Hawaiian Eye FAQ
This series, also starred Robert Conrad, and was first aired in the late '50s and early '60s.
_HAWAIIAN EYE FAQ_
[v.1 7/17/95] compiled by Kristin C. Sabo @rouge.phys.lsu.edu>
HAWAIIAN EYE (detective drama)
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First telecast: October 7th, 1959
Last telecast: September 10th, 1963
Broadcast history: Oct. 1959-Sept. 1962, ABC Wednesday 9:00-10:00 pm
Oct. 1962-Sept. 1963, ABC Tuesday 8:30-9:30 pm
Cast: Tom Lopaka- Robert Conrad
Tracy Stele('59-'62)- Anthony Eisley
Cricket Blake- Connie Stevens
Kazuo Kim- Poncie Ponce
Greg MacKenzie('60-'63) Grant Williams
Quon('60-'63)- Mel Prestidge
Moke('60-'63)- Doug Mossman
Philip Barton('62-'63) Troy Donahue
Hawaiian Eye has been called "77 Sunset Strip played in Hawaii". There
certainly were similarities. Both shows were produced by the same studio
(Warner Brothers), both featured two handsome, free-swinging young detectives
as alternate leads, both had simple melodramatic plots set against glamorous
backgrounds, and both made use of nutty sidekicks for comic relief.
Base of opperations for Tom Lopaka and Tracy Stele was a swank, poolside
office at the Hawaiian Village Hotel. Their sidekicks were a pert, somewhat
addled young singer-photographer named Cricket, and a colorful cabbie named
Kim. Kim, the operator of a one-man taxi service, was especially helpful as
he has seemingly dozens of relatives scattered around the islands ready to
help if one of his employers needed some local assistance. Kim's trademarks
were his 'pupule' (crazy) straw hat, dumb jokes, and ukulele.
A new detective named Greg MacKenzie arrived in December 1960, while Philip
Barton joined the cast of characters in 1962 as the hotel's social director.
Quon was the contact on the Honolulu police force. Fellow gumshoe Stu Bailey
of 77 Sunset Strip made an occasional visit from the mainland, possibly to get
a closer look at some of the beautiful girls who peopled every Hawaiian Eye
plot. But then, he had beautiful girls in his series, too.
Competition: 1959- The Millionaire/I've Got A Secret CBS
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall NBC
1960- My Sister Eileen/I've Got A Secret CBS
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall NBC
1961- Checkmate/Mrs. G Goes to College CBS
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall NBC
1962- Red Skelton Hour CBS
Empire NBC
[from: The Complete Directory to Primetime Network TV Shows, 1946- present.
Brooks/Marsh, Ballantine Books, 1992 {fifth edition}
ISBN:0-345-37792-3 paperback]
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_HAWAIIAN EYE EPISODE GUIDE_
[134 one-hour episodes]
Season One Season Two
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Malihini Holiday I Wed Three Wives
Waikiki Widow Princess From Manhattan
Second Day of Infamy With This Ring
All Expenses Paid Sea Fire
Dangerous Eden Jade Song
Cloud Over Koala The Blue Goddess
Beach Boy White Pigeon Ticket
Three Tickets to Lani Vanessa Vanishes
The Quick Return The Kahuna Curtain
Secret of the Seventh Door Girl on a String
Shipment From Kihei Kakua Woman
A Dime a Dozen The Contenders
The Koa Man Swan Song For a Hero
Stamped For Danger The Money Blossom
The Kamehameha Cloak Services Rendered
The Kikiki Kid Baker's Half-Dozen
Then There Were None Made in Japan
Sword of the Samurai A Touch of Velvet
Hong Kong Passage Talk and You're Dead
Cut of Ice Robinson Koyoto
Fatal Cruise The Manabi Figurine
Danger on Credit Caves of Pele
Bequest of Arthur Goodwin Man in a Rage
Birthday Boy The Stanhope Brand
Second Fiddle The Trouble With Murder
Kim Quixote The Man From Manila
The Lady's Not For Traveling Her Father's House
Murder, Anyone? The Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Kid
Typhoon Don't Kiss Me Goodbye
Shadow of the Blade Dragon Road
Dead Ringer It Ain't Cricket
Little Blalah The Comics
Assignment: Manila Father, Dear Father
The Manchu Formula
The Pretty People
The Big Dealer
Maid in America
A Taste For Money
Season Three Season Four
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Satan City Day in the Sun
The Kapuna of Cocoanut Bay Somewhere There's Music
The Moon of Mindanau There'll Be Some Changes Made
The Doctor's Lady The Broken Thread
Thomas Jefferson Chu Lament for a Saturday Warrior
Pill in the Box The After Hours Heart
Kill A Grey Fox The Sign-Off
Point Zero A Night With Nora Stewart
The Queen From Kern County To See, Perchance to Dream
The Final Score Pursuit of a Lady
Two For The Money Shannon Malloy
Tusitala Go Steady With Danger
The Classic Cab Kupikio Kid
Concert in Hawaii Maybe Menehunes
The Missile Rogues Pretty Pigeon
Little Miss Rich Witch Two Too Many
Big Fever Boar Hunt
Year of Grace Go For Baroque
My Love but Lightly The Long Way Home
Cricket's Millionaire Two Million Too Much
Four-Cornered Triangle Blow Low, Blow Blue
Total Eclipse Gift of Love
Blackmail in Satin The Sisters
A Scent of Whales Passport
A Likely Story
Meeting on Molokai
Payoff
An Echo of Honor
Nightmare in Paradise
Aloha, Cricket
The Last Samurai
Rx Cricket
Location Shooting
Across the River Lethe
Scene of the Crime
Among the Living
"V" For Victim
Koko Kate
Lalama Lady
[From: _Warner Bros. Television_ (Woolley et al) McFarland Press 1985]
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