Hong Kong (1960)
Synopsis
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".
First Air Date: 1960-03-01
Last Air Date: 1961-03-29
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 27
Networks: ABC
Top Cast
- Lloyd Bochner as N/A
- Rod Taylor as N/A
- Jack Kruschen as N/A
- Marco López as Sailor
- David Hedison as N/A
- Suzanne Pleshette as N/A
- James Hong as Lung Poi
- Paul Richards as N/A
- Richard Anderson as N/A
- Dina Merrill as Helen Rowan Randolph
Seasons
Season 1 (1960)
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Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Blind Justice (30 min)
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.
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Ep. 2: Clear for Action
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Ep. 3: Murder Royal
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Ep. 4: Pearl Flower
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Ep. 5: Freebooter
A former American war pilot, Barney Vance, turns soldier of fortune flying a helicopter for a group of insurgents in a foreign country.
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Ep. 6: The Jade Empress
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.
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Ep. 7: The Jumping Dragon
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.
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Ep. 8: Blind Bargain
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...
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Ep. 9: Colonel Cat
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.
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Ep. 10: The Turncoat
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.
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Ep. 11: To Catch a Star
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.
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Ep. 12: Nine Lives
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.
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Ep. 13: The Dragon Cup
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.
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Ep. 14: When Strangers Meet
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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Ep. 15: Suitable for Framing
A night club singer [guest star Julie London] helps newsman Glenn Evans avoid the police while he clears himself of a murder charge.
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Ep. 16: Lesson in Fear
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.
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Ep. 17: The Survivor
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Ep. 18: Night Cry
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Ep. 19: Double Jeopardy
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Ep. 20: Lady Godiva
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Ep. 21: The Hunted
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Ep. 22: With Deadly Sorrow
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Ep. 23: Murder by Proxy
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Ep. 24: The Woman in Gray
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Ep. 25: Love, Honor, and Perish
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Ep. 26: The Innocent Exile
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Ep. 27: The Runaway
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