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Danger in Paradise
Writer: William Wood
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Guest star: Sandy Will (Candy), Dave Clannon (Unknown), Lynette Chun (Unknown), Richard Venture (Unknown), Michael Mullins (Bobby Fears), Harry Moses (Stephen), Denny Miller (Unknown), Richard McKenzie (Carson Fears), Jean Marie Hon (Reva), Wayne Heffley (Unknown), Noel Conlon (Unknown), Anthony Charnota (Unknown), Peter Brandon (Unknown), Ina Balin (Marla Fears)
Paradise is the name of a vast ranch on the big island of Hawaii. Ina Balin and Jean Marie Hon play leading ladies in this ranch. The story line brings Mitch Fears, played by Cliff Potts, back to the Paradise Ranch after five years exile when he is sent for by his buddy Oscar, played by big Bill Lucking. Ina Balin, his wicked stepmother, is threatening to sell a portion of Paradise to mob backed developers for $5 million over the almost dead body of Potts' father, Barrett Fears, played by John Denher. Old Barrett, a tyrant in his time and is being left to die by his much younger wife, but he's too stubborn to criticize her to his son.
1 :01x01 - Gandy
Writer: Tim Maschler, Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Guest star: Peter Marshall (Whipple), Kimo Kahoano (Brad Nagel), Don Johnson (Gandy)
Gandy, a helicopter pilot bilks Keke, Barrett's niece, out of a big sum of dollars to pay a greedy banker. Keke Fears refuses to allow a potentially ruinous sugar cane blight to spoil her 18th. birthday luau, particularly when it brings a handsome crop duster helicopter pilot into her life.
2 :01x02 - The Sun Children
Writer: William Froug, Lisa Anne Froug
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: John Larch (Walter Morrison), Cal Bellini (Joe Minho), Tricia O'Neil (Dr. Ericka Bergen), Ted Shackelford (Moonstar)
When typhoid fever threatens to spread, a neighboring rancher (John Larch) blames a hippie commune squatting on Paradise Ranch. An epidemic of typhoid fever hits the Paradise Ranch and Barrett and Mitch Fears try to stop the spreading fever and the animosity of their neighbors toward a hippie commune that is suspected of causing the fever.
3 :01x03 - Pipeline
Writer: William Wood
Guest star: Sam Peters (Pappy), Stephen Macht (Max), Linda Gray (Annie)
Mitch must come to the rescue of a divorcee with whom he is romantically involved when Max, her brutal ex-husband, threatens to beat her, at the same time he's busy supervising a water pipeline construction.
4 :01x04 - Red Midnight
Writer: Ken Kolb
Director: Noel Black
Guest star: Seth Sakai (Brossman), Charles Peck (Reggie)
While Mitch, a newly licensed pilot, and his father are flying over the Mauna Loa volcano, which is threatening a big ranch, the plane develops engine trouble and they crash land just as the crater starts to erupt. Mitch (Cliff Potts) has just got his pilot's license, and asks his father to join him for a ride. The plane is circling the Mauna Loa Volcano when it develops engine trouble and Mitch has to crash land the plane. Just at that moment, the volcano provides a little trouble of its own
5 :01x05 - Graduation Eve
Writer: Joseph Polizzi
Guest star: Michael Snedecker (Mike), Connie Sawyer (Ethel Page), Walter Brooke (Giles Webber), Sandy McPeak (Charley Woodman), Marcy Lafferty (Susan Barlow)
A power failure plunges the island into darkness and Mitch Fears is deputized to help cope with what is expected to be widespread looting. It's graduation eve for the high school students. Li will need the best car of Mr. Flirts, but his father will deny him this favor. Meanwhile, a girl awaits for Mitch at home. Apparently she is just a clueless tourist.
6 :01x06 - Yesterdays
Writer: William Wood
Director: Burt Kennedy
Guest star: Michael Parks (Terry Manhoff), Jack Starrett (Unknown)
When Mitch yearns to go to the Surfing Finals with pro-surfers Terry Manhoff and Kay Stratton, Barrett, his father, advises him that living in the past is just another way of dying.
7 :01x07 - You Can't Lose 'Em All
Writer: Martin Roth
Director: Ernest Pintoff
Guest star: David Wayne (Derby O'Brian), Richard Jaeckel (Cal Seward)
In high hopes of making a bundle, Derby O'Brian, the devious sidekick of Cal Seward, an ailing rodeo champion, persuades Mitch Fears to enter the competition facing the champ-then bets heavily against Mitch.
8 :01x08 - The Trouble with Tina
Writer: William Froug
Director: Richard Michaels
Guest star: Cindy Eilbacher (Tina), Sandy Ward (Edmunson), Patricia Herman (Judge Miller), Terence Knapp (Bryant)
Mitch Fears (Cliff Potts) refuses a teenage girl's advances and, to get revenge, she accuses him of rape.
9 :01x09 - Sarah
Writer: Tim Maschler
Director: Seymour Robbie
Guest star: Bill Fiddler (Sinclair), Luella Costello (Renee), Jack Hisatake (Kiramatsu), Lou Richards (Brett), Rosanna Huffman (Helen), Mare Winningham (Teri), Pamela Bellwood (Sarah)
At a home for wayward girls, the director begins a relationship with Teri, a troubled girl. Sarah, Mitch's girlfriend, runs the home.
10 :01x10 - Blind Rage
All the people of Paradise Ranch, except Keke go to town for the annual festival. During their absence a blind man, Mr. Guelion, shows up. He comes accompanied by a fierce and dangerous dog. The mysterious stranger carries a briefcase that gets opened by accident. Inside there is a gun, a rope and a bottle with a liquid.
11 :01x11 - The Sugar War
Writer: Sheldon Miles Willens
Director: Alf Kjellin
Guest star: Marianna Hill (unknown), Robert Loggia (unknown), John Larch (Walter Morrison)
During his business trip in Honolulu, Mitch meets a pretty girl with higher aims. She's being stalked by an actor who never ceases to annoy. Mitch has no choice but to hit him, breaking his nose.
12 :01x12 - Tightrope
Acohi, a headstrong Hawaiian youth, is arrested for driving at high speed. Upon learning this, Acohi's boss fires him and the lad threatens his boss. The next day the boss is found murdered and Acohi is charged with homicide.