Case file: #45-9844-J
Captain Benjamin Jennerson, Theodore Darrel Hammond: Crime on the High Seas – Murder.
Original air date: 25 December 1966
This episode was not rerun.
A skipper unwittingly puts people in Hawaii in danger by sinking his freighter for the insurance money. A tidal wave threatens to smash the ship’s cargo of chlorine and inundate the island in a cloud of deadly gas.
- This episode was not specific to Christmas. Indeed, there would be no special Christmas episode produced until 1972.
- Peter Mark Richman makes the second of his eight appearances.
- Victor Sen Yung is best known as the cook Hop Sing in the 1959-73 Western series Bonanza.
Credits:
Directed by: Ralph Senensky
Story by: Robert Leslie Bellem
Teleplay by: Robert Leslie Bellem and Mark Rodgers
Performer | Role
- Ralph Bellamy | Captain Benjamin Jennerson
- Peter Mark Richman (as Mark Richman) | Theodore Darrel Hammond
- Elizabeth Allen | Gloria Jennerson
- Mark Roberts | SAC Warren Berwick
- John Alderson | Swede
- Bill Quinn | Cargile
- Hank Brandt | Lab Technician
- Logan Field | Lawrence Tegg
- Victor Sen Yung | Mayor Eto
- Peter Hobbs | Sprague
- Ralph Hanalei | Sam Loku
- Garrison True | Lieutenant j.g.