About this season
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.
Episodes (38)
1. I Wed Three Wives
Aired 14 September 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 21 September 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 28 September 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 5 October 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 12 October 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 19 October 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 26 October 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 2 November 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 9 November 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 16 November 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 23 November 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 30 November 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 7 December 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 14 December 1960 • 60 min
Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.
15. Services Rendered
Aired 21 December 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 28 December 1960 • 60 min
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
Aired 4 January 1961 • 60 min
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
Aired 11 January 1961 • 60 min
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
Aired 18 January 1961 • 60 min
To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.
20. Robinson Koyoto
Aired 25 January 1961 • 60 min
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
Aired 1 February 1961 • 60 min
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
Aired 8 February 1961 • 60 min
23. Man in a Rage
Aired 15 February 1961 • 60 min
24. The Stanhope Brand
Aired 22 February 1961 • 60 min
25. The Trouble with Murder
Aired 1 March 1961 • 60 min
26. The Man from Manila
Aired 8 March 1961 • 60 min
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.
27. Her Father's House
Aired 15 March 1961 • 60 min
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.
28. The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid
Aired 22 March 1961 • 60 min
29. Don't Kiss Me Goodbye
Aired 29 March 1961 • 60 min
30. Dragon Road
Aired 5 April 1961 • 60 min
31. It Ain't Cricket
Aired 12 April 1961 • 60 min
32. The Comics
Aired 19 April 1961 • 60 min
33. Father, Dear Father
Aired 26 April 1961 • 60 min
34. The Manchu Formula
Aired 3 May 1961 • 60 min
35. The Pretty People
Aired 10 May 1961 • 60 min
36. The Big Dealer
Aired 17 May 1961 • 60 min
Tracy Steele is blamed when an old girlfriend is found murdered in his car.
37. Maid in America
Aired 24 May 1961 • 60 min
38. A Taste for Money
Aired 31 May 1961 • 60 min