starring

J. Carroll Naish and James Hong

This series was based upon a character developed in over 40 motion
      pictures of the 1930s and 1940s starring Warner Oland and Sidney Toler
      and Roland Winters. It was also a sequel to several radio series.

      The films and radio series were based upon a character created in
      novels of Earl Derr Biggers, but were said to have been loosely
      based on the life of Honolulu police detective named Chang Apana.

      The lead character was an oriental detective sleuth who, with his
      more modern "Number One Son", solved difficult cases, and who often 

taught his son lessons during the process by quoting 

pseudo-oriental aphorisms in the manner of Confucius...

      The movies, radio and TV series incorporated some of the oriental
      racial clichés of the day which seem a bit politically incorrect
      now but an irony was the fact that despite the lead role being oriental, 

no oriental actors ever played him in movies or on radio or television.
      J. Carroll Naish was actually of Irish heritage.