Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)

The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.

Creator:

Leonard Freeman

Stars:

Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong

Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 21 nominations.

Cast

Complete series cast summary:
Jack Lord	...	Det. Steve McGarrett (281 episodes, 1968-1980)
James MacArthur	...	Dan Williams (259 episodes, 1968-1979)
Kam Fong	...	Chin Ho (241 episodes, 1968-1978)
Herman Wedemeyer	...	Duke (151 episodes, 1968-1980)
Harry Endo	...	Che Fong (115 episodes, 1969-1977)

Storyline

Five-O was a special state police unit answering only to the Governor of Hawaii. It worked with Honolulu police to fight the underworld in the island state. Sooner or later virtually all the badguys heard Steve McGarrett grunt "Book 'em, Danno!" though chief badguy Wo Fat was caught after MacArthur left the series.

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Plot Keywords:

hawaii | police | investigation | archenemy | teamwork | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

26 September 1968 (USA)

Also Known As:

McGarrett

Filming Locations:

The Twin Towers, 2085 Ala Wai Blvd, Waikiki, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Leonard Freeman Production, CBS Television Network

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min 60 min (284 episodes)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

4:3

Did You Know?

Trivia

For the ninth season, the Five-O offices moved out of the Iolani Palace and into an office building down the street (they moved back for the tenth season). Part of the reason was that the Iolani Palace itself was undergoing a facelift; the other part was that CBS was building a new studio for the series, which wasn't ready in time for the early episodes. The Five-O office scenes were actually filmed in the office building, which was introduced in each ninth-season episode by showing the Iolani Palace with scaffolding over its facing and then quickly panning down the street to the office building. Sometimes an exterior shot of the office building would show McGarrett pacing in front of his "new" office window.

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Goofs

In "The Capsule Kidnapping", the kidnappers are attempting to flee from McGarrett in a private airplane. When they board the plane and while McGarrett's chasing them around on the taxiways of the airport, the plane is a twin engine propeller aircraft. When it becomes airborne, the aircraft shown is a twin engine jet.

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Quotes

Det. Steve McGarrett: [after each episode preview] Be there. Aloha!

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Connections

Referenced in xXx (2002)

User Reviews

book'em danno!

Can't believe I am the first one to put in some comments on this show! Great show! Loved the cast, the action, the scenery, one of my biggest childhood TV memories is watching the big wave curl over the name of the show. (McGarrett always looked like Elvis, by the way, didn't he? They were pals, if you didn't know..) I felt bad when Jack Lord died a couple years ago, he was much older than I would have guessed...77 was it?

Anyways, one of the better, more durable shows of the era, kind of think of Kojak or Cannon whenever this comes to mind; I hope to see it in reruns again sometime.