Hong Kong — Season 1, Episode 6: The Jade Empress
Drama, Crime • 60 min • 1 season, 27 episodes
Episode synopsis
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.
About 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".