The Beachcomber

1962

The Beachcomber

7.2 | NR | en | Drama

The Beachcomber was an ITC Entertainment adventure TV series which ran for one series of 39 half-hour episodes in 1962. Narrated by Cameron Mitchell, the series followed a rich executive who retired from the rat-race to become a beachcomber on a small South Pacific island.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP39 Paradise Lost

Nov. 13,1962

A missionary's daughter falls in love with an amnesic, but her father questions the man's past. Jimmy: Carleton Carpenter. Liane: Anne Helm. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Snow: George Mitchell. Native: Lou English.

EP38 Roll of Thunder

Nov. 06,1962

Lackland helps the police search for dynamite peddlers. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Brink: Russ Bender. Tate: Wade Jones. Huckabee: Don Megowan.

EP37 A Rooster Named Red

Oct. 30,1962

A man leaves his daughter in the care of Huckabee, who wastes no time in turning the responsibility over to Lackland. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Lily: Marianna Hill. Dinty: Hal Baylor.

EP36 The Two-Sided Triangle

Oct. 23,1962

Knute Erickson's convinced Maria Mitsui is a fortune hunter and plots to expose her. Erickson: Walter Brooke. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Huckabee: Don Megowan. McBride: Alan Hale.

EP35 The Search for Robert Herrick

Oct. 16,1962

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EP34 The Ransom

Oct. 09,1962

Huckabee's boasts of wealth incite a stranger to seek easy money. Varda: Frank Silvera. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Tanya: Lisa Gaye. Jagat: Earl Parker. Constable: Joe Budd.

EP33 Man with a Guitar

Oct. 02,1962

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EP32 The Spaniard

Sep. 25,1962

Joaquin Perez claims his daughter has been kidnapped and asks Lackland to find her. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Gabrielle: Anita Sands. Riola: Happy Ison. Amkers: Grant Lockwood.

EP31 The Prodigal Pretender

Sep. 18,1962

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EP30 Long Live the Sultan

Sep. 11,1962

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EP29 Flight to Freedom

Sep. 04,1962

Lackland tries to help a sailor from behind the Iron Curtain who has jumped ship. Guben: Grant Lockwood. Krasny: Cesar Romero. Ilana: Frances Fong. Slovenz: Larry Chance. Garvey: Terence de Marney. Kollea: Santy Josol.

EP28 Tribal Law

Aug. 28,1962

The chief's brother has appendicitis---but it's a taboo to cut a man with a knife. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Wahilla: Gordon Kee. Mahkei: Arthur Batanides. Sartal: Allen Jaffe. Kahlana: Dana Ivey.

EP27 The Reward

Aug. 21,1962

Huckabee joins a police search for a murder suspect. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Dominguez: Frank Silvera. Selas: Michael Pate.

EP26 Devil in Paradise

Aug. 14,1962

Lackland takes a wounded youth to the island surgeon---then discovers the medic lost a hand during the war. Duval: John Vivyan. Martone: Michael Constantine. Taki: Mark Randall. Tara: Jill Chen. Mana: Alice Pruitt.

EP25 Home to Roost

Aug. 07,1962

Huckabee wagers Lackland's ketch---and loses. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Boyle: Hal Baylor. Diaz: Johnny Golden.

EP24 The Mask of Talugi

Jul. 31,1962

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EP23 The Fugitive

Jul. 24,1962

The day after a GI is married to a Polynesian girl, he's found murdered. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Tahia: Mary Stevens. Ross: Raymond Guth. Womack: Don O'Kelly. Kahiuti: Allen Jung. Lovaina: Anita Sands. Weldan: Warren Arnett.

EP22 The Day of the Whale

Jul. 17,1962

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EP21 Rongorongo Man

Jul. 10,1962

Hidden treasure is the lure when Maeva Ormsby and Carl Bensinger come to Amura in search of a Rongorongo man. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Maeva: Rhea Vernon. Bensinger: Charles Martin. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Kollea: Santy Josol. Hatura: Francis McDonald. Alfy: Bill Hess.

EP20 Mr. Winters

Jul. 03,1962

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EP19 Neilani

Jun. 26,1962

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EP18 Honest Larceny

Jun. 19,1962

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EP17 The Floating Fortune

Jun. 12,1962

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EP16 Empty Village

Jun. 05,1962

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EP15 Charlie Six Kids

May. 29,1962

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EP14 The Black Pearl

May. 22,1962

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EP13 Tambu

May. 15,1962

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EP12 Honor Bound

May. 08,1962

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EP11 Girl in Hiding

May. 01,1962

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EP10 The Larcenous Lover

Apr. 24,1962

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EP9 Death Do Us Part

Apr. 17,1962

Success has eluded artist Patrick Wrightwood and now his wild fits of temper are threatening his marriage. Peggy: Grace Raynor. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Butcher: Don Haggerty. Captain: Bob Cannon. Policeman: Art Spector.

EP8 The Taming of Andrew

Apr. 10,1962

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EP7 Captain Huckabee's Beard

Apr. 03,1962

Customs officers have a suspicion that a new arrival is a wanted thief. Howland: Hugh Sanders. Beth: Lisa Gaye. Huckabee: Don Megowan. Kollea: Santy Josol. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell.

EP6 The Chase

Mar. 27,1962

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EP5 Forbidden Island

Mar. 20,1962

Searching for a missing aviatrix, Lackland and a newspaperman meet hostile islanders. Davis: Warren Arnett. Borlund: Robert Cannon. Constance: Mary Sullivan. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell.

EP4 The Hijackers

Mar. 13,1962

Trader Peter Noord suspects his son has joined a band of pirates---who are hijacking his ships. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Carl: Wynn Pearce. Malola: Allen Jaffe. Sim: Al Ruscio. Lah-Ring: Arthur Batanides. Chris: Jim Ricketts. Kollea: Santy Josol.

EP3 Pat Hand

Mar. 06,1962

Lackland's evening at the Icehouse Bar is interrupted by a poker player itching for action. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Taffy: Laya Raki. Dibley: Dub Taylor.

EP2 The Shark Affair

Feb. 27,1962

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EP1 The Brooch

Feb. 20,1962

Lackland's nearly broke---and facing deportation. Lackland: Cameron Mitchell. Crippen: Sebastian Cabot. Mika: Rosael Lopez. Ah Ling: Benson Fong. Loeuwan: Wilton Graff. Mrs. Loeuwan: Dolores Donlong. Saluku: Frank Puglia.

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Cheyenne-Bodie Forty-four year old Cameron Mitchell played John Lackland. Lackland was an efficiency expert in San Francisco who apparently got fed up obsessing about worker productivity. Lackland now spent his days on a South Sea island being as unproductive as humanly possible.This 1962 syndicated show was produced by ITC ("The Saint"). "The Beachcomber" may have been inspired by the much more dramatically ambitious "Adventures in Paradise" (1959-1962). Mitchell was almost certainly a better actor than Gardner McKay, but somehow in this show he wasn't as much fun to watch.It might have been more interesting to follow John Lackland back in his efficiency expert days in San Franciso. I bet he lived in a great penthouse apartment, drove a cool sports car, dated glamorous woman, and solved fascinating problems for his employers. He was probably a much more dynamic hero in his working days than after he "retired" to the life of a lazy beachcomber.The executive producer of "The Beachcomber" was Robert Stambler, who went on to be a producer of "Hawaii 5-0". The producer was Nat Perrin, who was later writer/producer of "The Adams Family". Elmer Bernstein ("The Magnificent Seven") is credited with the theme music.The creator of "The Beachcomber" was Walter Brown Newman, who was nominated for an Oscar three times. Newman's films included "Ace in the Hole" (1951), "The Man With the Golden Arm" (1955), "Crime and Punishment, USA" (1959), "The Interns" (1962), and "Cat Ballou" (1966). He is said to have worked on the script for "The Magnificent Seven". He also received an Emmy nomination for an episode of "The Richard Boone Show" (1963). A very interesting talent. I'd like to know more about him. "The Beachcomber" ran for 39 episodes. Each episode of the adventure series was 30 minutes.What the series needed was a strong co-star for Cameron Mitchell to play off of. In episode 18, forty year old Don Megowan joined the cast as Captain Huckabee. (Huckabee had been played in an earlier episode by Adam West.) Near the end of the run, Megowan was starring in episodes alone. Apparently Mitchell got tired of the series. Megowan was 6 feet 6 inches tall and ruggedly handsome. Megowan looked a lot like Rod Cameron, whose brother he played in "The Man Who Died Twice" (1958). "The Beachcomber" was one of Megowan's rare leading man performances, and he was very good.Cameron Mitchell had been a bombardier during World War ll. In 1948 (at age 30) he was in the original Broadway production of "Death of a Salesman" with Lee J. Cobb, Mildred Dunnock, and Arthur Kennedy. He was a fine contract player at 20th Centuury Fox during the 1950's. One of his best films there was in Martin Ritt's "No Down Payment", where he played Troy Boone, Joanne Woodward's disturbed husband.Perhaps Mitchell's greatest performance was in "Monkey on My Back" (1957). Mitchell played boxer Barney Ross who develops a drug habit during World War II. Andre De Toth directed the film based on Ross' book.In the early 1970's I saw Mitchell on "The Merv Griffin Show" where he claimed he had turned down the lead in "The French Connection" because he didn't like the script. But it is hard to believe Cameron turned down much work. Unlike beachcomber John Lackland, Cameron Mitchell never stopped working.