Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - 10 Bluff Path, The Peak

Like many of the later episodes of this series, it seems that the producers were struggling to find stories that could be suitable for using the footage they had already shot in Hong Kong and so filmed mainly studio based episodes. Night Cry (episode 17) is one that was adapted from a novel written by William L Stuart (wrongly credited as William A Stuart in the episode's end credits).

This episode was one written mainly for Lloyd Bochner, Taylor's main character features only briefly at the beginning and end. The plot follows a detective with violent tendencies (ooh, bit of current politics for you there peeps) given a second chance by Bochner's Chief Inspector Campbell. Low and behold he goes and loses it again and this time kills his interviewee before spending the rest of the episode trying to incriminate an innocent party.

The sole proper Hong Kong location for this whole episode is an opening establishing shot of a property that is supposed to be a casino. A little investigation has revealed that this property was once located at 10 Bluff Path on the Peak. The current development on the same site is called Sherwood's Bluff and was completed in 1981. Looking at aerial photos, the property was still there in 1978 but had been demolished by 1980.