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* BondOneLiner: Adam, after incapacitating an assassin lurking in a wax exhibition: "By the way, one of your waxworks seems to have melted a little."

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* BondOneLiner: Adam, after Adam uses them from time to time.
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incapacitating an assassin lurking in a wax exhibition: "By the way, one of your waxworks seems to have melted a little."
** On fatally stabbing a minor henchman who tried to ambush him: "If you cannot live like a man, you can at least die like one.
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* CatFight: The DesignatedGirlFight in "The Terribly Happy Undertakers" verges on one, particularly since one combatant is in her underwear at the time.

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* CatFight: The DesignatedGirlFight in "The Terribly Happy Undertakers" Embalmers" verges on one, particularly since one combatant is in her underwear at the time.



* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Sweet Smell of Disaster" and "The Terribly Happy Undertakers", Adam fights the villain while Georgina tackles his female accomplice.

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* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Sweet Smell of Disaster" and "The Terribly Happy Undertakers", Embalmers", Adam fights the villain while Georgina tackles his female accomplice.

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* CatFight: The DesignatedGirlFight in "The Terribly Happy Undertakers" verges on one, particularly since one combatant is in her underwear at the time.



* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Sweet Smell of Disaster", Adam fights the villain while Georgina tackles his female accomplice.

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* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Sweet Smell of Disaster", Disaster" and "The Terribly Happy Undertakers", Adam fights the villain while Georgina tackles his female accomplice.

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* DecoyDamsel: Often used successfully against Adam, and is perhaps his only AchillesHeel

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* DecoyDamsel: Often used successfully against Adam, and is perhaps his only AchillesHeelAchillesHeel.
* DescriptionCut: Adam refers to Georgina as a 'poor, frail, defenceless girl.' Immediate cut to her smashing a teapot over her captor's head and making her escape.
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* DesignatedGirlFight: In "The Sweet Smell of Disaster", Adam fights the villain while Georgina tackles his female accomplice.
* DirtForcefield: Soapsuds rather than dirt, but in the final fight of "The Sweet Smell of Disaster", the foam disappears instantly from Georgina's clothes (and no-one else's) whenever she passes through a doorway.


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* TelepathicSprinklers: Averted in "The Sweet Smell of Disaster" -- setting off one sprinkler has no effect outside the room it's in.
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* OnceAnEpisode: In most of the first series episodes, whenever Adam is knocked out we see a montage of his original defeat and hear Louise saying "So clever, yet so vulnerable... so vulnerable..."

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* OnceAnEpisode: In most of the first series episodes, whenever Adam is knocked out we see a montage of his original defeat and hear Louise saying "So clever, yet but oh, so vulnerable... so vulnerable..."
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* VanityLicensePlate: Adam's is AA 1000.
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* BondOneLiner: Adam, after incapacitating an assassin lurking in a wax exhibition: "By the way, one of your waxworks seems to have melted a little."

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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: In "Death By Appointment Only", Adam uses a chair to fend off a villain who has stolen his SwordCane.



* PrettyInMink: Jones wears a white fox stole when she infiltrates and evil escort service.

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* PrettyInMink: Jones wears a white fox stole when she infiltrates and an evil escort service.service in "Death By Appointment Only".
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* VillainousIncest: Played with in "The Doomsday Plan". When Doctor Mort's daughter kisses him in a most un-daughterly fashion, Adam is clearly shocked and objects that he is is her father. The girl then laughs and says she is not really his daughter, but that she just plays the role as the public has expectations.
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* HighVoltageDeath: Happens to at least two villains. Melville in "Sing a Song of Danger" is killed when he spears a high voltage cable with his sword cane, and Dr. Mort collides with a generator while attempting to wrestle Adam in "The Doomsday Plan".
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* MindControlMusic: The villains in "Sing a Song of Danger" plan to use a subliminal message embedded in records to cause fans to rob banks and deliver the money to them through fan clubs. They use another album to try to compel Adam to murder Georgia.

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* MindControlMusic: The villains in "Sing a Song of Danger" plan to use a subliminal message embedded in records to cause fans to rob banks and deliver the money to them through fan clubs. They use another album to try to compel Adam to murder Georgia.Georgina.
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* BrownNote: Aside from developing MindControlMusic, the evil sound engineer Carson in "Sing a Song of Danger" is developing a sound bomb that will kill through applied sonics. He attempts to test it on Adam, Georgina and Simms.


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* MindControlMusic: The villains in "Sing a Song of Danger" plan to use a subliminal message embedded in records to cause fans to rob banks and deliver the money to them through fan clubs. They use another album to try to compel Adam to murder Georgia.
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* DuelToTheDeath: With foils in "The Terribly Happy Embalmers", with a fellow SwordCane carrier in "Sing a Song of Murder", and with fists in "Beauty is an Ugly Word".

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* DuelToTheDeath: With foils rapiers in "The Terribly Happy Embalmers", with a fellow SwordCane carrier in "Sing a Song of Murder", and with fists in "Beauty is an Ugly Word".
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* GoodIsNotSoft: Adam has no compunction for [[VigilanteExecution cold-bloodedly killing villains]] and will do so without a second thought.

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* GoodIsNotSoft: Adam has no compunction for [[VigilanteExecution cold-bloodedly killing villains]] villains and will do so without a second thought.

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* 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 are working for the villain in the episode.

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


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** Adam himself towards Georgina, villains, and the time he finds himself in.


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* GoodIsNotSoft: Adam has no compunction for [[VigilanteExecution cold-bloodedly killing villains]] and will do so without a second thought.
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* TrappedByGamblingDebts: Happens to the Arab prince in "Allah Is Not Always With You". the entire scheme was a set-up to get him to sign an IOU that would allow the villain to blackmail him once he inherited the throne.
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* HollywoodSatanism: In "The Last Sacrifice", Adam battles a British lord who is running a satanist cult complete with hooded robes, orgies and human sacrifice. He is mostly using it as a source of blackmail, but Adam mentions that his family has a history of satanism cropping up every third generation.
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* HumanSacrifice: In "The Last Sacrifice", a lord runs a satanic cult which conducts human sacrifices. He films prominent citizens being involved in the rituals and then uses it to blackmail them.
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* MsFanservice: Georgina


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* WithMyHandsTied: In "Allah Is Not Always With You", Adam defeats a knife-wielding thug despite being tied to a chair at the time.
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* FanServiceWithASmile: The costumes of the 'Fluffies' who work in The Fluffy Club in "Allah Is Not Always With You". Naturally, Georgina goes undercover as one.
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* ItWillNeverCatchOn: Adam was friends with Winston Churchill when they were children. He "never thought [Churchill] would amount to anything."
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* SealedGoodInACan: The Face sealed Adam away in the ice as a [[FateWorseThanDeath final and eternal punishment of living death]] for meddling in his plans.
** SealedEvilInACan: The Face has himself frozen at some point after he froze Adam, when he had better perfected his technique and after his plans to throw the world into utter self-destructive chaos (implied to be the World Wars) is thwarted seals himself away only to be permanently woken a year after Adam is freed.
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* TheComicallySerious: Adam when trying to understand '60s concepts, inventions, and slang.
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* TheGadfly: Georgina likes to say and do "improper" things to shock Adam.


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* InnocentBigot: While Adam was pretty advanced for his time and class, he still holds many prejudices and negative attitudes of his time and upbringing.
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* BadassCape: Adam.

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* BadassCape: Adam.Adam's opera cape.
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** Adam gets in on this as well if a villain starts it.
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''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.

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''Adam Adamant Lives!'' was the BBC's Creator/TheBBC'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.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charity, Faith, and Hope in "The League of Uncharitable Ladies"

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Charity, Faith, and Hope in "The League of Uncharitable Ladies"Ladies".

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-->''"It appears that 1966 has a great deal of capacity for a man of my talents."''

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-->''"It [[quoteright:320:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/adam_adamant_lives_8311.jpg]]
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->''"It
appears that 1966 has a great deal of capacity for a man of my talents."''



!!''Adam Adamant Lives!'' provides examples of:
* AGodAmI: Some of the villains.

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!!''Adam Adamant Lives!'' provides examples of:
* AGodAmI: Some of the villains.
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* AGodAmI: Some of the villains.

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