Hawaiian Eye

Hawaiian Eye

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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Seasons

1. Malihini Holiday

Air Date: 1959-10-07

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.

2. Waikiki Widow

Air Date: 1959-10-14

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.

3. Second Day of Infamy

Air Date: 1959-10-21

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.

4. All Expenses Paid

Air Date: 1959-10-28

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.

5. Dangerous Eden

Air Date: 1959-11-04

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.

6. Cloud Over Koala

Air Date: 1959-11-11

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.

7. Beach Boy

Air Date: 1959-11-18

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.

8. Three Tickets to Lani

Air Date: 1959-11-25

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.

9. The Quick Return

Air Date: 1959-12-02

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.

10. Secret of the Second Door

Air Date: 1959-12-09

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

11. Shipment from Kihei

Air Date: 1959-12-16

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

12. A Dime a Dozen

Air Date: 1959-12-23

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

13. The Koa Man

Air Date: 1959-12-30

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.

14. Stamped for Danger

Air Date: 1960-01-06

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.

15. The Kamehameha Cloak

Air Date: 1960-01-13

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

16. The Kikiki Kid

Air Date: 1960-01-20

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

17. Then There Were Three

Air Date: 1960-01-27

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

18. Sword of the Samurai

Air Date: 1960-02-03

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.

19. Hong Kong Passage

Air Date: 1960-02-10

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

20. Cut of Ice

Air Date: 1960-02-17

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

21. Fatal Cruise

Air Date: 1960-02-24

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.

22. Danger on Credit

Air Date: 1960-03-02

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.

23. Bequest of Arthur Goodwin

Air Date: 1960-03-09

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.

24. Birthday Boy

Air Date: 1960-03-16

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.

25. Second Fiddle

Air Date: 1960-03-23

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.

26. Kim Quixote

Air Date: 1960-03-30

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.

27. The Lady's Not for Traveling

Air Date: 1960-04-06

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.

28. Murder, Anyone

Air Date: 1960-04-13

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.

29. Typhoon

Air Date: 1960-04-27

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.

30. Shadow of the Blade

Air Date: 1960-05-04

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.

31. Dead Ringer

Air Date: 1960-05-11

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.

32. Little Blalah

Air Date: 1960-05-18

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

33. Assignment: Manila

Air Date: 1960-05-25

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

1. I Wed Three Wives

Air Date: 1960-09-14

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.

2. Princess from Manhattan

Air Date: 1960-09-21

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.

3. With This Ring

Air Date: 1960-09-28

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.

4. Sea Fire

Air Date: 1960-10-05

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

5. Jade Song

Air Date: 1960-10-12

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"".

6. The Blue Goddess

Air Date: 1960-10-19

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.

7. White Pigeon Ticket

Air Date: 1960-10-26

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

8. Vanessa Vanishes

Air Date: 1960-11-02

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

9. The Kahuna Curtain

Air Date: 1960-11-09

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.

10. Girl on a String

Air Date: 1960-11-16

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.

11. Kakua Woman

Air Date: 1960-11-23

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.

12. The Contenders

Air Date: 1960-11-30

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

13. Swan Song for a Hero

Air Date: 1960-12-07

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.

14. The Money Blossom

Air Date: 1960-12-14

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

15. Services Rendered

Air Date: 1960-12-21

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.

16. Baker's Half Dozen

Air Date: 1960-12-28

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.

17. Made in Japan

Air Date: 1961-01-04

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.

18. A Touch of Velvet

Air Date: 1961-01-11

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.

19. Talk and You're Dead

Air Date: 1961-01-18

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

20. Robinson Koyoto

Air Date: 1961-01-25

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.

21. The Manabi Figurine

Air Date: 1961-02-01

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.

22. Caves of Pele

Air Date: 1961-02-08

23. Man in a Rage

Air Date: 1961-02-15

24. The Stanhope Brand

Air Date: 1961-02-22

25. The Trouble with Murder

Air Date: 1961-03-01

26. The Man from Manila

Air Date: 1961-03-08

27. Her Father's House

Air Date: 1961-03-15

28. The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid

Air Date: 1961-03-22

29. Don't Kiss Me Goodbye

Air Date: 1961-03-29

30. Dragon Road

Air Date: 1961-04-05

31. It Ain't Cricket

Air Date: 1961-04-12

32. The Comics

Air Date: 1961-04-19

33. Father, Dear Father

Air Date: 1961-04-26

34. The Manchu Formula

Air Date: 1961-05-03

35. The Pretty People

Air Date: 1961-05-10

36. The Big Dealer

Air Date: 1961-05-17

37. Maid in America

Air Date: 1961-05-24

38. A Taste for Money

Air Date: 1961-05-31

1. Satan City

Air Date: 1961-09-27

2. The Kupua of Coconut Bay

Air Date: 1961-10-04

3. The Moon of Mindanao

Air Date: 1961-10-11

4. The Doctor's Lady

Air Date: 1961-10-18

5. Thomas Jefferson Chu

Air Date: 1961-10-25

6. Pill in the Box

Air Date: 1961-11-01

7. Kill a Grey Fox

Air Date: 1961-11-08

8. Point Zero

Air Date: 1961-11-15

9. The Queen from Kern County

Air Date: 1961-11-22

10. The Final Score

Air Date: 1961-11-29

11. Two for the Money

Air Date: 1961-12-06

12. Tusitala

Air Date: 1961-12-13

13. The Classic Cab

Air Date: 1961-12-20

14. Concert in Hawaii

Air Date: 1961-12-27

15. The Missile Rogues

Air Date: 1962-01-03

16. Little Miss Rich Witch

Air Date: 1962-01-10

17. Big Fever

Air Date: 1962-01-17

18. Year of Grace

Air Date: 1962-01-24

19. My Love But Lightly

Air Date: 1962-01-31

20. Cricket's Millionaire

Air Date: 1962-02-07

21. Four-Cornered Triangle

Air Date: 1962-02-14

22. Total Eclipse

Air Date: 1962-02-21

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.

23. Blackmail in Satin

Air Date: 1962-02-28

24. A Scent of Whales

Air Date: 1962-03-07

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.

25. A Likely Story

Air Date: 1962-03-14

26. Meeting on Molokai

Air Date: 1962-03-21

27. Payoff

Air Date: 1962-03-28

28. An Echo of Honor

Air Date: 1962-04-04

29. Nightmare in Paradise

Air Date: 1962-04-11

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.

30. Aloha, Cricket

Air Date: 1962-04-18

31. The Last Samurai

Air Date: 1962-04-25

32. Rx Cricket

Air Date: 1962-05-02

33. Location Shooting

Air Date: 1962-05-09

34. Across the River Lethe

Air Date: 1962-05-16

35. Scene of the Crime

Air Date: 1962-05-23

36. Among the Living

Air Date: 1962-05-30

37. 'V' is for Victim

Air Date: 1962-06-06

38. Koko Kate

Air Date: 1962-06-13

39. Lalama Lady

Air Date: 1962-06-20

1. Day in the Sun

Air Date: 1962-10-02

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.

2. Somewhere There's Music

Air Date: 1962-10-09

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.

3. There'll Be Some Changes Made

Air Date: 1962-10-16

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.

4. The Broken Thread

Air Date: 1962-10-23

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.

5. Lament for a Saturday Warrior

Air Date: 1962-10-30

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.

6. The After Hours Heart

Air Date: 1962-11-13

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.

7. The Sign-Off

Air Date: 1962-11-20

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.

8. A Night with Nora Stewart

Air Date: 1962-11-27

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.

9. To See, Perchance to Dream

Air Date: 1962-12-04

10. Pursuit of a Lady

Air Date: 1962-12-11

11. Shannon Malloy

Air Date: 1962-12-18

12. Go Steady with Danger

Air Date: 1963-01-01

13. Kupikio Kid

Air Date: 1963-01-08

14. Maybe Menehunes

Air Date: 1963-01-15

15. Pretty Pigeon

Air Date: 1963-01-22

16. Two Too Many

Air Date: 1963-01-29

17. Boar Hunt

Air Date: 1963-02-05

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

18. Go for Baroque

Air Date: 1963-02-12

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.

19. The Long Way Home

Air Date: 1963-02-19

20. Two Million Too Much

Air Date: 1963-02-26

21. Blow Low, Blow Blue

Air Date: 1963-03-05

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

22. Gift of Love

Air Date: 1963-03-19

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.

23. The Sisters

Air Date: 1963-03-26

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.

24. Passport

Air Date: 1963-04-02

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Rating

5.2/10

Release Date

1959-10-07

Episodes

134 (4 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

Warner Bros. Television

Warner Bros. Television