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Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure
Adventure (genre)

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/drama series
Dramatic programming

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 which aired on ABC television
Television

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 during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor
Actor

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 Rod Taylor into a major film
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 star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock
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Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
's The Birds
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. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television
20th Century Fox Television

Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
.

ong Kong was set in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
. Taylor portrayed Glenn Evans, an American journalist
Journalist

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 who worked in the exotic Far Eastern city.






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Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure
Adventure (genre)

The adventure genre, in the context of a narrative, is typically applied to works in which the protagonist or other major characters are consistently placed in dangerous situations, and a fictional character who lives by their wits and their skills is often called an adventurer....
/drama series
Dramatic programming

Dramatic programming is television content that is scripted and fictional. This excludes, for example, sports, news, reality show and game shows, stand-up comedy and variety shows....
 which aired on ABC television
Television

Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
 during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
 Rod Taylor into a major film
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock

Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, Order of the British Empire was a British filmmaker and film producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and psychological thriller genres....
's The Birds
The Birds (film)

The Birds is a suspense film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, based on the short story The Birds by Daphne du Maurier. The film's innovative special effects, soundtrack, and apocalyptic fiction theme influenced later "revenge of nature" disaster films....
. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television
20th Century Fox Television

Twentieth Century Fox Television, Inc. is the television production division of the 20th Century Fox movie studio, a subsidiary of News Corporation....
.

Synopsis

Hong Kong was set in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
. Taylor portrayed Glenn Evans, an American journalist
Journalist

A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
 who worked in the exotic Far Eastern city. His search for stories led him into encounters with smuggler
SMUGGLER

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s, murder
Murder

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ers, drug peddlers, and mysterious women who disappear behind beaded curtains. Taylor’s principal costar was Lloyd Bochner
Lloyd Bochner

Lloyd Wolfe Bochner was a Canadian actor, also leading man, usually playing the role of cool, suave, rich men....
, who portrayed Chief Inspector Neil Campbell.

Hong Kong was loosely based on the film Soldier of Fortune
Soldier of Fortune (film)

Soldier of Fortune is a 1955 in film adventure film about the rescue of an American held prisoner in the People's Republic of China in the 1950s....
, which had Michael Rennie
Michael Rennie

Michael Rennie was an England film, television, and stage actor, best known for his starring role as the space visitor Klaatu in the 1951 classic science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still ....
 in the Lloyd Bochner role and Jack Kruschen
Jack Kruschen

Jack Kruschen was a Canadian-born character actor who worked primarily in United States film, television and radio programming....
 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
Wagon train

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, when midway in the season Ward Bond
Ward Bond

Wardell Edwin Bond was an United States film actor whose rugged appearance and easygoing charm led to featured roles in numerous classic films....
 died in Dallas
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, and his trail boss character, Seth Adams, was succeeded without explanation by John McIntire
John McIntire

For the fictional character, see Trapper John McIntyre. For the Scottish radiologist, see John Macintyre.John McIntire was an American character actor....
 as Chris Hale. CBS
CBS

CBS Broadcasting Inc. is an American radio network and television network. The name is derived from the initials of Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name....
 at the hour offered the short-lived The Aquanauts, renamed at mid-season as Malibu Run.

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
    Joan Caulfield

    Joan Caulfield was an United States actress and former fashion model. After being discovered by Broadway producers, she began a stage career in 1943 that eventually lead to signing as an actress with Paramount Pictures....
  • Joanna Cook Moore
    Joanna Cook Moore

    Joanna Cook Moore was an United States film and television actress best known for her guest roles on the popular television shows of the 1960s, most notably as Sheriff Andy Taylor love interest, Peggy "Peg" McMillan on The Andy Griffith Show....
  • Felicia Farr
    Felicia Farr

    Felicia Farr is a former American actress and model....
  • Rhonda Fleming
    Rhonda Fleming

    Rhonda Fleming , is an American motion picture and television actress.She acted in more than 40 films, mostly in the 1940s and 1950s, and became renowned as one of the most beautiful and glamorous actresses of her day....
  • Anne Francis
    Anne Francis

    Anne Francis is an United States actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet and the Honey West private detective in the television series Honey West ....
  • Beverly Garland
    Beverly Garland

    Beverly Garland was an American film and television actress, businesswoman and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas," in the long-running 1960s sitcom, My Three Sons ....
  • James Hong
    James Hong

    James Hong is an United States actor and former president of the Association of Asian/Pacific American Artists ....
  • Susan Kohner
    Susan Kohner

    Susan Kohner is an Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning United States actress. She is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Czechoslovakia....
  • Bethel Leslie
    Bethel Leslie

    Bethel Leslie was an United States theatre, film, and television actor and a screenwriter.Born in New York City, Leslie was discovered by George Abbott, who cast her in the play Snafu in 1944....
  • Julie London
    Julie London

    Julie London was an United States singer and actress. Best known for her smoky, sensual voice, as a singer she was at her peak in the 1950s; her acting career lasted more than 35 years, ending with the role of nurse Dixie McCall, RN, on the popular TV show Emergency! ....
  • Dina Merrill
    Dina Merrill

    Dina Merrill is an American actress and socialite....
  • Suzanne Pleshette
    Suzanne Pleshette

    Suzanne Pleshette was an United Statesn acting, on stage, cinema and television.After beginning her career in theatre, she began appearing in films in the early 1960s, such as Rome Adventure and Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ....
  • Gia Scala
    Gia Scala

    Gia Scala was an England United States actress of Italian-Irish descent....
  • Pippa Scott
    Pippa Scott

    Pippa Scott is an United States actress who appeared in movies and television since the 1950s. She is also a founding partner of Lorimar Productions....


Main crew


Writers

  • Robert Buckner
  • Sidney Ellis
  • Fred Freiberger
    Fred Freiberger

    Fred Freiberger was an United States television producer and script writer. He is best known for his work as producer of the third and final season of science fiction series Star Trek: The Original Series from 1968–1969....
  • Abram S. Ginnes
  • Stanley Hough
  • John T. Kelley
  • Jonathan Latimer
    Jonathan Latimer

    Jonathan Wyatt Latimer was an American crime writer....
  • Donn Mullally
  • Louis Pelletier
    Louis Pelletier

    Louis Pelletier was an United States author of radio dramas and screenplays for motion pictures and television.Born in New York City, New York, Pelletier co-wrote the 1937 Broadway theatre play "Howdy Stranger" that Warner Bros....
  • Michael Pertwee
    Michael Pertwee

    Michael Pertwee was a United Kingdom playwright and screenwriter. Among his credits were episodes of The Saint , Danger Man, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, B-And-B and many other films and TV series....
  • Jan Winters


Directors

  • Justus Addiss
  • Bud Boetticher
  • Walter Doniger
  • Charles F. Haas
    Charles F. Haas

    Charles Friedman Haas is an American film and television director.He began his career at Universal Studios in the mid-1930s, becoming assistant director and eventually a director of non-dramatic films....
  • Ida Lupino
    Ida Lupino

    Ida Lupino was an Anglo-American film actor, film director, and a pioneer among women filmmakers. In her forty-eight year career, she appeared in fifty-nine films, and directed nine others....
  • Christian Nyby
    Christian Nyby

    Christian Nyby was an United States television and film director.Born in Los Angeles, California, California, he started his career as a film editor in the 1940s....
  • John Peyser
  • Stuart Rosenberg
    Stuart Rosenberg

    Stuart Rosenberg was an United States film director and television director whose notable works included the movies Cool Hand Luke , Voyage of the Damned , The Amityville Horror , and The Pope of Greenwich Village ....
  • Boris Sagal
    Boris Sagal

    Boris Sagal was an American television director and film director.Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, Sagal emigrated to the United States where he attended the Yale School of Drama....
  • Don Taylor
    Don Taylor (director)

    Donald Victor Taylor was an England writer, television director and Television producer, active across theatre, radio drama and television for over forty years....


Episode list

Episode # Production Code Episode Title Airdate
0
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"Blind Justice" (Pilot) September 19, 1991
1 4103 "Clear For Action" September 28, 1960
2 4102 "Murder Royal" October 5, 1960
3 4106 "Pearl Flower" October 12, 1960
4 4104 "Freebooter" October 19, 1960
5 4107 "The Jade Empress" October 26, 1960
6 4105 "The Jumping Dragon" November 2, 1960
7 4101 "Blind Bargain" November 9, 1960
8 4109 "Colonel Cat" November 16, 1960
9 4108 "The Turncoat" November 23, 1960
10 4110 "To Catch a Star" November 30, 1960
11 4111 "Nine Lives" December 7, 1960
12 4112 "The Dragon Cup" December 14, 1960
13 4113 "When Strangers Meet" December 21, 1960
14 4114 "Suitable for Framing" January 4, 1961
15 4115 "Lesson in Fear" January 11, 1961
16 4116 "The Survivor" January 18, 1961
17 4117 "Night Cry" January 25, 1961
18 4118 "Double Jeopardy" February 1, 1961
19 4119 "Lady Godiva" February 8, 1961
20 4112 " The Hunted" February 15, 1961
21 4121 "With Deadly Sorrow" February 22, 1961
22 4123 "Murder By Proxy" March 1, 1961
23 4120 "The Woman In Gray" March 8, 1961
24 4124 "Love, Honor, and Perish" March 15, 1961
25 4125 "The Innocent Exile" March 22, 1961
26 4126 "The Runaway" March 29, 1961


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