Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there should be far more network-produced shows, but the real trouble is not that the networks buy from packagers, but that they do not exercise enough care in what they buy. Example: ABC bought the disastrous Adventures in Paradise from 20th Century-Fox, Alaskans, Bourbon Street Beat and Hawaiian Eye from Warner's-all without even seeing a pilot film. Says Adman Clyne: "Last spring we went over 200 finished pilots and another hundred ideas. We picked 40, put them on the air. Of those 40, we had confidence in only a dozen or so-and right...
...Police detectives practice their profession on the networks only a few hours a week; it is the civilian shamus who lays down by far the heaviest barrage. At least 15 of the Private Eyes now visible have survived other seasons; the four newcomers-Staccato, Philip Marlowe, Bourbon Street Beat, Hawaiian Eye-came on behind a resounding drum roll of publicity. On the ABC network alone there are twelve detective shows, three of them back-to-back on Friday nights...
...armed support of law and order calls for a combined budget of upwards of $1,250,000 a week-a bankroll that supports sleuths ranging from a corn-fed country operative named Hannibal Cobb, who appears in five-minute syndicated slices, to a brand-new sunburned entry, Hawaiian Eye, with a mixture of lets and lead, and a full hour on the screen. As the corpses pile up in the living room, citizens who know crime only from the tabloids follow the Eyes like men on the trail of their most desperate hope. And as the evenings pass...
...Hawaiian Eye (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Newest of the private peepers are a couple of uninsular operators named Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka. Their very first caper, Malihini Holiday, traces a murder plot all the way from London to Waikiki...
...Honolulu's Royal Hawaiian Hotel there were leis, typewriters, notebooks, cartons of cigarettes and monogrammed matches in each reporter's $2;-a-day room. Everyone also got an hour's interview with Adventure's official author, James (South Pacific) Michener, and a chance to learn that all Michener sold the network were outlines and a few short stories from which other writers would work out segments of Adventure...