Written by Robert J. Shaw Directed by Richard C. Sarafian Regular Cast Appearances ROBERT CONRAD as Tom Lopaka CONNIE STEVENS as Cricket Blake PONCIE PONCE as Kim Kazua GRANT WILLIAMS as Greg MacKenzie Guest Cast PETER BROWN as Teo RANDY STUART as Linda Dane PAMELA AUSTIN as Tink WHIT BISSELL as Arthur Dane DOUG MOSSMAN as Moke MEL PRESTIDGE as Lt. Danny Quon

Hawaiian Eye was part of the Warner Brothers/ABC  detective show line-up.  Like Lawman, it had a four year run.  (1959-1963)  Peter's appearance in this episode was aired the same week as the last episode of Lawman. Two of our video group members have copies of this episode from different sources but both are poor. [ If anyone has a better copy to sell or trade, let us know.]  This tale is the story of a neglected wife, a business man husband with a younger woman and a very sexy beach bum.

Linda and Arthur  Dane have come to Hawaii for a vacation, but Mrs. Dane feels neglected when her husband spends all his time on business.  P.I.  Tom Lopaka, who provides hotel security, returns Mrs. Dane's camera after Teo (Peter Brown) steals it from her car and pawns it.  She declines to sign a complaint.  When Teo exits the jail, he's in the company of Mr. Dane.  And he's being sent to charm the Mrs.  As Teo heads for the beach, Mr. Dane calls his young blonde girlfriend.

Teo charms Linda into  letting him fill her empty hours in Honolulu.  This gives Mr. Dane time to romance his blonde.  Tom Lopaka is not happy by this turn of events.  He knows Teo is trouble.  He spends the first half of the show warning Teo to stay away.

Teo charms not only Mrs. Dane but his girlfriend, Tink.  She sponges off her parents and he sponges off her.  But we know something Teo doesn't, his girlfriend is also Arthur Dane's blonde.

Mr. Dane has no objection when his wife plans an evening across the island with Teo.  After dinner, Teo takes her to a look-out point.  Things turn ugly, he grabs her, she pushes him away.  He falls, apparently to the rocks below.  However, after she drives off, Teo, who is very much alive [but only temporarily], tries to collect payment from Mr. Dane, who is waiting below.  He thinks they've set her up for a manslaughter rap.  However, Dane  kills him, leaving his body for the police.

However, even in 1962, forensics shows that Teo was murdered.  Tom, to whom Linda has run for help, sets out to show she didn't do it.  He finds Tink as she's off to spend the day in a hotel with Arthur.  She gives him up when she finds out Arthur killed Teo.

NiteOwl Review:  Hawaiian Eye was not our favorite of the Warner's detective series.  Alot of us only got to watch it in the summer as it was on Wednesdays at 9 p.m.    In the days of one TV per family, a show on opposite Perry Como was sometimes hard to persuade a mother to switch to.  But since this episode aired in the summer and most of us were Lawman fans, a lot of us actually remember seeing it.  It was our first look at Peter as a charming, sleazy villain, a role he would take on more often after Laredo.  A couple of our mothers thought the plot was a little racy.  They liked "that Lawman boy" better in Westerns.

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