Hong Kong (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Hong Kong


caption =
genre = Adventure/Drama
creator = Robert Buckner
starring = Rod Taylor
Lloyd Bochner
theme_music_composer = Lionel Newman
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = 1
num_episodes = 27 (26 + pilot)
producer = Herbert Hirschman
Fletcher Markle
Art Wallace
runtime = 60 mins.
channel = ABC
picture_format = Black-and-white
audio_format = Monaural
first_aired = September 28, 1960
last_aired = September 27, 1961

"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.

ynopsis

"Hong Kong" was set in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Taylor portrayed Glenn Evans, an American journalist who worked in the exotic Far Eastern city. His search for stories led him into encounters with smugglers, murderers, drug peddlers, and mysterious women who disappear behind beaded curtains. Taylor’s principal costar was Lloyd Bochner, who portrayed Chief Inspector Neil Campbell.

"Hong Kong" was loosely based on the film "Soldier of Fortune", which had Michael Rennie in the Lloyd Bochner role and Jack Kruschen as Tully. The series premiered on Wednesday, September 28, 1960, and ceased new episodes on March 29, 1961; repeats continued until September 27. "Hong Kong" ran opposite NBC’s "Wagon Train", when midway in the season Ward Bond died in Dallas, and his trail boss character, Seth Adams, was succeeded without explanation by John McIntire as Chris Hale. CBS at the hour offered the short-lived "The Aquanauts", renamed at mid-season as "Malibu Run". [1960–1961 American network television schedule, Wednesdays.]

Cast

* Rod Taylor....Glenn Evans
* Lloyd Bochner....Neil Campbell
* Harold Fong....Ahting
* Gerald Jann....Ling
* Jack Kruschen....Tully
* Mai Tai Sing....Ching Mei

Notable guest stars

* Joan Caulfield
* Joanna Cook Moore
* Felicia Farr
* Rhonda Fleming
* Anne Francis
* Beverly Garland
* James Hong
* Susan Kohner
* Bethel Leslie
* Julie London
* Dina Merrill
* Suzanne Pleshette
* Gia Scala
* Pippa Scott

Main crew

Writers

* Robert Buckner
* Sidney Ellis
* Fred Freiberger
* Abram S. Ginnes
* Stanley Hough
* John T. Kelley
* Jonathan Latimer
* Donn Mullally
* Louis Pelletier
* Michael Pertwee
* Jan Winters

Directors

* Justus Addiss
* Bud Boetticher
* Walter Doniger
* Charles F. Haas
* Ida Lupino
* Christian Nyby
* John Peyser
* Stuart Rosenberg
* Boris Sagal
* Don Taylor

Episode list

References

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