1961

S1.E1 ∙ A Rage for Justice

Sat, Sep 16, 1961

Upon learning that her daughter died in an automobile accident, a famous opera singer recently released from a mental institution, flies to Hawaii. She plans to kill her son-in-law whom she holds responsible for her daughter's death. Paul Templin intercedes before the crime can be carried out and agrees to investigate the circumstances behind the young woman's death.

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S1.E2 ∙ Cry Fraud

Sat, Sep 23, 1961

After sending Ben Gregory to investigate on a non-existent shipwreck, an lookalike impostor breaks into his apartment and, posing as the writer, agrees to help a wealthy oilman buy a valuable oriental scroll. When the scroll turns out to be phony, Ben is accused of complicity in the crime and when the oilman is found dead is accused of Ben is arrested for murder.

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S1.E3 ∙ The Highest Wall

Sat, Sep 30, 1961

Templin tries to get the story of a beautiful teenager, the heir to a fortune, who is imprisoned in a walled villa.

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S1.E4 ∙ Journey Into Darkness

Sat, Oct 07, 1961

A beautiful widow who is being blackmailed is shot, but refuses to tell the police who her assailant was. Ben Gregory is determined to get the woman's story.

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S1.E5 ∙ The Woman Who Never Was

Sat, Oct 14, 1961

Templin is accused of killing a foreign currency dealer.

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S1.E6 ∙ Busman's Holiday

Sat, Oct 21, 1961

Eric Jason recognizes a mob hitman on the beach cavorting with a blonde bombshell.

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S1.E7 ∙ Another Part of the Jungle

Sat, Oct 28, 1961

Templin follows the widow of a famous writer who was said to have been lost at sea in order to investigate a rumor that the man might be alive and still writing under a nom de plume.

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S1.E8 ∙ The Longest Crap Game in History

Sat, Nov 04, 1961

A former marine returns to Hawaii to retrieve the pot of a craps game that was interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor twenty years before.

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S1.E9 ∙ The Hunters

Sat, Nov 11, 1961

Gregory joins a safari and finds himself targeted for death.

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S1.E10 ∙ Little Girl Lost

Sat, Nov 18, 1961

Jason investigates a young woman's claim that she suffers from amnesia after rescuing her from drowning.

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S1.E11 ∙ Night Song

Sat, Nov 25, 1961

Templin investigates the story of a beautiful singer who will no longer perform out of fear of her former manager.

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S1.E12 ∙ The Primitive Clay

Sat, Dec 02, 1961

Several illustrations for one of Gregory's articles earn the artist some unexpected notoriety - two pretty girls show up on his doorstep claiming to be his long-lost daughter.

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S1.E13 ∙ Conspiracy of Silence

Sat, Dec 09, 1961

Templin is asked to collaborate on a former movie star's autobiography, but the woman refuses to explain why hasn't appeared in front of the camera in recent years.

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S1.E14 ∙ The Far End of Nowhere

Sat, Dec 16, 1961

Jason, hired to write the story of the Randolph family, an iron-fisted clan who have ruled a small Hawaiian island as a personal fiefdom, winds up investigating a murder on their idyllic cay.

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S1.E15 ∙ Mele Kalikimaka to You

Sat, Dec 23, 1961

Ben Gregory and Eric Jason throw a Christmas party for the meanest man on Oahu.

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S1.E16 ∙ The Girl from the Brandenburg Gate

Sat, Dec 30, 1961

A German girl tries to retrieve counterfeit money planted on Eric Jason without the reporter knowing.

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S1.E17 ∙ Chicago Style

Sat, Jan 06, 1962

Eric Jason discovers Pinky Hamilton, a famous jazz pianist, is living in Hawaii under an assumed name and plans to write a story about his career. Pinky isn't happy about being discovered since the gangster who tried to kill him 30 years earlier still wants to settle accounts.

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S1.E18 ∙ The Last of the Big Spenders

Sat, Jan 13, 1962

A beachcomber reveals to Templin his past as the former mayor of a major American city and tells the reporter he fears for his life.

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S1.E19 ∙ Ghost Story

Sat, Jan 20, 1962

Ben Gregory discovers his tape recorder running in his penthouse. When he replays the tape, he hears the voice of a man thought dead for many years and who is willing to tell his story, but only for a hefty fee.

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S1.E20 ∙ Sergeant Kolchak Fades Away

Sat, Jan 27, 1962

Templin tries to develop a story based on an ex-Marine's storied career, but the former leatherneck won't cooperate.

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S1.E21 ∙ The Dumbest Blonde

Sat, Feb 03, 1962

Ben Gregory is working on a story of a oil tycoon who is trying to cook up a big deal with a crooked financier. The story and the deal may fall apart because of the ditsy mistress' innocent interference.

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S1.E22 ∙ Annie Beeler's Place

Sat, Feb 10, 1962

A ex-crook now tending bar in his girlfriend's saloon is forced by his former underworld associates to join them in a bank heist.

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S1.E23 ∙ The Irresistible Miss Bullfinch

Sat, Feb 17, 1962

The reporters help a woman find her former boyfriend who had long ago been run off by her father as an unsuitable match for his daughter.

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S1.E24 ∙ A Choice of Weapons

Sat, Feb 24, 1962

An up-and-coming professional boxer chucks his career in the ring in order to become a college student, much to his manager's annoyance.

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S1.E25 ∙ Marine of the Month

Sat, Mar 03, 1962

Eric Jason is assigned to cover a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, who also turns out to be a gorgeous redhead with a wonderful figure.

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S1.E26 ∙ The Inhuman Equation

Sat, Mar 10, 1962

Ben considers his current assignment - writing about a new computer - extremely boring, until a nerdy accountant discovers that the machine made a mistake in its calculations.

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S1.E27 ∙ A Ghost in Her Gazebo

Sat, Mar 17, 1962

A widow, now the head of a huge business, is urged to sell the company by her children. She decides to consult a medium in order to seek business advice from her late husband.

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S1.E28 ∙ Not Aunt Charlotte!

Sat, Mar 24, 1962

Eighteen-year-old Penny Baxter is excited about visiting Hawaii until she discovers her maiden aunt will travel with her as a chaperone. It's the older woman, however, who finds romance in the islands when she meets a handsome beachcomber.

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S1.E29 ∙ Run, Clown, Run

Sat, Mar 31, 1962

Gregory and Jason investigate when they learn a beloved circus clown has a profitable sideline playing the stock market and may also have a criminal past.

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