The Adventures of Hiram Holliday

  • Premiered: Oct 1956
  • Episodes: 22
  • Followers: 1
  • Ended
  • NBC
  • Unknown
  • Adventure Comedy

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Season 1
1x1
Attache Case
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 03, 1956
A mild-mannered newspaper proofreader saves his publisher from a disastrous libel suit when he finds a misplaced comma; the grateful publisher rewards Hiram with an around-the-world tour.
1x2
Lapidary Wheel
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 10, 1956
On the first leg of their around-the-world tour Hiram and Ainslie make landfall in England prior to traveling to Scotland; on a train the two men become involved with a murder, a stolen gem and a poisonous snake.
1x3
False Monarch
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 17, 1956
During his visit to Scotland, Hiram is convinced to impersonate the King of Rovaki, who looks exactly like the American tourist; Hiram discovers the reason for the identity change after someone attempts to kill him.
1x4
The Hollow Umbrella
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 24, 1956
After finding a message in the hollow handle of his umbrella, Hiram finds himself chased by foreign spies and the Paris police; Hiram performs in a circus as a trapeze artist and an exotic dancer to throw his pursuers off his trail.
1x5
The Sea Cucumber
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 31, 1956
Foreign agents are convinced that Hiram's search for an underwater plant is a cover for espionage. Sebastian Cabot.
1x6
Gibraltar Road
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 07, 1956
Hiram's efforts to study the wildlife on the Rock of Gibraltar are interrupted by Romani, Scotland Yard and the British army.
1x7
Monaco Hermit Crab
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 14, 1956
While visiting Monte Carlo, Hiram uses his surefire system to win a yacht in a roulette game, which leads to the discovery of a plot to flood the United States with counterfeit currency.
1x8
Hawaiian Hamzah
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 21, 1956
Hiram uncovers foreign agents' plan to freeze the Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor with their diabolical weapon.
1x9
Swiss Titmouse
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 28, 1956
Hiram's efforts to record the mating call of the elusive Swiss titmouse are put on hold when he discovers a young king's life is in danger.
1x10
Wrong Rembrandt
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 05, 1956
Hiram's skill as a painter gets him in trouble when his copies of the old masters are mistaken for the real paintings which have been stolen from the Louvre.
1x11
Dancing Mouse
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 12, 1956
Hiram visits a carnival in Genoa, Italy, to take a picture of a rare type of mouse; unfortunately, his photograph captures a pair of camera-shy revolutionaries that are on the lam from the French authorities. Tor Johnson.
1x12
Christmas in Vienna
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Air date
Dec 19, 1956
Hiram's plans to spend a quiet Christmas in Vienna are disrupted when King Peter is kidnapped.
1x13
Romantic Pigeon
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Air date
Dec 26, 1956
Hiram learns that spies have kidnapped a scientist's daughter to wrest atomic secrets from the old man.
1x14
Sturmzig Cunieform
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 02, 1957
Holliday is in Sturmzig, a strategically important nation in which a new king is to be chosen. Holliday thwarts the nefarious schemes of the evil Baron; but is inadvertantly chosen king. After he defeats the Baron and his henchman, he abdicates.
1x15
Moroccan Hawk Moth
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 09, 1957
While searching for a new species of moth in the Moroccan desert, Hiram uncovers a plot to assassinate four world
1x16
Unkissed Bride
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 16, 1957
Hiram gets in trouble when he innocently agrees to enter into a phony marriage and carry stolen gems across the U.S. border.
1x17
Shipwrecked Ancestor
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 30, 1957
While searching for evidence of one of his ancestors, Hiram is shipwrecked on the African coast; Hiram meets an evil Berber sheik and a lot of men who look remarkably like the globetrotting proofreader.
1x18
Ersatz Joel
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 13, 1957
As part of a plot to earn Hiram's trust, a foreign spy undergoes plastic surgery to look like his friend Joel.
1x19
Hiram's Holiday
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 20, 1957
Hiram becomes involved in Scotland Yard's investigation into the theft of engraving plates used to print the British pound notes.
1x20 Show finale
Misguided Missile
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 1957
Hiram switches identities with a French scientist in an attempt to keep the secret of the first Earth satellite from foreign agents.
1x21
The Surplus General
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Air date
Dec 11, 1959
Hiram dons a disguise to rescue a Balkan King from captivity.
1x24 Show finale
The Diamond Eater
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 18, 1959
A Frenchman impersonates a Hindu ruler to claim his weight in diamonds.

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