Roy Huggins
Director
Hawaiian Eye (1959)
Season 2
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
Released Oct. 7, 1959
Episode 60 min
10+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
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Production Companies: Warner Bros. Television
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - I Wed Three Wives
Actor Mark Hamiton arrives in Hawaii and Tracy Steele draws an unusual assignment, to keep Hamilton's three ex-wives away from him. They plan to kidnap him in order to get back alimony payments. Hamilton also gets involved in a murder when he kills his business manager, who was aware that the actor had evaded paying his income tax.
Sept. 14, 1960, midnight
S2E2 - Princess from Manhattan
Irene, the princess from Manhattan, is trying to escape from her husband, Prince Abdur, and Tom Lopaka agrees to help. But it doesn't look like Tom's going to be of much assistance when he's taken prisoner aboard the prince's yacht.
Sept. 21, 1960, midnight
S2E3 - With This Ring
Eight-year-old Patty Seldon has lost her boyfriend, Stevie. Cricket decides to have some fun with detectives Steele and Lopaka and introduces Patty as a client. The case becomes more interesting when a ring given to her by the young suitor turns out to be part of something stolen by the little boy's uncle.
Sept. 28, 1960, midnight
S2E4 - Sea Fire
A Steamship company hires Lopaka to get evidence on some dope smugglers. They suspect that someone is stowing narcotics aboard their chartered vessels.
Oct. 5, 1960, midnight
S2E5 - Jade Song
Unknown to Steele, one of the Chinese refugee musicians he is guarding is a Tibetan Lama escaping from the Reds. Kim accidentally hears a song being played by Wang Hai, that provides an important clue. Everybody ends up at the Hotel's Shell Bar to hear Cricket & Kim sing ""Jade Song"".
Oct. 12, 1960, midnight
S2E6 - The Blue Goddess
The girl Harmon Kane is seeing is supposedly the daughter of a wealthy man, but in actuality the man posing as her father is an accomplice in a scheme to steal a valuable necklace called ""The Blue Goddess"". When the fake father buys the necklace with a bad check, Lopaka must track him down to recover the stolen goods.
Oct. 19, 1960, midnight
S2E7 - White Pigeon Ticket
A lottery ticket is Lopaka's only clue in finding an ex-con who's the prime suspect in a tuna warehouse robbery.
Oct. 26, 1960, midnight
S2E8 - Vanessa Vanishes
Steele is hired to find a kidnapped heiress. The odd thing is that the ransom note actually arrived before she disappeared.
Nov. 2, 1960, midnight
S2E9 - The Kahuna Curtain
Hired to protect an heiress's privacy, Lopaka becomes suspicious of her boy friend's attempt to play on her guilt over her father's accidental death by having her participate in seances.
Nov. 9, 1960, midnight
S2E10 - Girl on a String
Puppeteer Michael Dalli tells his asistant Sandra that he's replacing her with another girl. Then Sandra finds her look-alike puppet crushed. Distraught, she runs out into the streets and is run down by a car. Dalli's new assistant, Mona, then finds her puppet strangled, and Steele is called in to investigate.
Nov. 16, 1960, midnight
S2E11 - Kakua Woman
Tom Lopaka pursues escaped killer Ed Grimes to Hilo, where he is sheltered by his wife Dora until Tom shows her that he has taken up with a new girlfriend.
Nov. 23, 1960, midnight
S2E12 - The Contenders
Tom, who is dating the sister of prize fighter Joey Steck, uncovers a plot to fix his upcoming bout against a local favorite.
Nov. 30, 1960, midnight
S2E13 - Swan Song for a Hero
Otto Von Helgren proposes to sail a raft across the Pacific Ocean ""in the interests of science"" - and a substantial grant from the Pacific Foundation. However, Abner Dexter, an officer from the Foundation, suspects a swindle when Von Helgren refuses to be photographed. Tracy is asked to investigate and calls on Rex Randolph of 77 Sunset Strip to help him expose the fraud.
Dec. 7, 1960, midnight
S2E14 - The Money Blossom
Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.
Dec. 14, 1960, midnight
S2E15 - Services Rendered
Tom Lopaka manages to talk an executive out of committing suicide by convincing the man that he will find the person who's been blackmailing him, but in order to accomplish this he must induce his old friend Greg MacKenzie to come to the islands to finger the bad guy. Greg is so taken with Hawaii that he decides to stay, and becomes a member of their detective agency.
Dec. 21, 1960, midnight
S2E16 - Baker's Half Dozen
Six Navy men discover they have something in common - they're all engaged to the same woman. They hire Tom to find her and get the money back that they each gave her for expenses.
Dec. 28, 1960, midnight
S2E17 - Made in Japan
A crop of 20-dollar bills turns up in Honolulu, and the Treasury Department asks MacKenzie to help find the source. At first glance, the bills appear to be the work of former counterfeiter Capt. Joe, who they thought had gone straight. It turns out he has been kidnapped by the real counterfeiters, but is refusing to cooperate with them in making new $50 plates.
Jan. 4, 1961, midnight
S2E18 - A Touch of Velvet
Someone has just murdered award-winning artist Gordon Montaigne, and Tracy Steele gains the help of a blind girl in serving as bait to catch him.
Jan. 11, 1961, midnight
S2E19 - Talk and You're Dead
To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.
Jan. 18, 1961, midnight
S2E20 - Robinson Koyoto
Micho Koyoto is a Japanese marine who has been a castaway in the Solomon Islands for more than fifteen years. Out to cover a big story, magazine writer Gloria Matthews asks Tracy to help find him. Koyoto is the heir to an industrialist's fortune, but first they must convince him the war is over.
Jan. 25, 1961, midnight
S2E21 - The Manabi Figurine
Bill Sinclair brings a rare statuette called the Manabi Figurine to Greg for safe keeping pending its appraisal, and hoped for a tidy profit on the archaeological find for himself and his partners. The figurine is stolen from Greg's safe and a murder is committed. Greg and Tom work with Lt. Quon to track down the killer and recover the figurine.
Feb. 1, 1961, midnight
S2E22 - Caves of Pele
Feb. 8, 1961, midnight
S2E23 - Man in a Rage
Feb. 15, 1961, midnight
S2E24 - The Stanhope Brand
Feb. 22, 1961, midnight
S2E25 - The Trouble with Murder
March 1, 1961, midnight
S2E26 - The Man from Manila
March 8, 1961, midnight
S2E27 - Her Father's House
March 15, 1961, midnight
S2E28 - The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid
March 22, 1961, midnight
S2E29 - Don't Kiss Me Goodbye
March 29, 1961, midnight
S2E30 - Dragon Road
April 5, 1961, midnight
S2E31 - It Ain't Cricket
April 12, 1961, midnight
S2E32 - The Comics
April 19, 1961, midnight
S2E33 - Father, Dear Father
April 26, 1961, midnight
S2E34 - The Manchu Formula
May 3, 1961, midnight
S2E35 - The Pretty People
May 10, 1961, midnight
S2E36 - The Big Dealer
May 17, 1961, midnight
S2E37 - Maid in America
May 24, 1961, midnight
S2E38 - A Taste for Money
May 31, 1961, midnight
ABC
60 min/ep
60 min
Oct. 7, 1959
April 2, 1963, midnight
Ended
TV-PG / 10+
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