The Islanders
Premiered: Oct 02, 1960 | 1 seasons | 26 episodes
Popularity: 3
| Creator: | Richard L. Bare |
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| The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane Brewster. At the beginning of the series, Sandy Wade and Zack Malloy, co-owners of a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, start their one-plane airline in the Moluccas or Spice Islands of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. Throughout the series they experience a variety of adventures where seemingly harmless charter flights put them into danger. They are frequently aided in their endeavours by the unusually-named Wilhelmina ”Steamboat Willy” Vanderveer and Shipwreck Callighan. The Islanders, primarily sponsored by Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield cigarettes, aired at 9:30 Eastern time on Sunday evenings opposite The Jack Benny Program and Candid Camera on CBS and the second half of The Dinah Shore Show and the last season of The Loretta Young Show on NBC. William Reynolds stated in an interview, "The series went from being sort of like a Terry and the Pirates or a Maverick type of concept to becoming just a bunch of people skulking around. It wasn't very good." After The Islanders, Philbrook co-starred in the 1962-1963 season as a magazine publisher and the love interest of Loretta Young in her short-lived The New Loretta Young Show, which aired Mondays on CBS. Reynolds went on to star in two other ABC series,The Gallant Men, a World War II series, and The FBI with Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Diane Brewster | Wilhelmina 'Steamboat Willy' Vanderveer | 26 |
| James Philbrook | Zack Malloy | 26 |
| William Reynolds | Sandy Wade | 26 |
| Walter Burke | Mesrob | 2 |
| Charles Bronson | Dutch Malkin | 1 |
| Peter Falk | Hooker | 1 |
| Suzanne Pleshette | Iris | 1 |
| James Hong | Wu Pan | 1 |
| Fay Wray | Mrs. Staunton | 1 |
| Steven Geray | Marek | 1 |
| Anthony Caruso | Velde | 1 |
| Gena Rowlands | Pepper Mint | 1 |
| Darren McGavin | Phil | 1 |
| George Takei | Yung | 1 |
| Elisha Cook Jr. | Tomas | 1 |
| J. Pat O'Malley | James J. Lacey | 1 |
| Martin Landau | Arnie | 1 |
| Jack Weston | 1 | |
| Norma Crane | Sarah | 1 |
| Thomas Mitchell | Tom Todd | 1 |
| E.G. Marshall | Curt Cober | 1 |
| Gia Scala | Rhea | 1 |
| John Abbott | Harwood Gones | 1 |
| Sam Jaffe | Papa Mathews | 1 |
| Henry Silva | Helmuth Mansing | 1 |
| Glenda Farrell | Mrs. Dan King | 1 |
| Eduardo Ciannelli | Sebastian | 1 |
| Aki Aleong | Shoul Lee | 1 |
| Aki Aleong | Danny Koo | 1 |
| George Macready | Harja | 1 |
| Emile Meyer | Gard | 1 |
| Myron Healey | Hightower | 1 |
| Peter Whitney | Carruthers | 1 |
| Luana Anders | Trina | 1 |
| Christopher Dark | Dante | 1 |
| Mario Alcalde | Captain Kardashian | 1 |
| Werner Klemperer | Michel Serati | 1 |
| Keenan Wynn | Agent Blake | 1 |
| Bert Remsen | Noel Parkinson | 1 |
| Philip Ahn | Governor Galli | 1 |
| Gloria Talbott | Maria Mosner | 1 |
| Frank De Kova | Carlos Roca | 1 |
| Henry Daniell | Jarden | 1 |
| Sebastian Cabot | Eric Whitaker | 1 |
| Hans Conried | Inspector Gardeva | 1 |
| Michael Pate | Moribus | 1 |
| Howard St. John | John Marston | 1 |
| Betty Garde | Mme. Arbedutian | 1 |
| Terence de Marney | Rooster | 1 |
| Milton Parsons | Wallaby Will | 1 |
| Sean McClory | Quinn | 1 |
| Reggie Nalder | Mr. Sudraka | 1 |
| Gigi Perreau | Julie Staunton | 1 |
| Luther Adler | Frank Fellino | 1 |
| Russell Collins | 1 | |
| Paul Lambert | Artinas | 1 |
| John Bryant | Maxwell | 1 |
| Teru Shimada | Kam Chuh | 1 |
| Robin Hughes | Colonel Arthur Munson | 1 |
| George Dolenz | Carl Baurel | 1 |
| Patrick Westwood | Rama Singh | 1 |
| Jay Novello | 1 | |
| Benson Fong | O'Hara | 1 |
| Henry Corden | Lasser | 1 |
| Leonard Strong | General Kumari | 1 |
| Noel Drayton | Dr. Witfield | 1 |