Hawaiian Eye

1959

Seasons & Episodes

  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1

7.6| 0h30m| TV-PG| en
Synopsis

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 to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.

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Warner Bros. Television

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Also starring Poncie Ponce

Reviews

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant
Claire Dunne One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
Chris-Miller-12 During my late teens I was growing up in Kidbrooke, a dormitory suburb in south-east London. My family and I did not have a television until 1958 so we were restricted to listening to the radio. About that time I heard Connie Stevens sing "Sixteen reasons" on the radio. From her voice I pictured Connie as a pretty, blue-eyed blonde. I immediately bought the record. A little while later my family bought our first television. About eight months later I saw Connie playing the part of 'Cricket' in "Hawaiian Eye" so imagine my astonishment when she looked exactly as imagined when listening to her voice approximately one year earlier. This was the first of only two times I was right when putting a face to a radio/telephone voice to a person whom I had never seen.Since then I have been a fan of Connie Stevens, and bought her compact disc some years' ago. Unfortunately I have not seen her biography on the shelving in London's bookshops. Near my place of employment in London's Covent Garden area is the Cinema bookshop, but again no pertinent biographic books and neither is there a signed photograph on display - how sad! I hope that Connie Stevens is keeping well and enjoying life. Should she visit London to give a show or perform in London's theatreland I would like to know as I would like to be in the audience as appropriate.I also wish that "Hawaiian Eye" and "77 Sunset Strip" would appear again on British Television.
joanieb64 I loved everything about this show! The location, the suspense, comedy and most of all appealing characters. I had a huge crush on Robert Conrad and loved, loved Connie Stevens, even joined her fan club when I was in elementary school. I remember once writing a fan letter to Robert Conrad and I got a signed photo, unfortunately, I don't have it anymore...darn! I loved all the shows that Warner Brothers had at the time on television...Surfside Six, 77 Sunset Strip. I was saddened to learn when Troy Donahue passed away and well as some of the others. It was a great time for television.I get to see Connie on TV sometimes. She has been on Larry King and I have seen her on a few awards shows in the audience. My husband liked to watch Black Sheep Squadron with Robert Conrad. Thanks for sharing.
Laight Basically an attempt to spin off 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye started off as an ensemble cast, but slowly became a vehicle for Warners to show off Robert Conrad's remarkable face and body, as he manages to take his shirt off in almost every episode (as he also did in the Wild Wild West). And, Warners tried to launch Connie Stevens as well, both as an actress and a singer, but Stevens, who actually did a pretty good job in the show, didn't have the charisma to compete with the Sandra Dees and other cute-but-not-beautiful stars of the time. All in all, Hawaiian Eye is great if you like the visuals of Hawaii, Conrad, and Stevens -- but it's not much if you like plot or story.
jonesy74-1 Before Hawaii Five-0... before Magnum P.I., there was... Hawaiian Eye!The stars really did surf during the forward credits (I think)! I thought that was so cool! I was only around 5 when this show appeared. What I remember about the show is, Tracy Steele had a really cool name and a pencil thin mustache. I loved pencil-thin mustaches back then. Paladin (Richard Boone) in "Have Gun Will Travel" had one too. I always thought, "When I grow up, I'm going to grow a pencil-thin mustache like those guys. But, I never did.Tom Lopaka. By his name, were we being asked to believe pretty boy, Robert Conrad, was Hawaiian? Puh-LEEZE! There's a link on a website called Whirlygig that offers a portion of the episode called "The Comics." It guest stars Mary Tyler Moore. In it, Tracy Steele has arranged for Lopaka to be asked to the stage in a nightclub they are enjoying for the evening, to sing a song. With a little coaxing, Lopaka goes to the stage and sings the cheesiest lounge lizard style song called, "I Want You, Pretty Baby." Holy cow, is it hokey! Was that really Robert Conrad's voice or was it a dub-in?All that aside, this was a fun detective show. I remember thinking Cricket Blake was pretty cute! Connie Stevens became an early sixties blonde female icon in this series.The series made us think of Hawaii and its tropical enticements. The theme song still haunts my memory.