Greg MacKenzie was a San Francisco private detective. He had a swank apartment with an impressive night time view of the city. He also had a sexy girl friend named Bonnie. As a twelve year old boy, it looked to me like Greg had a terrific life. I loved his apartment.
Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele ask Greg to come to Hawaii to work undercover on a case. Of course, Tom and Tracy could have asked Stu Bailey or Jeff Spencer of "77 Sunset Strip". But Greg had an engineering background that made him good fit for the assignment.
Michael Pate made a charming villain and Leslie Parrish was on board two years before her memorable role in "The Manchurian Candidate."
Episode director Robert B. Sinclair had directed Joseph Cotten, Van Heflin, and Katharine Hepburn in the original Broadway production of "The Philadelphia Story" 21 years prior. Quite a credit. Maybe Sinclair's touch is why the romantic Bonnie-Greg scene plays so nicely.
Episode writer/producer Stanley Niss later wrote and produced the interesting George Peppard-Richard Kiley thriller "Pendulum".
At the end of this 12/21/60 episode Tom and Tracy ask Greg to join the firm. Greg agrees, but he sighs when he realizes no more Bonnie and no more San Francisco. But Bonnie did make a return appearance in the next episode, probably to dump Greg for taking off.
Twenty-nine year old Grant Williams was excellent as Greg MacKenzie. He became my favorite of the three dynamic heroes.
Four years earlier Williams had been perfect as "The Incredible Shrinking Man". That wonderful science fiction classic was written by the great Richard Matheson (the William Shatner on a plane episode of "Twilight Zone" and the screen play of "The Night Stalker" Movie of the Week with Darren McGavin).
Williams also had at least one impressive scene in the Douglas Kirk classic "Written on the Wind" (1956).
Grant Williams was a method actor who had studied at the Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg. On "Here's Hollywood" Williams explained to interviewer Jack Linkletter how he had painstakingly developed his role of a psychotic serial killer in "The Couch", a 1962 Warner Brothers film with wonderful Shirley Knight. Williams seemed very proud of that work. Linkletter asked if he used the same approach in developing the character of Greg MacKenzie, but Williams said MacKenzie wasn't complex enough for him to use the method approach.
Williams stayed with "Hawaiian Eye' until it ended at the end of the 1962-63 season. He was in 50 episodes.
In 1965 Williams starred in a good episode of "The Outer Limits" called "The Brain of Colonel Barham".
Williams' old "Hawaiian Eye" partner Anthony Eisley played Colonel Barham.
The director of "The Brain of Colonel Barham" was Harvard graduate Charles F. Haas. Haas had directed Williams nine years earlier in "Showdown at Abilene" with Jock Mahoney ("Yancy Derringer") and David Janssen. Haas had also previously directed Williams in a "Bonanza" and a "Surfside Six".
Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele ask Greg to come to Hawaii to work undercover on a case. Of course, Tom and Tracy could have asked Stu Bailey or Jeff Spencer of "77 Sunset Strip". But Greg had an engineering background that made him good fit for the assignment.
Michael Pate made a charming villain and Leslie Parrish was on board two years before her memorable role in "The Manchurian Candidate."
Episode director Robert B. Sinclair had directed Joseph Cotten, Van Heflin, and Katharine Hepburn in the original Broadway production of "The Philadelphia Story" 21 years prior. Quite a credit. Maybe Sinclair's touch is why the romantic Bonnie-Greg scene plays so nicely.
Episode writer/producer Stanley Niss later wrote and produced the interesting George Peppard-Richard Kiley thriller "Pendulum".
At the end of this 12/21/60 episode Tom and Tracy ask Greg to join the firm. Greg agrees, but he sighs when he realizes no more Bonnie and no more San Francisco. But Bonnie did make a return appearance in the next episode, probably to dump Greg for taking off.
Twenty-nine year old Grant Williams was excellent as Greg MacKenzie. He became my favorite of the three dynamic heroes.
Four years earlier Williams had been perfect as "The Incredible Shrinking Man". That wonderful science fiction classic was written by the great Richard Matheson (the William Shatner on a plane episode of "Twilight Zone" and the screen play of "The Night Stalker" Movie of the Week with Darren McGavin).
Williams also had at least one impressive scene in the Douglas Kirk classic "Written on the Wind" (1956).
Grant Williams was a method actor who had studied at the Actor's Studio with Lee Strasberg. On "Here's Hollywood" Williams explained to interviewer Jack Linkletter how he had painstakingly developed his role of a psychotic serial killer in "The Couch", a 1962 Warner Brothers film with wonderful Shirley Knight. Williams seemed very proud of that work. Linkletter asked if he used the same approach in developing the character of Greg MacKenzie, but Williams said MacKenzie wasn't complex enough for him to use the method approach.
Williams stayed with "Hawaiian Eye' until it ended at the end of the 1962-63 season. He was in 50 episodes.
In 1965 Williams starred in a good episode of "The Outer Limits" called "The Brain of Colonel Barham".
Williams' old "Hawaiian Eye" partner Anthony Eisley played Colonel Barham.
The director of "The Brain of Colonel Barham" was Harvard graduate Charles F. Haas. Haas had directed Williams nine years earlier in "Showdown at Abilene" with Jock Mahoney ("Yancy Derringer") and David Janssen. Haas had also previously directed Williams in a "Bonanza" and a "Surfside Six".