter Brown, Susan Haworth and Leone Lesianawai
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9. The Hunt
Script.......David
Seidler
Director.......Joe McCormick
Synopsis:
When the crew of the Seaspray visit a gold mine in Fiji, Willyum
sees two thieves holding up the manager.
Notes: Filmed
in Fiji.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 4/5/67
10.
Smuggled Cargo
Script.......David
Seidler
Director.......Joe McCormick
Synopsis:
Captain Wells provides passage to an Oriental gentleman who will
not discuss the details of his trip other than his destination -
Kontau.
Airdate:
Brisbane
&
QLD regional 6/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 8/5/67
|
Susan
Haworth and Gary Gray
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11. The Switch
Stuart
McComm.......Mark Albiston
Sandy.......David Morgan
Insp.
Dales.......Paul Stockman
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
The crew of the Seaspray become involved with horse thieves when
they arrive in Wellington, New Zealand.
Notes: Filmed
in Wellington, New Zealand.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 17/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
26/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 10/5/67
12.
Haunted Island
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......David Baker
Synopsis:
The Seaspray has reached an exotic, isolated island. When Captain
Wells hears that the island is said to be haunted, he decides to
explore it. He hears strange shrieks, groans and moans
everywhere.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 18/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
27/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 11/5/67
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Ep.
11: David Morgan and Gary Gray
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13. Loaded Coconut
Script.......John
Sherman
Director.......David Baker
Synopsis: Commissioned
to carry coconuts from a Fijian plantation, Captain Wells learns
he has been given the job to break the monopoly of Captain
Bracken, who has terrorised all other shipping off the route. The
Seaspray later narrowly survives an attempted bombing.
Notes:
Filmed in Fiji.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 28/3/67
Sydney & NSW regional
3/4/67
Canberra 3/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
10/4/67
14.
Bareknuckle Bay
Script.......Colin
Free
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
Captain Wells and his family are shocked by the hostile reception
they are given by the inhabitants of Bareknuckle Bay, a small
fishing village in New Zealand.
Notes: Filmed in New
Zealand.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 29/3/67
Sydney & NSW regional
4/4/67
Canberra 4/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
11/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 24/5/67
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Susan
Haworth
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15. The Fugitive
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: Captain
Wells saves the life of an animal lover, and is puzzled when an
old man breaks into the Seaspray galley. He learns later that
the man has been shooting at loggers, and that the loggers are
about to hunt him down.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 30/3/67
Sydney & NSW regional
5/4/67
Canberra 5/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
12/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 26/4/67
16.
The Monster Of Tauro
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: Captain
Wells and his crew tangle with a gang of kidnappers who use a
submarine to abduct a famous scientist from a pleasure
cruiser.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 3/4/67
Sydney & NSW regional 6/4/67
Canberra
6/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 27/4/67
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Walter
Brown and Susan Haworth
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17. The Treasure Of Ruala
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: On
a Fijian island, Captain Wells and his crew encounter a
dictatorial woman missionary, whose ideas of Christian charity are
backed by a loaded rifle.
Notes: Filmed in
Fiji.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 4/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
17/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 1/5/67
18.
The Cave Of Death
Script.......John
Warwick
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
In New Guinea waters, Captain Wells and his crew visit an island
and have a dangerous adventure when they find out why it got the
name of 'Island of the Angry God'.
Notes: Filmed in New
Guinea.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 5/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
18/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 2/5/67
|
Susan
Haworth
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19. The Surfers
Mona.......June
Thody
John.......Ken
Shorter
John's
accomplice.......Sandy
Harbutt
Captain Alexander.......Alex
Mozart
Constable.......Peter Johnson
Sheila
on beach.......Jan Rennison
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
When the Seaspray arrives in Sydney, Australia, Sue and Mike head
for Bondi Beach. There they meet a girl called Mona, who teaches
them surfing, and who is also involved in the theft of a valuable
art collection.
Notes: Filmed in Sydney, Australia.
Guest actor June Thody boasted that she neither fell in the water
nor got seasick, but was surprised at being cast as a girl surfie:
"They had to get a stand-in to do the board-riding scenes,"
she said.8
Airdate:
Brisbane
&
QLD regional 20/4/67
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 1/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 3/5/67
20.
Three Mile Limit
Bill
Tanner.......Don Philps
Insp. Baker.......Ron
Roberts
Tanner's accomplice.......John Steen
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: Captain
Wells finds that a stranger has taken over the Seaspray and
re-named it as part of a plot to abduct a powerful native leader
for ransom.
Notes:
Filmed in New Guinea.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 6/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
19/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 4/5/67
|
Gary
Gray, Walter Brown and Leone Lesianawai
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21. The Evil Spirit
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: The
crew of the Tiara feel that Captain Parker is jinxed because so
many natives have fallen sick in his presence. Captain Wells
finds that Parker, an old friend of his, has a serious tropical
fever.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 10/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
24/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 8/5/67
22.
Sky Spy
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: When
the Seaspray picks a stranded space capsule out of the ocean,
Captain Wells learns that it is actually a secret spy camera, and
it soon becomes apparent that certain foreign powers desperately
want it.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 11/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
25/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 9/5/67
|
Leone
Lesianawai, Susan Haworth and Gary Gray
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23. The Death Dancers
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
In New Guinea, Dan Wells, Mike and Sue try to prevent another
occurrence of 'payback murder', the native belief that if a
tribesman dies from any cause, a member of another tribe must be
killed in balance.
Notes: Filmed in New
Guinea.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 12/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
1/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 15/5/67
24.
Rain Of Death
.......Clare
Dunne
Script.......Bill Strutton & David
Seidler
Director.......David Baker
Synopsis:
While trout fishing in New Zealand, Captain Wells and his crew
realise that pollution has killed all the fish. An angry Wells
becomes interested in the activities of Clint Hardin, who owns a
fleet of crop-dusting planes.
Notes: Filmed in New
Zealand.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 19/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 16/5/67
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Walter
Brown, Susan Haworth, Gary Gray and Leone Lesianawai
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25. Deadly Magic
Taylor.......Brian
James
Fred.......Dennis Miller
Native.......Jethro
Mindring
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
As the Seaspray sails along the New Guinea coast, Captain Wells
sees smoke rising from a remote island and, thinking it may be a
distress signal, decides to investigate. Wells discovers two
white men after gold on the island, who are controlling the
natives through fear by the use of ‘magic’
tricks.
Notes: Filmed in New Guinea.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 15/5/67
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Ep.
25: Brian James and Dennis Miller
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26. Dangerous Waters
Script.......Bill
Strutton & Eddie Davis
Director.......David
Baker
Synopsis: When the Seaspray crew find
several large pearls in oysters for which Mike had dived, they
become involved with a gang of pearl thieves.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 24/4/67
Brisbane & QLD regional
4/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 18/5/67
27.
Shipwrecked
Script.......William
Manville
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
During a storm at sea near New Guinea, the crew of the Seaspray
hear a distress call on the radio.
Notes: Filmed in New
Guinea.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 9/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 23/5/67
|
Gary
Gray and Walter Brown
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28. Black Sapphire
Script.......Bill
Strutton
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: After
the Wells family arrive at the farm of their friend Tim Mitchell,
Sue discovers a dying prospector in a lonely cabin. He gives
her a note for a 'Miss Daisy' and a valuable sapphire.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 16/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 25/5/67
29.
A Strange Charter
.......Terry
McDermott
.......Keith Eden
.......Mark
Edwards
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: In
Melbourne, Australia, after a man named Charlton has chartered the
Seaspray for a voyage to Fiji, the police ask Captain Wells to
detain him as long as he can.
Notes: Filmed in
Melbourne, Australia.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 20/4/67
Adelaide & SA regional 17/5/67
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Walter
Brown, Gary Gray and Leone Lesianawai.
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30. Dangerous Trek
Carter.......Bob
Haddow
Miss Douglas.......June Campbell
Cookie.......David
Yorston
Jeremy.......Ray Caird
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis:
In New Zealand's McKenzie country, the Seaspray crew help a woman
sheep farmer defeat another who is using underhand methods to try
and squeeze her out of business.
Notes: Filmed in New
Zealand.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 17/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 29/5/67
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Ep.
30: June Campbell and Susan Haworth
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31. A Deadly Game
.......Chips
Rafferty
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......Eddie Davis
Synopsis: Off
Eden on the New South Wales south coast in Australia, the Seaspray
crew pick up a bundle of counterfeit money that brings them
nothing but trouble.
Notes: Filmed in New South Wales,
Australia.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 18/5/67
Adelaide & SA regional 30/5/67
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Leone
Lesianawai, Walter Brown, Susan Haworth and Gary Gray.
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32. Double Cross
Laslo
Brerie.......Peter Williams
Thomas Kovan.......Max Bruch
Det.
Insp. Creyton.......Stewart Weller
Det. Sgt.
Compton.......Telford Jackson
Criminal.......Peter
Armstrong
Policeman.......John Bhore
Script.......Robert
Mansfield
Director.......Rex Lipton
Synopsis:
In Melbourne, Australia, the crew of the Seaspray pick a foreign
man out of the harbour, and he claims that his country's secret
police are after him and says he wants political asylum in
Australia. The Seaspray crew and the police are led on a
merry chase when it is found out the man is a jewel thief who has
double-crossed his accomplices.
Notes: Filmed in
Melbourne, Australia.
Airdate:
Melbourne
&
VIC regional 10/5/67
8.
TV Times, June 8, 1966.
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Ep.
32: Leone Lesianawai and Peter Williams
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