8.2/1044 votes#1 - Malihini Holiday
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/1959
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.
Director: Howard W. Koch
Writer: Robert J. Shaw
- 7.8/1029 votes
#2 - Waikiki Widow
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1028 votes
#3 - Second Day of Infamy
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1029 votes
#4 - All Expenses Paid
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/1959
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.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1034 votes
#5 - Dangerous Eden
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1025 votes
#6 - Cloud Over Koala
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Louis Pelletier
- 8.1/1034 votes
#7 - Beach Boy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/18/1959
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.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1022 votes
#8 - Three Tickets to Lani
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/25/1959
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.
Director: Robert Altman
Writer: N/A
- 8.5/1027 votes
#9 - The Quick Return
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/2/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1026 votes
#10 - Secret of the Second Door
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/9/1959
Following the trail of missing money puts Tom in the path of four killers.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1024 votes
#11 - Shipment from Kihei
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/16/1959
Tracy is hired by a ranch owner to investigate the loss of several shipments of cattle.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1022 votes
#12 - A Dime a Dozen
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/23/1959
Tracy attempts to clear an army lieutenant who won't try to defend himself against robbery charges.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1020 votes
#13 - The Koa Man
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/30/1959
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1025 votes
#14 - Stamped for Danger
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/6/1960
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.
Director: Paul Stewart
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1022 votes
#15 - The Kamehameha Cloak
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/13/1960
Tom is hired to protect a woman's husband from an ancient death curse.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1024 votes
#16 - The Kikiki Kid
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/20/1960
Tom is suspicious of columnist Karen Ward's new boyfriend, an ambitious singer.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1023 votes
#17 - Then There Were Three
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/27/1960
A vacationing Iowa girl inherits a small island, and then vanishes.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1023 votes
#18 - Sword of the Samurai
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/3/1960
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.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1019 votes
#19 - Hong Kong Passage
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/10/1960
Returning from Hong Kong, Tracy's plane is hijacked.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1020 votes
#20 - Cut of Ice
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/17/1960
When an expensive diamond in their care is stolen, Tracy and Tom suspect a security leak inside their offices.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1021 votes
#21 - Fatal Cruise
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/24/1960
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.
Director: André de Toth
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1020 votes
#22 - Danger on Credit
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/2/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: James Barnett
- 7.3/1021 votes
#23 - Bequest of Arthur Goodwin
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/9/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1023 votes
#24 - Birthday Boy
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/16/1960
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1028 votes
#25 - Second Fiddle
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/23/1960
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.
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: N/A
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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...
Genres:CrimeDrama
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Malihini Holiday" is the best rated episode of "Hawaiian Eye" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 44 votes. Directed by Howard W. Koch and written by Robert J. Shaw, it aired on 10/7/1959. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Waikiki Widow".