Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: "Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong".

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Seasons

1. Blind Justice (30 min)

Air Date: 1960-03-01

Correspondent Glenn Evans insists on showing the Hong Kong sights to Johnny McGuire , a sailor friend from back home and thereby sets off a stormy international incident.

2. Clear for Action

Air Date: 1960-09-28

3. Murder Royal

Air Date: 1960-10-05

4. Pearl Flower

Air Date: 1960-10-12

5. Freebooter

Air Date: 1960-10-19

A former American war pilot, Barney Vance, turns soldier of fortune flying a helicopter for a group of insurgents in a foreign country.

6. The Jade Empress

Air Date: 1960-10-26

An absorbing little game of button, button, played with a valuable jade statue. A promise to a dying newsman to return a smuggled statue to its rightful owner almost costs Glenn Evans his life. There's the usual assortment of shady characters around, and each one seems to be hanging on to a little statue, real or faked. Of course, our heroes see to it that the rightful owner wins out at the end.

7. The Jumping Dragon

Air Date: 1960-11-02

The mysterious disappearance of the pilot of a southeast Asia airline plane triggers a frantic search for the key operatives of a gold smuggling syndicate.

8. Blind Bargain

Air Date: 1960-11-09

American newspaperwoman Carol Pryor can't understand why Evans and Campbell are so concerned with her contacting a Red Chinese agent named Al Tong. All she wants is to get a story...

9. Colonel Cat

Air Date: 1960-11-16

Roger Dalman is contacted by phone at a family party. His caller wants him to rush to the aid of a sick friend. He's intercepted by Colonel Okumara on his way. This man is commander of the Japanese prison camp were where Dalman was held during the war.

10. The Turncoat

Air Date: 1960-11-23

Story of one of the GI turncoats who pauses in Hong Kong on his way back from China. His arrival is complicated by two pieces of excess baggage he carries with him—a beautiful Communist Chinese newspaper woman and a vest that conceals a shipment of narcotics. He has some wild idea of buying safety by turning the narcotics over to the police, reckoning without the justifiable wrath of the dealers expecting the dope.

11. To Catch a Star

Air Date: 1960-11-30

Glen Evans’ search for a kidnapped movie actress leads to murder. Movie star Lisa Mario suddenly disappears, but Evans ignores the story as a publicity stunt.

12. Nine Lives

Air Date: 1960-12-07

Disclosure that one of his friends is Martin Frobisher, British traitor who broadcasted propaganda for Japan in the war, shocks American foreign correspondent Glenn Evans.

13. The Dragon Cup

Air Date: 1960-12-14

Kate Martin, photographer for an American woman's magazine, is taking routine shots of Hong Kong, when, for no apparent reason, a strange gentleman takes her camera--at gunpoint.

14. When Strangers Meet

Air Date: 1960-12-21

Andrew Manton, a respected diplomat arrives in Hong Kong where he meets private detective Ho-Guy. Manton's son was killed in an accident and Evans believes that he's having the incident investigated.

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15. Suitable for Framing

Air Date: 1961-01-04

A night club singer [guest star Julie London] helps newsman Glenn Evans avoid the police while he clears himself of a murder charge.

16. Lesson in Fear

Air Date: 1961-01-11

Ships' purser Roger Ames fills his jacket with packages of money. The he visits the haberdashery, where a clerk removes his jacket and gives it to Mr. Dai, the store's proprietor.

17. The Survivor

Air Date: 1961-01-18

18. Night Cry

Air Date: 1961-01-25

19. Double Jeopardy

Air Date: 1961-02-01

20. Lady Godiva

Air Date: 1961-02-08

21. The Hunted

Air Date: 1961-02-15

22. With Deadly Sorrow

Air Date: 1961-02-22

23. Murder by Proxy

Air Date: 1961-03-01

24. The Woman in Gray

Air Date: 1961-03-08

25. Love, Honor, and Perish

Air Date: 1961-03-15

26. The Innocent Exile

Air Date: 1961-03-22

27. The Runaway

Air Date: 1961-03-29

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Rating

0.0/10

Release Date

1960-03-01

Episodes

27 (1 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast