Episode no. Season 1
Episode 1 Original air date October 7, 1959 | Directed by Howard W. Koch | |
Written by Robert J Shaw, from a story by Juanita Sheridan ← Previous
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"Malihini Holiday" is an episode of the American television detective series Hawaiian Eye.
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Synopsis
Stuart Bailey asks Tracy Steele to watch out for Englishwoman Mavis Purcell, who is arriving in Honolulu on a cruise ship. She has suffered a series of suspicious accidents. Her husband, Peter Purcell, is an artist who will be illustrating a book by Bill Garrison. As the ship docks, the Purcells are greeted with leis by Hawaiian friends of the Garrisons, David Kimu and his fiance Lala Kealoha. Mavis falls overboard and is rescued by David.
Additional accidents happen at the home of Bill and Peggy Garrison where the Purcells are staying, culminating in a car crash that kills Lala. Meanwhile, a stranger, Michael Thompson, is seen talking to Mavis Purcell. While trying to stop David from attacking Peter Purcell, whom he blames for Lala's death, Tracy Steele realizes that the accidents are a ploy concocted by Mavis and her lover Michael. They intend to kill Peter Purcell, and had faked the earlier accidents to make it look like he was trying to kill her. Steele and David rescue Peter from Thompson, but in the process Mavis is accidentally killed.
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Musical interlude
All the Warner Brothers detective shows of the late fifties and early sixties had one or more musical interludes written into the teleplay. For this episode, Poncie Ponce plays the ukulele and sings You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby, while Connie Stevens sings Let's Do It, Let's Fall in Love with the Shell Bar band. The band also plays a Hawaiian instrumental as accompaniment to a classical hula performance.