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Hawaiian Eye

5.6(10)
First Aired:October 7, 1959
Seasons:4 seasons
Episodes:134
Status:Ended

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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Cast

Robert Conrad

Robert Conrad

Tom Lopaka

Anthony Eisley

Anthony Eisley

Tracy Steele

Poncie Ponce

Poncie Ponce

Kim Quisano

Connie Stevens

Connie Stevens

Cricket Blake

Grant Williams

Grant Williams

Greg MacKenzie

Troy Donahue

Troy Donahue

Seasons

E1Malihini Holiday

60m

Oct 7, 1959

While on vacation in Hawaii, Mavis Purcell is nearly killed in two suspicious accidents and suspects her artist husband is behind them, so she asks Tracy Steele to protect her.

E2Waikiki Widow

60m

Oct 14, 1959

When 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 and that a string of black pearls worth a fortune are the reason behind the murder, but the question is whether or not the pearls are real.

E3Second Day of Infamy

60m

Oct 21, 1959

Former Japanese military officer Yato Mitsuki escapes from a mental hospital in Hawaii, and Steele and Lopaka are hired to find him, but time is running out - Mitsuki has amnesia so he does not remember that World War II is over and he may cause a second Pearl Harbor disaster.

E4All Expenses Paid

60m

Oct 28, 1959

When a lovely guest named Marian Summers checks in at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, she attracts the attention of Tom Lopaka, and coincidentally a string of burglaries plague the hotel. Marian is the girlfriend of a gangster facing a grand jury in Chicago and has been sent to Hawaii to keep her from testifying. The gangsters have also sent a hit man to make sure she never speaks again.

E5Dangerous Eden

60m

Nov 4, 1959

A 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 company spots sees her doing so, resulting in a blackmailing scheme that Tracy eventually exposes.

E6Cloud Over Koala

60m

Nov 11, 1959

Private 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 the deal in a land swindle.

E7Beach Boy

60m

Nov 18, 1959

Peter, 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 in a drowning accident nine years earlier while swimming with his stepfather Carleton. Steele decides to help the boy and prove he is Donna's son and also find out what really happened nine years ago.

E8Three Tickets to Lani

60m

Nov 25, 1959

From the mainland, investigator Stu Bailey calls on Steele and Lopaka to track down an embezzler who's gone to Hawaii. The trail leads them to a travel bureau which turns out to be a front for illicit activities in which pretty native girls are used in a scheme to defraud and kill wealthy vacationers.

E9The Quick Return

60m

Dec 2, 1959

Wealthy businessman Victor Shaw, who asked Tracy Steele for protection, is found murdered. Tracy's reporter friend, Jerry Jackson, had a notebook full of damaging information about Shaw, but the notebook was stolen shortly before the murder, causing concern for all involved.

E10Secret of the Second Door

60m

Dec 9, 1959

Following the trail of missing money puts Tom in the path of four killers.

E11Shipment from Kihei

60m

Dec 16, 1959

Tracy is hired by a ranch owner to investigate the loss of several shipments of cattle.

E12A Dime a Dozen

60m

Dec 23, 1959

Tracy attempts to clear an army lieutenant who won't try to defend himself against robbery charges.

E13The Koa Man

60m

Dec 30, 1959

A 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 covering up for her. Nancy is being threatened by Harry Gulliver, a man with whom Tracy during the Korean War. Gulliver was the machine gunner on Tracy's plane and had been unable to pull the trigger when they were attacked by enemy planes. Now Gulliver plans to kill Nancy, but once again he cannot pull the trigger when Tracy recounts the Korean incident.

E14Stamped for Danger

60m

Jan 6, 1960

Tracy 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 to Hawaii.

E15The Kamehameha Cloak

60m

Jan 13, 1960

Tom is hired to protect a woman's husband from an ancient death curse.

E16The Kikiki Kid

60m

Jan 20, 1960

Tom is suspicious of columnist Karen Ward's new boyfriend, an ambitious singer.

E17Then There Were Three

60m

Jan 27, 1960

A vacationing Iowa girl inherits a small island, and then vanishes.

E18Sword of the Samurai

60m

Feb 3, 1960

Two young Japanese visitors, Hiroshi and Susumu, ask Tom to locate an old man named Noburu. Tom finds him but is reluctant to tell his clients until he knows the reasons for their search. Tom finds out that that the young Japanese men plan to kill Noburu in order to avenge their family's honor.

E19Hong Kong Passage

60m

Feb 10, 1960

Returning from Hong Kong, Tracy's plane is hijacked.

E20Cut of Ice

60m

Feb 17, 1960

When an expensive diamond in their care is stolen, Tracy and Tom suspect a security leak inside their offices.

E21Fatal Cruise

60m

Feb 24, 1960

Ginger Martin hires Tom to find her husband Johnny, who has been missing for two years. Tom locates Johnny, captaining a yacht for and having a forced affair with wealthy Verna Collins. When Verna is murdered, Johnny is accused and sent to jail. Tom works to uncover the real murderer.

E22Danger on Credit

60m

Mar 2, 1960

Handsome Somerset Jones takes a romantic interest in Cricket. Consequentially distracted, he pays no attention when he receives a credit card which belongs to man marked for death by a hired killer. Somerset and Cricket inadvertently become the targets of the hired killer and Tom must save their lives.

E23Bequest of Arthur Goodwin

60m

Mar 9, 1960

Tracy Steele is hired by Arthur Goodwin's widow to break her late husband's will. The bequest of Arthur Goodwin is the family business - left to a secretary who seems intent on destroying it.

E24Birthday Boy

60m

Mar 16, 1960

A 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 fortune, may fall heir to a murder charge instead. Tracy has his eye on the girl who figures in the frameup, orchestrated by the boy's uncle in order to gain control of the family's money.

E25Second Fiddle

60m

Mar 23, 1960

A hotel violinst asks Tracy and Tom to guard his valuable instrument. But the fiddler himself needs guarding because his ex-wife and the former boyfriend of his current wife are out to murder him. They startle him into a heart attack, then remove his medication. When Steele manages to get him to the hospital in time to save his life, the killers make a second attempt on his life.

E26Kim Quixote

60m

Mar 30, 1960

A 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 kidnapped to prevent Kim from identifying the murderer for the police.

E27The Lady's Not for Traveling

60m

Apr 6, 1960

A 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 agents who want to kidnap her.

E28Murder, Anyone

60m

Apr 13, 1960

Lopaka 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 up with an alibi for him and convinces Lopaka to find the real killer, which he does during the course of a tennis tourament.

E29Typhoon

60m

Apr 27, 1960

A 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 quartet of bank robbers on the lam.

E30Shadow of the Blade

60m

May 4, 1960

Steele 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.

E31Dead Ringer

60m

May 11, 1960

Lopaka is hired to help a woman sneak an art object into Macao by impersonating her husband, not knowing that she murdered her husband and has the same plans for him.

E32Little Blalah

60m

May 18, 1960

Hired to protect a spoiled playboy, Steele exposes the perpetrator of a payroll robbery and prevents a murder.

E33Assignment: Manila

60m

May 25, 1960

In Manila, Lopaka poses as the brother of a dead nightclub owner to expose a gang smuggling U.S. funds to Red China.

E1I Wed Three Wives

60m

Sep 14, 1960

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.

E2Princess from Manhattan

60m

Sep 21, 1960

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.

E3With This Ring

60m

Sep 28, 1960

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.

E4Sea Fire

60m

Oct 5, 1960

A Steamship company hires Lopaka to get evidence on some dope smugglers. They suspect that someone is stowing narcotics aboard their chartered vessels.

E5Jade Song

60m

Oct 12, 1960

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"".

E6The Blue Goddess

60m

Oct 19, 1960

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.

E7White Pigeon Ticket

60m

Oct 26, 1960

A lottery ticket is Lopaka's only clue in finding an ex-con who's the prime suspect in a tuna warehouse robbery.

E8Vanessa Vanishes

60m

Nov 2, 1960

Steele is hired to find a kidnapped heiress. The odd thing is that the ransom note actually arrived before she disappeared.

E9The Kahuna Curtain

60m

Nov 9, 1960

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.

E10Girl on a String

60m

Nov 16, 1960

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.

E11Kakua Woman

60m

Nov 23, 1960

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.

E12The Contenders

60m

Nov 30, 1960

Tom, who is dating the sister of prize fighter Joey Steck, uncovers a plot to fix his upcoming bout against a local favorite.

E13Swan Song for a Hero

60m

Dec 7, 1960

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.

E14The Money Blossom

60m

Dec 14, 1960

Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.

E15Services Rendered

60m

Dec 21, 1960

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.

E16Baker's Half Dozen

60m

Dec 28, 1960

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.

E17Made in Japan

60m

Jan 4, 1961

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.

E18A Touch of Velvet

60m

Jan 11, 1961

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.

E19Talk and You're Dead

60m

Jan 18, 1961

To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.

E20Robinson Koyoto

60m

Jan 25, 1961

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.

E21The Manabi Figurine

60m

Feb 1, 1961

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.

E22Caves of Pele

60m

Feb 8, 1961

E23Man in a Rage

60m

Feb 15, 1961

E24The Stanhope Brand

60m

Feb 22, 1961

E25The Trouble with Murder

60m

Mar 1, 1961

E26The Man from Manila

60m

Mar 8, 1961

Tom returns from a covert job where he was tasked with bringing a witness back to Oahu to stand trial. An enterprising photographer learns about the witness and tries to make some money selling his information.

E27Her Father's House

60m

Mar 15, 1961

Lily 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 prominent family in Hawaii. Lily sets out for Hawaii to learn about her father's side of the family.

E28The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid

60m

Mar 22, 1961

E29Don't Kiss Me Goodbye

60m

Mar 29, 1961

E30Dragon Road

60m

Apr 5, 1961

E31It Ain't Cricket

60m

Apr 12, 1961

E32The Comics

60m

Apr 19, 1961

E33Father, Dear Father

60m

Apr 26, 1961

E34The Manchu Formula

60m

May 3, 1961

E35The Pretty People

60m

May 10, 1961

E36The Big Dealer

60m

May 17, 1961

Tracy Steele is blamed when an old girlfriend is found murdered in his car.

E37Maid in America

60m

May 24, 1961

E38A Taste for Money

60m

May 31, 1961

E1Satan City

60m

Sep 27, 1961

E2The Kupua of Coconut Bay

60m

Oct 4, 1961

E3The Moon of Mindanao

60m

Oct 11, 1961

E4The Doctor's Lady

60m

Oct 18, 1961

Barbara Ingalls is accused of murder when her husband's mistress is found murdered. MacKenzie is asked to investigate the crime, but he discovers his life is also in danger because someone doesn't want him to arrive at a different conclusion.

E5Thomas Jefferson Chu

60m

Oct 25, 1961

E6Pill in the Box

60m

Nov 1, 1961

E7Kill a Grey Fox

60m

Nov 8, 1961

E8Point Zero

60m

Nov 15, 1961

E9The Queen from Kern County

60m

Nov 22, 1961

E10The Final Score

60m

Nov 29, 1961

A conman is trying to profit from the rumor of a volcano eruption. One of his marks hires Tracy to try and verify the rumor.

E11Two for the Money

60m

Dec 6, 1961

E12Tusitala

60m

Dec 13, 1961

A 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 enlists his help to track down the document.

E13The Classic Cab

60m

Dec 20, 1961

E14Concert in Hawaii

60m

Dec 27, 1961

E15The Missile Rogues

60m

Jan 3, 1962

E16Little Miss Rich Witch

60m

Jan 10, 1962

E17Big Fever

60m

Jan 17, 1962

E18Year of Grace

60m

Jan 24, 1962

E19My Love But Lightly

60m

Jan 31, 1962

E20Cricket's Millionaire

60m

Feb 7, 1962

E21Four-Cornered Triangle

60m

Feb 14, 1962

E22Total Eclipse

60m

Feb 21, 1962

Although Jean Morgan was found not guilty of her husband's murder, the public apparently is still not convinced. Jean hires Tracy to find solid proof of her innocence, while her stepson, Tony Morgan, hires Tom to find conclusive proof of her guilt.

E23Blackmail in Satin

60m

Feb 28, 1962

E24A Scent of Whales

60m

Mar 7, 1962

Tom 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 gunpoint to take a ride. Tom uncovers a murder while attempting to locate Kim and his passenger.

E25A Likely Story

60m

Mar 14, 1962

E26Meeting on Molokai

60m

Mar 21, 1962

Greg and private investigator Tracy Steele investigate the attempted murder of an oil executive who was about to close a merger with a rival oil company, which is controlled by a woman.

E27Payoff

60m

Mar 28, 1962

E28An Echo of Honor

60m

Apr 4, 1962

E29Nightmare in Paradise

60m

Apr 11, 1962

MacKenzie (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 late. The man behind the wheel is dead - from a shotgun blast.

E30Aloha, Cricket

60m

Apr 18, 1962

E31The Last Samurai

60m

Apr 25, 1962

E32Rx Cricket

60m

May 2, 1962

E33Location Shooting

60m

May 9, 1962

E34Across the River Lethe

60m

May 16, 1962

A man from another island, visiting with his young daughter, witnesses a murder and then leaves the scene. The real killers decide to find him and make him confess to the murder before killing him. Tracy and Greg, along with Cricket's cousin Junebug, try to help the little girl while trying to find her father before the killers do.

E35Scene of the Crime

60m

May 23, 1962

E36Among the Living

60m

May 30, 1962

E37'V' is for Victim

60m

Jun 6, 1962

During a tropical storm Greg and a group of tourists are trapped with a mysterious killer in the mansion of elderly widow Felicia Fairweather.

E38Koko Kate

60m

Jun 13, 1962

E39Lalama Lady

60m

Jun 20, 1962

The erring husband of a wealthy woman conspires with a Beach Boy to fake a blackmail case against her, but the trick is exposed.

E1Day in the Sun

60m

Oct 2, 1962

The shooting and robbery of the island's favorite drive-in owner spurs Tom into action, while the Hawaiian Village Hotel's new social director Phil Barton and Cricket believe that Tina Billings knows more about the crime than she should.

E2Somewhere There's Music

60m

Oct 9, 1962

Concert violinist Stafford Price is fond of his $20,000 Stradivarius. Unfortunately, he's not the only one. When the violin is stolen, it's up to Tom and Phil to recover the valuable instrument.

E3There'll Be Some Changes Made

60m

Oct 16, 1962

Cricket'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 away from her. Meanwhile, Tom is hired by the grandfather to find both mother and grandson. His ire when he finds that Cricket and Phil have been keeping a secret from him is short-lived when he discovers a kidnap plot.

E4The Broken Thread

60m

Oct 23, 1962

Ralph 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 mysterious man.

E5Lament for a Saturday Warrior

60m

Oct 30, 1962

Tom 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 on the spot. Tom is confused. He knows Thompson too well to believe that the obviously inept thieves could have outsmarted him.

E6The After Hours Heart

60m

Nov 13, 1962

Phil's cousin Lucy McDowell is nice, unattached, and Hawaii-bound. Phil and Cricket's plans to entertain Lucy hit a nasty roadblock when a disreputable writer-type named Victor makes a play for the girl.

E7The Sign-Off

60m

Nov 20, 1962

Newscasters Van Baxter and Steve Talbot have been publicizing a series of unsolved crimes which culminated in the death of Steve's wife. They pressure Quon into arresting the boyfriend of Phil's part-time secretary, Lois Corey. Phil steps in to clear the innocent man, with some help from Cricket and Greg.

E8A Night with Nora Stewart

60m

Nov 27, 1962

A prowler disturbs the sleep of fading movie queen Nora Stewart, who is vacationing in Honolulu before attempting a comeback in Hollywood. A routine check by Greg reveals that every member of Nora's entourage has reason to prevent her comeback. He then sets out to discover which one is disturbing the actress. Kim provides the needed clue.

E9To See, Perchance to Dream

60m

Dec 4, 1962

E10Pursuit of a Lady

60m

Dec 11, 1962

E11Shannon Malloy

60m

Dec 18, 1962

E12Go Steady with Danger

60m

Jan 1, 1963

E13Kupikio Kid

60m

Jan 8, 1963

E14Maybe Menehunes

60m

Jan 15, 1963

E15Pretty Pigeon

60m

Jan 22, 1963

E16Two Too Many

60m

Jan 29, 1963

E17Boar Hunt

60m

Feb 5, 1963

A woman is torn between her lawyer and her estranged husband.

E18Go for Baroque

60m

Feb 12, 1963

When 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 of suspects. Coleman had willed the entire collection to a university and left nothing to his daughters, his Hawaiian ward, or his loyal assistant.

E19The Long Way Home

60m

Feb 19, 1963

E20Two Million Too Much

60m

Feb 26, 1963

E21Blow Low, Blow Blue

60m

Mar 5, 1963

When a trumpeter is blacklisted, Phil and Cricket try to get him a job.

E22Gift of Love

60m

Mar 19, 1963

A 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 into Brother Love's rest home.

E23The Sisters

60m

Mar 26, 1963

Greg MacKenzie falls for vacationing Nora Cobinder, but then finds she is a target of killers because of something that happened to her sister some years earlier.

E24Passport

60m

Apr 2, 1963

Storyline

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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