Concert in Hawaii

"Concert in Hawaii"
Hawaiian Eye episode
Episode no.	Season 3 Episode 14
Directed by	Robert Sparr
Written by	Marie Baumer, from a story by Willkie Stevens
Original air date	December 27, 1961
Guest stars
K T Stevens : Claire Clifford Jack Cassidy : Maurice Clifford Faith Domergue : Rosa Martell
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"Concert in Hawaii" is an episode of the American television detective series Hawaiian Eye.

Synopsis

Sixteen-year-old concert pianist James Harrington, his mother Claire and stepfather Maurice Clifford, have arrived at the Hawaiian Village Hotel for a few days, before departing on a tour of Australia. With them is James' piano teacher, Rosa Martell, whom he seems to intensely dislike. While at the hotel, James will give a concert, for which hotel management has arranged a private studio for rehearsal. James tells Greg MacKenzie that he wants Hawaiian Eye to provide security for the rehearsal studio; no one, not even his mother or teacher are to be admitted while he's practising. Mackenzie agrees, but discerns there is some serious problem worrying the teenager. Later, James tells his mother and stepfather that he wants Rosa Martell fired.

At the Shell Bar that evening James watches Cricket's act and is entranced. She lures him to a beach picnic the next morning, trying to get him to unwind and reveal what's bothering him. A figure lurking by her jeep at the beach catches Cricket's eye. Later, as she drops James off in town, he is nearly run down by that same mysterious figure in an old car. Cricket asks Greg to put a guard on James' suite. That night security guard Teo stops a prowler, who turns out to be Spencer Kagen, an old student of Rosa Martell. The next morning, Cricket takes James for another picnic at Haleiwa Bay. Maurice Clifford has supposedly gone fishing, but turns up at the picnic with a gun. He has been having an affair with Rosa Martell, and now wants to kill James and Cricket in a fake boating accident. MacKenzie is suspicious of Clifford's intentions when he learns from Capt Anderson that Maurice doesn't know how to handle a boat. He arrives at Haleiwa just in time to overpower Maurice Clifford.

Episode cast

Series regulars

• Grant Williams ...as Greg McKenzie
• Anthony Eisley ...as Tracy Steele
• Connie Stevens ...as Cricket Blake
• Poncie Ponce ...as Kim

Recurring characters

• Doug Mossman ...as Moke
• Ralph Hanalei ...as Teo

Guest stars

• K T Stevens ...as Claire Harrington Clifford
• Jack Cassidy ...as Maurice Clifford
• Faith Domergue ...as Rosa Martell
• David McKlin ...as James Harrington
• Sherwood Price ...as Spencer Kagen
• Jack Shea ...as Capt Doug Anderson

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, Connie Stevens sang I Like the Likes of You with the Shell Bar band accompanying her.

Episode notes

Series regular Robert Conrad did not appear in this episode.

Actors David Macklin and Sherwood Price, who portray concert pianists in this episode, are shown playing the instrument only from a distance, with their hands and the keyboard concealed. When Macklin's character plays in concert, his "audience" consists of stock film footage depicting extras in formal evening wear from an earlier decade.

References

• Concert in Hawaii at the Internet Movie Database