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- A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.
- A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
- In 1850s Louisiana, a free-spirited Southern belle loses her fiancé due to her stubborn vanity and pride, and vows to win him back.
- Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
- When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
- A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
- A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
- A hard-working mother inches towards disaster as she divorces her husband and starts a successful restaurant business to support her spoiled daughter.
- A man visits his war buddy's family hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other.
- A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
- A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
- Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.
- Two brothers in 1910s California struggle to maintain their strict, Bible-toting father's favor as an old secret about their long-absent mother comes to light.
- A US Air Force major in Kobe confronts his own opposition to marriages between American servicemen and Japanese women when he falls for a beautiful performer.
- An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt. Conflict ensues when the executor of his father's estate objects to the aunt's lifestyle.
- A self-made businessman rekindles a romance with a former flame while their two teenage children begin a romance of their own with drastic consequences for both couples.
- The cases of Hawaiian Eye Private Investigations and the two handsome, slick, tough-guy detectives who ran the firm, Thomas Jefferson Lopaka, or Tom for short, and Tracy Steele, a Korean War veteran and former city police detective.
- A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agency's battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
- Tracy tries to help an army officer clear himself of a robbery charge, but discovers that the man refuses to defend himself.
- The beautiful Marian Summers registers for a stay at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, attracting Tom's attention. What also attracts his attention is a series of burglaries at the hotel that just happened to begin soon after Marian checked in. It turns out that she is the girlfriend of a mainland gangster facing trial, and has been packed off to Hawaii so she won't testify--and her boyfriend's associates have sent a hitman along to make sure that she never does.
- A young man who was raised by a local beach boy sees a woman and has a faint memory of her. Tracy and Tom investigate and find out the woman's son was lost at sea many years ago and that this young man might be her son. Her current husband has designs on her money and blocks the reunion with the help of his mistress.
- Tom and Tracy are hired by a real-estate agent to find a missing man. What they don't know is that the man they're looking for is an ex-convict that the agent needs to complete a land swindle he's involved in.
- An actress shooting a movie in Honolulu accidentally runs over and kills a man with her car. Panicking, she flees the scene. However, the film's assistant director witnessed the accident, and uses that fact to blackmail her.
- Mavis Purcell, on vacation in Hawaii, is the victim of two accidents in which she almost dies. Suspicious that her husband may be trying to kill her, she goes to Tracy for protection.
- A former Japanese officer escapes from a mental hospital, and Tom and Tracy are hired to find him. However, the escapee has amnesia and doesn't remember that the war is over, and his combat skills will make him difficult to catch and his dedication to his "cause" could mean disaster for Honolulu.
- Tom is hired to track down some missing money, and finds himself up against four hired killers.
- A cattle rancher hires Tracy to find out why several shipments of cattle have been stolen.
- Tracy is hired by a Los Angeles law firm to find a missing woman named Nancy Campbell. His investigation leads him to believe that Nancy is being stalked by Harry Gulliver, a man who served with Tracy in the Air Force during the Korean War and whose cowardice almost got Tracy killed.
- A wealthy businessman who had asked Tracy to protect him is found murdered. Tracy's friend, a reporter, had been investigating the businessman and had a notebook full of information about him, but it was stolen not long before the murder, and contained damaging information about some very powerful people.
- Los Angeles private eye Stu Bailey tracks an embezzler to Hawaii, and asks Tom and Tracy for help. Their investigation leads to a travel agency that's a front for a swindle/murder racket involving beautiful local girls and wealthy visitors to the islands.
- Tom and Tracy are hired to find out who killed a skin diver. Tracy discovers that Lady Blanche Carleton, a young widow, is involved in the murder, and that a string of valuable black pearls was the motive--but there are questions as to whether the pearls are real or fake.
- Tom goes to Manila posing as a dead nightclub owner's brother, in order to break up a gang smuggling US currency to Red China.
- A half-dozen US Navy sailors find out that they share a common trait--they're all engaged to the same woman. When they go to confront her they find she's disappeared, so they hire Tom to find her and retrieve the "wedding" expense money they gave her.
- A young man who is about to inherit the family pineapple business gets involved with a beautiful girl and winds up facing a murder charge. Tracy believes that the man has been framed by someone who doesn't want him to inherit the family fortune, and sets out to use the girl to find out who's behind the frame-up.
- A very expensive diamond that was in the care of Tracy and Tom is stolen. Their investigation leads them to believe that there is a security leak in their office.
- Cricket finds herself pursued by good-looking Somerset Jones, a clerk pretending to be his boss, a department store owner. Jones, in the bar, accidentally comes into possession of a credit card that belongs to Victor Brindisi, the intended victim of a professional hired assassin. Jones uses the card to wine and dine Cricket thus making himself and Cricket the targets of the hitman who overhears Jones being called "Mr. Brindisi" by a waiter. An initial attempt on Jones and Cricket in Kim's cab fails. Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele then have to find the killer before it's too late and he's one big step ahead of them.
- Tom his hired by a beautiful woman to pose as her husband and sneak a valuable art object into Macao. What Tom doesn't know is that the woman has murdered her real husband, and has the same thing in store for him.
- Tom is hired by Ginger Martin to find her missing husband John, who's been gone for two years. Tom's investigation results in his finding John as the captain of rich Verna Collins' yacht--and her unwilling lover. When Verna is murdered, John is charged with her killing and jailed. Tom doesn't believe he did it, and sets out to find the real killer.
- Pupeteer Michael Dalli informs his assistant Sandra that she's no longer needed and he's replacing her with another girl. Soon Sandra finds her lookalike puppet, which is used in the act, smashed. Shortly after that, she's hit and killed in the street by a car. A new girl, Mona, is hired to replace her, and soon Mona finds HER puppet strangled. She hires Tracy to find out what is going on.
- Tracy is flying back to Hawaii from Hong Kong when his plane is hijacked.
- When actor Mark Hamilton comes to Hawaii, Tracy is hired to keep the star's three ex-wives away from him. It turns out that he's evaded paying them the alimony payments he owes them and they're planning to kidnap him in order to get their money. It also turns out that he's been cheating on his income taxes, too, and when his manager finds out about it, Hamilton kills him.
- Tracy is hired to guard a group of refugee Chinese musicians. He doesn't know that one of the "musicians" is actually a Tibetan lama who has escaped from the Red Chinese, whose agents are looking for him.
- Tom goes after escaped killer Ed Grimes, and tracks him to Hilo, where Grimes is being hidden by his wife Doris. Tom knows that Grimes is cheating on his wife with a new girlfriend, but Doris won't believe anything bad about her husband.
- A gambler murders a passenger in Kim's car and steals a suitcase full of money. He then kidnaps a girl Kim is interested in, in order to stop Kim from identifying him to the police.
- Tracy is hired to protect an irritating and spoiled rich playboy. He get more than he bargains for when he winds up getting involved in a payroll robbery and preventing a murder.
- Tennis bum Barry Logan is suspected of the murder of his boss in an argument over his boss' wife. Fortunately for him, Cricket is his alibi, and she convinces Tom to find the real killer. Tom uses an upcoming tennis tournament to smoke out the murderer.
- Tom agrees to help an American woman married to an Arab prince escape from her husband. However, when Tom goes to the prince's yacht, he's overpowered and taken prisoner.
- Tom is hired by a steamship company to find out who is using its ships to smuggle narcotics into the country.
- Tom and Tracy are hired by a professional violinist to guard his very valuable violin. What the musician doesn't know, however, is that his ex-wife and his current wife's ex-boyfriend are out to kill him. They cause him to have a heart attack and then take away his medication, but Tracy gets him to the hospital and saves his life. Undaunted, the murderous duo plans another attempt on the violinist's life.
- An executive being blackmailed is talked out of committing suicide by Tom, who promises to find out who the blackmailer is. Tom's investigation convinces him that he needs the help of his old friend Greg MacKenzie, who's a detective on the mainland. Greg comes to the islands, and is so impressed with Hawaii that he not only agrees to help Tom find the blackmailer but decides to stay and join Tom's agency.