Hawaii Five-O

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Hawaii Five-O
Format Crime drama
Created by Leonard Freeman
Starring Jack Lord
James MacArthur
Zulu
Kam Fong
Al Harrington
Herman Wedemeyer
Richard Denning
William Smith
Opening theme Morton Stevens
Country of origin United States
No. of seasons 12
No. of episodes 278 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Leonard Freeman
Philip Leacock
Leonard Katzman
Running time approx. 0:60 (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel CBS
Original run September 26, 1968 – April 26, 1980
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Hawaii Five-O is an American television series that starred Jack Lord and James MacArthur as detectives for a fictional Hawaii state police department.

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[edit] Overview

The CBS television network produced the program from September 20, 1968 to April 5, 1980. Currently, the program is broadcast in syndication throughout the world and on-demand streaming media via CBS Interactive.[1] Created by Leonard Freeman, Hawaii Five-O was shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii, and throughout the island of Oahu — with occasional filming in other locales like Los Angeles, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as other Hawaiian islands.

Hawaii Five-O centers on a fictional state police force of the same name — in honor of Hawaii's status as the 50th State — led by former Navy officer Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), who was appointed by the Governor Paul Jameson (Richard Denning). (Hawaii is the only state without an actual statewide police agency. The only equivalent, the Sheriff Division of the Hawaii Department of Public Safety, serves warrants, transports prisoners, provides law enforcement at the airports, among other duties, and only conducts investigations for cases that occur within the jurisdiction of state entities.) McGarrett was assisted regularly by State Police officers — a young officer, Danny Williams (played with intensity by Tim O'Kelley in the show's pilot, but replaced in the regular series by James MacArthur), Chin Ho Kelly (Kam Fong) and Kono Kalakaua (Zulu). Later, Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela (Herman Wedemeyer) joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua (Al Harrington) who replaced Kono. Occasionally, they were assisted by other officers on an "as-needed" basis. During the course of the show, the team was also assisted regularly by: medical examiner Doc Bergman (Al Eben), forensic specialist Che Fong (Harry Endo) and a secretary. The first secretary was May (Maggi Parker), then Jenny (Peggy Ryan) and later Luana (Laura Sode-Matteson).

For twelve seasons, McGarrett and his team hounded international secret agents, criminals, and Mafia syndicates plaguing the Hawaiian Islands. With the aide of District Attorney and later Hawaii's Attorney General John Manicote (Glenn Cannon), McGarrett was successful in sending most of his enemies to prison. One such Mafia syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon (Harold Gould), a character introduced in the fifth season. Blaming McGarrett for the death of his son, Vashon swore vengeance using all of the resources available to him. Most episodes of Hawaii Five-O ended with the arrest of criminals with McGarrett's catch phrase to Williams, "Book 'em, Danno!", with the offense occasionally added after this phrase, such as "-Murder one!". Other criminals and organized crime bosses on the islands were played by actors such as Ricardo Montalban, Gavin MacLeod, and Ross Martin as Tony Alika. For the 12th and final season, series regular James MacArthur had left the show (in 1996, he admitted he had got tired and wanted to do other things), as did Kam Fong after season 10. New characters Jim 'Kimo' Carew (William Smith), Lori Wilson (Sharon Farrell), and Truck (Moe Keale) were introduced in season 12 alongside returning regular Duke Lukela.

The approximately four-to-five-strong Five-O team, small for a real state police unit, was portrayed as occupying a suite of offices in the Iolani Palace. Curiously it lacked its own radio network, necessitating frequent requests by McGarrett to the Honolulu Police Department dispatchers to "Patch me through to Danno". McGarrett's immovable hairstyle and proclivity for wearing a dark suit and tie on all possible occasions rapidly entered popular culture.

In many episodes (including the pilot), McGarrett was drawn into the world of international espionage and national intelligence. McGarrett's archnemesis was an intelligence officer of the People's Republic of China, Wo Fat. The Communist rogue agent was played by veteran actor Khigh Dheigh.

The show's action and straightforward story-telling left little time for personal stories such as wives and girlfriends, though a two-part story in the first season dealt with the loss of McGarrett's sister's baby. Occasionally, a show would flash back to McGarrett's younger years or to a romantic figure. The viewer is left with the impression that McGarrett, like Dragnet's Joe Friday, is wedded to the police force and to crime-fighting at this point in his life.

Hawaii Five-O survived long enough to see reruns of early episodes enter syndication while new episodes were still being produced. The 12th season was repackaged into syndication under the title McGarrett.


[edit] Start Up

Leonard Freeman and his wife Rose went to Hawaii so he could recover from a heart attack but Freeman did not like R&R and phoned Richard Boone, asking for something to do. A meeting took place and from that, Hawaii Five-O was born. Governor Burns who had his office at Iolani Palace (which became the Five-O HQ for the show) was contacted to see if a cop show was feasible on Hawaii and he readily agreed, saying he had been wanting something along that line himself.

CBS did not want the original actor hired for the show so Jack Lord, then living in Beverly Hills (with his wife) was asked at the last moment. He read for the part on a Wednesday and got the part and flew to Hawaii two days later. On the Monday he was in front of the cameras. Kam Fong, 18 year veteran of the Honolulu Police Department, auditioned for the part of Wo Fat, the villain. However, one look at him and Freeman decided he would cast Kam Fong for the part of Chin Ho Kelly. Freeman got the name Wo Fat, the villain of the pilot episode, from a restaurant in downtown Honolulu. The name Chin Ho came from the owner of the Ilikai hotel where the penthouse shot shows Steve McGarrett in the opening titles. Richard Denning who played the Governor had retired to Hawaii and was asked to come out of retirement for the show. Zulu was a Waikiki beach boy and a local DJ when he got the part of Kono for the next four years. John Nordlum was hired as a stunt man for Jack Lord.

The first season was shot in a rusty military Quonset hut in Pearl City, nick-named Mongoose Manor by the actors and cast. The roof leaked and rats gnawed at the cables. The show then moved to a warehouse at 22nd Avenue and Kaimuki (which is now used by the National Guard). A third studio was also built on 18th Avenue at Diamond Head and was used for the next 11 seasons.

A problem from the beginning was the lack of a movie industry in Hawaii, and the people in Hollywood didn’t think it would make it. Many people learned their jobs as they went along - not just the crew and main cast, but notably the many local people who ended up in the show. Jack Lord was a perfectionist and insisted on the best from everyone. Some suffered from his temper when he felt they did not give their best, but in later reunions, they admitted that Lord’s hard driving force had made them better actors and Hawaii Five-O a better show. Lord’s high standards also helped the show last another seven years after Leonard Freeman’s death at the end of the fifth season while undergoing open heart surgery.

[edit] Legacy

The show was the longest running crime show on American TV until the police drama Law & Order surpassed it in 2003. The popularity of the Hawaii Five-O format spawned various police dramas on all the major television networks since its debut. Another legacy is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme song, composed by Morton Stevens and later covered by surf music band The Ventures and by Radio Birdman, a punk-era band from Sydney. A short cover can be seen at the end of the Massacre Palestina´s song, "Madamme X". The song is particularly popular with college and high school marching bands, especially at the University of Hawai'i, where it has become the unofficial fight song. It also made a brief appearance in the animated film Shrek 2, when a trumpeter enthusiastically follows a fanfare with the first few bars of the theme song.

The term "Five-O" was adopted by American youth culture as a street slang term for the police, and in recent times has increasingly crossed over to British youth culture.

The television show Magnum P.I. was created after Hawaii Five-O ended its run in order to make further use of the production equipment left there. The first few episodes made direct references to Five-O, suggesting that it takes place in the same "universe" as the earlier show.

Criticism of the show pointed out that the vast majority of characters were Caucasian, while only 40% of the population of the state identify themselves as non-Hispanic Caucasian. However, many local people were used to play parts in the show. The first run and syndication was seen by an estimated 400,000,000 people around the world..

[edit] Opening and closing credits

The opening title sequence was created by noted television director Reza S. Badiyi. The show would begin with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for the night's program, then cut to a big ocean wave and the start of the dynamic theme song. A fast zoom-in to the top balcony of the Ilikai Hotel would follow, where McGarrett would turn to face the camera, followed by many quick-cuts and freeze-frames of Hawaiian scenery (including, memorably, model Elizabeth Logue turning to face the camera, and a grass-skirted hula dancer from the pilot "Cocoon") and of the supporting players, ending with the flashing blue light of a police motorcycle racing through a Honolulu street.

At the conclusion of an episode, after the obligatory "Book 'em Danno!", Jack Lord would narrate a teaser for the next week's episode, often emphasizing the "guest villain", especially if it was a perennial such as Khigh Dheigh, Hume Cronyn, etc. He would open by saying "This is Jack Lord inviting you to be with us next for <insert name of episode> and then closing the preview by saying, "Be here...aloha!" The next episode teasers were removed from the syndicated episodes to clear time for additional commercial sales, although most have been restored in the second and third season DVD releases.

There are two versions of the closing credits portion. During the first season, the theme music was played, along with a short film of a flashing blue light attached to the rear of a police motorcycle racing through Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki heading west (this scene can no longer be replicated, as Kalakaua Ave. is now a one-way street, with traffic moving east towards Diamond Head.) Note. The film is shown at twice the normal speed, as you will notice when you see people walking across a crossing behind the police car. This image was eventually satirized in Leslie Nielsen's TV series and movies centering on a law enforcement team called Police Squad!. In later seasons, the same music played over a short film of some outrigger canoeists battling the surf.

[edit] Suppressed episode

The second season episode "Bored She Hung Herself" has not been seen since its original broadcast in 1970 and is not included in the second season DVD box set, released on July 31, 2007. According to Mrs. Leonard Freeman (wife of the late creator of the show), speaking to some fans at the 1996 Five-O convention, someone tried the hanging technique depicted in the show (supposedly yoga-related, but more like autoerotic asphyxiation) and killed themselves. As a result, the show was not rebroadcast and never included in any syndication packages.

[edit] Trivia

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  • The original title of the series was to be "The Man". Other actors offered the part of Steve McGarrett included Richard Boone, Gregory Peck, and Robert Brown.
  • It has been rumored for many years that Jack Lord was a silent partner in all aspects of the production of Hawaii Five-O, even more so as the series grew in popularity during the 1970s. To critics and viewers, there was no question that Jack Lord was the center of the show, and that the other actors frequently served as little more than props, standing and watching while McGarrett emoted and paced around his office, analyzing the crime. But occasionally episodes would focus on the other players, and let them showcase their own talents.
  • Very few episodes were shot outside of Hawaii. At least two episodes were shot in Los Angeles, one in Hong Kong and one in Singapore. Episodes shot on location were the only ones not to bear the "Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii" legend.
  • Jack Lord was the only actor to appear in all episodes of Five-O and was the only original cast member remaining when its last episode aired in May 1980. He and Herman Wedemeyer were the only actors to appear in the first episode (excluding the pilot) and the last episode of the series.
  • Today, James MacArthur is the only surviving first-season member of Five-O, as Lord, Zulu, and Fong have since died. MacArthur was actually the second Danny Williams -- in the pilot, the role was filled by another actor, Tim O'Kelly.
  • Similarly, the pilot did not feature Richard Denning as the governor, but Lew Ayres. Denning appeared very early in the run, in Twenty-Four Karat Kill, as a Treasury agent named Philip Grey, which led many to attribute that name to the governor, but a newscast in the 1977 episode, A Capitol Crime identified that character as Paul Jamison.
  • MacArthur has said on talk show appearances that he calculates the Five-O team would have accounted for all major crime and criminals on the islands several times over.
  • Silent film actress Dorothy Mackaill was occasionally coaxed out of retirement to make appearances on the series.
  • The show continues to be seen in Hawaii since it left the air, thus making it the longest-running show to continue airing in the state after it ceased production. It is currently seen on Honolulu independent outlet KWHE.
  • The external shots of the building which housed the Five-O squad were of the ʻIolani Palace, which was the original home of the Hawaiian monarchy. The office interiors were a soundstage set.
  • At least 3 episodes were centered around Danno. One episode took us to his apartment, and a second one probed into his love life a bit. He was engaged to a woman whose death was the plot line of the episode. A third episode in 1976 has Danny dating an actress, Anne Waring (Meg Foster), who becomes a target of criminals.
  • In a 1st season episode, a two-parter "Once Upon A Time", we learn that McGarrett has a sister and a brother-in-law. The story line has McGarrett going to California to visit his sister and brother-in-law after learning that their infant son has cancer. A doctor is treating the baby with unethical methods to cure him, but the baby dies anyway. McGarrett seeks out the truth about the doctor and her unethical methods on patients.
  • Chin Ho Kelly had 8 kids, as we learned in a second season Five-O episode, Cry Lie. This seems to have been a family trait, as his many relatives were apparently involved in all facets of life in Hawaii, from laborers in the sugar cane fields to Honolulu policemen, bartenders, tour bus drivers, etc. -- and Kelly knew them all by name. This is actually authentic, as descendants of the early Chinese cane field laborers diversified throughout Hawaiian society, while maintaining family ties.
  • Kam Fong (Chin Ho Kelly) was the only cast member who at one time was really a Police Officer for the City of Honolulu.
  • In the TV-movie pilot, McGarrett drove a Mercury 2-door hardtop, apparently a 1967 Marquis (1967 was the first year for the Marquis, and it was only available as a 2-door hardtop). This car had a black body, black vinyl roof, and a red interior. In the series, McGarrett's trademark vehicle, often seen squealing tires throughout Honolulu, was a triple-black 1968 Mercury Park Lane Brougham 4-door hardtop. In a recurring continuity error, footage of the 2-door hardtop appeared in many episodes of the series. Around the 1973/74 season, his Park Lane was replaced by a 1973 Mercury Marquis Brougham 4-door, used until the end of the series. In a new recurring continuity error, footage of the 1968 Mercury appears in many episodes after the Mercury Marquis Brougham replaced it. After the show, Jack Lord gave the 1974 Mercury car he drove on the show to his stunt man, Jack Nordlum.
  • Six years before creating and producing Hawaii Five-O, Leonard Freeman spent one season producing a show about another "elite, special investigative squad", The Untouchables, which featured Robert Stack as Eliot Ness, whom McGarrett resembled in many respects. Some years before winning the part of McGarrett, Lord had a guest role on an episode of The Untouchables, "The Jake Lingle Story."
  • The phone numbers that were dialed from various Honolulu-area phone booths throughout the run of the series were actual household numbers, which caused some "invasion of privacy" concerns for residents, even after the series ended; hence in the middle of the series run, the Honolulu phone prefix "(808) 555-xxxx" was to be used on every episode from then on.
  • CBS' Honolulu TV-station, KGMB-TV(Channel 9) had a close association with Leonard Freeman Productions and the CBS network during the series run, since many episodes almost always featured a mobile TV broadcast van from that station, usually in the background; a similar idea is currently used on "CSI:Miami", where there would be a TV reporter from the Miami CBS station (WFOR-TV Channel 4) usually trying to interview Miami-Dade Police Lt. Horatio Caine (played by David Caruso). Surprisingly, the CBS network uses fictional stations for the other two "CSI:" shows (Las Vegas uses a "W-series" callsign instead of KLAS-TV Channel 8, and New York has NO mention of WCBS-TV Channel 2 at all).
  • United Airlines was believed to be the "official" airline for the series, since (in almost every episode) with the exception of the episodes that showed Pan American World Airways being used, many scenes at Honolulu International Airport always showed some of United's or Pan Am's Boeing 747s either taking off or landing; the closing credits always acknowledged this in many episodes. Also, in a few episodes that take place overseas regarding McGarrett's relentless pursuit of Wo Fat, Singapore Airlines 747s are seen leaving Honolulu's airport; the airline is also acknowledged at the end of these episodes. Another episode featured a shot of passengers exiting a Northwest Orient Airlines jet at Honolulu International.
  • Detroit Lions head coach Rod Marinelli calls defensive end Ikaika Alama-Francis "Five-O" in reference to this show and Alama-Francis's alma mater, the University of Hawaii.
  • St. Louis Rams linebacker Pisa Tinoisamoa is often called "Hawaii five-o" because he was a star linebacker at the for the University of Hawaii and wears the number 50.
  • James MacArthur was the son of stage and film legend Helen Hayes; Hayes guest starred on a 1975 episode of Hawaii Five-0, "Retire to Sunny Hawaii", playing Danny Williams' Aunt.
  • When Mississippi Braves first baseman Kala Kaa'ihue comes to bat at road games, the theme song of Hawaii Five-O is played. This is because Kaa'ihue is from the state of Hawaii.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Supporting actors

  • Wo Fat played by Khigh Dheigh in the pilot, and occasionally throughout the series, including the final episode
  • Che Fong (the forensic specialist) played by Harry Endo
  • Doc Bergman (the medical examiner) played by Al Eben
  • Lieutenant Kealoha played by Douglas Mossman (season 1)
  • Jonathan Kaye (from the State Dept.) played by James Gregory (pilot),
    Joseph Sirola (season 2–5),
    Bill Edwards (seasons 6-9),
    Lyle Bettger (season 10)
  • Doc (just plain) played by Newell Tarrant (season1),
    Robert Brilliande and Ted Thorpe (season 2),
    Robert Costa (actor) (season 3)
  • Che Fong played by Danny Kamekona (seasons 1 and 2)
  • Frank Kamana played by Douglas Mossman (season 7)
  • Luana played by Laura Sode
  • Attorney General Walter Stewart played by Morgan White (season 1)
  • Attorney General played by Philip Ahn (pilot)
  • Mildred played by Peggy Ryan (season 1)
  • Sandi Wells played by Amanda McBroom (Various Seasons)

[edit] References in popular culture

  • References to the show throughout Thomas Pynchon's novel "Vineland" (1990), especially ch. 5, set in Hawaii.
  • Surf/rock band The Ventures recorded a version of the Five-O theme in 1969. It was released as a single and went to #4 on the Billboard pop chart.
  • Steve McGarrett is prominently mentioned in the Human League song "Circus of Death".
  • Another measure of the show's continued high popularity is that it was lampooned in Mad Magazine, in a typical not-very-subtle satire called "How-Are-Ya Five-O", which appeared in 1971. The characters were renamed Steve "McGarrish" and "Dummy" Williams.
  • The legacy of Five-O continued on into the series that replaced it, Magnum P.I., with many of the characters often referring to both Five-O and McGarrett. (Also, the show was filmed in Hawaiʻi and many of the sets were re-used in Magnum)
  • In a three-part episode of the situation comedy Sanford and Son set in Hawaiʻi, the fictional Five-O bureau is referenced several times. Although no Five-O cast members appear, the bureau members that are portrayed mention McGarrett and a running joke about his hair while the show's famous theme song plays in the background.
  • In the British police drama The Sweeney, the programme Hawaii Five-O is mentioned in the series one episode Stoppo Driver, which was originally broadcast in 1975. The reference to the programme is made in reference to a police officer suspected of working for a robbery gang only occurring "in Hawaii Five-O". The comment is made by George Carter (played by Dennis Waterman), who moments later in the programme says McGarrett's trademark line "Book 'em Danno".
  • Australian sub-pop band Radio Birdman wrote a song inspired by Hawaii Five-O entitled "Aloha Steve & Danno". It is the first song on their 1977 debut album Radios Appear and contains the chorus "Steve, I want to say thank you for all you've done for me. My night is dark and empty when you're not on TV". The bridge of the song also features a guitar solo rendition of the Five-O theme.
  • Australian band Horse MacGuyver referenced the show with their Hawaiian themed song of the same name.
  • A clip from the show showing a time-bomb ticking down and Steve McGarrett dramatically saying "Boom" at the end of the timer is featured in Jerry McGuire (1996).
  • World-famous DJ LTJ Bukem (real name Danny Williamson) created his stage name out of the "Hawaii Five-O" catch phrase "Book 'em, Danno".
  • The theme song was played in Leroy & Stitch (2006) in the scene where Leroy captures all the experiments.
  • In the Australian movie, The Dish (2000), set in 1969, a band of high-school age boys are told to perform the American national anthem for visiting American politicians, but as they do not know it, they play the Five-O theme instead.
  • The theme song played in Madagascar (2005) when Marty was surfing on two dolphins.
  • In the animated sitcom The Simpsons, Chief Wiggum is often heard saying to his deputies upon arrest of a suspect, "Book 'em, Lou", a reference to Steve's "Book 'em, Danno". Also, in the episode entitled "The Father, the Son and the Holy Guest Star", in which Homer and Bart become Roman Catholic, the Five-O theme is heard as Marge's mobile phone ringtone.
  • In The A-Team episode "A Small and Deadly War" Murdock tells the police officer "Book 'em Danno murder one".
  • Steve McGarrett was the role model for Mr. Hand in Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
  • Steve McGarrett is one of the iconic 'Steves' in the film "The Tao of Steve".
  • In the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode Dominace an uncooprative witness says "You can't just barge in here like Hawaii 5-0"
  • The theme music of the show and the phrase "Book'em Danno, murder one!" are quoted by Frank Zappa in the song The Untouchables on Broadway The Hard Way. The phrase also appears as "Book'em Danno, mammy one!" in You Are What You Is on Thing-Fish, and Frank's son Dweezil also did a version of the theme on guitar on his "Automatic" album. Frank Zappa made another reference to the famous line in the song "No Not Now" (from the album Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch) when he sings "Boog, boog 'em Dano...Murder One!"
  • The theme tune was used as soundtrack in "Mr. Bean's Holiday" when the main character is traveling over the Millau Viaduct. Later on he plays it as mobile ring tone.
  • In the television series The Wire, street hoods and drug dealers in Baltimore refer to the Baltimore Police Department as Five-O.
  • The film New Jack City featured a scene where Kareem Akbar blows Scotty Appleton's cover (as Mr. Washington) where he says the line 'I knew Washington, he's Five-O!' A street hoodlum says the same line later in the film seeking Nino Brown's hideout.
  • In the movie"Sphinx", an Egyptian taxi driver says: "Just like in Hawaii-five-O" to his passenger who tells him to "follow that car!" The dialog is in Arabic with English subtitles!
  • In the movie Shrek_2, one of the trumpet players with the party inviting Shrek to far far away land breaks out into the themesong from Hawaii-five-O.
  • The tv show, The Batman, uses a theme song VERY reminiscent of the Hawaii Five-0 theme as its theme for it's last two seasons.
  • The producers of the 2000 Norm MacDonald comedy Screwed paid homage to Lord by making Danny DeVito's character Grover the zealous vice-president of the "Jack Lord Fan Club". The film's focus on this topic included scenes from Hawaii Five-O being watched (and spoken word for word) by Grover.
  • A reference to 'Book'em Danno, murder one' was used in two of Andy Sidaris films - Day of the Warrior and Return to Savage Beach where agent Willow Black says 'Book'em Fu, Murder One' (the character Fu, an ally of the L.E.T.H.A.L. force, is seen in both films).

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Streaming Media

CBS Interactive is presenting the entire first season of the show online via Adobe Flash streaming media. They are full-length episodes available free of charge, but with ads embedded into the stream of each episode.[2]

[edit] DVD releases

CBS Home Entertainment released the first season of Hawaii Five-O on DVD in Region 1 on March 6, 2007. The 7-disc set includes the original pilot movie, also known as "The Cocoon", as well as a 1996 retrospective program produced by local Hawaiian television that included MacArthur as a guest host. Season Two was released on July 31, 2007. [1]. Season 3 was released on January 22, 2008. [2] The DVD sets for seasons two and three have restored the previews narrated by Jack Lord for most episodes. It has been announced that the 4th season of Hawaii Five-O on DVD will be released on June 10, 2008. [3]

DVD Name Ep # Release Date Additional Information
The Complete First Season 24 March 6, 2007
  • Original pilot
  • Retrospective
The Second Season 24 July 31, 2007
The Complete Third Season 24 January 22, 2008
The Complete Fourth Season 24 June 10, 2008

Although originally announced as being complete (25 episodes), it was revealed about two weeks before the release of the second season DVD box set that the episode "Bored She Hung Herself" would not be included

[edit] Other media

A soundtrack album featuring Morton Stevens' theme and incidental music was issued by Capitol Records in 1970. One of the instrumental pieces on the album, "Call to Danger", was excerpted as background music accompanying a "Special Presentation" logo that CBS used to introduce its prime time television specials throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Hawaii Five-O was the subject of six novelizations. Each one had a plot line written for the book and was not based on a television episode. The first two books were published by Signet Paperbacks in 1968 and 1969. After that were two juvenile hard covers published by Whitman publishing in 1969 and 1971 and finally two more books were published in England.

An Oldsmobile commercial starring Gregory Hines and Patrick Warburton referenced Hawaii Five-O in a police pullover. Hines - "Who are you, Jack Lord?" Warburton - "No, but the man's like a father to me."

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Futon Critic (2008-02-21). "CBS BRINGS PROGRAMMING FROM ONE OF THE LARGEST TELEVISION LIBRARIES TO THE CBS AUDIENCE NETWORK". Press release. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
  2. ^ Waldman, Allison (2008-02-21). CBS adds TV classics to web line up. TV Squad. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.

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