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Hong Kong

1960

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".

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Episodes

  1. 1

    Blind Justice (30 min)

    1960-03-01

    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.

  2. 2

    Clear for Action

    1960-09-28
  3. 3

    Murder Royal

    1960-10-05
  4. 4

    Pearl Flower

    1960-10-12
  5. 5

    Freebooter

    1960-10-19

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

  6. 6

    The Jade Empress

    1960-10-26

    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.

  7. 7

    The Jumping Dragon

    1960-11-02

    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.

  8. 8

    Blind Bargain

    1960-11-09

    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...

  9. 9

    Colonel Cat

    1960-11-16

    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.

  10. 10

    The Turncoat

    1960-11-23

    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.

  11. 11

    To Catch a Star

    1960-11-30

    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.

  12. 12

    Nine Lives

    1960-12-07

    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.

  13. 13

    The Dragon Cup

    1960-12-14

    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.

  14. 14

    When Strangers Meet

    1960-12-21

    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.

  15. 15

    Suitable for Framing

    1961-01-04

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

  16. 16

    Lesson in Fear

    1961-01-11

    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.

  17. 17

    The Survivor

    1961-01-18
  18. 18

    Night Cry

    1961-01-25
  19. 19

    Double Jeopardy

    1961-02-01
  20. 20

    Lady Godiva

    1961-02-08
  21. 21

    The Hunted

    1961-02-15
  22. 22

    With Deadly Sorrow

    1961-02-22
  23. 23

    Murder by Proxy

    1961-03-01
  24. 24

    The Woman in Gray

    1961-03-08
  25. 25

    Love, Honor, and Perish

    1961-03-15
  26. 26

    The Innocent Exile

    1961-03-22
  27. 27

    The Runaway

    1961-03-29

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