SHORTS/SERIALS
(Due to embellished narrations and some staged scenes in so-call pre 1930s "Documentaries" they were released partly for education but also partly for entertainment, similar to early surf movies and Disney TV shorts. Even though the South Seas Cinema Society does keep an exhaustive list of "Documentaries" they are post 1930s and with truer educational values. FYI: an even more comprehensive list of educational South Seas documentaries can be found at the Moving Images Website at the Center for Pacific Islands Studies University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa http://www.hawaii.edu/oceanic/film/)

ACROSS THE WORLD WITH MR. AND MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON (1930)  This documentary includes Hawaii footage
ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE (1922) UNIVERSAL (Serial)  Starring Harry Myers. As with most serials, long dragged out saga of Robinson Crusoe.      
ALOHA HOOEY (1942) VITAPHONE  Short?
ALONA ON THE SARONG SEAS (1942) PARAMOUNT  One reeler.
BLACK SHADOWS (1923) PATHE  Early film expedition to South Seas, Marquesas & Samoa.
BLONDE CAPTIVE (1931) IMPERIAL DIST./HERMAN GLUCKMAN  Documentary of expedition from Honolulu to Pago Pago, Fiji, Bali and Australia.  Narrated by Lowell Thomas
BLUE HAWAII (1944) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING CORP. One reeler soundie.
CANNIBALS OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1912) EASTMAN Backed by George Eastman himself this is one of popular documentaries by Martin and Osa Johnson who were also accused of staging many scenes.
CAPTURE OF A SEA ELEPHANT & HUNTING WILD GAME IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS (1914) ALBERT BINKHORN Documentary also shot in California.  What game?
CHILDHOOD RIVALRY IN BALI AND FRENCH NEW GUINEA (1952) ???  Part of a series of educational shorts by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.  They used footage shot in the 1930s.  A comparison of child-rearing in these two cultures.
CRUISE OF THE ZACA (1952) WARNER BROS.  A two reeler by Errol Flynn who took his boat and camera to the South Seas.  About four years in production as Errol’s personal movie project it was cut down to a usable short by Warner.  Partially filmed in Jamaica and Mexico.
DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY (1942) UNIVERSAL  Serial short starring Don Terry as U.S. Navy commander of destroyer # 630 stationed in the Pacific.  12 chapters.  Middle episode had bad guys enlisting native high priest (Kahuna) to help trick natives into revolting against the Americans on island.  They give priest microphones and speakers to put behind sacred idol to fool natives.  Don and pro American Chief quell revolt.  Poor art direction has Aztec features.
EDISON CO. SHORTS (1898) EDISON  HONOLULU STREET SCENE, KANAKAS DIVING FOR MONEY #1, #2, WHARF SCENE- HONOLULU  Earliest know motion pictures of Hawaii with (1906) / ROBERT K. BONINE  Early documentary footage.
FAIREST EDEN (1931) WILLIAM M. PIZOR Port O' Call series - Early sound "recorded on the Cinephone System" travel film of Pago Pago in American Samoa. See tattoos, ukuleles, a nude boy in a canoe made from discarded gasoline cans, and much more. "Unlike the women, the men are rarely corpulent."
FATHER DAMIEN (1938) MGM aka THE GREAT HEART  This 11 minute short was nominated for “Best Short Subject” Oscar.
FIGHTING MARINES, THE (1934) MASCOT PICTS. CORP. (serial)  Marines training on Halfway Island in the Pacific Fight a mad scientific named the Tiger Shark.  Need more information?
FISHING IN HAWAII (1940?) ???  Short subject for theatrical release.
FLIGHT OF THE SOUTHERN CROSS (1929) ALLAN HANCOCK  Documentary of trimotor that flew across Pacific via Hawaii and Fiji.  Plane was piloted by Charles Kingsford-Smith.  Also
entitled: FOUR HUMAN EAGLES
GAUGUIN (1950) ??? (French)  Short by Alain Resnais.
GOOFY MOVIES NUMBER THREE (1934) MGM  One reeler with two shorts.  First called ”The Heel of the Nation”, the second a is a spoof of James A. Fitz Patrick's Traveltalk series. We see a Pitts Fatrick Travel Squawk titled "A Visit to Schnozzle Isle." Schnozzle Isle is in Polynesia but when see it from the air, it has a profile that looks like Jimmy Durante.
GREAT HEART, THE (1939) MGM Tom Neal stars in this featurette of the life of Father Damien, from his arrival in Honolulu through the years at Kalaupapa till his body was moved back to Belgium about 1936.  Also titled FATHER DAMIEM (1938) MGM, see above.
HAPPY HAWAII (1928) ???  A Burton Holmes four reel travelogue.
HAVAI (1947) ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA FILMS (Portuguese?)  One reel short.
HAWAII (1919) ??? (Silent) Travelogue in Prizma color.
HAWAII FROM THE CAR WINDOW (1927) ROBERT BRUCE  One reel footage.
HAWAII ISN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE (1943) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING CORP.  One reeler.
HAWAIIAN CAPERS (1937) UNIVERSAL  Two reel short.
HAWAIIAN FANTASY (1933) PARAMOUNT  Sounds like a travelogue.
HAWAIIAN HOLIDAY (1943) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING CORP. One reeler.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THE (1925) FORD MOTION PICS. LABS.  One reel educational short.
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THE (1926 or 28) EASTMAN KODAK  Probably a travelogue.  Multi-tinted print showing Waikiki Beach complete with surfers, early animated graphics, an active
volcano, and a look at the Dole Pineapple cannery.  
HAWAIIAN ISLANDS, THE (1934) EASTMAN KODAK  Probably a travelogue with sound.
HAWAIIAN LOVE (1913) WORLD'S FAIR STOCK CO./ UNIVERSAL One reeler of a sea captain who woos pretty Hawaiian girl.  Shot on O’ahu.
HAWAIIAN MEMORIES (1945) VITAPHONE  Short.
HAWAIIAN NIGHTS (1927) VITAPHONE  One reeler with probably music.  Not to be confused with movie HAWAIIAN NIGHTS (1939) UNIVERSAL. (1953) UNIVERSAL Mimi Van Dooren or
Jane Russell, Pinky ?, Alfred Apaka, two reel musical.
HAWAIIAN NUTS (1917) UNIVERSAL  One reel educational short about the edible stuff, I hope.
HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLES (1930) AUDIO CINEMA  Let me guess a talkie?  One reel educational short.
HAWAIIAN RHYTHM (1940) UNIVERSAL  Two reeler of Harry Owens and his Royal Hawaiians.  Musical short for theatrical release.
HAWAIIAN ROMANCE (1930) COLUMBIA  One reel that probably wasn’t educational.
HAWAIIAN WAR CHANT (1941), (1942), (1942), (1943) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING CORP.  All one reelers.
HEAD HUNTERS OF THE SOUTH SEAS (ca1920) MARTIN JOHNSON FILM CO.  5 part exhibition film of the Malekula tribe of Melanesia.
HINEMOA (1924) HAYWARD PICS. (New Zealand)  Short based on a Maori legend.
HONOLULU-THE PARADISE OF THE PACIFIC (1935) MGM  One reeler of a probable travelogue.
HONOLULU WILES (1930) COLUMBIA  One reel short.
HULA HEAVEN (1937) PARAMOUNT  One reel short.
HULA HULA (1926) ROBERT BRUCE  One reel short.
HULA HULA LAND (1917) KEYSTONE/TRIANGLE  One or two reel comedy by famous Mack Sennett.
HULA HULA HUGHIE (1917) L-Ko MOTION PIC. CO.  One reel short.
HULA HULAS & HOCUS POCUS (1918) VITAGRAPH  One reel short with a curious title.
HULA MOON (1934) AUDIO PRODS.  One reel short with audio I bet.
HULA, ONE OF THE HAWAIIAN FOLK DANCES (1922) SAM NAINOA  Short with a Hawaiian producer.  Must look him up.  I wonder what are the other Hawaiian folk dances?
HULA-L.A.-L.A. (1951) COLUMBIA  Three Stooges short.  Dress as explorers the trio land in a typical Hollywood isle setting with a nasty King/Kahuna as its ruler along with a beautiful island princess.  A film studio buys South Seas island and sends the three down to teach the natives to dance but head hunters have a different idea.  Mass slavery.
IN MAORILAND (1912) SELIG POLYSCOPE CO.  Short silent documentary on Aotearoa, Land of the long white cloud or New Zealand.
ISLAND OF PEARLS (1932) PRINCIPAL DISTRIBUTING  Three reeler short.
ISLANDS OF THE PACIFIC (1934) FUTTER CORP.  One reel travelogue.
ISLE OF SUNKEN GOLD (1927) MASCOT PICS. (Serial-10 episodes)  Captain finds half map of treasure on a South Seas island.  The native princess of the island has the other half. Together they fight off the other natives & pirates to get it.  Duke Kahanamoku is in this.
ISLE OF TABU (1945) PARAMOUNT  17 min. short with a lot of punch.  Brown painted leads with lots of Hollywood Hawaiians singing & dancing hula, luau, canoe greeting short scene (stock footage), exploding volcano, human sacrifice, lagoon with waterfall, everything in 17min.
JOHNNY LINGO (1964) BYU FILMS   “Morale” piece short film about a successful Polynesian trader who bargains for a renowned homely women with a record 8 cows.  With better self-worth “Mahana” the former "ugly" girl and new wife becomes a 10 cow beauty. Cult classic must see.
KILAUEA: THE HAWAIIAN VOLCANO (1918) ???  Silent, b/w documentary.
LOVED BY A MAORI CHIEFTESS (1913) GEORGES MELIES  Need more information?
LOVELY MAORILAND (1920) CHESTER FILMS  Short silent documentary/travelogue on Aotearoa, Land of the  long white cloud or New Zealand and it’s native people.
MANHUNT OF MYSTERY ISLAND (1945) REPUBLIC  Serial (15 episodes) where the good guys have to rescue a good scientist from the bad guys on this Pacific island.  Need more info.?
MAORI’S OF NEW ZEALAND (1913) GEORGES MELIES  Short silent documentary.
MAUI CHANT (1940?) ???  Lani McIntire.  Musical short with hula.
MOON OF MANAKOORA (1945) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING  One reeler.
OLANA OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1914) UNIVERSAL  Need more information besides title?  Two reeler romance/drama.
PACIFIC PARADISE (1937) MGM  One reeler.
PACIFIC PARADISE (1940) PARAMOUNT Short travelogue for theatrical release.
PEARL OF THE PACIFIC (1937) VITAPHONE Short?  Need more information?
PEARLS AND DEVIL FISH (1931) MGM  Documentary short on South Seas pearl divers and their dangers.  This Hollywood production probably embellished the dangers of the manta ray and
the natives laughed because they knew these so called Devil fish are harmless.
PEARLS AND SAVAGES (1921) FRANK HURLEY (Australia)  Captain Hurley's documentary of New Guinea in silent format.  Hurley went on to make two commercial features for STOLL OF LONDON, also set in New Guinea (see 1926 features below) but they were much less successful than the documentary.  Need more information regarding the features?  I think: JUNGLE WOMEN (1926 & WITH THE HEADHUNTERS OF PAPUA (1923) aka IN THE PARADISE OF UNKNOWN PAPUA also THE HOUND OF THE DEEP (1926) aka PEARL OF THE SOUTH SEAS.
PITCAIRN ISLAND TODAY (1935) ROTH PRODS./MGM Documentary by Eugene H. Roth on the Island in the 30s.  Part of “An Oddity” series.
POLYNESIAN FOLLIES (1932) IMPERIAL PICTURE  William M. Pizor Travelogue mostly about the Maori.
RAY KINNEY AND HIS ALOHA MAIDS (1938) VITAPHONE  Ray and his musicians (George Kainapau, Sam Chong, Tommy Castro and Henry Paul) and dancers (Pualani Mossman, Jennie Napua
Wood, Mapuana Bishaw) performed several songs.  Filmed in New York, where the group was performing at the Hawaiian Room of the Lexington Hotel.  Could also could be entitled: RAY KINNEY AND HIS ROYAL HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA.
RETURN OF CHAUDU (1934) PRINCIPAL PICS. (Serial-12 episodes)  Bela Lugosi as Chandu the Magician who is recruited to help a princes from the grip of evil cult worshipers from the island
of Lemuria.  Bela thinks a good place to hide the princess is Suva, a South Seas island but a lot of cult members were hanging out there also.  They eventually kidnap the princess and
take her to their island.  Black magic plot.  Also movie version reedited the same year with the same title but in movie version I don’t think they leave Suva. Bad art direction.
RIDING THE CREST (1939?) ???  Short subject showing surfing and outrigger canoes at Waikiki.
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1916) HENRY W. SAVAGE, INC.  Need more information?
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1917) UNIVERSAL  Three reel short.
ROBINSON CRUSOE [HYSTERICAL HISTORY COMEDIES] (1924) UNIVERSAL  One reeler.
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1927) EPIC FILMS / GAUMONT  Short?
ROBINSON CRUSOE (1936) GUARANTEED PICS. CO. Three reeler.
ROBINSON CRUSOE & SON (1932) UNIVERSAL  Short?
ROBINSON CRUSOE HOURS [A POST NATURE PICTURE] (1921) POST PICS. CORP.  One reel short.  Probably a documentary.
ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLE (1934) UNIVERSAL  Short?
ROBINSON CRUSOE OF CLIPPER ISLAND (1936) REPUBLIC  Renamed ROBINSON CRUSOE OF MYSTERY ISLAND (1966) Serial with Mala and Mamo Clark cast in cliff hanger on South
Seas island.  According to this movie’s map Clipper Island is south of Hawaii and the natives are Polynesian. Outrigger canoes, large Tiki worship, Jewish Kahuna and volcano eruptions with volcano sacrifice and Pele the volcano God.  Mala is Federal agent and Mamo is the island princess Malani.  I believe Mala is an Alaskan Indian in real life?  No mention at all of Crusoe in this film.
ROYAL TOUR OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, THE (1954) 20TH CENTURY-FOX/BRITISH MOVIETONE  Travelogue of the royal couple through the Mediterranean, Arabia, Ceylon, Australia, New Zealand and the South Seas Islands showing local culture.
SAMOA (1956) DISNEY  Walt personally produced this short which was nominated for an Oscar for best short that year.  Family entertainment.
SEA SPIDERS (1930) MGM Documentary on Tahitian pearl divers.
SHARK GOD, THE (1913) WORLD’S FAIR STOCK CO./ UNIVERSAL  Pre-western Hawaii about a Hawaiian Shark God’s powers and love affair of chief’s daughter.  One reel short.
SOME MORE OF SAMOA (1941) COLUMBIA  Three Stooges short.  Curly, Larry and Moe roll boat four thousand miles to the island of “Rhum Boogie” looking for a rare mating plant.  The tropical island is populated by black male natives, white princesses and a big white chief.  Symbolism at its worst.  One native wore a buffalo hat, Curly wore a tiger skin outfit and a real
crocodile.  Seems like the title was picked after filming because no Samoa nor anything close to it was mentioned nor pictured.
SONG OF THE ISLANDS (1934) HAWAII TOURIST BUREAU  Forty minute travelogue like short about the lei custom of Hawaii.  Good use of  real Hawaiians in legendary story.  Also four ten minute versions were released the same year by the same company with each covering a major island.  In no way related to the 1942 20TH CENTURY-FOX movie of the same title. 
SONG OF THE ISLANDS (1937) PARAMOUNT  Adolph Zukor one reel musical / romance.
SOUTH SEA ADVENTURES (1932) PRINCIPAL DIST. CO.  Zane Grey’s film record of his deep sea fishing trip through the Pacific along with its peoples.  Visited the South Seas islands of
Rapa, Raia Tea, New Zealand and Tahiti with natives in all but Aotearoa; Sol Lesser produced.
SOUTH SEA SAGAS (1928) PATHE EXCHANGE  Lots of sagas for only one reel.
SOUTH SEA RHYTHMS (1943) UNIVERSAL  Two reeler musical.
SOUTH SEA SADIE (1945) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING  One reel musical.
SOUTH SEAS (1930) TALKING PIC. EPICS One hour documentary on the South Seas islands, some native footage by Gifford Pinchot.
SOUTH SEASICKNESS (1935) RKO  Two reeler with Edgar Kennedy.  Need more info?
TABU (1943), (1946) SOUNDIES DISTRIBUTING  Both probably one reel musicals.
TRIP THROUGH JAPAN, A (1917) ???  Early documentary with scenes shot in San Francisco, Hawaii and Japan.
TRIP TO HONOLULU, A (1916) UNIVERSAL Half a reel travelogue.
TUSALAVA (1929) THE FILM SOCIETY (UK) A film by Len Lye.  Documentary film with split screen. Starts with single cell to tribal human groups.  Samoan title means everything goes full circle.

TV/CABLE MOVIES AND MINI SERIES

ACAPULCO GOLD (1978) MAR VISTA  Kaua'i locations and setting, possibly TVM about cops & drug dealers.
ADRIFT (1993) ATLANTIS FILMS LTD.  Kate Jackson stars in this “horror at sea” sub genre.  Kate and her rich husband rescue two people and bring them aboard their yacht.  They turn into the couple from hell.  They kidnap and torture the owners.  Compare: DEAD CALM (1988) & AND THE SEA WILL TELL (1991).  The setting here was between Hawaii and the Marquesas.
ALOHA MEANS GOODBYE (1974) UNIVERSAL TV TVM  Sob story of Sally Struthers on dying vacation in Hawaii.
AMELIA EARHART (1976) UNIVERSAL TV TVM  Starred Susan Clark as famous aviator who was lost in the Pacific. Film starts with stock of Diamond Head and than a Californian Honolulu airport.
AMELIA EARHART: THE FINAL FLIGHT (1994) TURNER PICS. (Cable M)   Diane Keaton, Rutger Hauer and Bruce Dern in good acting but bad production designing.  No real location shooting
and it shows, from dried out potted plants to poorly cast extras.  New Guinea had a straight-haired Filipino-like girl and old Asian-like grandpa but at least she wore a sarong.
AND THE SEA WILL TELL (1991) GREEN/EPTSTEIN-CBS TV Mini  Rachel Ward, Richard Creena and James Brolin star in true story of mystery killing of boat owners off Palmyra Island.  Filmed in Tahiti, O'ahu and Vancouver Canada, set in Palmyra Island, Hawaii and California.  Escape to paradise or hell?
BARE ESSENTIALS (1991) CBS TVM  Gregory Harrison plays beachcomber with native Tahitian girlfriend played by non-native Charlotte Lewis.  They reevaluate their relationships with yuppie New York City couple (female played by Lisa Hartman) who recently shipwrecked on this secluded Tahiti isle.  Looked filmed in Baja California.  Also Mark Linn-Baker.
BATTLES (1980) UNIVERSAL TVM  William Conrad playing university security chief battling crimes. Debbie Reynolds co-starred with Broadway star Tony Aguillar and bit by Tracy Monsarrat. 
Later retitled: THE MURDER THAT WOULDN'T DIE.  James Darren plays bad guy.
BATWATCH REUNION: Hawaiian Wedding (2002) FOX TV  Old gang gets together for various reasons at the Turtle Bay Resort and a fictitious Hawaiian Island where they are stalked by a crazy killer. Actually some of the best work by the Baywatch people.
BEVERLY HILLS FAMILY ROBINSON (1997) DISNEY TVM  Dyan Cannon, Martin Mull and two kids play 90s haimakamaka family from Beverly Hills who are heading to the South Seas
on board a big yacht that they just boarded from Honolulu.  The yacht is raided by three modern pirates before the rest of crew arrives.  The family defeats the pirates but they are lost.  They run into a tropical storm and are shipwrecked on an uncharted island.  Like the Swiss family Robinson they build and nice tree house with electricity.  At times they hear native drum beats.  The adrift priorities land on their island, surprise!  And their son discovers that the native music is only a Polynesian review show for tourist who get paddled out to the stage from a very near by island.  A swimming at waterfalls scene.  Possibly filmed in Australia.
BLOOD & ORCHIDS (1985) LORIMAR TV Mini of arrogant plantation family taking four innocent Hawaiian boys to rape trial.  Good show based on true story except only one Hawaiian Californian was cast as boy but good supporting local roles.  Starred Kris Kristofferson,  Jane Alexander, Sean Young and Jose Ferrer.  Filmed on O'ahu.  Also good roles by Elizabeth Lindsey and Haunani Minn.
BLOOD SPORT (1986) ABC TVM  Special TVM of T.J. HOOKER television series starring William Shatner, James Darren and Heather “I’m not worthy” Locklear.  This movie is set and shot on O’ahu where T.J. and his team are assigned to protect a US senator who has a death threat.
CAINE MUTINY COURT TRIAL (1992) COLUMBIA TV TV Movie Jeff Daniels in possibly straight to video release of  the same story as classic movie but possibly trial only.
CASTAWAYS ON GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (1979) UNIVERSAL TVM  The cast returns to make tourist trap of  the island.  Luau scene with poi dialog.  Almost a FANTASY ISLAND plot.  Good South Seas interior sets.  Starts with Gilligan finding two wreck planes and a metal work shop (how convenient).  Via FLIGHT OF THE PHEONIX and later SIX DAYS & SEVEN NIGHTS they make a flying plane.  Also cursed or tabu “ancient Polynesian masks”.  Ginger teaches the Skipper the hula.
CHALLENGE OF A LIFETIME (1985) ORION TV PRODS. TVM  Penny Marshall tries out for Hawaii's Ironman triathlon as an older non-runner type of woman.
CHAMPAGNE GANG, THE (2006) INDIE Group of bikini clad surfer girls end up robbing safes at gorcery stores. Filmed in San Diego and Hawaii. Straight to video with "straight to video acting and writing. Wardrobe was fine (bikinis). Compare POINT BREAK.
CODE NAME: DIAMOND HEAD (1977) QUINN MARTIN PRODS. TVM  5-0 like TV spy movie set in Hawaii. Zulu, real name Gilbert Kauhi, has a featured part.
CROWFOOT (1994) BELLISAURIS/CBS  (TVM) Jim Davison as half-breed detective based in Lahaina, Maui.  Hawaiian Charles Ka'upu as a regular.  Filmed on location on Maui.  Never aired.
CURSE OF THE GOLD MONKEY (1982) BELLISAURIS PROD. TVM  Possibly the pilot of TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY TV series starring Steven Collins and Jeff MacKay.  Collins is an adventurous, freelanced pilot in the South Pacific during WWII.  This story involves Egyptian artifacts.  Compare: INDIANA JONES then Disney's TAIL SPIN cartoon which all wee styled after the 40s serials.
DAMIEN: THE LEPER PRIEST (1980) TOMORROW ENTRTMNT., INC. TVM   Ken Howard, Mike Farrell and fellow M*A*S*Her David Ogden Stiers star in Bio. of the famous Priest.
Set was Kaulapapa, Molokai, location was a valley in Southern California.  Most leper Hawaiians were Asians and of coarse only white leper is the co-star.  Haunani Minn plays Princess Lilioukalani (compare BLOOD AND ORCHIDS) with Manu Tupou and Brandscombe Richmond, all having minor roles.  Quote of show: "You came to serve Hawaiians but you never learned their language!"  Father Damien did learn the language shortly after and it made a big difference.   
DANGER IN PARADISE (1977) FILMWAYS TV TVM  Son battles step-mom for dad's ranch.  Pilot for BIG HAWAII. Parts for Hawaiians Moe Keale and Elizabeth Smith.
DANGER ISLAND (1992) VON ZERNECK-SERTNER  TVM Pilot starring Gary Graham, Kathy Ireland, June Lockhart and Richard Beymer.  These stars as well as others crash in the Pacific and their raft lands on an uncharted island.  This island, they later discover was a secret laboratory for chemical and genetic weapons which resulted in death and the mutations of the
old scientist and Polynesian villagers.  Ray Bumatai as native warrior. Filmed on O'ahu. Good flick for TV later released on DVD retitled THE PRESENCE.
DEATH MOON (1978) EMI TV TVM  Joe Penny solves werewolf (derived from Tikis) murders on Kaua'i.  Very bad and untruthful concept even if it is fiction.
DEATH WATCH (1976) PARAMOUNT TV TVM  Mike Conners plays former cop who's wife had died from mysterious explosion. He ends up running a boat charter in Hawaii but has to solve a case in Honolulu involving the death of his agent friend.  Aka: THE KILLER WHO WOULDN'T DIE.
DR. SCORPION (1978)  STEVEN CANNELL PRODS./UNIVERSAL TV  Early production for Christine Lahti in which a mad Doctor from Pacific island HQ tries to take over the world.  An actor from this TV-movie said this was filmed and set in Hawaii. 
EBB TIDE (1997) KOCH VISION (UK) Possible remake of all the motion picture versions but made for video release. Stars Robbie Coltrane, Steven Mackintosh and Chris Barnes. and Need more information?
EMMA: QUEEN OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1988) FRIES ENT./ANRO PROD. TV Mini   Barbara Carrera, Hal Holbrook and E. G. Marshall as President Grant.  Carrera stars as strong-willed daughter of American diplomat and Samoan princess who plays big role in social and political history of 19th century Samoa and New Guinea.  Based on true story.  Australian production filmed on Taveuni, Fiji and in Sydney.  Good use of local Samoans as Samoans and Fijians as natives of New Guinea & Bougainville.  Look for Samoan warriors fighting Redcoats.
FANTASY ISLAND (1977) SPELLING-GOLDBERG  TVM  One of two successful pilots for popular TV series, setting not scripted but locals are in mixed Polynesian attire, brown skinned and tropical set.  Title stock filmed on Kaua'i.  Starring: Ricardo Montalban, Bill Bixby, Eleanor Parker, Hugh O'Brian, Sandra Dee, Peter Lawford and Victoria Principal.  
FLYING MISFITS (1976) STEVEN CANNELL PRODS. TVM  Robert Conrad, Simon Oakland in the pilot for the TV series BAA BAA BLACKSHEEP (1976-77), later renamed BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON (1977-78) STEVEN CANNELL for NBC.  Conrad played Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the real-life ace WWII pilot with his squadron of misfit pilots who became the most decorated air squadron of the war.  The Black Sheep were stationed on the small Solomon island of Vella La Cava but show was shot in southern California with real WWII stock footage. Entertaining TVM.  No natives.  Early roles for John Larroquette and Larry Manetti.
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1979) BENNETT/KATLEMAN PRODS. TV Mini With Natalie Wood and William Devane who recreated the infamous kiss with waves rolling in but this time Natalie is TV topless. Also with Andy Griffith, Peter Boyle and an early Kim Basinger a role. This Golden Globe award winner returned the next year as a TV series.
GAUGUIN THE SAVAGE (1980) NEPHI PRODS.  Shows topless teenage Tahitian girl on national TV.  Censors surely would not allow topless white girls, Producer would be arrested for child porn but it's okay if it's a Polynesian. Are Pacific islanders viewed differently with less respect and less dignity than whites in a modern audience?  It is not a cultural thing, if this was a hippie commune movie you still couldn't show a white topless female teen on prime time TV. Teen and preteen boys across America were celebrating. Starred David Carradine.
GIDGET'S GRAND TOUR (1985) COLUMBIA TVM  Married Gidget returns to Hawaii for TV pilot.  The TV show that followed is set in Southern California.
HARLEM GLOBETROTTERS ON GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, THE (1981) UNIVERSAL TVM  The famous basketball team visits the island in the last of the "GILLIGAN" TVMs.  The network (NBC) originally wanted the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders, but weren’t available.  Sex sells.  Jim Backus fell ill before shooting but managed to do a scene at the end.
HART TO HART (1994) ABC (TVM)  Special reoccurring television movie series reviving the early 80s successful show with the same stars Robert Wagner and Stefanie Powers.  On this TV movie they travel to a fellow rich man's private Hawaiian island only to discover that he's also a murderer.  Partly and beautifully filmed on O'ahu with no natives present.
HAWAII FIVE-O: COCOON (1968) CBS TV TVM  Pilot for successful, long-running TV series starring Jack Lord with guest Nancy Kwan, Leslie Nielsen and Lou Ayres.  Lord discovers Red Chinese spy ring in Honolulu. Early role for Zulu.
HAWAII FIVE-O 2 (ca1998) CBS TV Big money and a new Mercury on big remake pilot that didn't go. Regular parts for Andy Bumatai, Elise Sniffen and Branscombe Richmond. Lead was played by Gary Bussey, need I say more. People are dying to see it anyway. Bring it out CBS.
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT (1985) AARON SPELLING TVM  DC-10 bound for Hawaii has a bomb threat among other dramas at this fictional airport.  Film at LAX.  
ISLAND, THE (1987) TRINACRA FILMS (Mini) (Canadian/French) “ Île, L'  When a few 18th century sailors and a few Polynesian natives shipwreck on a small Tahitian island they separate but the only females are on the Polynesian side.   They find as they interact with the natives, racial prejudice reins and mating needs outweigh civility.  Trouble begins.   Stars John Mairai  Compare story of Pitcairn Island of the Bounty story.
ISLAND SONS (1986) UNIVERSAL TVM  Local haole family's boys (all played by the Bottoms brothers) and one hapa-haole (half breed) brother, who dies in this TV pilot which also died.  Who played hapa-haole? Mokihana had a part.
ISLANDER, THE (1978) CBS/UNIVERSAL TVM  Pilot of lawyer retiring to Hawaii to run a Hotel.  Starred Dennis Weaver and Bernadette Peters.
JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD (2007) DISNEY JOHNNY TSUNAMI sequel of Cable movie went to video after its cable stint but this time with grandson Brandon Baker back as the lead and back in Hawaii.  Brandon has to baby sit step uncle while trying to surf and skateboard.  Made for preteens.  Filmed in New Zealand. Rumors is half Filipino Brandon has a drop of Hawaiian blood.
JOHNNY TSUNAMI (1999) DISNEY  Cable movie for the Disney Channel this weak film by the same people who did MEET THE DEEDLES.  Hawaiian surfing family (all Asian Americans) with grandson living in the Rockies with a big snow board challenge. Also Sequel: JOHNNY KAPAHALA: BACK ON BOARD.
J.F.K.: RECKLESS YOUTH (1993) CABIN FEVER ENTERTAINMENT (Cable M)   Patrick Dempsey starred in this saga of "Jack" Kennedy's wild and sometimes bed ridden youth.  Film does cover "the real story of PT-109" when Kennedy commanded a PT boat around the Solomon Islands.  This version he was a irresponsible and undisciplined Lt. with Washington connections who wrecked his boat but he bravely saved his men.  No real South Seas location shooting just small potted palm trees buried on some mainland sand dune. 
JUST TELL ME YOU LOVE ME (1979) INDIE TVM  June Lockhart and daughters Anne and Elizabeth, Lisa Hartman and maybe Dean's son Ricci Martin.  Young, free wheeling thieves work at Mau'i hotels.  Lei greeting scene.  Music by England Dan and John Ford Coley. Aka: MAUI for video release.
KILLER ON BOARD (1977) LORIMAR TVM Claude Akins with Patty Duke and Jane Seymour aboard luxury liner which departed from Honolulu and bound for San Francisco.  While in transit mysterious virus turned up killing some passengers and stirring up panic as whole ship is quarantine in San Francisco harbor.  Actual location shooting in Hawaii and the Pacific Ocean.  Compare PACIFIC LINER (1939). 
KILLER WHO WOULDN'T DIE (1976) PARAMOUNT TV TVM  Mike Connors, Mariette Hartley and Patrick O'Neal. Connors as ex-detective turns charter boat captain in typical TV caper.  Lots of Chinese culture and roles.  Aka: DEATH WATCH
LAST SURVIVORS, THE (1975) COLUMBIA TV TVM  Martin Sheen as purser of cruise liner, on the "Honolulu run", finds himself appointed captain of only surviving and over crowded roll boat and having to chose to sacrifice weak survivors to save the rest. Supposing based on a true story.
LOST FLIGHT (1969) UNIVERSAL TV TVM  Lloyd Bridges, Billy Dee Williams, Anne Francis and others are flying from Hawaii to Australia but crash.  Survivors land on Pacific isle with their life rafts and and forced to live in peace and form a new society.  Filmed on Kaua'i.
LUCIFER COMPLEX, THE (1976) GOLD KEY  This low-budget sci-fi film went straight to TV.  Part of this movie has a survivor of “the great war” of 1986 in a cave on a Hawaiian island who just sits and watches old films and every documentary of every kind. 
M STATION HAWAII (1980) LORD & LADY PRODS.TVM  Story about missing Soviet sub.  Produced by Jack Lord.  Two of five  main characters are portrayed as educated Hawaiians, one by Moe Keale, the other by a Hawaiian-looking local.
MAYDAY (2005) CBS TV Flight from San Francisco to Japan has to divert a little to avoid a storm.  Plane apparently get to close to a navel missile area because a missile hits them killing the pilot and knocking out co-pilot.  So passengers have to fly the plane.  Kelly Hu is flight attendant.  Also stars Arian Quinn and Dean Caine in this air disaster TV movie. As good as those 70s air disaster big budget flicks. Like SNAKES ON A PLANE filmed in Canada. Ah, no wonder they could afford the effects.
MATTER OF JUSTICE, A (1983) NBC TV Mini  Patty Duke and Martin Sheen.  True story of a Kaneohe marine who is murdered by estranged wife's boyfriend on base.  Mother of marine tries and succeeds to convict daughter-in-law and take legal custody of her surviving granddaughter. All Hawaii scenes; the Marine base, Waikiki etc. are stock footage and interiors are faked and so all cast and most extras are mainland haoles (whites).       
MAUI JAIL BREAK (1960) ???  TV pilot need more information? Kind of early for a TV pilot.
MERCY MISSION: THE RESCUE OF FLIGHT 771 (1994) ANASAZI PRODS. TVM  (Australia/US) Robert Loggia and Scott Bakula in true story of heroic search and rescue of a lost pilot in a small prop plane flying from Pago Pago to Northfork Island by an experienced Air New Zealand flight crew with consent of their passengers traveling from Fiji to Auckland, New Zealand in a modern jetliner.  Good cast and performances.
MIRACLE LANDING (1990) CBS TV TVM  Connie Selleca and Wayne Rogers in an air disaster picture about a major section of plane's roof breaking off and the dramatic attempt of the pilots to land the plane safely.  Based on true account of an Aloha airliner. Also stars Nancy Kwan as a stewardess. Ray Bumatai had a part.
MISS AMERICA: BEHIND THE CROWN (1992) KATZ-RUSH ENTERTAINMENT TVM  True story of Carolyn Sapp a haole Miss Hawaii who became Miss America but not before she was battered by Samoan Nuu Faaola who played pro football.  This movie was filmed in Florida with haole extras playing ukuleles while Carolyn dances the hula.  One day scenic shooting on O'ahu.  Nuu was played by Hawaiian Ray Bumatai with real life brother Andy Bumatai playing a brother. 
MISSION OF THE SHARK (1991) FRIES ENTERTAINMENT/CBS TVM  Stacy Keach and Richard Thomas in true story of WWII Naval cover up of the truth of the slow response of the U.S.S. Indianapolis sinking in the South Pacific waters.
MISTER ROBERTS (1984) NBC TVM Remake of classic movie with Robert Hayes (Airplane star) as Roberts Kevin Bacon as Pulver and Charles Durning as the Captain. Also Marilu Henner (Taxi) had a part.
MOBY DICK (1998) AM/ZOETROPE/USA  (Cable M)  Stars Patrick Stewart in this Herman Melville classic.  Gregory Peck the Captain Ahab of the feature MOBY DICK (1956)WARNER BROS plays the preacher part that Orsen Wells played.  The good thing about this cable version is the part of Qeequeq is played by a real Maori Piripi Waretine with real Maori designed tattoos on face and body.
MOON AND SIXPENCE (1959) NBC TVM  Produced by David Susskind and starring Laurence Olivier in the classic Maugham story of westerner leaving it all to paint in Tahiti, marries native girl, paints  masterpieces and dies of leprosy.  See movie of same name (1942).
MURDER IN PARADISE (1989) BILL McCUTCHEN PRODS. TVM  Another TV crime story filmed on O'ahu with, of course, a haole lead and with most natives roles played by California Asians and Barbara Carrera. Part for Manu Tupou.
MURDER THAT WOULDN’T DIE, THE (1980) GLEN A. LARSON PRODS. TVM  Retitled from BATTLES (1980). Former mainland cop William Conrad gets a semi retirement job as head of security and part time coach at the local university. Of course someone dies and Battles with his ragtag group of students and football player solves the case. Pilot does not go to series. Parts for locals Tommy Aquilar, Jimmy Borges and Tracy Monsarrat. Aka: BATTLES
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND OF CAPTAIN NEMO (1973) CITE FILMS Italian version of this classic Jules Verne story, starring Omar Sharif as the Captain. Story is Omar thought he was hired to do a movie, this project ened up being a good mini series shown thoughout Europe but Omar wasn't happy with the down grade. Of course it has the classic Volcanic Evil Lair.
MYSTERIOUS ISLAND OF BEAUTIFUL WOMAN (1979) ALAN LANDSBURG/CBS TVM  Starring Peter Lawford and Clint Walker as two of six men who fight for survival on a South Seas island populated by a tribe of hostile cannibals and a group of bikini-clad women who as orphans crashed landed there years earlier. When the pilot and their care giving nun died due to the crash the now women raised themselves. Also stars Jayne Kennedy and Debrah Shelton. Hear it's a good movie.
NEW SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, THE (1998) DISNEY TV  Apparently a poorly written version starring Jane Seymour, James Keach and David Carradine.
ONCE AN EAGLE (1976) NBC/UNIVERSAL (Mini) Sam Elliot. Highly regarded Mini series about two Army officers with opposite personalities. This story covers both WWI and WWII so odds are 50/50 that at least one of the two served in the Pacific. Need more information?
ONE WEST WAIKIKI (1994) GLEN A. LARSON   Cheryl Ladd & Richard Burgi star in pilot as a Police  Medical Examiner based in Honolulu.  Elssie Sniffen a part-Hawaiian discovery from California co-stars.  Eleven more shows were later produced for CBS and syndication.
OPERATION RAINBOW WARRIOR (2006) TOUT AUDIOVISUAL PRODS. (French) MTV Story of how the French Secret Service blew up the nuclear protest ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland. NZ.
OUT ON A LIMB (1987) ABC CIRCLE FILMS  TV Mini  Shirley MacLaine playing herself in a exposition of her belief in
reincarnation and her round the world journey with a married British politician.  One scene in Hawaii takes place
OVERBOARD (1978) FACTOR NEWLAND PRODS. TVM Angie Dickinson and hubby Cliff Robertson in story of an argumentative couple on sailboat, at end wife fall off ship and in a very dramatic scene husband tries to save her but fails, both give up in a loving embrace.  Touching and powerful scene for TV. Set near Tahiti.
PARADISE CONNECTION, THE (1979) QUINN MARTIN PROD. TVM  Buddy Ebsen in pilot of Chicago lawyer in Mau'i looking for son.  Nephi Hannemann and Peter Kalua as heavies, Danny Kamekona as detective and Moe Keale and Zulu with bits.   
PARENT TRAP-HAWAIIAN HONEYMOON (1989) DISNEY TVM  Starring Haley Mills, Barry Bostwick and their triplets.  Haley's husband inherits small Hawaiian inn and tries to restore it to avoid a million dollar lawsuit.  Filmed on O'ahu.
PEARL (1978) SILLIPHANT-KONIGSBERG PRODS. TV Mini  Good TV reenactment of the Pearl Harbor attack because they used film from TORA, TORA, TORA. with TV Mini drawn out drama. That footage gave them a leg up on the similar story Mini FROM HERE TO ETERNITY shot just months later. This one stars Angie Dickerson, Dennis Weaver, Robert Wagner, Lesley Ann Warren, Adam Arkin and Max Gail.
RAIDER OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1990) SOUTH PACIFIC PICTS. (Canada/New Zealand) TV movie. Whole town of Whangaroa on the north coast New Zealand prepare for War when the Pearl Harbor attack was announced.
RAINBOW WARRIOR CONSPIRACY, THE (1988) 7 NETWORK (CableM)  Brad Davis in dramatization of events leading to the bombing of the Greenpeace flagship which was protesting nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
RAVEN (1991) COLUMBIA TV/INVADER PRODS.  TV Pilot starring Jeffery Meek and Lee Majors in action/drama of highly-trained Meek looking for hidden son in Hawaii with former Army intelligence trained and former alcoholic Majors.   Filmed on O'ahu. A season and a half was picked up later.
RESCUE FROM GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (1978) REDWOOD PRODS. TVM  Tidal wave sweeps castaways back to civilization.  Gang somehow returns to island for future TVM specials.
RETURN OF CAPTAIN NEMO (1978) CBS/IRWIN ALLAN/WARNER BROS.?  Three one hour mini series starring Jose Ferrer and Mergess Meredith.  Set in 1978. Like most Capt. Nemo movies the set or ocean could be anywhere. Need more information?
RETURN TO FANTASY ISLAND (1978) COLUMBIA TV TVM Second pilot to popular TV series.
REVEALING EVIDENCE (1990) UNIVERSAL TVM  Tom Selleck produced TV detective story.
SAVED BY THE BELL: THE MOVIE (1992) ABC TVM  TV movie version of popular Saturday preteen video comedy.  This film stars Dean Jones as well as the regular cast.  Lots of stock footage, California locations as Hawaii sets, and a very small percent of real location shooting.  Familiar plot of a Grandpa, of one of the teen cast, who owns a small old hotel which is trying to survive the pressure of the neighboring grand resort who wants to expand.  Grandpa played by ukulele playing Jones wont give in.  One of the teenagers has a resemblance to a wood carved Hawaiian god. Luau and hula scenes. 
SOUTH PACIFIC (2001) TRILLIUM PRODS. (TVM)  Stars Glenn Close in this good made for TV production.  Shot in Australia and the South Seas with Disney backing.  Plot and song true to original 1958 big screen version, except for no color tinting this time, thank heavens.
STICKIN' TOGETHER (1978) BLINN/THORPE PRODS. TVM  Pilot of THE MACKENZIES OF PARADISE COVE about beachcombers and orphans.  Moe Keale plays Big Ben.  Any local orphans? Also aka: WONDERLAND COVE.
STRANDED (1976) CBS TV TVM  Plane wreck on a South Pacific island starring Kevin Dobson and a part for James Cromwell. Connection: used footage from LOST FLIGHT.
STRANDED (1986) TIM FLACK PRODUCTION TVM  Loni Anderson and Perry King stars as rival ad executives who are marooned on a South Pacific Island near Tahiti after their hot-air balloon fails. Tahitian cab driver Charles Atae.
STRANDED (2002) HALLMARK (Cable M)  SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON remake.  No stars and no natives but a South Pacific setting. They were on their way to Australia.
SUMMER GIRL (1983) TVM   Filmed at leased partly in Hawaii but set where?
SUPERGATOR (2007) RODEO PRODS. The ledgenary "B" filmmaker is back on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to film another unbelivable story of a super croc on Kauai. Ending scene has gator enjoying luau with tourist except the tourist are his main course. Cable movie.
SURVIVE THE SAVAGE SEA (1992) VON ZERNECK-SERTNER MTV  Robert Urich, Ali MacGraw star in another good story of family surviving in mid-Pacific after their family sailboat wrecks on their way to Tahiti.  At least one stop in New Zealand and rescued in the Fijians.  Based on a true story.  Filmed in Queensland, Australia and the Great Barrier Reef.
SWIMSUIT (1989) FIRST RUN STUDIOS TVM  Catherine Oxenberg, William Katt and Cyd Charisse in story of new models posing for a swimsuit promo.  Partially filmed and set on O'ahu.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (1958) NBC  Shipwreck family survives on South Sea island, starred Patty Duke.
SWORD OF JUSTICE: ALOHA JULIE LANG (1978) GLEN A. LARSON PRODS. TVM  Pilot with Dack Rambo as a crime fighter playboy following a pretty waitress hiding out in Hawaii. 
TEMPTED (2003) LIFETIME (Cable)  Young married woman takes her deceased Hawaiian mother ashes to Hawaii for a burial at a lake.  While there she falls in love with her Hawaiian cousin, played by Jason Mamoa.  Good and bad news.  Good news; he later finds out that her Hawaiian mother wasn’t really her mother so she free to make it with Jason  Bad news, she’s still married.  Also sub-plot of a neighbor who wants to develop and ruin the neighborhood. Filmed on the mainland (explains the lake) and Jason’s Hawaiian mom is Asian.
THREE ON A DATE (1978) ABC CIRCLE FILMS  TV game show winners on Hawaiian holiday.  Love Boat type plot. Directed by Bill Bixby with stars Loni Anderson, Ray Bolger, Ricky Nelson, Patrick Wayne and Gary Crosby.
TIKI (2006) IMAGE ENTERTAINM Straight to video film. Young and nerdy Hawaiian girl goes to the mainland but can't seem to fit in. The other kids tease punk (prank) her until she stresses out and goes into convulsions and a coma. In comes her kahuna Aunt Maelea who brings a tiki with her from Hawaii and chants so her neices spirit goes into the tiki to seek revenage from the other students. Bad "B" which I can't wait to see!
TRENCHCOAT IN PARADISE (1989) MGM TVM  Dirk Benedict and Bruce Dern.  Badly done TV pilot about a detective.
TRIBE (1999) PARAMOUNT/CRAWFORD (Aust.) MINI  Group of boaters get in trouble with modern Pirates.  Now stranded on a tropical Island they find a corpse of a WWII Japanese soldier who had placed booby traps all over the Island.  They say that’s why the natives stayed away.  Lots of subplots to fill the four hours.  Lots of buff young men and Joanna Cassidy star.
UP FROM THE DEPTHS (1979) NEW WORLD PICTS. TVM  Sam Bottoms stars low budget film of a giant killer fish that eats divers and tourist at a Hawaiian resort.  Filmed probably on the Baja but I think it was filmed in the Philippines.
VACATION IN HELL, A (1979) FINNEGAN ASSOC. TVM   Tourist gets lost in jungle island resort. Ed Ka'ahea plays the hunter or do they mean headhunter? A native is in the storyline, is it Ed? 
VALENTINE MAGIC ON LOVE ISLAND (1980) DICK CLARK PRODS. TVM   FANTASY ISLAND rip-off even to the nondescript setting, but, as in FANTASY ISLAND, the locals are Polynesian looking, play the ukulele, swing hips, Tahitian style, in fake grass skirts and wear Aloha attire.  Janis Paige and Adrienne Barbeau star.  Filmed on Oahu at Waimea Park as the Love Island Resort. ...oh brother.
WAIKIKI (1980) AARON SPELLING PRODS. TVM  Pilot for two P.I.s in Hawaii.  Big influence by TV show VEGAS but lost out to MAGNUM P.I..  Only room in this town for one crime drama at a time.  Featured Darren McGavin with Dack Rambo and Donna Mills. Roles for locals Branscombe Richmond, Bob Apisa and Betty Carvalho.  Note: Look for early role by Tanya Roberts. Filmed on O'ahu.
WAHINE (2000) DISNEY (cable) Another low budget Disney cable movie that was not filmed in Hawaii. This one is about a mainland raised Hawaiian female teenager who learns to surf in Hawaii. She learns her deceased  Hawaiian mother was a great surfer and royalty.  She has to decide whether to use her inherited beach front property for a resort or keep it as a good surfing spot. Only a surfer would make the wrong choice.
WAR AND REMEMBRANCE (1987) WINDS OF WAR (1983) ABC TV Mini and sequel about WWII.  Largest budget ever for any film project.  Starred Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen and Jane Seymour.  Most South Seas footage was Navy at sea in Pacific.  Filmed partly on O'ahu and her waters.
WESTWIND TO HAWAII (1975) WILLIAM D'ANGELO PRODS. TVM  Shot on Maui and in Kona.  Pilot for series WESTWIND (13 Episodes).Two teens and their parents sail around the Pacific for adventure.
WONDERLAND  COVE (1978) ABC Pilot for MACKENZIES OF PARADISE COVE, THE.

TV SHOWS
SOUTH SEAS TV SERIES

ALOHA PARADISE (1981) ABC  Debbie Reynolds starred in short-lived sitcom about remote hotel in Hawaii.  Show modeled after and shot at Kona Village Resort on the Big Island.  Mokihana played the bartender.
ADVENTURES IN PARADISE (1959-62) ABC/20TH CENTURY FOX  Gardner McKay as captain of schooner sailing South Pacific.
ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DAVID GRIEF (1956) GUILD FILM CO./ SYN.  Don't know if it aired? Locals were featured and first two shows were filmed on Kaua'i. Can buy the DVD Entitled JACK LONDON'S ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN DAVID GRIEF though.
ADVERAGE JOE: HAWAII (2004) NBC  Follow up of popular AVERAGE JOE reality TV show where a very beautiful young women had to choose between good but nerdy looking guys, now add the backdrop of Hawaii.
ADVENTURES OF SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, THE (1998) CLOUD NINE ENT. (New Zealand TV)  Stars Richard
Thomas, his family and natives.  Not bad.
ADVENTURES OF THE SEASPRAY (1965) PACIFIC FILM & TV COMM. (Australia) SYN.  South Pacific adventures in boat. Widower and three children sail the Pacific with an all Fijian crew. Must of used her life insurance money to buy boat. Yeah..wife gone, he doesn't have to work again! A Leoni Lesinawi credited. Sounds Fijian.
BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP (1976-77) or BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON (1977-78) NBC   WWII set in Solomon Islands starring Robert Conrad, Stephen Cannell produced. Early roles for Larry Manetti and John Larroquette.
BASIC TRAINING, THE WORKOUT (1989) ESPN  Aerobics series with Janklowicz. On location shooting on the island of O'ahu.          
BAYWATCH-HAWAII (1999-2001) SYN./PEARSON ENT.  At the time the most popular show in the world was running out of story lines so the company moved the show to the north shore of O’ahu.  Mega TV star David Hasselhoff  left the show at the end of 1999 and the show slowly died.  It did have beautiful scenery and a new teen idol in young Hawaiian Jason Mamoa and Ka’i Miller with a part-time role in the first season in Hawaii.
BEACHCOMER, THE (1962) I.T.C. SYN.  Cameron Mitchell leaves business for South Seas. One season 39 1/2 hour episodes.
BEYOND THE BREAK (2006-08) All girl surfing team who live together in the sponsor's beach house who are very different with very different backgrounds but they do have the surf in common. Riding the wave of BLUE CRUSH girlie surf movie. Click to view Amazon Unbox trailer
BIG WAVE DAVE'S (1993) PARAMOUNT TV/CBS   Multi-camera sitcom filmed on a L.A. sound stage with Haleiwa second unit footage because its set in the famous north shore town.  Ray Bumatai in reoccurring role as comic local entrepreneur.  Couple city slickers from the mainland sell everything to buy a surf shop in the surf capital of the world. Stars Alan Arkin and David Morse.  Connection:  Kurtwood Smith from the 70s SHOW plays Jack Lord. A summer replacement that was good but didn't get picked up and TV's gone down hill ever since.
BIG HAWAII (1977) NBC/FILMWAYS TV  Modern rancher in the Aloha state, lasted only seven episodes. Linda Gray, Don Johnson. Richard Jaekel had parts and so did Kimo Hahaoano and Moe Keale.
BOARDING HOUSE: NORTH SHORE (2003) MARK BURNETT PRODS.  Another reality show based in Hawaii, this time at the hot Hollywood set of O’ahu’s North Shore (BLUE CRUSH, BIG BOUNCE, THE)  Real surfers are used in this real life drama including Sony Garcia any Andy Pacheo .From the king of reality shows, Mark Burnett. There was another Hawaii show coming in with a working title "Boarding School" girls student surfers who lived up in the North Shore and the Fox TV Series who settled on the name "North Shore" How creative Hollywood gets. The first show changed the name to "Beyond the Break".
BREAK, THE (2003) FOX TV  From the Director of BLUE CRUSH TV pilot base on surfing cops who find they can get a lot of information form surf punks on the break.  Apparently concept of cops surfing on the clock didn’t sit well with studio executives because it wasn’t picked up.  All cast was from LA most had to be taught to surf. Hea really Lt. I have to surfing to get the bad guys, really...
BROADSIDE (1964-65) ABC  McHALE’S NAVY formula to capitalize McHALE’s success with but this time with Waves in New Caledonia (ala OPERATION PETTICOAT).  The formula was to similar and it was tagged a rip-off.  Starred Kathleen Nolan, Edward Andrews and Dick Sargent. I wonder what rank Dick played? Sarg...
BYRDS OF PARADISE (1994-94) BOSHCO/ABC  Series set on rural Big Island where a widower and three young teens have to adjust to a very different Chicago lifestyle.  Stars Timothy Busfield and local Elizabeth Lindsey as well as other Hawaiians: like Andy Bumatai, Robert Kekaula, Betty Carvalho and more.  Of note the producers of the show really wanted the contrast between real Hawaiian and the haole (white) newcomers so a massive casting effort was made on all major islands even though most locals got there roles by auditioning in L.A. but give them credit.  Shot on O'ahu. One of the better South Seas TV, good acting a writing with real locals as locals. Future stars Seth Green and Jennifer Love Hewitt.
CHARLIE CHAN (1958) SYN.  Based on Honolulu detective Chang Apana.  Set where?
DANGER THEATRE: TROPICAL PUNCH (1993) FOX TV  Unusual format of two reoccurring shows crammed into a half-hour comedy.  One show, TROPICAL PUNCH, stars former Batman and former Hawaii resident Adam West in this 5-0 like spoof.  Peter Navy Tuiasosopo, a Samoan is his Hawaiian sidekick.  Tapped entirely in L.A.
 
DIAMOND HEAD GAME, THE (1975) COLUMBIA TV (Syn.)  Hosted by Bob Eubanks and taped at Kuilima Hotel. Music by Allan Thick.  One season only. Now the Turtle Bay Hotel.
DOG: BOUNTY HUNTER (2004-present) A&E (cable)  Reality show staring famous bounty hunter “Dog” Chapman who at the time of the show was living and doing most of his jobs around the Hawaiian Islands. Most of the time pidgin English is subtitled.
DON HO SHOW, THE (1976-77) ABC  Half-hour variety show shot from various locations on O'ahu.
808,THE (2007) FUEL TV Reality series based on the hotest surfers on the North Shore of O'ahu. Kai Garcia stars.
ENSIGN O'TOOLE (1962-63) NBC Dean Jones, Jack Albertson and Beau Bridges starred in Navy sitcom aboard destroyer in the Pacific.
FANTASY ISLAND (1978-84) ABC/SPELLING-GOLDBERG Famous TV show with Ricardo Montalban Scenery filmed in Hawaii, natives dressed Polynesian but set location a mystery? (1998-99) ABC/SONY TV/SONNENFELD-JOSEPHSON  Modern version with visual effects and Malcolm McDowell, Polynesians are at times present but scarce, tiki cup drinks greet guest and island is mentioned to be about 500 miles north/west of Australia.
FLIGHT 29 DOWN (2005) DISCOVERY/NBC  Acclaimed youth show with 10 teens and a pilot who crash land on a deserted island somewhere between Guam and Palau although captioned as South Seas.  Big lesson to learn the kids have to get along to survive.  Filmed on the North Shore of O’ahu.
FLYING DOCTOR (1959) SYN.  Richard Denning as doctor who flies to remote Australia and Pacific Isles for aid.
FOLLOW THE SUN (1961-62) ABC  Barry Coe and Brett Halsey as freelance writers set in Honolulu with  an all white cast.  Filmed where?
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (1980) NBC  Successful movie and Mini (from previous year) take-off with William Devane and now starring Kim Basinger. Newcomers Barbara Hersey (replacing Natalie Wood from Mini) and Don Johnson. Unfortunately series did not have same success.  Probably because of cost for TV (period piece, lots of cast and location shooting).

GILLIGAN'S ISLAND (1964-67) CBS  Classic silly sitcom about an unusual mix of characters shipwrecked on an uncharted isle near Hawaii.  Pilot shot in Hawaii but jungles did not look convincing enough.  Show than shot successfully in L.A. back lot.  About a half a dozen episodes deal with Polynesians on island.  One show features Ginger pondering stereotypical role of white beauty being sacrificed to a volcano which was the subject of the episode. Classic 5-star Hall of Fame TV.
HAWAII (2004) NBC  Newest attempt at the Five-0 phenomenon with again a L.A. cast.  Apparently part of the new micro-management decisions by new young studio executives who think they know what they are doing.  Writing and acting isn’t bad though.  Token detective part for Andy Bumatai and Peter Tuiasasopo was a regular who play the fat Polynesian cop always eating.

HAWAII FIVE-O (1968-80) CBS  One of the most popular hour crime shows ever, starred Jack Lord and many locals in reoccurring roles.  Many want-to be a cop in Hawaii followed but none as successfully as this one.. Classic 5-star Hall of Fame TV. Regular parts for Zulu, Herman Wedemeyer, Al Harrington and Moe Keale. Also Doug Mossman.
HAWAIIAN EYE (1959-63) ABC  Robert Conrad and Connie Stevens in detective show set in Hawaii.  Filmed in Honolulu and L.A.. Doug Mossman was a regular. First popular US South Seas TV show.
HAWAIIAN HEAT (1984)  CBS/UNIVERSAL  Short-lived TV series, was another detective show that failed. Branscombe Richmond had a part.
HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (2002-2003) WB  Reality show based on the romantic island of Maui where the show brings in 10 former classmate after 10 years.  Crushes, jealousies are now revealed.
ISLAND SON (1989) LORIMAR/ABC  Richard Chamberlain in a short-lived TV series about a doctor who was adopted by a Hawaiian family when he was younger. Ray Bumatai and Betty Carvalho has parts.
THE ISLANDERS (1960-61) ABC/WARNER BROTHERS  Set in South Pacific, probably filmed in Hollywood.
JAKE AND THE FAT MAN (1988-1990) CBS/VIACOM  William Conrad and Joe Penny star in a crime drama.  Show originated in L.A.,, near death, the show than moved to Hawaii for better ratings which it got.  After three seasons the series than moved back to L.A. and the rating surprisingly stayed strong.  Karen Keawehawaii had regular role in only the first season of Hawaii shooting.
LAST RESORT, THE (2002-03) ABC  Reality show based in Hawaii about couples about to break up. But they have a last resort at a beautiful resort to rekindle there bond or break up.  The show does have counseling for them.
LITTLE PEOPLE, THE or BRIAN KEITH SHOW, THE (1972-74) NBC  Haole (white) pediatrician in Hawaii based sitcom.
LIVING EDENS (1998) PBS  “Palau: Paradise of the Pacific.  Need more information?
LOST (2004-present) ABC/TOUCHSTONE PICTS.  Third of three spring Hawaii pilots that got picked up that year.  The setting of this one is the South Seas with survivors of a plane wreck on a deserted island.  So far no natives but a sci-fi Dr. Moreau element, polar bears and a big something in the bushes (see DEEP RISING).  Big hit for ABC. Emmy for best show 2005.
MACKENZIES OF PARADISE COVE, THE (1979) ABC  Five orphans and an adventurer in Hawaii.  Moe Keale had a part.

MAGNUM, PI (1980-88) CBS/UNIVERSAL  Hit detective series made star of Tom Selleck, with all haole (white & one black) cast.  Shot primarily on O'ahu. Classic 5-star Hall of Fame TV.
MARKER (1995-) UPN  One of the first shows introducing a Paramount’s new T.V. network staring Richard Grieco, Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher of Paramount TV’s STAR TREK NEXT GENERATION) and Hawaii’s own Andy Bumatai.  Richard redeems pay back markers from his recently departed millionaire father that he never got to know.  Through these “marker” experiences
he learns more and he respects more his divorced father. 
MATAKU (2002) SOUTH PACIFIC PICTS. (New Zealand)  TV series of Maori legends.  Hosted by Temuera Morrison.
MCHALE'S NAVY (1961-66) ABC  Hit sitcom of PT boat crew in South Pacific.  Show failed when set was moved to Europe.  Starring Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway. Later movie version failed because it was set in the Caribbean.
MOLE, THE (2003) FOX TV  Another reality show taped in Hawaii.  This one has a mole planted in the group.         
MOOLAH BEACH (2001) FOX TV  Reality survivor show for pre-teens.  Shot on Kaua’i with, like the title, a tiki-tacky Polynesian theme but not bad for a reality show.
MISTER ROBERTS (1965-66) WARNER BROS. TV/NBC  South Pacific WWII navy tale from hit movie.With actors I never heard of like this series. Looks like they did only 11 episodes.
NEW PEOPLE, THE (1969-70) AARON SPELLING/ABC  Group of young Americans crash land in abandoned nuclear test site on a South Pacific isle.  Rod Sterling was the series script consultant. Compare movie SOS PACIFIC.
NORTH SHORE (2004-05) FOX TV  Another attempt at a Hawaii pilot and another show with L.A. cast except for Jason Mamoa who works out of L.A.  Despite of star, Chris Polaha name it is not Hawaiian.  This is a prime time Luxury hotel staff soap that didn’t add some surfing until episode 3 and everyone loved it so every show has some water work now.  The title was just
to ride the “north shore” fad of the media at this time.  Also Robert Kekaula with his one line every two weeks token appearance as a security guard. 
NOT FOR HIRE (1959) CAL. NAT. PRODS. SYN.  Ralph Meeker in half-hour crime show with army investigator set in Hawaii.
ONE WEST WAIKIKI (1994) GLEN A. LARSON   Cheryl Ladd stars in pilot as a Police Medical Examiner based in Honolulu.  Elssie Sniffen a part-Hawaiian discovery from California co-stars.  Eleven more shows were produced for CBS and syndication.
OPERATION PETTICOAT (1977-78) ABC/UNIVERSAL  Based on popular movie.  Early role for Jamie Lee Curtis.  Father Tony starred in the movie version. Manu Tupou plays Chief Mamalaka as a reoccurring role.
PACIFICA: TALES OF THE SOUTH SEAS (1993) TDC (Cable)  Short series of past or recent South Seas native stories of fact or legend.  Shot documentary style with reenactments.
RAVEN (1992) CBS/COLUMBIA TV/INVADER PRODS.  Jeff Meek and Lee Majors star in hour action/drama of highly-trained Meek looking for hidden son in Hawaii with former Army intelligence trained and former alcoholic Majors.   Pilot and other episodes filmed on O'ahu.
REAL GILLIGAN’S ISLE, THE (2004) TBS  Reality show with two sets of the cast of GILLIGAN’S ISLE who are real millionaires, movie stars, professors, skippers and a couple sweet girls from Kansas.  One episode has the winning team getting drinks and a movie for a reward.  The movie; MR. ROBINSON CRUSOE.
SEAQUEST DSV (1993) NBC/STEVEN SPIELBERG   Roy Scheider in near-future, as captain of a mega war submarine converted to more peace-time scientific use (Ala. the Enterprise of STAR TREK).  The sub is based out of Pearl Harbor, Honolulu but its adventures takes it all-over the ocean world. 
SEARCH FOR TREASURE ISLAND (1998-2000) 7 NETWORK (Australia/Germany)  According to this TV show Robert Louis Stevenson says the Treasure Island is in Samoa, with this the search the shipwrecks begin. Seven people shipwreck on a South Seas island where they realize it's the real Treasure Island of fame. So the two dying questions do they find the treasure? And do they get off island?
SHIPWRECK (1984) DSC (Cable)  One episode on the giant New Zealand ferry the “Wahine”.  No natives present. Typical people on a raft after surviving wreck land on a deserted South Seas island. Need more information?
SHIPWRECK (2000) ??? (UK) Reality show based on the Cook Islands. Did not do well.
SIMISIs, THE (1997) GIBSON GROUP (NZ) Short lived but popular series spun off from a skit from the comedy show SKITZ.   The Samoan Simisis  is a dysfunctional and fun family from Miburn Place. One family member is fafafine (transvestite). Funny or offensive?  Stereotypical and satirical. Lucky Samoans have a sense of humor and these characters were played by real Samoans. But again the show was very short-lived.
SKATE BIRDS, THE (1977) CBS/HANNA BABERRA  Live action Saturday morning show with weekly segments of “Mystery Island”  a South Seas island with young scientists and the Mud People.
SURF'S UP (1966) SYN.  Half-hour documentary series of surf footage of U.S. beaches. Any Hawaii beaches (probably or it wouldn't be a surf movie without it.
SYLVAN IN PARADISE (1986) ???  Jim Nabors starred in failed sitcom pilot about small hotel in Hawaii. Actually tapped in Hollywood with Californian Asians as locals.  It didn’t sell, thank goodness. Ironically Nabors lives in the real Hawaii and he travels 3000 miles to be in a fake one. Gauuuuleee! Future star Cortney Cox.
SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON (1975-76) 20th CENTURY FOX TV/ABC, (1976) SYN. Two different shows about the same movie.  ABC version starred Martin Milner, Cameron Mitchell and a young Helen Hunt.  The 76 version is from Canada and it featured a young Heather Graham.  Also ADVENTURES OF SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON, THE (1998) New Zealand TV  Stars
Richard Thomas with natives. Base on Jack London's novel.
TALES OF THE GOLD MONKEY (1982) BELISARIUS PRODS./ABC Adventure series based in the South Pacific. Stars Steven Collins and Roddy McDowall.
TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC (1998) SOUTH PACIFIC PICTS. (France/Australia)  TV series of Captain David Grief and his Polynesian Partner Mauriri
TANGATA WHENUA (1974) ??? (New Zealand)  New Zealand TV series about Maori life and traditions.  Directed by Maori, Barry Barclay.
THREE FOR TAHITI (1970) SCREEN GEMS Unsold pilot of three guys spending all of their money and escape from the American way of life to buy a small sight-unseen Tahitian hotel.  When they get to Tahiti the hotel is a wreck and they try to salvage themselves before they go bankrupted. Compare BIG WAVE DAVE.
UNDER ONE ROOF (2002) UPN  Family vs. family reality show based in Fiji.
WACKIEST SHIP IN THE ARMY, THE (1965-66) NBC  Old army intelligence ship, the USS Kiwi, serving the South Pacific during WWII.  Starring Jack Warden with Gary Collins.
WESTWIND (1975-76) NBC Van Williams in Saturday morning show about family sailing off coast of Hawaii.  (13 Episodes).Two teens and their parents sail around the Pacific for adventure.

SPECIAL SOUTH SEAS EPISODES

A CURRENT AFFAIR (1986-96) WNYW Popular infotainment TV series that covered Hollywood gossip. One episode covered a special story out of Hawaii. Need more information?
A TEAM (1983-87) STEVEN J. CANNELL A 1986 episode in South Seas  with Manu Tupou as guest star.
ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET (1960ish) ABC  Elder son, David’s wife plan with Harriet a Hawaiian vacation and how to trick David into going.  Episode is entitled  “The Trip Trap” and it has Ozzie playing two Hawaiian songs (fake words real tunes) and son David host a pre-trip Hawaiian party with plastic leis and woven coconut hat.  They go by showing stock footage of Aloha Tower and Waikiki at the very end. Episode 430, season 14, aired 2/19/66. 
AMERICA (19??) BBC/TIME-LIFE FILMS; (1972-73) NBC, (1974-75) PBS  Hosted and written by Alistair Cooke, one show was entirely about Hawaii.
AMERICA'S MOST WANTED (1988-current) FOX  Tapped show of reenactments of criminals still at large.  At ease two Hawaii cases were tapped on location.
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE (199?-) PBS “Hawaii’s Last Queen”  This is a documentary of the life of Queen Lili’uokalani which included some of her brother’s rein and her overthrow.  This episode aired 1/27/97. Finally the truth is out.
ANTHONY BOURDAIN: NO RESERVATIONS (2005-present) TRAVEL CHANNEL Traveling chef samples food all over the world. In season 1, #9, Ep 9 he visited New Zealand, aired 7/25/05. Season 3 "French Polynesia" #35, Ep 11, aired 8/20/07 Bourdain visits Tahiti and the Marquesas where he finds a stone temple and tikis. In season 4, #50 Ep 9 he visited Hawaii which aired 3/3/08, there he enjoyed spam and volcano and other local treats.
ART LINKLETTER SHOW (1952-69) CBS  In 1956 Art filmed an episode out of Hilo.
ARTHUR GODFREY AND HIS FRIENDS (1949-59) CBS Besides his famous Ukulele and his trips to Hawaii he featured as "his friends" or the "little Godfreys" regular talents that he brought to the lights of New York and national TV until he fired them all on same national TV and Radio. He slipped way down from number one entertainer in America. One of his now famous "little Godfreys" was Haleloke (Kahauolupua)a beautiful Hawaiian singer. She later preformed on our big shows like Sullivan and Gleason. She late managed one of Godfrey's Hotels in Miami so he must repaired their relationship somewhat.
ADVENTURE: The Black Pearls of Polynesia (1991) PBS   Writer/explorer Christina Dodwell journeyed through Melanesia and French Polynesia to find treasured pearl or treasured.
BAILEY'S OF BALBOA (1964-65) CBS Family of beachcombers in the snobby harbor of New Port, CA. One episode titled "To Hawaii with Love", season 1, episode 17. Need information on plot? Is it a letter, a dream or did the poor family actually leave New Port for an episode?
BARNABY JONES (1973-80) QUINN-MARTIN/CBS  Buddy Ebsen starred in Hawaii episode filmed in Sept. 1979. Two parter entitled: "Nightmare in Hawaii" season 8, shows 2 & 3.
BIZARRE FOODS (2007-present) TRAVEL CHANNEL (cable) Season 3 has two Pacific episodes; #26 Ep 4 "Samoa" where host Andrew Zimmern eats sea slugs and palolo (sea worms) among other native foods. "Samoa" aired 9/30/08. Also #30 Ep 8 "Hawai" which aired 10/28/08.
BATTLEFIELD: THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY (1995) PBS  Two hour episode of short PBS series on this famous WWII naval battle that was the turning point in the Pacific theatre. 
BEST…(2000-present) TRAVEL CHANNEL  Series of Best places.  Two Hawaii centered shows “10 Best Beaches of Hawaii” and “Best Volcanoes”. 
BEST OF BOTH WORLDS (ca. 2002) A&E (cable)  Two host travel show where hosts goes to the same place with two totally different budgets.  Good idea.  One episode which aired 1/24/03 they visit Kau’i, Mau’i & Molokai
BOB NEWHART SHOW, THE (1972-78) CBS Ep# 13 of season 3, intitled "Jerry Robinson Crusoe" aired 12/07/1974. After meeting up with a free-spirited friend, Bob decides to quit the nine to five and go with her to Tahiti. Does he do it?
BOY MEETS WORLD (1993-2000) ABC Young couple on show finally get married and honeymoon in Hawaii where they sell celebrity-look-a-like coconuts.  Tapped on stage in L.A..
BRADY BUNCH, THE (1969-74) PARAMOUT TV/ABC  Three episodes filmed on O’ahu and in L.A. for opening of season 4, “Hawaii Bound” has the family going to Hawaii cause dad designed a high-rise there.  Airport lei greeting sc (like future movie) canoe wave riding with Diamond Head in b.g., Pearl Harbor visit, ukulele lessons with Don Ho and Sam Kapu, females have hula class. Little Bobby finds a bad-luck Tiki, big Greg wipes out at a surfing contest.  “Pass the Tabu”  Bobby can’t get rid of Tiki and a big wolf spider invades the boys hotel room.  Windowless Hawaii hotel scene.  Third and final episode “The Tiki Caves” is were a native tells the boys where they have to return the Tiki.  In the studio cave interiors, decorated with bad Styrofoam tikis, they run into Archaeologist Vincent Price who ties them up until dad saves them.  All is well later at the ending studio luau scene, complete with fire and Tahitian tamure dancers.  Hawaiian quest include: a young Dennis Chun & Lippy Espinda.  Episodes #73, 74, 75.  All aired fall 1972. Connection: cursed little tiki plays in later movie version A VERY BRADY SEQUEL and other shows.
CAPTAIN COOK: OBSESSION AND DISCOVERY (2007) RACE ROCK DIGITAL (Australia) Series on the voyages of captain Cook, most of which took place in the Pacific. A Barney Tupara and Pulou Vaituutuu are in the cast.
CHALLENGE OF THE SEAS (1991) PBS   Short series about oceans and island life, hosted by Ted Danson.  One episode: "Peddling Paradise" which aired in Oct., 1993, was based on Hawaii as "the extinct capital of the world".  While the unfortunate mistakes made by early Hawaiians were well covered, the much more devastating westerner mistakes after captain Cook's arrival where merely mentioned by only one line of the narrator.  
CHARLIE'S ANGELES (1976-81) ABC/AARON SPELLING   Possibly three shows filmed in 1977 & 1980.  One was a 2-part season opener for season 2, entitled: “Angles in Paradise” which aired Sept. 14 and 21, 1977. Also Episode 3 of season 5 called "Angels of the Deep" aired Dec 7, 1980.
COACH (1989-97) ABC  Coach Hayden (Craig T. Nelson) takes his Minnesota State team to the “The Pineapple Bowl” (also episode title) in Kahanapali of all places.  But they never left the studio.  Typical aloha shirts, plastic leis in windowless hotel lobby scene.  Game was stock footage from a mainland played game. A two-parter which aired Dec. 7 and 17, 1991, season 4 episodes 9 and 10 for that season.
COLLECTORS (1990) PBS  Two back-to-back shows featuring Hawaiian collections.
CONDE NES: Amazing Destinations (ca.1999) One episode titled: “Hawaii” covers all the major Hawaiian islands with the usual highlights.
CROSSWORDS (1970) ???  Possible big budget game show CROSS-WTIS (1975-80) METROMEDIA PRODS. Quiz show partly filmed or taped in Hawaii, need more information?
DATELINE (1992-present) NBC  A segment entitled: “Around the World: Pitcairn Island”, aired Dec. 26, 1995. Very good mini documentary on present Pitcairn Island and how the Bounty descendants survived through the years. Funny note: most natives interviewed had a surname of Christian.
DENNIS THE MENACE (1959-63) CBS Fun Jay North series based on popular comic strip. One episode, 32, season 4, called: "Hawaiian Love Song" aired 5/19/63. Need more information? Did they leave the neighborhood?
DESILU PLAYHOUSE (1958-60) CBS  In a episode entitled “The Time Element” which aired in 1959 and written by Rod Sterling a man goes back in time the day before the infamous Pearl Harbor attack.  Connection: copied later by the movie FINAL COUNTDOWN, TV series THE TIME TUNNEL and cartoon FREAKAZOID. 
DESIGNERS CHALLENGE (ca 2000 to present) HGTV cable  Popular home remodel show where in an Episode airing Sept  2007 a designer went to work on a Oahu home’s back lanai.
DESTINATION STARDOM (2000) PAX TV This tapped in Hawaii aired for 26 weeks with Hawaiian Kalani Miller as one of the Host and Hawaiian singing trio Kaleo as one of the finalist. Of of two talent shows by PAX that didn't last then came smash hit AMERICAN IDOL, go figure?
DESTINATION X (2006-present) MTV Drop five beautiful and in shape girls in the middle of exotic locations to challenge each other and you have DESTINATION X. First stop Hawaii in episodes called "Hawaii". Also returned in 2007 for episodes called "Lost in Hawaii".
DIANA SHORE SHOW, THE (195-56) NBC  At lease one appearance with Alfred Apaka. Episode 10 of season 4, aired Dec 6, 1959.
DIGGING FOR THE TRUTH (2005-present) HISTORY CHANNEL Episode called:”Giants of Easter Island” season 1 with host, explorer and survival expert Josh Bernstein.
DINNER: IMPOSSIBLE (2006-present) FOOD NETWORK (cable) Chef Roberts and some local assistants cook a real luau meal for 150 people in a limited time. Reknown Hawaiian chef Sam Choy hosts the challenge. Episode aired Oct 12, 2008.
DIRTY JOBS (2005-present) DISCOVERY (cable) One episode which aired late Aug. 06, featured a taro path farmer in Hawaii.  Could be Ep# 38?
DISASTERS OF THE CENTURY (2008) HISTORY CHANNEL "Hilo Tsunami" one episode in a series of disasters.
DISCOVERY (198?) PBS  At lease one show on study of local dolphins. Need more information?
DISCOVERY MAGAZINE (1996) TDC (Cable) Show on giant tsunamis in the Pacific. A lot of the show covers Hawaii, especially the history of Hilo with their giant tidal waves.
DOS AND DONTS (2007-present) TRAVEL CHANNEL  (cable) Episode; “Hawaii Dos and Don'ts” aired Jan. 18th, 2008.
DR. WHO (1963-89) BBC  Need more information? Need help on this one but I don't want to dismiss it yet.
DREAM ISLAND (1991) ??? (German)   This series was filmed on Kaua'i.  Need info. on setting?
E.R. (1994-present) JOHN WELLS PRODS./NBC  One show in 2002 goes to Hawaii because one of the main doctors (Dr Greene play by Anthony Edwards) was a military brat and learn to surf in Hawaii.  He takes his daughter (Halle Hirsh who starred later in FLIGHT 29 DOWN) who has a big generation gap between them and teaches her to surf and he goes back to Hawaii to die (cancer)  Used Iz Kamakawiwaole’s version of “Over the Rainbow”. Aired 5/9/2002 Episode 178 season 8.
ED SULLIVAN SHOW, THE (1955-71) CBS Hawaiian entertainers like Alfred Apaka, Don Ho, Dick Jensen, Haleloke and Kui Lee.  Need more information on others.  Special movie live stage previews like MR. ROBERTS with appearances of James Cagney, Henry Fonda and Jack Lemmon.
EIGHT IS ENOUGH (1977-81) ABC / LORIMAR  Filmed Hawaii episode in 1979. ELIMINATE DELUX (2001) WB  Reality series where young adults eliminate each other.  Some Hawaii location scenes.
ELI STONE (2008-present) ABC Season 1 episode 5 "One More Try" Eli has visions that guide his cases. In this show surfers cross the lobby and he follows them to the men's room where a big wave wipes him out. He ends up going to Hawaii to find a witness that has been hidden by one of his senior partners and paid him to keep out of court. Fake Hawaiian beach but at least it was sunny the day they shot the scene. It looked like a Hawaiian beach.
ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT (1981-pesent) CBS/PARAMOUNT TV  Daily info. show with clips of filming being done in Hawaii.
EXOTIC ISLANDS (2002) TRAVEL CHANNEL  Series of islands throughout the world traveled by host Hunter Reno.  For sure she covers Mau’i and the Big Island.
EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION  The popular show goes to Logan Utah to rebuild a Tongan family’s Water damaged home.  Mrs. Pauni, mother of eight who’s husband passed away.
later in opener of 2006 season they go to Honolulu to help rebuild a home and a child care facilities. Soon discovered wife who started the child care for the poor has other facilities, makes six figures a year and the husband who we rarely see in the show is a bank vice president. Instead of a scandal the changed it's format to not just help the poor but those who help others, even if they can afford a new house on their own.
FALL GUY, THE (1981-86) ABC  Two episodes in Hawaii #10 &11 a two parter “License to Kill” season #1  & episode #76 “Sandcastles” season #4. 
FASHION EMERGENCY (ca 2000-current) STYLE (cable)  Emly Hostess takes two locals girls and does a make over to get them ready for the big luau.  So they take them to Hilo Hatties, 808, and finally Germaine’s Luau.
FIRST HAND (2004-present) FUEL TV Extreme challenge reality show. Some episodes taped in Hawaii and Aotearoa (N.Z.).
FOLLOW THAT FOOD (2002-present) FOOD NETWORK (cable)  One episode focused on the Maui onion, taped on Maui and aired Jan. 16, 2003.
FRASIER (1993-2004) GRUB STREET PRODS./PARAMOUNT Frasier finally has a serious girl, takes her to Bora Bora only to find his ex Lila there.  Moment ruined.  Back in Seattle Lila tells Frasier she’s going to get married. Frasier tries again in Bora Bora with serious girl only to run into another ex, Diane.  Turns out to be a dream but his real travel companion is Niles his brother.  Good Tahiti hotel room set.
FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS (1983-2000) NBC  Late night top –20 music show in 20 something style.  For two Fridays in March 1998 the host is in Kaua’i but it rains badly so they shoot her inside.  The rest of show is their normal music videos and movie clips which are still generated from L.A..
FRUGAL GOURMET (1983-95) PBS  Chef Smith cooks Hawaiian food with Chicago's resources; spinach instead of "toro" leaves, lotus instead of ti leaves.  First half of show was documentary of Smith's visit to Hawaii.  He was hosted by Crozier family at a real Luau.  Smith also stresses how white man ruined Hawaii after their arrival in an emotional commentary.  Show aired summer 1991.
FULL HOUSE (1987-95) WARNER BROS. TV/ABC Season 3 opener  "Tanner's Island" Episode 45 aired 9/22/89 The whole house goes to Hawaii, must of cost Mr. Tanner thousands of dollars. Standard American family on a Hawaiian vacation fare except (connection) for the John Stamos character who wants to sing Elvis in Hawaii songs all the time.
GENE SIMMON'S FAMILY JEWELS (2006-Present) A&E Two espisodes #52 "Shannon to the Rescue" where she makes Gene take her to Hawaii so she can make sure her sister doesn't doesn't marry a rich local single guy. To continue in Hawaii Ep #53 "Honeymoon at Last" To make Shannon feel better Gene extends their Hawaiian stay a week to do a Honeymoon (even though they are not married). Gene fails at planning an authentic Hawaiian Romanic night (one night at a commerical Luau with hundrends of tourist and a buffet line) until the last night where he sings to her a romantic song he wrote while playing an ukulele. The extended week was made possible because of a deal he made to speak at a Small Business Conference without Shannon's knowledge. Both show aired June 22, 2008.
GET SMART (1965-69) NBC,(1969-70) CBS/TALENT ASSOCIATES   At lease two shows, one a murder mystery on a South Seas isle and the other KAOS mad scientist plots to sink the sixth fleet by using a giant magnet on a tropical isle to beach the Navy ships.
GOOD MORNING AMERICA (1975-present) ABC  Need more information? Probably a special segment in Hawaii or a few of them over the years.
GIRL FROM UNCLE (1966-67) NBC Stephanie Powers set in Hawaii with Kim Kahana.  Episode entitled "The U.N.C.L.E. Samurai Affair" Episode 27 aired 3/28/67, Steph an her partner find a Japanese war criminal in Hawaii. Also Season 1 episode 10 "The Paradise Lost Affair" aired Nov. 22, 1966. Stephanie and fellow agent infiltrate the bad guys ship in the Pacific, they inadvertly sink it and wash up on shore of a South Seas island with a weird leader who they can't handle than the bad guys show up.
GIRL MEETS HAWAII (2001) TRAVEL CHANNEL  Perky Travel host Samantha Brown host short series on Hawaii where she experiences canoe paddling, snuba, luaus, hula and many more.
GLADIATORS OF WWII (2002) BBC Ep# 13 "The Anzacs" Aussies and New Zealanders with some fighting in New Guinea.
GREAT JOURNEYS (1993) PBS  Dame Naomi James explores Polynesia,  from Tonga to the Society Islands, hoping to find great interest and understanding of a great culture but she     becomes disappointed finding that the western world has destroyed it with its influences.
GREAT BIKER BUILD OFF (2004) DISCOVERY CHANNEL (cable)  One episode has father & son in build off.  When they finished building the bike they flew to the Big Island of Hawaii for a cruise around the island on their bikes and than they flew to Honolulu for the vote.
GREAT HOTELS (2003) TRAVEL CHANNEL  One episode covering the Grand Wailea on Maui.  Also the Four Seasons Hualalai on the Big Island which aired Aug. 24, 2006.
GREEN ACRES (1965-71) CBS  One Ep #165 “Hawaiian Honeymoon” show in Hawaiian hotel called the Moana Rexford, but cast and crew never left studio lot.  Possibly a pilot for a spin off: Another Ep # 93 “Guess Who’s not Coming to the Luau” season 4, need more information if any real Hawaii scenes.
GRIND, THE (1992-97) MTV (Cable TV)  Specials episodes of  THE GRIND which aired spring 1996. This 90s AMERICAN BANDSTAND was hosted by singer, actress Brandy and was taped at one of those empty lagoons at Ko Olina on O'ahu..
GROWING PAINS (198?-??) ABC  Son and teen scream Kirk Cameron falls in love with local girl played by Kelly Hu.  Hawaii episode tapped in 1987. Season 3 two-part opener called "Aloha" Episodes 45, 46 aired 9/18/87.
HARDY BOYS, THE (1977-79) ABC/UNIVERSAL/GLENN A. LARSON  Teen stars Parker Stevens and Shaun Cassidy help local girl Maren Jensen.  Filmed in 1977.  Another episode: “Wipe Out” about pro surfers/ hotel robbers with no Hawaiian roles, was also filmed while they were in town. 
HART TO HART (1979-84) ABC/ SPELLING-GOLDBERG  Starred Robert Wagner and Stephanie Powers.  Hawaii show filmed in 1980 and also possibly in1981.  Later Wagner said a total of five episodes were filmed in Hawaii.
HIGH END HAWAII (2008) TRAVEL CHANNEL (cable) From the “HIGH END” travel series about where the rich stay in Hawaii.   Manele Bay- Lanai, Paul Mitchell Estate-Lanikai, Ritz Carlton-Kapalua, etc..  Another version aired  2/15/08 show reedited and added scenes from the first version but with a twist – how to travel ‘high end”  on a budget.
HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN (1984-89) NBC/MICHAEL LANDON  Michael Landon as angel help Hawaiian reunite with love ones back in Hawaii.  Filmed in L.A..
HOUSE HUNTERS (2005-present) HGTV (cable)  Show on finding and buying a home across the United States.  One episode airing 9/04/06 featured buying near Waikiki.  Another episode which aired 2/13/08 featured house buyers looking to up grade on Maui from a 3bm to a 4 bedroom.
HUNTER (1984-91) NBC  Fred Dryer hunts down Hawaiian mass-murderer in L.A.. 
I DREAM OF JEANNIE (1965-70) NBC/COLUMBIA TV/SIDNEY SHELDON  Barbara Eden starred in three episodes shot in Hawaii in season 3.  One episode guest starred Milton Berle who swindles Jeanie in buying “From Here to Eternity” beach by claiming that diamonds wash up there.  Another episode #76 “Battle of Waikiki” has Kamehameha I being brought back to life by Jeanie after she sees his statue; at the end, he feels that his “subjects have forgotten him” until he’s shown the Kamehameha Day parade taking place in his memory.  The first episode #75 “Jeannie Goes to Honolulu” has Jeanie at the Don Ho show, fantasizing about Don as he sings “The Beautiful Days of My Youth.”
I LOVE LUCY SHOW (1966-68) CBS  “Ricky’s Hawaiian Vacation” season #3 Episode 88 husband goes to work in Hawaii and Lucy follows by winning a contest. Great scene of Lucy and neighbors sing Hawaiian and dancing the hula.
IN LIVIN COLOR (1990-94) 20TH CENTURY FOX Two skits in season #3 first has the deal guys from Funk Brothers Productions trying to sell cheap travel packages to to customers at a travel exhibit next to a Hawaii booth complete with a Hula dancer.  Another skit later in the season is set in a tiki restaurant.
INCREDIBLE HULK (1977-81) UNIVERSAL TV/CBS  2nd season opener called: ”Married” aka “Bride of the Incredible Hulk”, guest starred Mariette Hartley who won an Emmy for her role.  She married he Hulk in Hawaii where she worked.  Really shot in California.
INSOMNIAC WITH DAVE ATTELL (2001-2004) COMEDY CENTRAL  Show of comic host traveling country checking out the night life of hot areas.  One episode, aired July 2003 featured Waikiki until dawn.
JACK BENNY SHOW (1950-65) CBS/NBC/UNIVERSAL TV  “Jack Takes Boat to Hawaii” with Jane Mansfield.  Episode aired in 1963 as Jack on ship recreated on stage is heading to Hawaii. On board he dreams about Jane and guess who really appears.  In reality Jack did just return from a Hawaiian vacation and he tapped the show with a nice tan. 
JACK PAAR TONIGHT SHOW (1957-1962) NBC  Jack taped show in Hawaii in 1960.
JEAN-MICHEL COUSTEAU OCEAN ADVENTURES (2006-present) PBS   Son takes over famous Jacques documentary specials.  This 2-part, 2 hour is set in the northwest Hawaiian island chain. Narrated by Piearce Bronsan (James Bond & Robinson Crusoe).  Good chanting beginning with the Hawaiian canoe, Hokulea, escorting out the research vessel.
JEFFERSONS, THE (1975-85) CBS/NORMAN LEAR  Taped (film style) production of the family's vacation in Waikiki. Four part episode called "The Jeffersons Go To Hawaii Parts 1,2,3,& 4" season 7 episodes 5,6,7, & 8 aired Nov. 9, 16, 16, & 23 of 1980.
LAWRENCE WELK (1955-82) TELELEW PRODS./ABC  1972 Popular band leader hosted episode in Hawaii playing popular island songs.
LATE FRIDAY (2001) NBC  Stand up comedy stage performances.  In a show aired end of April or beginning May 2001 with identical twin male host Randy and Jason Sklar who finally realize in a short skit with a tiki mug that people are trivializing a god of another culture.  “Does anybody care!” 
LANDSCAPERS' CHALLENGE (ca 2004) HGTV (cable)  Spin off from popular Home & Garden network’s DESIGNERS’ CHALLENGE where three designers exhibit their proposal to a client in need of help.  This episode aired in the first half of Oct. 2006 featured a Hawaiian family who needed help with their Ewa Village corner house.  Three local landscapers were also featured.
LIFE GOES ON (1989-93) TOOTS CO./WARNER BROS. TV/ABC  two episodes filmed in 1990 for season 2 opener episode 23 "Honeymoon in Hell" aired 9/16/90 and episode 24 "Cory and the Dolphins" aired 9/23/80.
LIFE OF RILEY (1953-58) NBC  Two episodes were filmed with Hawaii backgrounds in 1956.The shows were in season 5 "Riley Wins a Trip" episode 17, aired 1/4/57 and episode 18 "Aloha Riley, Goodbye" which aired 1/11/57. As most Hawaii shows both these shows aired in the middle of winter.
LITTLE PEOPLE (2004-present) TLC (cable)  Nice family of half little people go to Maui on an adventure.
LONELY PLANET-TREKS (1994) TRAVEL CHANNEL (cable) One weekly episode devoted to kayaking along the Na Pali coast of Kaua’i.
LOOK FOR LESS, THE (2003 to present) STYLE NETWORK (cable) “Honolulu” episodes.  One reality show aired January 2004 had the twin host shopping at Ala Moana Center.
LOVE BOAT, THE (1977-86) ABC/AARON SPELLING  The love cruise swings by Hawaii. Need help on which episodes?
LOVE THAT BOB (1955-59) LAUREL PRODS./NBC  Funny Bob Cummings show with fresh Ann B. Davis (later Brady Bunch housekeeper) and Dwayne Hickman as nephew.  Season 2 three episodes; "Hawaii Calls" episode 34, aired 10/27/55, episode 35 "Hawaii Comes Calling", aired 11/3/55 and episode 36 "Hawaii Stays", aired 11/10/55. Bob is on assignment to Hawaii where he flirts with a pretty Hawaiian girl and says a Hawaiian phase that he picked up that drive wahines wild and it worked.  A few days later back at home on the mainland the same Hawaiian girl surprises him with a visit and brings her mom (Hilo Hattie) and a tough looking fire knife yielding bother.  They came to marry and live with Bob because that Hawaiian phrase he used to tell the pretty wahine was: “will you marry me?”  Ha ha! Aka: THE BOB CUMMINGS SHOW Also in season 4 "Bob sails for Hawaii" episode 128, aired 4/22/58. I think he's chasing models in this one.
MAD TV (1995-present) GIRL GROUP CO./FOX  One Episode had a funny Gillian spoof where it was all in Spanish.  El Professor builds a hot air balloon with Gingers gowns and fuel from the Howell’s booze trunk.  Not wanting to get Gilligan involved he comes aboard last minute after eating a can of beans.  They light the torch to fill the balloon with hot air, Gillian farts and the whole thing blows up. (Aired 2001?)
MEGA DISASTERS (2006-2007) HISTORY CHANNEL One episode entitled: "Hawaii Apocalypse" aired Oct. 2, 2007 season 2 episode 5. Could be about the Hilo tsunami of 1946.
MAMA'S FAMILY (1983-84) NBC  Two part Hawaii shows in season 4 episodes 24 & 25, air date for both 1/15/88. Entitled "Mama Goes Hawaiian". Mama wins a free trip to Hawaii on Jeopardy. Lots of romances for whole family. After mama turns away beach bum she finds out something surprising about him at luau. Parts for Don Nahaku and Cha Thompson.
MAN VERSUS WILD (2006-present) DISCOVERY (cable)  The survivor host of this show tries to live off the Lava fields of Kilauea.  Aired Nov. 2006.
MANNIX (1967-75) CBS/PARAMOUNT TV  Mike Conners stars in popular TV crime drama.  At least one episode filmed in Waikiki, aired 9/16/73 and entitled "Girl in the Poka  Dot Dress". It was a season 7, episode 147 "who done it".
MARCH 0F TIME THROUGH THE YEARS (1951-52) ABC  One episode, HAWAII - OUR NEXT STATE (1952?) a general descriptive tour of Hawaii, emphasizing how it was ready and mostly willing to become a state.
McCLOUD (1970-77) UNIVERSAL TV/NBC  Two hour Hawaii show shot in 1973.  Don Ho plays an entertainer (surprise!) named Al Moana, but he turns into a very important character with a very meaty role and good acting.  He sings a couple songs, I’ll Will Remember You is one of them.  McCloud, Dennis Weaver, rides on an outrigger off Waikiki, Samoan fire dance, and Tahitian tamare dance.  Nephi Hannemann plays Hawaiian detective, Alan Naluai play thug
and Lipi Espinda and Lucky (Bill) Luck has bits.  Decent story for TV.
MELROSE PLACE (1992-99) DARREN STAR/SPELLING/FOX   Final episode and final scene in Hawaii but shot in L.A. Amanda and Peter fake their deaths and marry on a remote tropical island.
MIKE DOUGLAS SHOW, THE (1961-82) GROUP W/CBS  Popular talk show taped on Waikiki beach for a few special shows. Possibly in January, 1969.
MISTER ED (1961-1966) CBS   Show entitled: “Ed the Stowaway” where the talking horse sneaks aboard an ocean liner to Hawaii to join his master, Wilbur who's on vacation.  Classic scenes of Wilbur dancing the hula as a Hawaiian wahine and Mr. Ed surfing with a back screen of Diamond Head in the b.g..  Does not look like the cast left Hollywood for this one.  Season 5, ep #115.  L.A. Hawaiians Tiki Santos (as a hotel owner) & David Cadionte (aka Caliente).  Nice sets.
MODEL TV (1998) E! (Cable) The Entertainment Channel series featured model Malia Jones a surfer and cover girl from the north shore of O’ahu.  Maila is part-Hawaiian.
MTV SPORTS (199?-??) MTV (Cable)  One segment which aired in the fall of 1997 featured part-Hawaiian Malia Jones, a surfer model.
MUPPET SHOW, THE (1976-81) CBS Ep #68 sea.3 Big production number of the “Hawaiian War Chant” This episode guest starred Sylvester Stallone.
MURDER SHE WROTE (1984-96) CBS  In 1986 Angela Lansbury in a hit mystery show that hits Hawaii for two shows, one a cross-over with MAGNUM P.I.  A 2 parter called "Magnum on Ice: Part 1 & 2", season 3, episodes 8. The first part was aired on the MAGNUM P.I. series. Later does another Hawaii episode in 1994 entitled: “Death in Hawaii” which was filmed in L.A. with mostly haole cast and mainland Asians.  But an Ata Scanlan had a part, he was murdered.  Good leis though in this season 11, episode 4 which aired 10/16/94.
MY LITTLE MARGIE (1952-55) HAL ROACH STUDIOS/CBS  Gale Storm stars in this popular TV comedy series.  One episode is called: “The Hawaii Story” where Gale poses as a 12 year old daughter of one of her dad’s clients. Dad courts a rich widow in Hawaii along his rival. Luau scene. Fun.  Season 4, episode 26, aired 2/23/55.
MY THREE SONS (1960-72) ABC/CBS  Later in color versions with William Demhearst they gang goes to Hawaii.  Napua Woods guest stars. Episode entitled "Hawaiian Cruise", which aired 2/18/65 of season 5, episode 23.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC (1977) PBS  "The Voyage of Hokule'a".  Documentary of Hokule'a a modern canoe built with ancient Hawaiian design and navigated by ancient Polynesian ways. Also "Polynesian Adventure"  Educated east coast white man takes his family to French Polynesia to live with the natives for one year so they should receive an education outside of school.  Show chronicles the year. Also 12/11/2005 " Hawaiian Monk Seals"; "Strangers in Paradise", Aka “Hawaii: Beyond the Feathered Gods"; "Kon-Tiki Man" Documentary on Thor Heyerdahl's voyages in the Pacific.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC/EXPLORER (1985) NGC (1993) "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal".  Underwater documentary of old American and Japanese ships that sunk in the great WWII battle of Guadalcanal; (1992) "Sea Trek: The Hawaiian Islands" One episode in a five-part series on aquatic adventures, this one covers the Hawaiian waters with the humpback, manta-ray and whale shark.        
NEW EXPLORERS (1991) BBC/TDC (Cable) Science series which in this episode covers Hawaii's volcanoes: "The Rivers of Fire".
NEW GIDGET (1986-88) COLUMBIA TV  Pilot and one series show filmed on O'ahu before moving back to Los Angeles. Also show portrays California surf culture that's big into Hawaiian culture that brought surfing to the world. Kahuna is present and a play on GILLIGAN'S ISLAND.
NEW WILDERNESS (1992) A&E (Cable)  "The Gooney Show"  Documentary on the gooney birds of Midway Atoll.
NOT JUST THE NEWS (1993) ABC  Half hour news magazine for kids.  One show in Hawaii.  Some subjects covered were the hula, Sea Life Park and lei making.  Taped on O’ahu and Mau'i.
NOVA (1974) PBS (1982) "Hawaii - Crucible of Life"  How Hawaiian Island chain was made and its evolution.  Good account of endangered and extinct life; (1991) "Eclipse of the Century"  Documentary of the July 1991 total eclipse of the sun as seen from Hawaiian observatories.  Also titled: “Eyes On Hawaiian Skies"; (1995) “Hawaii Born of Fire”  Geographic documentary that traces Hawaii’s evolution from lava flow to tropical paradise.  Lots of UH scientist are interviewed with their works; (1996) PBS “Shark Attack”  This show covers the recent tiger shark attacks in Hawaii and what the local government and scientist are doing about it.  The new studies are fascinating.
OPRAH WINFREY (1986-present) HARPO PRODS./HBO  Popular topical talk show taped from Waikiki in late-80s.
ORAL ROBERTS (ca.1973) NBC  Popular TV Evangelist take his show to Hawaii in “Oral Roberts in Hawaii” with local guests Don Ho and The Surfers.
OUR CENTURY (??) ???  Episode on Truk Island.  Need more information?
OUR HOUSE (198?-8?) NBC  Wilford Brimley brings family show to O'ahu in 1987. A 2 parter called "Trouble in Paradise", episodes 40 & 41 of season 2. They aired on 2/14 & 2/21/88.
PEE-WEE'S PLAYHOUSE (1988) CBS/PAUL REUBENS "Luau for Two"   Pee-wee wins a contest and gets dinner for two at the Kalani Lanai Hawaiian restaurant but lots of insincerity, envy and jealousy erupts among Pee-wee's friends about who gets to go eat with Pee-wee.  Lots of tacky and fun Hawaiian scenes and hulas in the playhouse, as well among his puppets and animated characters.  Even the magic globe transfers Pee-wee to Hawaii where we see Pee-wee surfing at Waikiki with the classic superimpose of Diamond Head in background.
PERRY MASON (1957-66) CBS  At least one episode has a Hawaiian theme.  It guest starred Jon Hall. Episode was called "The Case of the Feather Cloak" of season 8, episode 19 which aired 2/11/65. No location shooting. 
PETTICOAT JUNCTION (1963-1970) CBS . Ep #150, season 5, “Hawaii Calling” aired 1/11/67. Did they answer the call or stay in the Junction.
PLANET EARTH (1995) PBS  Part of one show and probably more.  Dealt with volcanoes.
PROFILES (19??-) A&E? (cable TV)  Two shows on famous South Seas personalities which aired in May, 1996.  One on Captain Bligh of the “Bounty” fame and the other on Admiral “Bull” Halsey a WWII hero in the Pacific, especially for the Guadalcanal naval battles. Need more information on network and series?
PURE INSANITY (1990) FOX TV  First show tapped on Waikiki Beach.  Guest stars? Apparently game show pilot only?
QUINCY M.E. (1976-83) NBC   Hawaii show shot in 1981.  Need more information? Possibly a two parter "Slow Boat to Madness: Part 1 & 2 which aired on 11/11 & 11/18/81, both season 7 episodes 3 & 4. Quincy is on a cruise in Tahiti when an illness breaks out on board and he helps.
RAGING PLANET (1997) DSC (cable)  “Title Wave”  This episode covered Hilo title waves and a giant crack on the South Point of the Big Island that if the piece of the land falls into the ocean a giant title wave will emerge.
READING RAINBOW (1983-present) PBS  Popular and educational TV show hosted by Levar Burton. Some special shorts taped on Windward O'ahu.
REAL PEOPLE (1979-84) NBC  Tapped show on interesting people, need more info?Must have some videos from Hawaii as well as every other State.
REAL WEDDING FROM THE KNOT (2003-to present) OXYGEN (cable)  A couple from the mainland come home to Hawaii nei to tie the knot.  They both are Kamehemeha graduates and they get married at the campus’ chapel.  This episode aired January 2004.
REBECCA’S GARDEN (1998-??) NBC  Special segment on Kona coffee production, taped in Kona. Aired in July 12, 1998.
RED SKELTON (1953-70) CBS One episode entitled “Desert Island” has a great opening musical number with hula dancers on an island set.  The plot itself is about two sailors on a Pacific desert island where they find a film crew with a gorilla and two blonde native girl characters.  Guess stars Jamie Farr and Buster Crabbe.
RENEGADE (1992-97) STEVEN J. CANNELL "Bonnie and Claire" from season 2, Ep #8, aired 11/2/93. Two sisters are financing a trip to Tahiti. Do they get there? By the title I guess they don't earn the money honestly.
ROBOT CHICKEN (2005-present) CARTOON NETWORK (cable) Skit on BRADY BUNCH spring 07 entitled MR AND MRS BRADEY who where like MR. & MRS. SMITH they shoot up the house and kids, one boy yells before he dies “Damn you evil Tiki!” than  the parents shoot up the tiki hanging on the wall.  Also the show did a special STAR WARS parody where one skit had Boba Fett took off his mask and the clay doll looked just like Tememura.
ROCKFORD FILES (1974-80) NBC/ STEPHEN J. CANNELL  James Garner in 1979 Hawaii show written by Cannell.  Guest Hawaiians include Danny Kamekona, Jimmy Borges, Esmond Chung and Jake Hoopai.  Episode # 114 or #8 of season 6 air date 11/23/79, show called "The Hawaiian Headache" where Rockford wins a trip to Hawaii only to find it a trick by his old army buddy who wants him to help solve a case. Trivia: although not the last show aired it was the last show shot for this popular series.
ROSANNE (1995) ABC  Rosanne Barr’s hit show spoofs GILLIAN’S ISLAND and its funny.  Season 7, titled: “Sherwood Schwartz: A Loving Tribute”.
ROUGH GUILD (199?) BBC/PBS  Kind of a travelogue for the hip young crowd.  One episode which aired in July, 1993 covered 45 minutes on Hawaii and its current issues like the sovereignty movement, high teen pregnancies, illegal marijuana crops, the hanai system and more.
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (1996-2003) ABC 1999 season finale were Sabrina and her two aunts go on a Hawaiian family business/vacation where Sabrina figures out her family secret (everyone has an evil twin.)  One relative is from Hawaii (heavy Asian looking Hawaiian nurse from M.A.S.H.)  Sabrina is determined the evil one and has to be thrown in a volcano because lava is the only thing that can kill a witch.  Well they find out she is not the evil one, she becomes a full pledged witch and her two aunts and Hawaiian relative dance the hula complete with tacky outfits at the end.   No Hawaii location shooting. Episode was titled "The Good, the Bad and the Luau", of season 3, episode 25 (the season ender), aired 5/21/99.
SANFORD & SON (1972-77) NBC  A 2 parter taped on O'ahu as the season opener of the 1976-77 season.   Season 6, episodes 1 & 2, called "The Hawaiian Connection: Part 1 & 2". Hula lessons, luau, canoe riding, Fred wearing grass skirt like Lucy before they left to Hawaii, leis, Fred’s aloha shirts aplenty, Don Ho show, with credited but unrecognized Danny Kamekona, and uncredited Jake Hoopai.
SANTA BARBARA (1984-93) DOBSON PRODS./NBC   Soap that shot in Hawaii in 1991.
SCENIC WONDERS OF AMERICA: (1990) READERS DIGEST  "HAWAIIAN PARADISE" Hour and 1/2 modern travelogue that covers each major Hawaiian Island.  Produced and written by San Franciscans but they did their homework.  Narrated by Robert Feero & Ricalda Mahealani.  Cute ending of four keiki hula girls dancing and singing to No Shoes Hula as
end credits roll.
SCHLITZ PLAYHOUSE OF THE STARS (1951-59) LEWMAN PRODS./CBS One episode called "Tapu" season 3, episode 31, aired 4/2/1954 starred Richard Denning and Hilo Hattie. Need information on plot?
SCRATCH (1991-94) KXTV  Teen Magazine show. Need more information?
SEARCH PARTY (1999) E! (cable)  On the shores of Waikiki we find this simple race challenge. This show has games on exotic beaches all over the world. So a few
SELL THIS HOUSE (2003-present) A&E  Reality home improvement show where they do a one day makeover to help sell a house.  Two episodes or two homes tapped in Hawaii in late 2003, one on Hawaii Loa Ridge another in Kaneohe.
SESAME STREET (1969-present) PBS  Need more information about Hawaii show in 1978? Episodes 1093, 1094, 1095 of 1978. The gang goes to Hawaii where they learn to count to 10 in Hawaiian, do the hula, and surf.
SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN (1973-78) ABC / UNIVERSAL/ HARVE BENNETT  Shot in 1978.  Need more information?
60 MINUTES (1968) CBS  Popular news magazine program probed Hawaiian Air problems in spring of