Follow the Sun
The show follows the adventures of two free-lance magazine writers based in Hawaii.
- 1961-1962
- 1 season
- ABC
- Action & Adventure
The show follows the adventures of two free-lance magazine writers based in Hawaii.
Season 1 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
A Rage for Justice
Sun, Sep 17, 1961 60 mins
Upon learning that her daughter died in an automobile accident, a famous opera singer recently released from a mental institution, flies to Hawaii. She plans to kill her son-in-law whom she holds responsible for her daughter's death. Paul Templin intercedes before the crime can be carried out and agrees to investigate the circumstances behind the young woman's death.
Episode 2
Cry Fraud
Sun, Sep 24, 1961 60 mins
After sending Ben Gregory to investigate on a non-existent shipwreck, an lookalike impostor breaks into his apartment and, posing as the writer, agrees to help a wealthy oilman buy a valuable oriental scroll. When the scroll turns out to be phony, Ben is accused of complicity in the crime and when the oilman is found dead is accused of Ben is arrested for murder.
Episode 3
The Highest Wall
Sun, Oct 1, 1961 51 mins
Templin tries to get the story of a beautiful teenager, the heir to a fortune, who is imprisoned in a walled villa.
Episode 4
Journey Into Darkness
Sun, Oct 8, 1961 60 mins
A beautiful widow who is being blackmailed is shot, but refuses to tell the police who her assailant was. Ben Gregory is determined to get the woman's story.
Episode 5
The Woman Who Never Was
Sun, Oct 15, 1961 60 mins
After Templin tries to get an interview with reclusive money exchange man Wayne Curtis, he's murdered by a transient small time hood. Templin is suspected at first, but is exonerated by the court. However, the widow Curtis is convinced a guilty man is going free, so she sets up an elaborate scheme to pose as a beautiful stranger that vanishes, leaving evidence that Templin murdered her.
Episode 6
Busman's Holiday
Sun, Oct 22, 1961 60 mins
Eric Jason recognizes a mob hitman on the beach cavorting with a blonde bombshell.
Episode 7
Another Part of the Jungle
Sun, Oct 29, 1961 60 mins
Templin follows the widow of a famous writer who was said to have been lost at sea in order to investigate a rumor that the man might be alive and still writing under a nom de plume.
Episode 8
The Longest Crap Game in History
Sun, Nov 5, 1961 60 mins
A former marine returns to Hawaii to retrieve the pot of a craps game that was interrupted by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor twenty years before.
Episode 9
The Hunters
Sun, Nov 12, 1961 60 mins
Gregory joins a safari and finds himself targeted for death.
Episode 10
Little Girl Lost
Sun, Nov 19, 1961 51 mins
Eric sees a beautiful oriental girl come out of the surf, exhausted. In hospital, she claims amnesia, and her identity remains unknown. But after some digging, Eric finds she is a child bride of a fallen despot, now living in splendid exile with his plunder on his yacht. Though he was a cruel tyrant, she's anxious to return to him.
Episode 11
Night Song
Sun, Nov 26, 1961 60 mins
Templin investigates the story of a beautiful singer who will no longer perform out of fear of her former manager.
Episode 12
The Primitive Clay
Sun, Dec 3, 1961 60 mins
Several illustrations for one of Gregory's articles earn the artist some unexpected notoriety - two pretty girls show up on his doorstep claiming to be his long-lost daughter.
Episode 13
Conspiracy of Silence
Sun, Dec 10, 1961 60 mins
Templin is asked to collaborate on a former movie star's autobiography, but the woman refuses to explain why hasn't appeared in front of the camera in recent years.
Episode 14
The Far End of Nowhere
Sun, Dec 17, 1961 51 mins
Jason, hired to write the story of the Randolph family, an iron-fisted clan who have ruled a small Hawaiian island as a personal fiefdom, winds up investigating a murder on their idyllic cay.
Episode 15
Mele Kalikimaka to You
Sun, Dec 24, 1961 60 mins
At Christmas time, Ben and Eric have little holiday spirit, and cynically plan to write a seasonal story so mawkish and sentimental, it will be republished every year. As a model they use Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but it inspires them to test it's premise by giving a heartless loan shark a Christmas party.
Episode 16
The Girl from the Brandenburg Gate
Sun, Dec 31, 1961 60 mins
At a police checkpoint set to catch counterfeiters, Eric Jason has a slight accident with a German girl. She's one of them, and hides two sample bills in his car. He finds them and spends one, and the crooks are forced to track it down in order to sell the printing plates, and force Jason to help.
Episode 17
Chicago Style
Sun, Jan 7, 1962 60 mins
Eric Jason discovers Pinky Hamilton, a famous jazz pianist, is living in Hawaii under an assumed name and plans to write a story about his career. Pinky isn't happy about being discovered since the gangster who tried to kill him 30 years earlier still wants to settle accounts.
Episode 18
The Last of the Big Spenders
Sun, Jan 14, 1962 60 mins
A beachcomber reveals to Templin his past as the former mayor of a major American city and tells the reporter he fears for his life.
Episode 19
Ghost Story
Sun, Jan 21, 1962 60 mins
Ben Gregory discovers his tape recorder running in his penthouse. When he replays the tape, he hears the voice of a man thought dead for many years and who is willing to tell his story, but only for a hefty fee.
Episode 20
Sergeant Kolchak Fades Away
Sun, Jan 28, 1962 60 mins
Templin tries to develop a story based on an ex-Marine's storied career, but the former leatherneck won't cooperate.
Episode 21
The Dumbest Blonde
Sun, Feb 4, 1962 60 mins
Ben Gregory is working on a story of a oil tycoon who is trying to cook up a big deal with a crooked financier. The story and the deal may fall apart because of the ditsy mistress' innocent interference.
Episode 22
Annie Beeler's Place
Sun, Feb 11, 1962 60 mins
A ex-crook now tending bar in his girlfriend's saloon is forced by his former underworld associates to join them in a bank heist.
Episode 23
The Irresistible Miss Bullfinch
Sun, Feb 18, 1962 60 mins
The reporters help a woman find her former boyfriend who had long ago been run off by her father as an unsuitable match for his daughter.
Episode 24
A Choice of Weapons
Sun, Feb 25, 1962 60 mins
An up-and-coming professional boxer chucks his career in the ring in order to become a college student, much to his manager's annoyance.
Episode 25
Marine of the Month
Sun, Mar 4, 1962 60 mins
Eric Jason is assigned to cover a U.S. Marine Corps sergeant, who also turns out to be a gorgeous redhead with a wonderful figure.
Episode 26
The Inhuman Equation
Sun, Mar 11, 1962 60 mins
Ben considers his current assignment - writing about a new computer - extremely boring, until a nerdy accountant discovers that the machine made a mistake in its calculations.
Episode 27
A Ghost in Her Gazebo
Sun, Mar 18, 1962 60 mins
A widow, now the head of a huge business, is urged to sell the company by her children. She decides to consult a medium in order to seek business advice from her late husband.
Episode 28
Not Aunt Charlotte!
Sun, Mar 25, 1962 60 mins
Eighteen-year-old Penny Baxter is excited about visiting Hawaii until she discovers her maiden aunt will travel with her as a chaperone. It's the older woman, however, who finds romance in the islands when she meets a handsome beachcomber.
Episode 29
Run, Clown, Run
Sun, Apr 1, 1962 50 mins
Gregory and Jason investigate when they learn a beloved circus clown has a profitable sideline playing the stock market and may also have a criminal past.
Episode 30
Chalk One Up for Johnny
Sun, Apr 8, 1962 60 mins
Gentleman Johnny Pace, once a famous mayor of a major American city, decides to move to Kauai and open a hotel with his wife.