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Release year: 1959

Storyline

The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.

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Cast

Poncie Ponce — Kim Quisano
Connie Stevens — Cricket Blake
Douglas Mossman — Moke, Marty, Security Officer
Robert Conrad — Tom Lopaka

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Did you know

• Robert Wagner was asked to play Tom Lopaka, but he wanted to concentrate on movies instead. He then recommended his friend Robert Conrad for the role, which led to Conrad being cast. He had a dark tan from his time at the beach during the previous year, when he was looking for work, and that made the producers think of him as a beach type.

• Tom Lopaka was supposed to be half-Polynesian, according to Jack Emanuel, a Warner Brothers story editor who originally outlined the basic plotline of the show while on a trip to Hawaii at the request of the studio.

• Tom Lopaka's full name was Thomas Jefferson Lopaka. Cricket Blake's real first name was Chryseis.