Post #222804 by bongofury on Fri, Mar 24, 2006 8:05 AM

You are not alone Jab.....my wife can't understand why she doesn't sing a Hapa Haole tune or Bali Hai or anything but the goofy pop songs she croons.

Hawaii becoming a state brought with it a golden age of television escape. Hawaiian Eye ran from 1959-1963 and Adventures In Paradise from 1959-1962. I noticed in some of the episodes of AIP that Lyle Wheeler was the production designer (South Pacific-Bird Of Paradise) for a brief time and probably left to work on Aloha Jhoe's in Palm Springs. In one episode Gardner McKay is next to a Tiki that was from the set of Bird Of Paradise (1951).

There were at least 2 more adventure series, The Beachcomber (1962) ran for one season (39 half hour episodes) and The Islanders ran from 1960-1961 and like Hawaiian Eye and Adventures In Paradise was a one hour series. Even though they only made 24 episodes, they managed to have their own set of ceramic bamboo mugs and pitcher made which have escaped my lower bids on ebay several times. I believe several TCers have all or part of this set.