Lloyd Bochner
Hong Kong (1960)
Season 1
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".
Released Sept. 28, 1960
Episode 45 min
None+
Genres: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Keywords: imdb.freebooter, imdb.two-word-title, imdb.place-name-in-title, awards.golden-globe-winner, awards.golden-globe-nominated
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Blind Justice (30 min)
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.
March 1, 1960, midnight
S1E2 - Clear for Action
Sept. 28, 1960, midnight
S1E3 - Murder Royal
Oct. 5, 1960, midnight
S1E4 - Pearl Flower
Oct. 12, 1960, midnight
S1E5 - Freebooter
A former American war pilot, Barney Vance, turns soldier of fortune flying a helicopter for a group of insurgents in a foreign country.
Oct. 19, 1960, midnight
S1E6 - The Jade Empress
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.
Oct. 26, 1960, midnight
S1E7 - The Jumping Dragon
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.
Nov. 2, 1960, midnight
S1E8 - Blind Bargain
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...
Nov. 9, 1960, midnight
S1E9 - Colonel Cat
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.
Nov. 16, 1960, midnight
S1E10 - The Turncoat
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.
Nov. 23, 1960, midnight
S1E11 - To Catch a Star
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.
Nov. 30, 1960, midnight
S1E12 - Nine Lives
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.
Dec. 7, 1960, midnight
S1E13 - The Dragon Cup
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.
Dec. 14, 1960, midnight
S1E14 - When Strangers Meet
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.
Dec. 21, 1960, midnight
S1E15 - Suitable for Framing
A night club singer [guest star Julie London] helps newsman Glenn Evans avoid the police while he clears himself of a murder charge.
Jan. 4, 1961, midnight
S1E16 - Lesson in Fear
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.
Jan. 11, 1961, midnight
S1E17 - The Survivor
Jan. 18, 1961, midnight
S1E18 - Night Cry
Jan. 25, 1961, midnight
S1E19 - Double Jeopardy
Feb. 1, 1961, midnight
S1E20 - Lady Godiva
Feb. 8, 1961, midnight
S1E21 - The Hunted
Feb. 15, 1961, midnight
S1E22 - With Deadly Sorrow
Feb. 22, 1961, midnight
S1E23 - Murder by Proxy
March 1, 1961, midnight
S1E24 - The Woman in Gray
March 8, 1961, midnight
S1E25 - Love, Honor, and Perish
March 15, 1961, midnight
S1E26 - The Innocent Exile
March 22, 1961, midnight
S1E27 - The Runaway
March 29, 1961, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 45 min.
Season Runtime: 45 min.
Released: Sept. 28, 1960
Last Air Date: March 29, 1961, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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