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"Hawaii Five-O" (1968) More at IMDbPro »TV series 1968-1980

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"Hawaii Five-O" (1968): Season 2: Episode 10 -- Enlisted to investigate an ex-racketeer suspected of heading a local crime syndicate, McGarrett follows a hunch that the politician seeking to indict the accused man is involved in some dirty dealings of his own
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968): Season 2: Episode 4 -- A prostitute has been murdered by a gangster, but the sole witness to the crime - a respectable small-town hardware salesman - is afraid to testisfy
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968): Season 1: Episode 21 -- McGarrett's attmept to prove he's an officer-of-the-peace, after a protester is shot during an anti-war demonstration, is met with resistance from the slain man's pacifist associates
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968): Season 1: Episode 20 -- McGarrett wages a one-man battle to collect evidence that will prove to his sister- and the local authorities - that the doctor who treated his nephew is a fraud
"Hawaii Five-O" (1968): Season 1: Episode 19 -- McGarrett flies to Los Angeles to investigate a quack doctor he suspects is victimizing his sister and her cancer sticken infant

Overview

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Seasons:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 full episode list
Release Date:
26 September 1968 (USA) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Mystery more
Plot:
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. full summary
Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys. Another 2 wins & 12 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(7 articles)
CBS orders pilot for a new Hawaii Five-o ... again
 (From AOL - TVSquad. 9 October 2009, 7:03 AM, PDT)

Producer Finnegan Loses Parkinson's Battle
 (From WENN. 2 December 2008, 6:05 AM, PST)

User Comments:
book'em danno! more (31 total)

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 4 of 553)

Jack Lord ... Det. Steve McGarrett (282 episodes, 1968-1980)

James MacArthur ... Det. Danny Williams / ... (260 episodes, 1968-1979)
Kam Fong ... Det. Chin Ho Kelly / ... (241 episodes, 1968-1978)
Herman Wedemeyer ... Edward D. 'Duke' Lukela / ... (153 episodes, 1968-1980)
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Series Directed by
Michael O'Herlihy (32 episodes, 1969-1976)
Charles S. Dubin (19 episodes, 1968-1977)
Paul Stanley (17 episodes, 1969-1977)
Allen Reisner (13 episodes, 1972-1978)
Richard Benedict (10 episodes, 1968-1974)
Reza Badiyi (7 episodes, 1969-1979)
Alf Kjellin (7 episodes, 1972-1975)
Don Weis (7 episodes, 1977-1979)
Jack Lord (6 episodes, 1974-1979)
Dennis Donnelly (6 episodes, 1977-1980)
Herschel Daugherty (5 episodes, 1968-1969)
Abner Biberman (5 episodes, 1969-1970)
Bob Sweeney (5 episodes, 1970-1973)
Bruce Bilson (5 episodes, 1974-1976)
Seymour Robbie (4 episodes, 1968-1969)
Nicholas Colasanto (4 episodes, 1969-1970)
Beau Vanden Ecker (4 episodes, 1979-1980)
Paul Wendkos (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Anton Leader (3 episodes, 1970-1971)
John Peyser (2 episodes, 1968-1974)
Alvin Ganzer (2 episodes, 1968)
Michael Caffey (2 episodes, 1969)
Murray Golden (2 episodes, 1970-1971)
Marvin J. Chomsky (2 episodes, 1970)
John Llewellyn Moxey (2 episodes, 1970)
John Newland (2 episodes, 1970)
Leo Penn (2 episodes, 1971-1972)
Ron Winston (2 episodes, 1971-1972)
Douglas Green (2 episodes, 1974)
Marc Daniels (2 episodes, 1977-1978)
Sutton Roley (2 episodes, 1977)
Robert L. Morrison (2 episodes, 1979-1980)

Noel Black (unknown episodes)
David Friedkin (unknown episodes)
Harry Harris (unknown episodes)
Gordon Hessler (unknown episodes)
Herbert Hirschman (unknown episodes)
Jerry Jameson (unknown episodes)
Harvey S. Laidman (unknown episodes)
Philip Leacock (unknown episodes)
Bradford May (unknown episodes)
Bernard McEveety (unknown episodes)
Dick Moder (unknown episodes)
Robert Scheerer (unknown episodes)
Jack Whitman (unknown episodes)
 
Series Writing credits
Leonard Freeman (150 episodes, 1968-1980)
Jerome Coopersmith (21 episodes, 1968-1976)
Jerrold L. Ludwig (12 episodes, 1969-1971)
Eric Bercovici (12 episodes, 1970-1971)
Alvin Sapinsley (12 episodes, 1971-1977)
Robert Janes (12 episodes, 1977-1979)
Mel Goldberg (11 episodes, 1968-1974)
John D.F. Black (10 episodes, 1968-1972)
Anthony Lawrence (9 episodes, 1969-1974)
Tim Maschler (9 episodes, 1973-1977)
Ken Pettus (8 episodes, 1970-1978)
Meyer Dolinsky (6 episodes, 1969-1973)
Robert C. Dennis (6 episodes, 1969-1970)
E. Arthur Kean (6 episodes, 1970-1974)
Bill Stratton (6 episodes, 1971-1978)
Seeleg Lester (5 episodes, 1978-1980)
Herman Groves (4 episodes, 1968-1977)
Frank Telford (4 episodes, 1972-1980)
Norman Lessing (4 episodes, 1973-1975)
Samuel Roeca (4 episodes, 1974-1980)
Sam Neuman (4 episodes, 1978-1979)
Mark Rodgers (3 episodes, 1968-1970)
Jack Turley (3 episodes, 1969-1970)
Palmer Thompson (3 episodes, 1969)
Paul Playdon (3 episodes, 1970-1979)
Walter Black (3 episodes, 1973-1974)
David P. Harmon (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Robert Hamner (2 episodes, 1969-1970)
Jay Roberts (2 episodes, 1969)
William Robert Yates (2 episodes, 1969)
Adrian Spies (2 episodes, 1971)
Larry Forrester (2 episodes, 1972-1974)
Abram S. Ginnes (2 episodes, 1972)
Will Lorin (2 episodes, 1972)
Larry Brody (2 episodes, 1973-1975)
William Bast (2 episodes, 1973-1974)
Rod Baker (2 episodes, 1973)
Glen Olson (2 episodes, 1973)
Bud Freeman (2 episodes, 1974)
Anne Collins (2 episodes, 1975-1977)
Charles Larson (2 episodes, 1976-1977)
Paul Williams (1 episode, 1979)

Albert Aley (unknown episodes)
Edwin Blum (unknown episodes)
David Deutsch (unknown episodes)
Jack Epps Jr. (unknown episodes)
James L. Henderson (unknown episodes)
Robert I. Holt (unknown episodes)
Michael Janover (unknown episodes)
Leonard B. Kaufman (unknown episodes)
Curtis Kenyon (unknown episodes)
Diana Kopald Marcus (unknown episodes)
Arthur Bernard Lewis (unknown episodes)
Jimmy Lydon (unknown episodes)
John Melson (unknown episodes)
Bob Mitchell (unknown episodes)
Esther Mitchell (unknown episodes)
Robert Pirosh (unknown episodes)
Martin Roth (unknown episodes)
James Schmerer (unknown episodes)
Arlene Stadd (unknown episodes)
Leonard Stadd (unknown episodes)
Dean Tait (unknown episodes)

Series Produced by
Leonard Freeman .... executive producer / producer (132 episodes, 1968-1974)
James Heinz .... associate producer / producer: Hollywood / ... (117 episodes, 1969-1977)
Bob Sweeney .... supervising producer (65 episodes, 1971-1974)
Bill Finnegan .... producer (64 episodes, 1971-1974)
Robert Stambler .... producer (34 episodes, 1968-1971)
Franklin Barton .... supervising producer (25 episodes, 1969-1970)
Leonard Katzman .... producer (25 episodes, 1969-1970)
Stanley Kallis .... supervising producer (23 episodes, 1970-1971)
Andrew Gottlieb .... associate producer / producer: Hollywood / ... (18 episodes, 1977-1980)
Fred Baum .... supervising producer / producer: Hawaii (14 episodes, 1977-1979)
Beau Vanden Ecker .... associate producer (10 episodes, 1979-1980)
Philip Leacock .... supervising producer / executive producer (9 episodes, 1975-1977)
Leonard B. Kaufman .... producer: Hawaii / producer: Singapore (9 episodes, 1978-1979)
Douglas Green .... producer: Hawaii / executive producer (7 episodes, 1976-1977)
Gene Levitt .... supervising producer / producer: Hawaii (7 episodes, 1979-1980)
Joseph Gantman .... producer (5 episodes, 1968-1969)
Sidney Marshall .... producer (5 episodes, 1969)
Richard Newton .... producer (5 episodes, 1975)
William F. Phillips .... producer: Hawaii / producer (5 episodes, 1979-1980)
Larry Stewart .... associate producer (4 episodes, 1969)
Robert L. Rosen .... associate producer (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
B.W. Sandefur .... supervising producer (3 episodes, 1977)
Buck Houghton .... producer / producer: Hollywood (3 episodes, 1978-1980)
Sam Manners .... associate producer (2 episodes, 1969)

Douglas Denoff .... associate producer (unknown episodes, 1977-1979)
Herman Groves .... producer: Hollywood (unknown episodes)
 
Series Original Music by
Morton Stevens (45 episodes, 1968-1980)
Don B. Ray (34 episodes, 1969-1975)
Richard Shores (21 episodes, 1969-1974)
Bruce Broughton (17 episodes, 1973-1979)
John Cacavas (10 episodes, 1977-1980)
Harry Geller (8 episodes, 1969-1974)
 
Series Cinematography by
Robert L. Morrison (99 episodes, 1969-1975)
Frank V. Phillips (21 episodes, 1968-1969)
Jack A. Marta (13 episodes, 1979-1980)
Jacques R. Marquette (6 episodes, 1978-1979)
Jack Whitman (5 episodes, 1977-1978)
Sherman Kunkel (5 episodes, 1978-1979)
Richard L. Rawlings (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
John C. Flinn III (3 episodes, 1979)

Bradford May (unknown episodes)
 
Series Film Editing by
Jack Gleason (69 episodes, 1968-1980)
Ira Heymann (54 episodes, 1968-1978)
Arthur Hilton (16 episodes, 1970-1972)
Fred A. Chulack (10 episodes, 1972-1975)
Robert L. Wolfe (8 episodes, 1969-1970)
Richard G. Haines (5 episodes, 1979-1980)
Howard A. Smith (4 episodes, 1968-1977)
Charles L. Freeman (4 episodes, 1972)
Bruce Schoengarth (2 episodes, 1968-1969)
Walter Hannemann (2 episodes, 1970-1971)
 
Series Casting by
Pam Polifroni (21 episodes, 1969-1970)
Al Onorato (10 episodes, 1968-1969)
William J. Kenney (8 episodes, 1968-1969)
Cathy Henderson (2 episodes, 1975-1979)

Jim Merrick (unknown episodes)
Joe Scully (unknown episodes)
Ted Thorpe (unknown episodes)
 
Series Art Direction by
Jack T. Collis (49 episodes, 1971-1974)
Robert Kinoshita (24 episodes, 1970-1971)
William Craig Smith (14 episodes, 1969-1970)
Gibson Holley (14 episodes, 1974-1979)
Carl Macauley (13 episodes, 1969-1970)
Albert Heschong (12 episodes, 1968-1969)
Steven Myles Berger (5 episodes, 1979)
 
Series Set Decoration by
Buck Henshaw (127 episodes, 1968-1980)
 
Series Costume Design by
Richard Egan (49 episodes, 1968-1972)
 
Series Makeup Department
Jan Van Uchelen .... hair stylist (88 episodes, 1976-1980)
Keester Sweeney .... makeup artist (78 episodes, 1969-1978)
Don Schoenfeld .... makeup artist (22 episodes, 1968-1969)
Fred Williams .... makeup artist (7 episodes, 1977-1980)
Bob Mills .... makeup artist (3 episodes, 1974-1975)
Alan Fama .... makeup artist (3 episodes, 1979-1980)
 
Series Production Management
Bernard Oseransky .... unit production manager / assistant production manager (60 episodes, 1968-1977)
Robert Huddleston .... unit production manager (31 episodes, 1968-1970)
Max Stein .... unit production manager (12 episodes, 1970-1971)
Richard Dixon .... assistant production manager (10 episodes, 1970-1974)
Michael S. Glick .... unit production manager (7 episodes, 1969)
Wesley J. McAfee .... unit production manager (3 episodes, 1979)
Daniel McCauley .... unit production manager (2 episodes, 1971)

Hal Schaffel .... production supervisor (unknown episodes)
 
Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William A. Morrison .... second assistant director (96 episodes, 1970-1974)
Christopher N. Seiter .... assistant director (43 episodes, 1971-1975)
Don-Martin Nielsen .... second assistant director / first assistant director (39 episodes, 1978-1980)
Max Stein .... assistant director (24 episodes, 1968-1970)
Daniel McCauley .... assistant director (22 episodes, 1970-1972)
Douglas Green .... assistant director (22 episodes, 1972-1974)
Dennis Donnelly .... assistant director (14 episodes, 1969-1970)
Christopher Seitz .... assistant director (13 episodes, 1970-1971)
Michael S. Glick .... assistant director (7 episodes, 1968-1969)
Thomas Foulkes .... assistant director (7 episodes, 1979-1980)
Robert Rubin .... assistant director (5 episodes, 1970)
G. Warren Smith .... assistant director (4 episodes, 1979-1980)
Robert Enrietto .... assistant director (3 episodes, 1974-1978)
David Menteer .... first assistant director (3 episodes, 1980)
Wesley J. McAfee .... assistant director (2 episodes, 1968-1977)
Bill Carroll .... first assistant director (2 episodes, 1979)

Robert Doudell .... assistant director (unknown episodes)
Patrick A. Duffy .... assistant director (unknown episodes)
James A. Westman .... first assistant director (unknown episodes)
 
Series Art Department
Darcy Adams .... property master (1 episode, 1980)

Robert M. Anderson .... property master (unknown episodes)
 
Series Sound Department
Coye Vanover .... production sound mixer / production mixer / ... (26 episodes, 1971-1978)
Philip Mitchell .... production sound mixer (25 episodes, 1969-1970)
Bud Alper .... production sound mixer (16 episodes, 1971-1972)
Jerry Kosloff .... production mixer / production sound mixer (12 episodes, 1970-1971)

Jim Bullock .... dialogue editor (unknown episodes)
 
Series Visual Effects by
Reza Badiyi .... title visualization (1 episode, 1968)
 
Series Stunts
Bobby Somers .... stunts (18 episodes, 1976-1979)
Chuck Couch .... stunt coordinator / stunts (2 episodes, 1968-1979)

Beau Vanden Ecker .... stunts (unknown episodes)
Gary Epper .... stunt driver (unknown episodes)
Bill M. Ryusaki .... stunts (unknown episodes)
 
Series Camera and Electrical Department
Dan Reilly .... key grip (64 episodes, 1977-1980)
Lowell Peterson .... first assistant camera (12 episodes, 1979-1980)
Arnold L. Rich .... camera operator (12 episodes, 1979-1980)
 
Series Casting Department
Ted Thorpe .... location casting (59 episodes, 1968-1971)
Robert Busch .... location casting (33 episodes, 1971-1975)
Richard Kindelon .... location casting: Hawaii / casting: Hawaii / ... (8 episodes, 1975-1980)
Cathy Henderson .... casting: Hollywood (3 episodes, 1979)
 
Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Richard Egan .... costumes / wardrobe (46 episodes, 1970-1978)

Frank Delmar .... wardrobe (unknown episodes)
 
Series Editorial Department
Ruth Blythe .... assistant film editor / assistant editor (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
 
Series Music Department
Don B. Ray .... music supervisor / conductor (120 episodes, 1968-1980)
Morton Stevens .... composer: theme music / composer: stock music / ... (107 episodes, 1969-1980)
Gene Feldman .... music editor / supervising music editor (16 episodes, 1969-1970)
Harry Geller .... conductor (6 episodes, 1969-1971)
Richard Shores .... composer: stock music / conductor (4 episodes, 1969-1972)
Robert Drasnin .... music supervisor (2 episodes, 1977)

John W. Morgan .... orchestrator (unknown episodes)
 
Series Other crew
Reza Badiyi .... title visualization / story consultant (151 episodes, 1968-1980)
Will Lorin .... story consultant (36 episodes, 1971-1973)
Bernard Oseransky .... assistant to production manager (30 episodes, 1969-1970)
James Heinz .... assistant to producers (27 episodes, 1968-1969)
Curtis Kenyon .... story consultant / executive story consultant (25 episodes, 1973-1979)
Liam O'Brien .... story consultant (23 episodes, 1970-1971)
Richard Dixon .... assistant to production manager (22 episodes, 1970-1973)
Robert Foster .... story editor (18 episodes, 1969-1970)
Cliff Fenneman .... assistant to producer / assistant to production manager (17 episodes, 1973-1975)
Richard Dixon .... assistant to production manager (13 episodes, 1970-1978)
Sidney Marshall .... story consultant (12 episodes, 1968-1969)
Franklin Barton .... story consultant (11 episodes, 1968-1969)
Arthur H. Singer .... executive story editor (11 episodes, 1969-1970)
Ken Pettus .... story consultant (7 episodes, 1973-1974)
Seeleg Lester .... story consultant (6 episodes, 1979-1980)
Douglas Denoff .... assistant to producer (4 episodes, 1979)
Maggie Lawrence .... script supervisor (3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Richard Dixon .... assistant: production manager (2 episodes, 1972-1975)

Michael Janover .... story consultant (unknown episodes)
Matthew Knox .... assistant to producer (unknown episodes)
 
Series Thanks
Henry J. Kaiser .... portions filmed on the Kaiser estate courtesy of (1 episode, 1968)
 

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
McGarrett (USA) (rerun title)
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Runtime:
60 min (284 episodes)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Australia:M | Australia:PG (some episodes) | Singapore:PG

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
'P.I. (1980) Magnum' began production soon after this series wrapped its last episode. In order to keep some sort of continuity, reference to characters from this show were included in early episodes of Magnum. However, a plan to have Jack Lord appear as McGarrett never came to pass. Lord retired from acting after the series went off the air. Second half of first episode of 'P.I. (1980) Magnum' makes reference to McGarrett when speaking about the bad assignments for Dan: "Putting Dan on this stuff is like making McGarrett the meter maid on Waikiki." more
Goofs:
Continuity: 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. more
Quotes:
Det. Steve McGarrett: Aloha. Aloha, suckers. more
Movie Connections:
Edited into Earthquake (1974) more

FAQ

What is Hawaii Five-O?
What are Five-O's duties?
What's McGarrett's background?
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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful.
book'em danno!, 27 September 1999
Author: gazzo-2 from United States

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.

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