Are You a Fan of Hawaii Five-0?

[toobfreak]

My family watched the show every week in the 70s. Back then, there were tons of police crime dramas like Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, the list seems endless, but IMO, the only one which routinely held my interest and anticipation was Hawaii Five-0. I thought the stories, characters and context was a cut above the rest.

Streets of San Francisco was pretty good as well.

Some of these shows had an arch-villain, and in Hawaii Five-0, the arch-villain, Steve McGarrett's equal, was a chinese crime boss called Wo Fat. One of the best episodes is where McGarrett finally out-thinks and corners him, getting him under arrest, nailed guilty dead to rights, and at the very end, the State Department walks in and tells Steve he has to release him and let him walk because of a deal worked out between China and the USA to extradite him back. The episode closes with McGarrett having a fit.

I only bring his up because every Friday, H&I TV channel airs 5 of the original TV episodes and today was a treasure trove of great episodes.

Jack Lord turned down an offer to be Captain Kirk on Star Trek, had a hand in the QC of the show's production, and after the series ended, he actually retired to Hawaii. The show was so good they did a remake of it, but like The Outer Limits which they also redid, the remakes suck.

 

[22lcidw]

My family watched the show every week in the 70s. Back then, there were tons of police crime dramas like Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, the list seems endless, but IMO, the only one which routinely held my interest and anticipation was Hawaii Five-0. I thought the stories, characters and context was a cut above the rest.

Streets of San Francisco was pretty good as well.

Some of these shows had an arch-villain, and in Hawaii Five-0, the arch-villain, Steve McGarrett's equal, was a chinese crime boss called Wo Fat. One of the best episodes is where McGarrett finally out-thinks and corners him, getting him under arrest, nailed guilty dead to rights, and at the very end, the State Department walks in and tells Steve he has to release him and let him walk because of a deal worked out between China and the USA to extradite him back. The episode closes with McGarrett having a fit.

I only bring his up because every Friday, H&I TV channel airs 5 of the original TV episodes and today was a treasure trove of great episodes.

Jack Lord turned down an offer to be Captain Kirk on Star Trek, had a hand in the QC of the show's production, and after the series ended, he actually retired to Hawaii. The show was so good they did a remake of it, but like The Outer Limits which they also redid, the remakes suck.

McGarrett many times directed a soft retort at the perp at the end of the episode. Hawaii Five-O was cool because it was Hawaii and being young at the time was impressive.

 

[Auld Phart]

I was stationed at Pearl at the time, may have been in the background in a couple of episodes, never watched it to find out.

 

[toobfreak]

I was stationed at Pearl at the time, may have been in the background in a couple of episodes, never watched it to find out.

I will look for you.

 

[JLW]

Here’s an episode all fans of the show are waiting for:

 

[sparky]

i watched 5-0, h*ll, everyone did......~S~

 

[Harry Dresden]

i liked the remake much better....

 

[Mac-7]

My family watched the show every week in the 70s. Back then, there were tons of police crime dramas like Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, the list seems endless, but IMO, the only one which routinely held my interest and anticipation was Hawaii Five-0. I thought the stories, characters and context was a cut above the rest.

Streets of San Francisco was pretty good as well.

Some of these shows had an arch-villain, and in Hawaii Five-0, the arch-villain, Steve McGarrett's equal, was a chinese crime boss called Wo Fat. One of the best episodes is where McGarrett finally out-thinks and corners him, getting him under arrest, nailed guilty dead to rights, and at the very end, the State Department walks in and tells Steve he has to release him and let him walk because of a deal worked out between China and the USA to extradite him back. The episode closes with McGarrett having a fit.

I only bring his up because every Friday, H&I TV channel airs 5 of the original TV episodes and today was a treasure trove of great episodes.

Jack Lord turned down an offer to be Captain Kirk on Star Trek, had a hand in the QC of the show's production, and after the series ended, he actually retired to Hawaii. The show was so good they did a remake of it, but like The Outer Limits which they also redid, the remakes suck.

THE Hawaii Five-O was great

The new program sucks

 

[martybegan]

My family watched the show every week in the 70s. Back then, there were tons of police crime dramas like Barnaby Jones, Mannix, Cannon, Murder She Wrote, Columbo, the list seems endless, but IMO, the only one which routinely held my interest and anticipation was Hawaii Five-0. I thought the stories, characters and context was a cut above the rest.

Streets of San Francisco was pretty good as well.

Some of these shows had an arch-villain, and in Hawaii Five-0, the arch-villain, Steve McGarrett's equal, was a chinese crime boss called Wo Fat. One of the best episodes is where McGarrett finally out-thinks and corners him, getting him under arrest, nailed guilty dead to rights, and at the very end, the State Department walks in and tells Steve he has to release him and let him walk because of a deal worked out between China and the USA to extradite him back. The episode closes with McGarrett having a fit.

I only bring his up because every Friday, H&I TV channel airs 5 of the original TV episodes and today was a treasure trove of great episodes.

Jack Lord turned down an offer to be Captain Kirk on Star Trek, had a hand in the QC of the show's production, and after the series ended, he actually retired to Hawaii. The show was so good they did a remake of it, but like The Outer Limits which they also redid, the remakes suck.

One of the best Intro's in Television, up there with Magnum PI.

 

[toobfreak]

One of the best Intro's in Television, up there with Magnum PI.

I happen to know a little trivia. The actor Kam Fong who ran the whole series as Chin Ho, in the opening scene where they zoom in on McGarrett on top of some building, that was a hotel built by someone called Chin Ho, who had something to do with the show.

 

[Harry Dresden]

THE Hawaii Five-O was great

The new program sucks

the new show is way better...

 

[Mac-7]

the new show is way better...

I only watched part of two episodes and was not impressed

 

[hjmick]

Fun Fact:

In the book Fast Times at Ridgemont High the character of Mr. Hand (portrayed by the wonderful Ray Walston in the movie) is described as having used Steve McGarrett as his role model...


Mr. Hand...

...At the age of 58, Mr. Hand had no inten tion of leaving Ridgemont. Why, in the past ten years, be had just begun to hit his stride. He had found one man, that one man who embodied all the proper authority and power to exist “in the jungle.” It didn’t bother him that his role model happened to be none other than Steve McGarrett, the humorless chief detective of Hawaii Five-0.

First-year U.S. history students, sensing something slightly odd about the man, would inch up to Mr. Hand a few days into the semester. “Mr. Hand,” they would ask timidly, “how come you act like that guy on Hawaii Five-0?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

It was, of course, much too obvious for his considerable pride to admit. But Mr. Hand pursued his students as tirelessly as McGarrett pursued his weekly criminals, with cast-iron emotions and a paucity of words. Substitute truancy for drug traffic, missed tests for robbery, U.S. history for Hawaii, and you had a class with Mr. Hand. Little by little, his protean personality had been taken over by McGarrett. He became possessed by Five-O. He even got out of his Oldsmobile sedan in the mornings at full stand, whipping his head both ways, like McGarrett...


This explains Walston's affectations in the movie, and his use of "Aloha."

 

[LA RAM FAN]

One of the best Intro's in Television, up there with Magnum PI.

Indeed,this was the REAL Hawaii Five O show.I am a huge fan of the real one with Jack Lord,not that cheap phony imitation,that one needs to be burned.