My wife and I moved to Waikiki eleven years ago from upstate NY. This show sparked my love for the Hawaiian Islands and I never lost sight of that dream.
We stopped in at the Tee shirt Concert ticket shop across from the Main Post Office. Got to talking with the owner and I asked if he was a native son or ex-tourist. He said he was a Chicago Fireman on Christmas vacation. Four days in he phoned home, and asked how cold it was and how much was in his Roth IRA...
I love the theme song, just as I first did in 1962. The series was almost ended by then. I loved all those themes to all of those ABC Warner Brothers shows of the late 50's and early 60's, like Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip, Cheyenne, Maverick.
I agree, so many people detest reality shows, yet there still on the networks. Networks cancel shows that have a following and are well written. They keep reality show rubbish on television.
I never saw this show originally nor have I ever seen it. As a TV history buff, though, I've known of it by title for several years. Appealing opening, fun to see. It harkens back to an era of wonder & innocence, when a series set in Hawaii conjured up images of a distant, exotic, & mysterious paradise, all through the electronic magic of television. Sadly, the medium's hypnotic charm has been long-since lost. TV no longer is capable of transporting viewers in this way to spellbinding places such as Hawaii. The world's too much with us, its every nook & cranny's become so familiar as to leave viewers unmoved & uninspired. Only sci-fi still has the power to captivate & spark one's imagination. Regrettably, however, not everyone's enamored by or interested in sci-fi. Ironically, it's just too unreal & irrelevant to alot of potential viewers. Of course, many sci-fi shows & series have aired over the decades, most of which now seem cheesy & hokey, with exceptions. Perhaps there should be a revival, though. How does "Alpha Centauri Eye" sound?
Wonderful observation. Thank you. I love "TV Space Shots" too but through these other Retro adventures have found an alternative "sense of wonder". Somehow so much of that is part of another time and space. With so much "given" to us, where did it all go away to? [See also Adventures In Paradise, Surfside Six].
In the early 60's my Mom watched this show I was 5 or 6 I didn't pay much attention to it till last night when I found it on some channel. I decided to watch it to find out what's it about. It's a PI show and filmed on Hawaii in the late 50's and early 60's. Robert Conrad was pretty cool as PI man Tom Lopaka. The series went off the air in 1963 I was 7 Yrs old at the time. I'm 66 and checking this show out since 1963. 4 Yrs later in 1967 Robert Conrad would star in the Wild Wild West he was always one of my favorite actors.
Just read that Robert Conrad passed and I forgot that he starred in Hawaiian Eye, in which the theme song popped in my head! Thanks for those wonderful shows you were in, Robert Conrad!
This show was cancelled the year I was in kindergarten, and is the earliest TV program I can remember. I had forgotten that Robert Conrad from "The Wild, Wild, West" was in it until I started watching old reruns a few months ago. Great memories! 😃
I'm watching the show right now on MeTV+. I love Connie, and the series. (I also lived in Hawaii for 8 years, in the 70's). I just wish the show had been in color.
Truth be told I first saw a parody version in "The Flintstones" when I was young however it was called "Hawaiian Spy" starring Larry Lava. Sadly as a kid I never got most of the references.
Just as I was becoming aware of TV. Also Adventures in Paradise with Gardner McKay. Hawaii and Alaska joined the Union in '59. My mother helped me read the new states' names on the TV's screen and those memories were reinforced over the years immediately following.
Anthony Eisley later rejoined Robert Conrad on two episodes of "The Wild, Wild West." He opened the second season in "The Night of the Eccentrics" as Dead Eye, and during the fourth and last season as Mr. Blessing, chief of the Secret Service Training Academy and Jim West's former training superior in "The Night of the Janus."
My younger brother Robby (now known as Bob), would hide his eyes when the tiki statue would appear. It scared the day lights out of him. (Bob is now a 61 year old lawyer with a wife and 2 sons.)
I remember this from my childhood. Glad I'm not the only who got freaked out by that idol. But I just loved Connie Stevens and Poncie Ponce; they were so adorable.
I remember watching this series when I was a little kid. Unforgettable theme song, and cool surfing shots in the intro. But that idol really freaked me out! Thanks, CoffeeSundayMorning.
I loved "77 Sunset Strip", "Hawaiian Eye" and "Surfside 6" but, let's face it, it was the same show just filmed in a different location. Everybody loved "77 Sunset Strip". Pre DVR days (1959) you HAD to be home Friday night at 9!
They didn't advertise Dentucreme because the people who watched this program were old; it's that dental health wasn't taken very seriously by a lot of people in the 60's. My mom lost all her teeth and had dentures at age 35.
I guess I was about three or four and would scream at this intro because that totem pole symbol thing freaked me out. They would have to turn the channel for a minute.
I suppose it was a forerunner to Five-O and Magnum P.I. but these guys and gals were super cool and their lifestyle and location seemed so far away from our lives back in that time.
I agree. Surfside 6 was another good one. The early 70's had some good shows, including Gilligan's Island, Wild Wild West, and Green Acres. Warner Bros. of today has a whole different management. They won't likely release this show on DVD if they have to pay residuals to the main actors or to their estates, i.e. Poncie Ponce has passed away There is always the chance that Warner will not have any interest in it, so they may sell a few episodes, and they might appear at a dollar store.
LOL! OMGsh, I was just about to post the same thing. It was quality tv, but the statue scared the crap out of me, just like the lady justice on the Perry Mason opening.
Thank you for that. We so often know those voices of announcers, but never their names or legacies. And those announcers voices are burned into our memories just as much as the musical themes! Also, let us not forget the singers, such as in this intro. Same thing.
@@chasermalloy7406 --- When I was in grade school one of the kids said it was General Electric made that robot. Being so young we believed him. Then as a teenager we found out it was two men. One voice and one inside. Thanks to the internet I got a photo of Bob being put in the robot.
Thank you! Now, all you get are the actors' names over the action on screen, then that strip of minute credits being flashed by at warp speed at the end of the show.
I have never seen this show, and I am just discovering 77 Sunset Strip, hopefully ME TV will get a hold of Hawaiian Eye too. Why does every TV show today suck soo bad? I'd rather watch classics like this show every night
Connie played "Cricket" while Conrad was "Tom Lopaca" Can't remember the older guy's character name but they always drove Fords and had 2-way radios which was pretty cool for 1959-63. And Cricket would always get to sing a song, each week, at their friendly Hawaiian type bar.
@TheBabyboomkidof53 You are so, so right...TV has gone to the bottom of the barrel...this show, 77 Sunset, Route 66, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Surf Side Six, etc., ...those shows had some real meaning...and an uplifting message, if you really got into it...not at all like today's shows....some are funny but don't give us any real values...
And maybe that's why Poncie had a different perspective of the show than say Connie Steven's. He was the "mascot", the buffoon, kinda like the class clown, expected to be silly and give everybody a laugh while being subservient to the others. Kinda the way blacks and other "foreigners" were treated and given names like "hop-sing" and "mae-ling". Notice that he is the last one on the credit roll at the intro, just like the Chinese cook on Bonanza. It's a master-slave thing, no matter how whitewashed it looked. And those who came up last on the list knew it. They(the producers) got away with it because it was the 1950's and that was the status quo at that time and the decades before that in movies. Beaver never came in contact with a single black person in his neighborhood or school. EVER! In the entire dvd collection!
That announcer for the Dentu-Creme......sounded like.....a 'Voice' i'd heard before??...... Gonna take a shot: Same guy who did the Robot....( Not IN the suit...but, his 'Voice) in Lost in Space? Sure sounds nearly the same!
The blonde girl at the very end, surfing, was actually my second cousin and NOT Connie Stevens. My cousin could actually surf - as you can see - and was "discovered" at Waikiki by someone connected to the show. At the time she was also my oldest brother's best friend's girlfriend (complicated, I know.)
My wife and I moved to Waikiki eleven years ago from upstate NY. This show sparked my love for the Hawaiian Islands and I never lost sight of that dream.
Beautiful. How's that dream going for you? Is living in Waikiki still paradise or do you both miss NY?
We stopped in at the Tee shirt Concert ticket shop across from the Main Post Office. Got to talking with the owner and I asked if he was a native son or ex-tourist. He said he was a Chicago Fireman on Christmas vacation. Four days in he phoned home, and asked how cold it was and how much was in his Roth IRA...
I remember watching this show as a kid. I had a major crush on Connie Stevens.❤️
I remember it and saw it often...
I was a good show!
😎
I love the theme song, just as I first did in 1962. The series was almost ended by then. I loved all those themes to all of those ABC Warner Brothers shows of the late 50's and early 60's, like Surfside 6, 77 Sunset Strip, Cheyenne, Maverick.
This show certainly takes me back to the golden years of television
we need more shows with great theme music back on TV.DUMP THOSE STUPID REALITY TV SHOWS OFF THE AIR.
yes, i am sick of them too
@@yell50totally agree!
Amen kill off the reality TV shows and dramadies.
I agree. I am sick and tired of the reality shows.
I agree, so many people detest reality shows, yet there still on the networks. Networks cancel shows that have a following and are well written. They keep reality show rubbish on television.
Rest in Peace Mr Robert Conrad.
I'm surprised he passed. He was always so fit and health conscious. Remember the Columbo episode of him and his health club?
I loved this show as a child - remember the theme song really well and I thought Connie Stevens was the prettiest girl in the world! Lovely memories.
Another beautiful talent from Brooklyn, New York. They must be doing something right there!
Oh boy does this bring back fond memories of sitting in front of our big old black and white t.v. when I was a kid.
I LOVE this show! Awesome set up, great characters, and Connie Stevens always sings one song in each every episode!
I never saw this show originally nor have I ever seen it. As a TV history buff, though, I've known of it by title for several years. Appealing opening, fun to see. It harkens back to an era of wonder & innocence, when a series set in Hawaii conjured up images of a distant, exotic, & mysterious paradise, all through the electronic magic of television. Sadly, the medium's hypnotic charm has been long-since lost. TV no longer is capable of transporting viewers in this way to spellbinding places such as Hawaii. The world's too much with us, its every nook & cranny's become so familiar as to leave viewers unmoved & uninspired. Only sci-fi still has the power to captivate & spark one's imagination. Regrettably, however, not everyone's enamored by or interested in sci-fi. Ironically, it's just too unreal & irrelevant to alot of potential viewers. Of course, many sci-fi shows & series have aired over the decades, most of which now seem cheesy & hokey, with exceptions. Perhaps there should be a revival, though. How does "Alpha Centauri Eye" sound?
Should have proposed it to Netflix when they still green lit everything.
Wonderful observation. Thank you. I love "TV Space Shots" too but through these other Retro adventures have found an alternative "sense of wonder". Somehow so much of that is part of another time and space. With so much "given" to us, where did it all go away to?
[See also Adventures In Paradise, Surfside Six].
@@AdmiralNelson1000 Great points. Thanks for your response!
Me either
It was 100% filmed in Burbank! It says so in the end credits.
This is my favourite tv series of all time .and the theme music is great and memorable .Please make it available on dvd .
I agree totally! I'd buy the DVD's in a heartbeat! I absolutely LOVED this show as it introduced me to Connie Stevens! Larry
This gem is from a time when TV themes were an important part of the show.
Saw this as a kid! Had a young pre Wild Wild West Robert Conrad Was also a fan of 77 Sunset Strip and Surfside Six.
One of the great shows of the 60's all with memorable themes glad i was kid then never short of entertainment on the box.
In the early 60's my Mom watched this show I was 5 or 6 I didn't pay much attention to it till last night when I found it on some channel. I decided to watch it to find out what's it about. It's a PI show and filmed on Hawaii in the late 50's and early 60's. Robert Conrad was pretty cool as PI man Tom Lopaka. The series went off the air in 1963 I was 7 Yrs old at the time. I'm 66 and checking this show out since 1963. 4 Yrs later in 1967 Robert Conrad would star in the Wild Wild West he was always one of my favorite actors.
Hawaiian Eye was set in Hawaii, but it was filmed on the Warner Brothers studio lot in Burbank, CA.
Loved that Poncie Ponce!!!!❤
Only some exterior scenes were shot in Honolulu and Hawaii.
Most of the show was filmed at Warner Brothers in Burbank, California.
I wish an "oldies" TV station would broadcast this program.
THEY DID....AND IT WAS O'RIBLE.
MeTV was showing it on weekends at night
@@Joebunkyss1 what do you mean? Did you watch it back in the day?
Nick at night had it around 87
Look for the dvd collection on google or amazon.
Loved so many of those shows from the 1950s and 1960s. 77 Sunset Strip, Hawaiian Eye, Surfside 6, even unrelated shows like Guestward Ho.
Don't forget Adventures In Paradise with Gardner McKay.
@@leegenix Don't forget Bourbon Street Beat with Andrew Duggan and Richard Long.
and what about "Sky King" and "Whirlybirds"??? :-D
A very memorable and beautiful theme song , the best series ever.
We used to watch this all the time!
The first time I remember seeing surfing...immediately stoked for life!
Robert Conrad RIP. I had never heard of this show of his until his death today.
Just read that Robert Conrad passed and I forgot that he starred in Hawaiian Eye, in which the theme song popped in my head! Thanks for those wonderful shows you were in, Robert Conrad!
This show was cancelled the year I was in kindergarten, and is the earliest TV program I can remember. I had forgotten that Robert Conrad from "The Wild, Wild, West" was in it until I started watching old reruns a few months ago. Great memories! 😃
I'm watching the show right now on MeTV+. I love Connie, and the series. (I also lived in Hawaii for 8 years, in the 70's). I just wish the show had been in color.
Truth be told I first saw a parody version in "The Flintstones" when I was young however it was called "Hawaiian Spy" starring Larry Lava.
Sadly as a kid I never got most of the references.
Just as I was becoming aware of TV. Also Adventures in Paradise with Gardner McKay. Hawaii and Alaska joined the Union in '59. My mother helped me read the new states' names on the TV's screen and those memories were reinforced over the years immediately following.
Anthony Eisley later rejoined Robert Conrad on two episodes of "The Wild, Wild West." He opened the second season in "The Night of the Eccentrics" as Dead Eye, and during the fourth and last season as Mr. Blessing, chief of the Secret Service Training Academy and Jim West's former training superior in "The Night of the Janus."
"Hawaiian Eye" was probably the only time, Eisley did not portray a "Heavy" on series TV(LOL).
Anthony Eisley, super-slick and
sleazy on a couple late 60s episodes
of DRAGNET.
I remember as a toddler going around jabbering "HAWAIIAN EYE-YA!"
My younger brother Robby (now known as Bob), would hide his eyes when the tiki statue would appear. It scared the day lights out of him. (Bob is now a 61 year old lawyer with a wife and 2 sons.)
@@jimsatrom9535 it scared me also. Thanks for your message.
Adorable.
Poncie Ponce recently passed away at the age of 80. He played Kazuo "Kim" Quisado on this show.
I remember this from my childhood. Glad I'm not the only who got freaked out by that idol. But I just loved Connie Stevens and Poncie Ponce; they were so adorable.
lol as a kid, it creeped me out, too! Loved the show!
i NEVER FORGOT THAT NAME and Poncie Ponce--- I luved that show-- watched it every week...
No Pamela you weren’t the only one. That thing gave me nightmares!
I remember watching this series when I was a little kid. Unforgettable theme song, and cool surfing shots in the intro. But that idol really freaked me out! Thanks, CoffeeSundayMorning.
I loved "77 Sunset Strip", "Hawaiian Eye" and "Surfside 6" but, let's face it, it was the same show just filmed in a different location. Everybody loved "77 Sunset Strip". Pre DVR days (1959) you HAD to be home Friday night at 9!
You forgot Bourbon Street Beat!
@@mattmatthews758 Yes, I did!
The settings may have been different, but all those shows were filmed at the same place -- Warner Brothers Studios in Burbank.
Thanks. Interesting commercial. Loved this show in its heyday. Great memories. Thanks for the clip.
Great show and memories!😊
They didn't advertise Dentucreme because the people who watched this program were old; it's that dental health wasn't taken very seriously by a lot of people in the 60's. My mom lost all her teeth and had dentures at age 35.
I guess I was about three or four and would scream at this intro because that totem pole symbol thing freaked me out. They would have to turn the channel for a minute.
I was also scared of that thing also. It totally freaked me out!
In the days of black and white t.v. wow, i was a very small kid....
So...your point?
I suppose it was a forerunner to Five-O and Magnum P.I. but these guys and gals were super cool and their lifestyle and location seemed so far away from our lives back in that time.
Rest in Peace, Robert Conrad.
I agree. Surfside 6 was another good one. The early 70's had some good shows, including Gilligan's Island, Wild Wild West, and Green Acres.
Warner Bros. of today has a whole different management. They won't likely release this show on DVD if they have to pay residuals to the main actors or to their estates, i.e. Poncie Ponce has passed away
There is always the chance that Warner will not have any interest in it, so they may sell a few episodes, and they might appear at a dollar store.
LOL! OMGsh, I was just about to post the same thing. It was quality tv, but the statue scared the crap out of me, just like the lady justice on the Perry Mason opening.
The voice of Dick Tufeld is the announcer. He was the voice of the robot on Lost In Space.
Thank you for that. We so often know those voices of announcers, but never their names or legacies.
And those announcers voices are burned into our memories just as much as the musical themes!
Also, let us not forget the singers, such as in this intro. Same thing.
And stuntman Bob May was inside the robot.
@@chasermalloy7406 --- When I was in grade school one of the kids said it was General Electric made that robot. Being so young we believed him. Then as a teenager we found out it was two men. One voice and one inside. Thanks to the internet I got a photo of Bob being put in the robot.
@@Tazzman225 And the Lost in Space robot was designed by Robert Kinoshita, the same man who designed Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
Why dont they run these on TV....such great shows!!
It was a great show with a great theme song but that's got to be the phoniest surfing I ever saw.
Thank you! Now, all you get are the actors' names over the action on screen, then that strip of minute credits being flashed by at warp speed at the end of the show.
Loved this show. Wish someone would upload the series so the full episodes can be viewed.
It's on MeTV+, (now 7 years later).
@@kentclark6420 Also 40 episodes will be on Decades TV next weekend.
@@mattmatthews758 Cool- thanks! It's Vegas this week, another great show.
Man, I'm 60 years old and this intro song is one in always singing!! I was really too young for this show, lol!!
RIP Robert Conrad...
Having become the 50th State in 1959/ there was no location more popular than Hawaii at this time !!!###
Well, what happened to quality 1 hour shows!! I love this stuff. Great theme songs.
I still remembered this theme song and that's why I clicked this vid on. I was about 8 or 9 years old and watched this show.
💝💝💝 would love to see those movies return 💝
One of the few time that Anthony Eisley did not play a "Heavy" on TV.
I have been wanting to find that out myself. I grew up watching these programs.
I have been looking for Hawaiian Eye videos for years !!! Why isn't it ever on TV ?
It's on MeTV+, (now 11 years later).
R.I.P. Robert Conrad 2/8/2020
When I watched this show as a toddler I had no idea what it was about or what was going on. I just knew I liked the theme song.
I have never seen this show, and I am just discovering 77 Sunset Strip, hopefully ME TV will get a hold of Hawaiian Eye too. Why does every TV show today suck soo bad? I'd rather watch classics like this show every night
Chalie Messina - Agreed. All I watch is ME-TV or Cozi. Why bother with the networks and their crap reality shows?
In my area, MeTV+ has Hawaiian Eye on at 10PM weeknights. Currently showing episodes in the middle of season 1 (1959-1960).
Connie played "Cricket" while Conrad was "Tom Lopaca" Can't remember the older guy's character name but they always drove Fords and had 2-way radios which was pretty cool for 1959-63. And Cricket would always get to sing a song, each week, at their friendly Hawaiian type bar.
I believe "Tracy Steele" was the name of Eisley's character.
I ask that question very frequently. Warner Brothers Television was one of the 'go-to's' for television programs, with its boilerplate of credits.
I'd watch this in England on TV when I was like 7 years old 60 or 61, also 77 sunset strip, highway patrol just name a few
RIP Robert Conrad
Starring Jim West and the Incredible Shrinking Man.
I was born there in 63 and it's only now I found out about this show.😒I loved Wild Wild West and Black Sheep.
@Fersomling:
That is because television used to attempt to portray reality.
appreciate! It was very popular also in Japan.
どうもどうも！日本でもなかなか人気がありましたよ。
Loved me some Robert Conrad.
YES! he was hottttt
Every show had a Poncie Ponce... that likable but somehow inferior native guy everybody liked.
Like Cookie in 77 Sunset Strip.
You just know whenever it says "Watch" so and so , or HD it's one of those pay things!
I like 16 reasons
I used to brush my dentures while watching this.
I was named after Connie Stevens character........
It is on MeTV plus now
if you've ever tried surfing, it's one of the most unreal fabulous singular experiences you'll ever know in your entire life.
I tried it when I lived in Hawaii, and all I ended up doing was crashing into the shallows, on coral.
My right ear enjoyed that.
Great sixties black and white Television show
In the opening Credits the Surfing on the Water is Done by "Special Effects"
@TheBabyboomkidof53 You are so, so right...TV has gone to the bottom of the barrel...this show, 77 Sunset, Route 66, Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Surf Side Six, etc., ...those shows had some real meaning...and an uplifting message, if you really got into it...not at all like today's shows....some are funny but don't give us any real values...
Hawaiian Eye will be seen on Decades in April.
In those days, often the only "ethnics" you saw in TV shows played clownish characters.
And maybe that's why Poncie had a different perspective of the show than say Connie Steven's. He was the "mascot", the buffoon, kinda like the class clown, expected to be silly and give everybody a laugh while being subservient to the others.
Kinda the way blacks and other "foreigners" were treated and given names like "hop-sing" and "mae-ling". Notice that he is the last one on the credit roll at the intro, just like the Chinese cook on Bonanza. It's a master-slave thing, no matter how whitewashed it looked. And those who came up last on the list knew it. They(the producers) got away with it because it was the 1950's and that was the status quo at that time and the decades before that in movies. Beaver never came in contact with a single black person in his neighborhood or school. EVER! In the entire dvd collection!
That announcer for the Dentu-Creme......sounded like.....a 'Voice' i'd heard before??...... Gonna take a shot: Same guy who did the Robot....( Not IN the suit...but, his 'Voice) in Lost in Space? Sure sounds nearly the same!
They had some guy on the show with the last name Isely,why couldn't they have the Isely Brothers.
Is that Connie Stevens surfing? It looks like her.
The blonde girl at the very end, surfing, was actually my second cousin and NOT Connie Stevens. My cousin could actually surf - as you can see - and was "discovered" at Waikiki by someone connected to the show. At the time she was also my oldest brother's best friend's girlfriend (complicated, I know.)
Check out Connie singing 'Lets do It'
I always thought it was her. But the fact they first show her in the canoe makes me wonder.
Good show. Connie Stevens was adorable. I wanted to be Cricket Blake.
Wow, who knew surfing was so easy.
Oooooo Robert Conrad
No sound here!
Is there any where that you can watch an episode of the show?
So they all surf In a row . Wow cgi , nope just surfing . Ha ha Robert Conrad. Surfing .
Before Jack Lord and Hawaii Five O, there was Hawaiian Eye. What years was this series on the air?
1959-1963
@@vrinda5303 Thank you Vninda.
FIRST HAWAINA EYE SECOND HAWAI 5 0 THEN MAGNUM SERIE IN THIS PARADISE PLACE HAWAIN ISLAND
Frankos---- YoU FORGOT.....'''.ADVENTURES IN PARADISE'''' with Gardner McKay...... remember that show...
Play an episode of Hawaiian eye
If I had dentures, I'd be too depressed to brush. ☹️
You too?
Hey I need to see a ree run on this one
as a little kid (I'm 54 now) I was soo smitten by her. Just couldn't figure how to get her to wanna be with me!