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A Touch of Velvet
Hawaiian Eye - S2 - E18
Someone has just murdered award-winning artist Gordon Montaigne, and Tracy Steele gains the help of a blind girl in serving as bait to catch him.
Hawaiian Eye: Season 2 - 38 Episode s
2x1 - I Wed Three Wives
September 14, 1960
Actor Mark Hamiton arrives in Hawaii and Tracy Steele draws an unusual assignment, to keep Hamilton's three ex-wives away from him. They plan to kidnap him in order to get back alimony payments. Hamilton also gets involved in a murder when he kills his business manager, who was aware that the actor had evaded paying his income tax.
2x2 - Princess from Manhattan
September 21, 1960
Irene, the princess from Manhattan, is trying to escape from her husband, Prince Abdur, and Tom Lopaka agrees to help. But it doesn't look like Tom's going to be of much assistance when he's taken prisoner aboard the prince's yacht.
2x3 - With This Ring
September 28, 1960
Eight-year-old Patty Seldon has lost her boyfriend, Stevie. Cricket decides to have some fun with detectives Steele and Lopaka and introduces Patty as a client. The case becomes more interesting when a ring given to her by the young suitor turns out to be part of something stolen by the little boy's uncle.
2x4 - Sea Fire
October 5, 1960
A Steamship company hires Lopaka to get evidence on some dope smugglers. They suspect that someone is stowing narcotics aboard their chartered vessels.
2x5 - Jade Song
October 12, 1960
Unknown to Steele, one of the Chinese refugee musicians he is guarding is a Tibetan Lama escaping from the Reds. Kim accidentally hears a song being played by Wang Hai, that provides an important clue. Everybody ends up at the Hotel's Shell Bar to hear Cricket & Kim sing ""Jade Song"".
2x6 - The Blue Goddess
October 19, 1960
The girl Harmon Kane is seeing is supposedly the daughter of a wealthy man, but in actuality the man posing as her father is an accomplice in a scheme to steal a valuable necklace called ""The Blue Goddess"". When the fake father buys the necklace with a bad check, Lopaka must track him down to recover the stolen goods.
2x7 - White Pigeon Ticket
October 26, 1960
A lottery ticket is Lopaka's only clue in finding an ex-con who's the prime suspect in a tuna warehouse robbery.
2x8 - Vanessa Vanishes
November 2, 1960
Steele is hired to find a kidnapped heiress. The odd thing is that the ransom note actually arrived before she disappeared.
2x9 - The Kahuna Curtain
November 9, 1960
Hired to protect an heiress's privacy, Lopaka becomes suspicious of her boy friend's attempt to play on her guilt over her father's accidental death by having her participate in seances.
2x10 - Girl on a String
November 16, 1960
Puppeteer Michael Dalli tells his asistant Sandra that he's replacing her with another girl. Then Sandra finds her look-alike puppet crushed. Distraught, she runs out into the streets and is run down by a car. Dalli's new assistant, Mona, then finds her puppet strangled, and Steele is called in to investigate.
2x11 - Kakua Woman
November 23, 1960
Tom Lopaka pursues escaped killer Ed Grimes to Hilo, where he is sheltered by his wife Dora until Tom shows her that he has taken up with a new girlfriend.
2x12 - The Contenders
November 30, 1960
Tom, who is dating the sister of prize fighter Joey Steck, uncovers a plot to fix his upcoming bout against a local favorite.
2x13 - Swan Song for a Hero
December 7, 1960
Otto Von Helgren proposes to sail a raft across the Pacific Ocean ""in the interests of science"" - and a substantial grant from the Pacific Foundation. However, Abner Dexter, an officer from the Foundation, suspects a swindle when Von Helgren refuses to be photographed. Tracy is asked to investigate and calls on Rex Randolph of 77 Sunset Strip to help him expose the fraud.
2x14 - The Money Blossom
December 14, 1960
Tom Lopaka tries to unravel a conspiracy to kill an orchid grower and steal his most valuable specimen.
2x15 - Services Rendered
December 21, 1960
Tom Lopaka manages to talk an executive out of committing suicide by convincing the man that he will find the person who's been blackmailing him, but in order to accomplish this he must induce his old friend Greg MacKenzie to come to the islands to finger the bad guy. Greg is so taken with Hawaii that he decides to stay, and becomes a member of their detective agency.
2x16 - Baker's Half Dozen
December 28, 1960
Six Navy men discover they have something in common - they're all engaged to the same woman. They hire Tom to find her and get the money back that they each gave her for expenses.
2x17 - Made in Japan
January 4, 1961
A crop of 20-dollar bills turns up in Honolulu, and the Treasury Department asks MacKenzie to help find the source. At first glance, the bills appear to be the work of former counterfeiter Capt. Joe, who they thought had gone straight. It turns out he has been kidnapped by the real counterfeiters, but is refusing to cooperate with them in making new plates.
2x18 - A Touch of Velvet
January 11, 1961
Someone has just murdered award-winning artist Gordon Montaigne, and Tracy Steele gains the help of a blind girl in serving as bait to catch him.
2x19 - Talk and You're Dead
January 18, 1961
To expose a waterfront loan shark, Tom Lopaka poses as a loneshoreman who needs a loan.
2x20 - Robinson Koyoto
January 25, 1961
Micho Koyoto is a Japanese marine who has been a castaway in the Solomon Islands for more than fifteen years. Out to cover a big story, magazine writer Gloria Matthews asks Tracy to help find him. Koyoto is the heir to an industrialist's fortune, but first they must convince him the war is over.
2x21 - The Manabi Figurine
February 1, 1961
Bill Sinclair brings a rare statuette called the Manabi Figurine to Greg for safe keeping pending its appraisal, and hoped for a tidy profit on the archaeological find for himself and his partners. The figurine is stolen from Greg's safe and a murder is committed. Greg and Tom work with Lt. Quon to track down the killer and recover the figurine.
2x22 - Caves of Pele
February 8, 1961
2x23 - Man in a Rage
February 15, 1961
2x24 - The Stanhope Brand
February 22, 1961
2x25 - The Trouble with Murder
March 1, 1961
2x26 - The Man from Manila
March 8, 1961
2x27 - Her Father's House
March 15, 1961
2x28 - The Humukumunukunukuapuaa Kid
March 22, 1961
2x29 - Don't Kiss Me Goodbye
March 29, 1961
2x30 - Dragon Road
April 5, 1961
2x31 - It Ain't Cricket
April 12, 1961
2x32 - The Comics
April 19, 1961
2x33 - Father, Dear Father
April 26, 1961
2x34 - The Manchu Formula
May 3, 1961
2x35 - The Pretty People
May 10, 1961
2x36 - The Big Dealer
May 17, 1961
2x37 - Maid in America
May 24, 1961
2x38 - A Taste for Money
May 31, 1961