Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon

There's a landing sequence in The Survivor that appears to have not been used before.  It shows a plane flying in from the west with HK Island in the background. If you look carefully you can see the row of tenement buildings that still sit between Mok Cheung Street and Ma Tau Kok Road. Interestingly, in the second image below you can see a pointed hill behind where the aforementioned tenement buildings start and I believe this may be the rocky pinnacle that was part of the Whampoa dry dock until the are was redeveloped. Can anyone confirm?

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - KCR Terminus, Kowloon

I'm jumping forward to Ep 16: The Survivor, in this next post because unfortunately the next episode in line for examination, Ep 14: Suitable for Framing, has disappeared from the ether meaning I haven't been able to even view it let alone see what locations were featured (please feel free to point me in the direction of any copies should they appear). And Ep 15: Lesson in Fear, actually just rehashed a couple of clips already used in previous episodes. So here we are at the platform in the old KCR terminus in Tsim Sha Tsui for this episode. The story is that Glenn is involved in a helicopter crash that kills his two friends. Left behind is their young son who has a infamous grandfather in Communist China who wants him there. Cue a nefarious plot to kidnap the child by sending in fake aunts from America to secretly take him to China instead of the U.S.

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Kai Tak Signboard, Kowloon

Moving onto Episode 10, To Catch a Star, in which a visiting movie star decides to generate some publicity by staging a kidnap before her kidnappers decide to do it for real. The establishing shot for the airport, which was used several times in future episodes, is an old signboard at Kai Tak. I'm not sure where the main entrance to the airport was at this time but this was before the new terminal opened in 1962 and there was a 'temporary' terminal building (which also pops up as an establishing shot in later episodes) that I believe was sited somewhere around the site of today's "The Latitude" development. Corrections welcome. Also seen in The Survivor and Love, Honor and Perish.

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Hennessy Road, Central

Not quite Central but on the cusp between Central & Western and Wanchai districts. This is a shot that appears for the first time in The Turncoat but was reused in a later episode called The Survivor.

The building on the right is the former Police Married Quarters that sat on the main Police HQ site along Arsenal Street. If you are confused about the location, because there was also a similarly named building on Aberdeen Street, then Gwulo has a page dedicated to it here. Arsenal House sits on the site now.