Danger on Credit

"Danger on Credit" is an episode of the American television detective series Hawaiian Eye.

Synopsis

Somerset Jones meets Cricket Blake on the last day of his prepaid package tour of Hawaii. Desperate to impress her, he fibs about being the president of Chadwick department stores in Los Angeles, where he is actually a clerk. By mistake, he is given the credit card of Victor Brindisi, who was sitting next to him in the Shell Bar. Brindisi is in Honolulu on his honeymoon with his new wife, Lois Wagner, a former nightclub singer from Chicago. The newlyweds are alarmed by a threatening phone call about Lois Wagner's old boyfriend, hoodlum Eric Sander. Lois and Victor quietly leave the Hawaiian Village Hotel and go secretly to the Big Island of Hawaii.

Meanwhile, the broke Somerset has used Victor Brindisi's credit card to buy Cricket dinner in the Shell Bar. Eric Sander's hired gunman, Arnie Padilla, hears the waiter call Somerset "Mr. Brindisi", and so tails him and Cricket out of the hotel. He tries to kill them twice using a rental car, but is unsuccessful. Knowing the rental car will be traced to the fake name he is using, Arnie Padilla bribes an unemployed oil wiper who resembles him to fly to San Francisco under that name, misleading the police and Hawaiian Eye into thinking the danger is over.

Getting the real story from Somerset, the Hawaiian Eye detectives summon the Brindisi's back from the Kona Coast. But Padilla makes one more attempt to kill Cricket and Somerset, while still under the delusion they are his targets. The attempt is foiled by Somerset's quick thinking and action, with the aid of Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka.

Episode cast

Series regulars

• Robert Conrad ...as Tom Lopaka
• Anthony Eisley ...as Tracy Steele
• Connie Stevens ...as Cricket Blake
• Poncie Ponce ...as Kim

Recurring characters

• Mel Prestidge ...as Lt Danny Quon
• Doug Mossman ...as Moke
• Andre Philippe ...as Paul (uncredited)

Guest stars

• Gary Vinson ...as Somerset Jones
• John Baer ...as Victor Brindisi
• Suzanne Lloyd ...as Lois Wagner Brindisi
• Theodore Marcuse ...as Arnie Padilla
• Leon Tyler ...as Jimmy Branscomb
• Michael Raffeto ...as Papa Haone
• Robert Kino ...as Garage Manager
• David Renard ...as Eric Sander (Possibly mistaken credit: see notes below)

Musical interlude

All the Warner Brothers detective shows of the late fifties and early sixties had one or more musical interludes written into the teleplay. For this episode, Connie Stevens sang A Rainy Night in Rio with the Shell Bar band accompanying her.

Episode notes

Much of the storyline in this episode turns on the use of a credit card, an unfamiliar item to the general public at that time, and something associated with wealthy people, hence Cricket's easy acceptance of Somerset's fib about being a company president.

The actor David Renard is given screen credit for the role of crime boss Eric Sander, a character that is mentioned but does not appear in the episode. His scenes might have been deleted, or, the credit might actually be for the unnamed oil wiper character whom the hired killer Arnie Padilla persuades to take his place as Mr. Jackson from Seattle.

External links

• Danger on Credit at the Internet Movie Database