NBC · Ended

Big Hawaii

Drama, Adventure, Romance · 1977

Last aired: S1 E11, The Trouble with Tina · 1977-12-28

Drama series about a powerful ranching family with Cliff Potts as Mitch Fears, a prodigal son who has returned. The storyline is about a wealthy old-line rancher and his liberal son. Shot in Hawaiian locations. If there is a prevailing theme in NBC TV's Big Hawaii, Wednesdays, (10-11 p.m.), it is "family spirit". It is about life on the massive Paradise Ranch owned by Barrett Fears (John Dehner). There are two families on the ranch — the Fears, played by Hollywood actors Dehner, Cliff Potts, and Lucia Stralser, and fhe Kalahanis, a true Hawaiian family played by Hawaiian citizens. Elizabeth Smith plays the matriarch of the Kalahanis, Lulu. Moe Keale plays her son, Garfield. And Remi Abellira plays her grandson, Kimo.

Cast

Cliff Potts Mitch Fears

John Dehner Barrett Fears

William Lucking Oscar Kalahani

Lucia Stralser Karen "Keke" Fears

Elizabeth Smith Lulu Kalahani

Moe Keale Garfield Kalahani

Remi Abellira Kimo Kalahani

Josie Over Asita Kalahani

Season 1

E1 Gandy 1977-09-21 · 60 min Gandy, a buddy from Mitch's rollicking past turns up as a crop duster. A real charmer. Gandy manages to con Mitch's 18-year-old cousin, Keke, out of $2,500 she had earmarked for a beautiful horse.

E2 The Sun Children 1977-09-28 · 60 min 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.

E3 Pipeline 1977-10-12 · 60 min 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, and at the same time he's busy supervising a water pipeline construction.

E4 Red Midnight 1977-10-19 · 60 min 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

E5 Graduation Eve 1977-10-26 · 60 min Mitch Fears and ranch foreman Oscar Kalahani, temporarily deputized, are confronted with pre-graduation teenage waywardness and a bride with a missing dress. A power failure plunges the island into darkness and Mitch is deputized to cope with expected looting.

E6 Sarah 1977-11-23 · 60 min Mitch is keen on Sarah, who is in charge of the rehabilitation centre for female ex-cons. Teri, a trouble-maker at the centre, escapes one night and is not heard of and seen for some time. In the sub-plot, divorcee Renee (who is also Mitch'a friend) goes home to collect her child from ex-husband Brett and runs into an argument with him over the matter. Then Brett is found killed, and Renee is the prime suspect.

E7 You Can't Lose 'em All 1977-11-30 · 60 min 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.

E8 Yesterdays 1977-12-07 · 60 min 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.

E9 The Sugar War 1977-12-14 · 60 min A casual flirtation between Mitch Fears and a pretty sunbather leads to a half million dollar lawsuit that hampers his father obtaining a needed bank loan for the ranch.

E10 Tightrope 1977-12-21 · 60 min Kimo's friend, Akoni, is charged with the slaying of a former employer who tired him without paying back wages, attorney Seth Bradley bows to local pressure and refuses to defend Akoni because he's a Hawaiian.

E11 The Trouble with Tina 1977-12-28 · 60 min After Mitch Fears rejects the advances of a teenage country girl, she retaliates by falsely accusing him of rape.

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