Hong Kong Season 1

March. 01,1960 NR

Rating：

8.2

Genre：

Drama Crime

Trailer 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".

Episode 27 : The Runaway

March. 29,1961

Episode 26 : The Innocent Exile

March. 22,1961

Episode 25 : Love, Honor, and Perish

March. 15,1961

Episode 24 : The Woman in Gray

March. 08,1961

Episode 23 : Murder by Proxy

March. 01,1961

Episode 22 : With Deadly Sorrow

February. 22,1961

Episode 21 : The Hunted

February. 15,1961

Episode 20 : Lady Godiva

February. 08,1961

Episode 19 : Double Jeopardy

February. 01,1961

Episode 18 : Night Cry

January. 25,1961

Episode 17 : The Survivor

January. 18,1961

Episode 16 : Lesson in Fear

January. 11,1961

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.

Episode 15 : Suitable for Framing

January. 04,1961

A night club singer [guest star Julie London] helps newsman Glenn Evans avoid the police while he clears himself of a murder charge.

Episode 14 : When Strangers Meet

December. 21,1960

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.

Episode 13 : The Dragon Cup

December. 14,1960

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.

Episode 12 : Nine Lives

December. 07,1960

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.

Episode 11 : To Catch a Star

November. 30,1960

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.

Episode 10 : The Turncoat

November. 23,1960

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.

Episode 9 : Colonel Cat

November. 16,1960

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.

Episode 8 : Blind Bargain

November. 09,1960

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...

Episode 7 : The Jumping Dragon

November. 02,1960

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.

Episode 6 : The Jade Empress

October. 26,1960

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.

Episode 5 : Freebooter

October. 19,1960

A former American war pilot, Barney Vance, turns soldier of fortune flying a helicopter for a group of insurgents in a foreign country.

Episode 4 : Pearl Flower

October. 12,1960

Episode 3 : Murder Royal

October. 05,1960

Episode 2 : Clear for Action

September. 28,1960

Episode 1 : Blind Justice (30 min)

March. 01,1960

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.