History Series / AdamAdamantLives

* Fangirl: Georgina Jones grew up on stories of Adam and constantly stalks him.

* ValuesDissonance: Part of the appeal of the show is that, unlike other characters who have been transported to the future, Adam dislikes the 60s and never fully adjusts to it.

''Adam Adamant Lives!'' was the BBC's answer to ''Series/TheAvengers'', but less successful. Produced in black and white, it ran for two seasons from 1966 to 1967. Repeats have been rare, but BBC 4 now shows the occasional episode. All of the surviving episodes were released on DVD in 2006, with script PDFs for the missing ones.

* FakedRipVanWinkle (done in reverse in the episode "A Slight Case Of Reincarnation")

* FemmeFatale: Almost all of the women Adam meets, with the exception of Georgina. His belief in the purity of womanhood always allows them to get the better of him.

''Adam Adamant Lives!'' was the BBC's answer to ''Series/TheAvengers'', but less successful. Produced in black and white, it ran for two seasons from 1966 to 1967. Repeats have been rare, but BBC 4 now shows the occasional episode.

In the pilot, the eponymous [[TheEdwardianEra Edwardian]] gentleman adventurer (played by Gerald Harper) was frozen in a block of ice by his nemesis The Face. 64 years later he was dug up by some workmen and thawed out, not much the worse for wear but very disoriented. Georgina Jones (Juliet Harmer), a swinging chick and dedicated Adamant fan, found him wandering around central London and took him home. Saving her from a murderous protection racket was his first step in resuming his adventuring career.

Subsequent episodes established more of a formula. Either Adam or Georgina would stumble upon a plot, usually involving some technofantasy element (clothes that kill their wearers, washing powder with an addictive scent, etc.). Adam would forbid Georgina to investigate, but she would anyway. Then he would have to rescue her as well as solving the case. In the better stories they would solve it together.

* ArchEnemy: The Face

* FictionalCounterpart - One episode had a club with girls with PlayboyBunny-like outfits (but [[FluffyFashionFeathers trimmed with feathers]] instead of ears and a tail).

* HumanPopsicle - the main concept
* MayContainEvil ("The Sweet Smell of Disaster")
* MissingEpisode (most of the second season and part of the first were lost in a BBC archive purge)

* ReligionOfEvil
* SwordCane (Adam's trademark weapon)

* Fangirl: Georgina Jones grew up on stories of Adam and constantly stalks him; both because he's too polite and because he's grown somewhat fond of her, he endures her constant company.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: Adam's intelligence quotient, perception, and many of his skills seem to frequently increased or decreased as the plot demands; something he didn't fall for in a previous episode, he falls for in another, especially when it comes to suspecting women.

* CombatPragmatist: For a gentleman with a high moral code in most things, Adam can be quite the dirty fighter, from trashcan lids to chairs, from kicking a man when he's down to [[WouldHitAGirl hitting a woman]] (only if she is directly about to kill someone else), he'll usually take a villain down by whatever means possible.

* CombatPragmatist: For a gentleman with a high moral code in most things, Adam can be quite the dirty fighter, from trashcan lids to chairs, from kicking a man when he's down to [[WouldHitAGirl hitting a woman]] (only if she is directly about to kill someone else), he'll take you down by whatever means possible.

* Fangirl: Georgina Jones grew up on stories of Adam and constantly stalks him, to the extreme of following him to Japan.

* CombatPragmatist: For a gentleman with a high moral code in most things, Adam can be quite the dirty fighter, from trashcan lids to chairs, from kicking a man when he's down to [[WillHitAWoman hitting a woman]] (only if she is directly about to kill someone else), he'll take you down by whatever means possible.

* CelibateHero: Between his code of chivalry and a bad romantic past, Adam consistantly avoids the advances women, and the few times he is interested in someone they [[DatingCatwoman are working for the villain]] in the episode.

* AchillesHeel: Despite it being the reason he got put in a block of ice in the first place Adam cannot resist believing and helping a DistressedDamsel, and has a tendency to be somewhat less suspicious of women in general.
* CelibateHero: Between his code of chivalry and a bad romantic past, Adam consistantly avoids the advances women.

* DecoyDamsel

* GoodIsOldFashioned: Played straight

* AchillesHeel: Adam's tendency to be a fraction less suspicious of the fair sex