"Hawaii Five-O" The Child Stealers (TV Episode 1973) Poster

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(1973)

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8/10
Chilling
VetteRanger10 January 2023
With national news and 24-hour news cycles telling us about missing people, including kids, more days than not, The Child Stealers gives us a chilling look at greed and utter lack of empathy which is the criminal mind.

This is a typical great Hawaii 5-0 cast. Richard Anderson had already become a well-known staple, starting with Perry Mason, and he'd soon go on a long run on the Six Million Dollar Man. Richard Hatch was a few years from his run on Battlestar Gallactica, and Meg Foster, though never a big starring name in her own right, has never lacked for work, now into her seventies. Her haunting light blue irises are virtually unique.

Here, 5-0 has to figure out that kidnapped babies are not being taken for ransom or mothers wanting a substitute for a lost child, but figure out they're being taken to sell. And once McGarrett gets on a case, we know he always gets his man ... or woman.
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7/10
Didn't I see this couple on "The Jerry Springer Show"?!
planktonrules10 December 2010
This episode features one of the most god-awful couples I have ever seen on a cop show. The folks steal babies and sell them to a sleazy adoption lawyer (Richard Anderson)! The guy does it because with the money he can then buy cool stuff--like a boat! And, the lady goes along with it because she is so incredibly dependent that she'll do anything to keep him...and to keep him happy. After selling their own baby, they are impressed with how much they got--so they keep bringing the agency more--no questions asked. The pain they cause to the families is simply irrelevant to these amoral jerks! So, it's up to Five-O to track them down, rescue their latest stolen baby and shut down the sleazy lawyer (wow, that's redundant) for good. Not a terrific episode but a very good one--and one that may make mothers think twice about their own kids!
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7/10
Cold child Nappers
donnamariejones16 April 2023
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Oh boy was this couple major money hungry to be that cold and cruel to not only steal and sell babies but to sell their own baby with the father having no guilt ir emotion and the mother but much better - selfish and the opposite of the natural caring a mother has for her child. She only cared about being with the husband and where and what they'd spend they're time doing. Although Meg Foster and Richard Hatch not super popular but I think know enough at this time I felt their acting was very flat. I know they were suppose to be playing a couple who sells babies including their own and suppose to be cold and non caring but I still felt the lack of umph in the acting to believably be heartless criminals. But this was probably early in their careers and I thought it was still a interesting episode.
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