Hong Kong (TV series)

Hong Kong
Rod Taylor as Glenn Evans and Lloyd Bochner as Inspector Neil Campbell.
Genre	Adventure/Drama
Created by	Robert Buckner
Starring	Rod Taylor Lloyd Bochner
Theme music composer	Lionel Newman
Country of origin	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	27 (26 + pilot)
Production
Producer(s)	Herbert Hirschman Fletcher Markle Art Wallace
Running time	60 mins.
Release
Original network	ABC
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	September 28, 1960 – March 29, 1961

Hong Kong is a 26-episode adventure/drama series (plus an initial pilot episode) which aired on ABC television during the 1960–1961 season and helped to catapult Australian actor Rod Taylor into a major film star, primarily in the 1960s, beginning with his role in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. The series was a production of 20th Century Fox Television, and the final credit of each episode stated: "Filmed by Twentieth Century Fox Television Inc. at its Hollywood studios and in the Crown Colony of Hong Kong".

Hong Kong was set in the then British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Taylor portrayed Glenn Evans, an American journalist who worked in the exotic Far Eastern city. His search for stories led him into encounters with smugglers, murderers, drug peddlers, and mysterious women who would disappear behind beaded curtains. Taylor’s principal costars were Lloyd Bochner, who portrayed Chief Inspector Neil Campbell, and Jack Kruschen as Tully the bartender.

In the television series, Evans' residential address is often given as the fictitious 24 Peak Rd. As shown in various episodes, the interior of Evans' bachelor apartment (actually a Hollywood set constructed on a sound stage at 20th Century Fox Studios) includes a large, sliding-glass door which opens to a small patio with a sweeping vista that overlooks the harbor and distant peaks.