Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Nathan Road, Mongkok

The screen shot below is taken from one of the better quality episodes (episode 9 - The Turncoat) but in fact was used as an establishing shot for multiple episodes (I counted at least ten episodes but it could be more seeing as episode 14 is still missing). It is a shot of the rather colourful part of Nathan Road in Mongkok where the King Wah restaurant/Paramount Nightclub used to stand (right side of image). For a nice colourful comparison, Gwulo.com has a good image here. The current building there is the King Wah Centre that keeps the name of the previous building.

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong

This shot from With Deadly Sorrow shows us a view looking west along Queen's Road Central. If the view looks familiar it might be because the P.G sign on the left, for a restaurant called the Parisian Grill, can also be seen in this older post of Edinburgh House from the Nine Lives episode. You can see the double grooved ground floor canopy of Edinburgh House on the right in the image below. I didn't list it back when doing The Turncoat (Ep: 9) but it also appears in that episode as well as  To Catch a Star (Ep:10).

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Hong Kong Island view

One of the most frequently occurring establishing shots for this series is a nighttime view across the harbour towards the business centre of Hong Kong Island with Victoria Peak in the background. In fact the following shot was used in the first official episode Clear for Action but I have left it out all the way until episode 20, The Hunted, simply because this episode has no other proper Hong Kong locations, it was almost 99.99% shot on studio sets. As well as Clear for Action, this shot can also be seen in The Turncoat (Ep: 9), The Dragon Cup (Ep: 12), Murder by Proxy (Ep: 22) and Love Honor and Perish (Ep: 24)

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

Not far from the last post I did for Hennessy Road, but this time driving in the opposite direction and we have this shot from The Turncoat from a scene when Taylor is driving Lisa Lu back to her hotel. The section of Hennessy Road we are looking at is just past the junction with Fenwick Street. In the lowest image you can just see a small section of the Methodist Church poking in on the extreme right. On the left of the same image you can just make out the (blurry) shape of the building that sat on the eastern corner of the junction and had a company called the "Yung Ziang Trading Company on the ground floor level. Gwulo has a proper image of the same building here. The distant ridge is Braemar Hill.

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - 41a Conduit Road, Mid-levels

I mentioned in a previous post that the Mok Villa at 41a Conduit Road popped up again in a later episode and here it is in The Turncoat. In this episode it is, as it was in reality, the venue of the Foreign Correspondents Club (F.C.C) and is where Evans goes to meet a Chinese journalist who has reached out to him. He's expecting a male colleague but instead is met by a female in the form of Lisa Lu who wants him to help her boyfriend, the so-called "turncoat", escape to another country.

Sadly, we are only treated to a close up of the main entrance and the columns of its portico, so for those who need a reminder of what it looked like from another angle, here is the post from Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.

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.

Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Deepwater Bay, Hong Kong

Episode 9, The Turncoat, centres around a man who was one of the American "turncoats" following the cessation of hostilities during the Korean War i.e. defected and decided to stay in North Korea. In this episode he has had enough of his life and wishes to gain a passport/passage to another country in return for revealing the location of a drug haul he has been paid to bring into Hong Kong.

The show starts with a small boat off the coast of Hong Kong as he swims into Deepwater Bay. Look carefully and you can just make out podium wall of the famous "Arrowhead" house in the background (left). This was the property owned (and built) by Alfredo Alvares that featured in Love is a Many-Splendored Thing.