Hawaiian_eye

Hawaiian Eye
Robert Conrad, Connie Stevens, Anthony Eisley and Poncie Ponce in Hawaiian Eye
Format	Drama
Created by	Roy Huggins
Starring	Anthony Eisley Robert Conrad Connie Stevens Poncie Ponce
Theme music composer	"The Hawaiian Eye Theme" composed by Jerry Livingston and Mack David performed by Warren Barker
Country of origin	United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	134 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	William T. Orr
Producer(s)	Stanley Niss]br>Charles Hoffman Ed Jurist
Location(s)	California
Running time	60 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	October 7, 1959 – April 2, 1963
Chronology
Related shows	77 Sunset Strip, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside Six

Hawaiian Eye is an American television series that ran from October 1959 to September 1963 on the American Broadcasting Company television network.

Description

Actors Robert Conrad and Anthony Eisley starred as detectives in Honolulu, Hawaii fighting crime. Connie Stevens played "Cricket," a singer at the Hawaiian Village Hotel bar which the detectives frequented at least once a show. Poncie Ponce supplied comic relief as Kim "Kazuo Kim" Quisado, a ukelele-playing cab driver with "relatives" throughout the islands. The cast was rounded out by semi-regular Arthur Lyman, an exotica musician.

Hawaiian Eye was one of several ABC/Warner Brothers Television detective series of the era situated in different exotic locales. Others included Hollywood-based 77 Sunset Strip, Bourbon Street Beat, set in New Orleans, and Miami\'s Surfside Six. In reality, all were shot on the Warner Brothers lot in Los Angeles, making it easy for characters—and sometimes whole scripts—to cross over. Although the shows aren\'t spin-offs in the traditional sense, Sunset was the the first in this chain of "exotic location detective series". In this regard, Hawaiian Eye was the most viable of the Sunset look-alikes, lasting four seasons.Kevin Burton Smith. Hawaiian Eye. Thrilling Detective. Retrieved on 2007-08-10.

In other media

A limited amount of spin-off material accompanied the series. Gold Key published a single comic book, Hawaiian Eye #1, in 1963, which detailed an adventure of Cricket and Phil Barton. In 1962 a single novelization by Frank Castle also appeared on bookshelves in America.

Episode list

See List of Hawaiian Eye episodes

See also

• Hawaii Five-O

References

External links

• Hawaiian Eye at the Internet Movie Database
• Hawaiian Eye at TV.com

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