Hawaiian Eye (1959)
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.
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Episode 1 - I Wed Three Wives
Release Date: 1960-09-14Actor 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.
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Episode 2 - Princess from Manhattan
Release Date: 1960-09-21Irene, 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.
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Episode 3 - With This Ring
Release Date: 1960-09-28Eight-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.
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Episode 4 - Sea Fire
Release Date: 1960-10-05A Steamship company hires Lopaka to get evidence on some dope smugglers. They suspect that someone is stowing narcotics aboard their chartered vessels.
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Episode 5 - Jade Song
Release Date: 1960-10-12Unknown 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"".
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Episode 6 - The Blue Goddess
Release Date: 1960-10-19The 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.
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Episode 7 - White Pigeon Ticket
Release Date: 1960-10-26A lottery ticket is Lopaka's only clue in finding an ex-con who's the prime suspect in a tuna warehouse robbery.
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Episode 8 - Vanessa Vanishes
Release Date: 1960-11-02Steele is hired to find a kidnapped heiress. The odd thing is that the ransom note actually arrived before she disappeared.
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Episode 9 - The Kahuna Curtain
Release Date: 1960-11-09Hired 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.
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Episode 10 - Girl on a String
Release Date: 1960-11-16Puppeteer 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.
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Episode 11 - Kakua Woman
Release Date: 1960-11-23Tom 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.
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Episode 12 - The Contenders
Release Date: 1960-11-30Tom, who is dating the sister of prize fighter Joey Steck, uncovers a plot to fix his upcoming bout against a local favorite.
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Episode 13 - Swan Song for a Hero
Release Date: 1960-12-07Otto 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.
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Episode 14 - The Money Blossom
Release Date: 1960-12-14Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.
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Episode 15 - Services Rendered
Release Date: 1960-12-21Tom 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.
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Episode 16 - Baker's Half Dozen
Release Date: 1960-12-28Six 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.
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Episode 17 - Made in Japan
Release Date: 1961-01-04A 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.
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Episode 18 - A Touch of Velvet
Release Date: 1961-01-11Someone 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.
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Episode 19 - Talk and You're Dead
Release Date: 1961-01-18To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.
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Episode 20 - Robinson Koyoto
Release Date: 1961-01-25Micho 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.
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Episode 21 - The Manabi Figurine
Release Date: 1961-02-01Bill 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.
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Episode 22 - Caves of Pele
Release Date: 1961-02-08 -
Episode 23 - Man in a Rage
Release Date: 1961-02-15 -
Episode 24 - The Stanhope Brand
Release Date: 1961-02-22 -
Episode 25 - The Trouble with Murder
Release Date: 1961-03-01 -
Episode 26 - The Man from Manila
Release Date: 1961-03-08 -
Episode 27 - Her Father's House
Release Date: 1961-03-15 -
Episode 28 - The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid
Release Date: 1961-03-22 -
Episode 29 - Don't Kiss Me Goodbye
Release Date: 1961-03-29 -
Episode 30 - Dragon Road
Release Date: 1961-04-05 -
Episode 31 - It Ain't Cricket
Release Date: 1961-04-12 -
Episode 32 - The Comics
Release Date: 1961-04-19 -
Episode 33 - Father, Dear Father
Release Date: 1961-04-26 -
Episode 34 - The Manchu Formula
Release Date: 1961-05-03 -
Episode 35 - The Pretty People
Release Date: 1961-05-10 -
Episode 36 - The Big Dealer
Release Date: 1961-05-17 -
Episode 37 - Maid in America
Release Date: 1961-05-24 -
Episode 38 - A Taste for Money
Release Date: 1961-05-31