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Hawaiian Eye

TV·1959–1963·4 seasons, 134 episodes·ABC·Crime, Drama·1h·Created by Roy Huggins

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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.

Cast

Episodes by season

Season0133Episodes1959–60AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Malihini HolidayOctober 7, 1959While on vacation in Hawaii, Mavis Purcell is nearly killed in two suspicious accidents and suspects her artist husband is behind them, so s
  2. S01E02Waikiki WidowOctober 14, 1959When Tracy and Tom are hired to find the killer of a skin diver, Tracy finds out that a young widow named Lady Blanche Carleton is involved
  3. S01E03Second Day of InfamyOctober 21, 1959Former Japanese military officer Yato Mitsuki escapes from a mental hospital in Hawaii, and Steele and Lopaka are hired to find him, but tim
  4. S01E04All Expenses PaidOctober 28, 1959When a lovely guest named Marian Summers checks in at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, she attracts the attention of Tom Lopaka, and coincidental
  5. S01E05Dangerous EdenNovember 4, 1959A movie star accidentally kills a man in a hit-and-run and flees the scene of the crime, but not before the assistant director of the movie
  6. S01E06Cloud Over KoalaNovember 11, 1959Private eyes Steele and Lopaka are hired by a slick real estate operator to locate a missing man, a released felon whom he needs to complete
  7. S01E07Beach BoyNovember 18, 1959Peter, a beach boy, claims to be the son of wealthy Donna Lane and is arrested when he trespasses on her property. Donna claims her son died
  8. S01E08Three Tickets to LaniNovember 25, 1959From the mainland, investigator Stu Bailey calls on Steele and Lopaka to track down an embezzler who's gone to Hawaii. The trail leads them
  9. S01E09The Quick ReturnDecember 2, 1959Wealthy businessman Victor Shaw, who asked Tracy Steele for protection, is found murdered. Tracy's reporter friend, Jerry Jackson, had a not
  10. S01E10Secret of the Second DoorDecember 9, 1959Following the trail of missing money puts Tom in the path of four killers.
  11. S01E11Shipment from KiheiDecember 16, 1959Tracy is hired by a ranch owner to investigate the loss of several shipments of cattle.
  12. S01E12A Dime a DozenDecember 23, 1959Tracy attempts to clear an army lieutenant who won't try to defend himself against robbery charges.
  13. S01E13The Koa ManDecember 30, 1959A law firm in Los Angeles hires Tracy to locate Nancy Campbell, who is missing. Tracy qestions her friends, only to figure out that they are
  14. S01E14Stamped for DangerJanuary 6, 1960Tracy has no idea what he's getting into when a dancer hires him to trace her old boyfriend, based on some letters he sent her about moving
  15. S01E15The Kamehameha CloakJanuary 13, 1960Tom is hired to protect a woman's husband from an ancient death curse.
  16. S01E16The Kikiki KidJanuary 20, 1960Tom is suspicious of columnist Karen Ward's new boyfriend, an ambitious singer.
  17. S01E17Then There Were ThreeJanuary 27, 1960A vacationing Iowa girl inherits a small island, and then vanishes.
  18. S01E18Sword of the SamuraiFebruary 3, 1960Two young Japanese visitors, Hiroshi and Susumu, ask Tom to locate an old man named Noburu. Tom finds him but is reluctant to tell his clien
  19. S01E19Hong Kong PassageFebruary 10, 1960Returning from Hong Kong, Tracy's plane is hijacked.
  20. S01E20Cut of IceFebruary 17, 1960When an expensive diamond in their care is stolen, Tracy and Tom suspect a security leak inside their offices.
  21. S01E21Fatal CruiseFebruary 24, 1960Ginger Martin hires Tom to find her husband Johnny, who has been missing for two years. Tom locates Johnny, captaining a yacht for and havin
  22. S01E22Danger on CreditMarch 2, 1960Handsome Somerset Jones takes a romantic interest in Cricket. Consequentially distracted, he pays no attention when he receives a credit car
  23. S01E23Bequest of Arthur GoodwinMarch 9, 1960Tracy Steele is hired by Arthur Goodwin's widow to break her late husband's will. The bequest of Arthur Goodwin is the family business - le
  24. S01E24Birthday BoyMarch 16, 1960A beautiful girl is used as a lure in a plot to deprive a pineapple heir of the family fortune. Jim McLaren, slated to inherit a pineapple
  25. S01E25Second FiddleMarch 23, 1960A hotel violinst asks Tracy and Tom to guard his valuable instrument. But the fiddler himself needs guarding because his ex-wife and the fo
  26. S01E26Kim QuixoteMarch 30, 1960A gambler kills a man in Kim's cab and steals the man's suitcase, which is full of money. Then a girl in whom Kim has taken an interest is
  27. S01E27The Lady's Not for TravelingApril 6, 1960A government agent wants Tracy to help cut some red tape for a lady scientist, but he finds that she is also the target of Red Chinese agent
  28. S01E28Murder, AnyoneApril 13, 1960Lopaka suspects that tennis bum Barry Logan is responsible for the murder of his boss in a quarrel over the boss's wife, but Cricket comes u
  29. S01E29TyphoonApril 27, 1960A typhoon has struck and Cricket, Tracy and Tom take refuge in the island home of a retired Army Colonel. Soon, they are joined by a quarte
  30. S01E30Shadow of the BladeMay 4, 1960Steele flies to a French island near Tahiti, where an old army buddy is on the run from a murder charge and faces execution by guillotine.
  31. S01E31Dead RingerMay 11, 1960Lopaka is hired to help a woman sneak an art object into Macao by impersonating her husband, not knowing that she murdered her husband and h
  32. S01E32Little BlalahMay 18, 1960Hired to protect a spoiled playboy, Steele exposes the perpetrator of a payroll robbery and prevents a murder.
  33. S01E33Assignment: ManilaMay 25, 1960In Manila, Lopaka poses as the brother of a dead nightclub owner to expose a gang smuggling U.S. funds to Red China.

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0238Episodes1960–61AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01I Wed Three WivesSeptember 14, 1960Actor Mark Hamiton arrives in Hawaii and Tracy Steele draws an unusual assignment, to keep Hamilton's three ex-wives away from him. They pla
  2. S02E02Princess from ManhattanSeptember 21, 1960Irene, the princess from Manhattan, is trying to escape from her husband, Prince Abdur, and Tom Lopaka agrees to help. But it doesn't look
  3. S02E03With This RingSeptember 28, 1960Eight-year-old Patty Seldon has lost her boyfriend, Stevie. Cricket decides to have some fun with detectives Steele and Lopaka and introduce
  4. S02E04Sea FireOctober 5, 1960A Steamship company hires Lopaka to get evidence on some dope smugglers. They suspect that someone is stowing narcotics aboard their charter
  5. S02E05Jade SongOctober 12, 1960Unknown to Steele, one of the Chinese refugee musicians he is guarding is a Tibetan Lama escaping from the Reds. Kim accidentally hears a s
  6. S02E06The Blue GoddessOctober 19, 1960The 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 i
  7. S02E07White Pigeon TicketOctober 26, 1960A lottery ticket is Lopaka's only clue in finding an ex-con who's the prime suspect in a tuna warehouse robbery.
  8. S02E08Vanessa VanishesNovember 2, 1960Steele is hired to find a kidnapped heiress. The odd thing is that the ransom note actually arrived before she disappeared.
  9. S02E09The Kahuna CurtainNovember 9, 1960Hired to protect an heiress's privacy, Lopaka becomes suspicious of her boy friend's attempt to play on her guilt over her father's accident
  10. S02E10Girl on a StringNovember 16, 1960Puppeteer Michael Dalli tells his asistant Sandra that he's replacing her with another girl. Then Sandra finds her look-alike puppet crushe
  11. S02E11Kakua WomanNovember 23, 1960Tom 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
  12. S02E12The ContendersNovember 30, 1960Tom, who is dating the sister of prize fighter Joey Steck, uncovers a plot to fix his upcoming bout against a local favorite.
  13. S02E13Swan Song for a HeroDecember 7, 1960Otto Von Helgren proposes to sail a raft across the Pacific Ocean ""in the interests of science"" - and a substantial grant from the Pacific
  14. S02E14The Money BlossomDecember 14, 1960Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.
  15. S02E15Services RenderedDecember 21, 1960Tom Lopaka manages to talk an executive out of committing suicide by convincing the man that he will find the person who's been blackmailing
  16. S02E16Baker's Half DozenDecember 28, 1960Six 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 ba
  17. S02E17Made in JapanJanuary 4, 1961A crop of 20-dollar bills turns up in Honolulu, and the Treasury Department asks MacKenzie to help find the source. At first glance, the bi
  18. S02E18A Touch of VelvetJanuary 11, 1961Someone has just murdered award-winning artist Gordon Montaigne, and Tracy Steele gains the help of a blind girl in serving as bait to catch
  19. S02E19Talk and You're DeadJanuary 18, 1961To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.
  20. S02E20Robinson KoyotoJanuary 25, 1961Micho 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, maga
  21. S02E21The Manabi FigurineFebruary 1, 1961Bill Sinclair brings a rare statuette called the Manabi Figurine to Greg for safe keeping pending its appraisal, and hoped for a tidy profit
  22. S02E22Caves of PeleFebruary 8, 1961
  23. S02E23Man in a RageFebruary 15, 1961
  24. S02E24The Stanhope BrandFebruary 22, 1961
  25. S02E25The Trouble with MurderMarch 1, 1961
  26. S02E26The Man from ManilaMarch 8, 1961Tom returns from a covert job where he was tasked with bringing a witness back to Oahu to stand trial. An enterprising photographer learns a
  27. S02E27Her Father's HouseMarch 15, 1961Lily Shung has lived all her life in Hong Kong. Her mother died before she was five but not before telling her that her father was from a pr
  28. S02E28The Humukumunukunukuapuaa KidMarch 22, 1961
  29. S02E29Don't Kiss Me GoodbyeMarch 29, 1961
  30. S02E30Dragon RoadApril 5, 1961
  31. S02E31It Ain't CricketApril 12, 1961
  32. S02E32The ComicsApril 19, 1961
  33. S02E33Father, Dear FatherApril 26, 1961
  34. S02E34The Manchu FormulaMay 3, 1961
  35. S02E35The Pretty PeopleMay 10, 1961
  36. S02E36The Big DealerMay 17, 1961Tracy Steele is blamed when an old girlfriend is found murdered in his car.
  37. S02E37Maid in AmericaMay 24, 1961
  38. S02E38A Taste for MoneyMay 31, 1961

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0339Episodes1961–62AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Satan CitySeptember 27, 1961
  2. S03E02The Kupua of Coconut BayOctober 4, 1961
  3. S03E03The Moon of MindanaoOctober 11, 1961
  4. S03E04The Doctor's LadyOctober 18, 1961Barbara Ingalls is accused of murder when her husband's mistress is found murdered. MacKenzie is asked to investigate the crime, but he disc
  5. S03E05Thomas Jefferson ChuOctober 25, 1961
  6. S03E06Pill in the BoxNovember 1, 1961
  7. S03E07Kill a Grey FoxNovember 8, 1961
  8. S03E08Point ZeroNovember 15, 1961
  9. S03E09The Queen from Kern CountyNovember 22, 1961
  10. S03E10The Final ScoreNovember 29, 1961A conman is trying to profit from the rumor of a volcano eruption. One of his marks hires Tracy to try and verify the rumor.
  11. S03E11Two for the MoneyDecember 6, 1961
  12. S03E12TusitalaDecember 13, 1961A manuscript said to have been written by Robert Louis Stevenson is stolen from a boat arriving in Honolulu. A man with a college tie to Tom
  13. S03E13The Classic CabDecember 20, 1961
  14. S03E14Concert in HawaiiDecember 27, 1961
  15. S03E15The Missile RoguesJanuary 3, 1962
  16. S03E16Little Miss Rich WitchJanuary 10, 1962
  17. S03E17Big FeverJanuary 17, 1962
  18. S03E18Year of GraceJanuary 24, 1962
  19. S03E19My Love But LightlyJanuary 31, 1962
  20. S03E20Cricket's MillionaireFebruary 7, 1962
  21. S03E21Four-Cornered TriangleFebruary 14, 1962
  22. S03E22Total EclipseFebruary 21, 1962Although Jean Morgan was found not guilty of her husband's murder, the public apparently is still not convinced. Jean hires Tracy to find s
  23. S03E23Blackmail in SatinFebruary 28, 1962
  24. S03E24A Scent of WhalesMarch 7, 1962Tom listens in on Kim's taxi radio and gets an alarming earful. Kim and his passanger, a girl named Joan Carmichael, are being forced at gun
  25. S03E25A Likely StoryMarch 14, 1962
  26. S03E26Meeting on MolokaiMarch 21, 1962Greg and private investigator Tracy Steele investigate the attempted murder of an oil executive who was about to close a merger with a rival
  27. S03E27PayoffMarch 28, 1962
  28. S03E28An Echo of HonorApril 4, 1962
  29. S03E29Nightmare in ParadiseApril 11, 1962MacKenzie (Grant Williams)runs to help when a car comes tearing down the street, barely misses him, and crashes to a stop. But he's too lat
  30. S03E30Aloha, CricketApril 18, 1962
  31. S03E31The Last SamuraiApril 25, 1962
  32. S03E32Rx CricketMay 2, 1962
  33. S03E33Location ShootingMay 9, 1962
  34. S03E34Across the River LetheMay 16, 1962A man from another island, visiting with his young daughter, witnesses a murder and then leaves the scene. The real killers decide to find h
  35. S03E35Scene of the CrimeMay 23, 1962
  36. S03E36Among the LivingMay 30, 1962
  37. S03E37'V' is for VictimJune 6, 1962During a tropical storm Greg and a group of tourists are trapped with a mysterious killer in the mansion of elderly widow Felicia Fairweathe
  38. S03E38Koko KateJune 13, 1962
  39. S03E39Lalama LadyJune 20, 1962The erring husband of a wealthy woman conspires with a Beach Boy to fake a blackmail case against her, but the trick is exposed.

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season0424Episodes1962–63AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01Day in the SunOctober 2, 1962The shooting and robbery of the island's favorite drive-in owner spurs Tom into action, while the Hawaiian Village Hotel's new social direct
  2. S04E02Somewhere There's MusicOctober 9, 1962Concert violinist Stafford Price is fond of his $20,000 Stradivarius. Unfortunately, he's not the only one. When the violin is stolen, it's
  3. S04E03There'll Be Some Changes MadeOctober 16, 1962Cricket's friend, Luana Mathes, leaves her baby on Cricket's doorstep to keep him away from his grandfather, who is trying to take the child
  4. S04E04The Broken ThreadOctober 23, 1962Ralph Mason wants Greg to find out the name of his lat wife's lover. Evelyn Mason was killed in an automobile accident after leaving the mys
  5. S04E05Lament for a Saturday WarriorOctober 30, 1962Tom adds an old pal, Glen Thompson, to the agency's security staff. Soon after, a jewelry store robbery where Glen is injured puts them both
  6. S04E06The After Hours HeartNovember 13, 1962Phil's cousin Lucy McDowell is nice, unattached, and Hawaii-bound. Phil and Cricket's plans to entertain Lucy hit a nasty roadblock when a d
  7. S04E07The Sign-OffNovember 20, 1962Newscasters Van Baxter and Steve Talbot have been publicizing a series of unsolved crimes which culminated in the death of Steve's wife. The
  8. S04E08A Night with Nora StewartNovember 27, 1962A prowler disturbs the sleep of fading movie queen Nora Stewart, who is vacationing in Honolulu before attempting a comeback in Hollywood. A
  9. S04E09To See, Perchance to DreamDecember 4, 1962
  10. S04E10Pursuit of a LadyDecember 11, 1962
  11. S04E11Shannon MalloyDecember 18, 1962
  12. S04E12Go Steady with DangerJanuary 1, 1963
  13. S04E13Kupikio KidJanuary 8, 1963
  14. S04E14Maybe MenehunesJanuary 15, 1963
  15. S04E15Pretty PigeonJanuary 22, 1963
  16. S04E16Two Too ManyJanuary 29, 1963
  17. S04E17Boar HuntFebruary 5, 1963A woman is torn between her lawyer and her estranged husband.
  18. S04E18Go for BaroqueFebruary 12, 1963When a security guard is murdered and a valuable map is stolen from the collection of the late Professor Coleman, Tom finds he isn't short o
  19. S04E19The Long Way HomeFebruary 19, 1963
  20. S04E20Two Million Too MuchFebruary 26, 1963
  21. S04E21Blow Low, Blow BlueMarch 5, 1963When a trumpeter is blacklisted, Phil and Cricket try to get him a job.
  22. S04E22Gift of LoveMarch 19, 1963A wealthy widow falls for a faith healer's con game, but Cricket and Phil have to rescue her when she starts to cause trouble after moving i
  23. S04E23The SistersMarch 26, 1963Greg MacKenzie falls for vacationing Nora Cobinder, but then finds she is a target of killers because of something that happened to her sis
  24. S04E24PassportApril 2, 1963

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