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Release Date:
26 September 1968 (USA)
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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
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Police
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Archenemy
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Book Em Danno
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Awards:
Won 2 Primetime Emmys.
Another 2 wins
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12 nominations
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(7 articles)
CBS orders pilot for a new Hawaii Five-o ... again
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Producer Finnegan Loses Parkinson's Battle
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Producer Finnegan Loses Parkinson's Battle
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 4 of 552) | 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) |
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) | ||
| Douglas Green | (4 episodes, 1974-1975) | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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 | (154 episodes, 1968-1980) | |
| Jerome Coopersmith | (22 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) | |
| Rod Baker | (3 episodes, 1973-1975) | |
| Glen Olson | (3 episodes, 1973-1975) | |
| 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) | |
| 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 (133 episodes, 1968-1974) | |
| James Heinz | .... | associate producer / producer: Hollywood / ... (121 episodes, 1969-1977) | |
| Bob Sweeney | .... | supervising producer (68 episodes, 1971-1975) | |
| Bill Finnegan | .... | producer (67 episodes, 1971-1975) | |
| Robert Stambler | .... | producer (35 episodes, 1968-1971) | |
| Franklin Barton | .... | supervising producer (25 episodes, 1969-1970) | |
| Leonard Katzman | .... | producer (25 episodes, 1969-1970) | |
| Stanley Kallis | .... | supervising producer (24 episodes, 1970-1971) | |
| Andrew Gottlieb | .... | associate producer / producer: Hollywood / ... (19 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 | (36 episodes, 1969-1975) | ||
| Richard Shores | (21 episodes, 1969-1974) | ||
| Bruce Broughton | (17 episodes, 1973-1979) | ||
| John Cacavas | (11 episodes, 1977-1980) | ||
| Harry Geller | (8 episodes, 1969-1974) | ||
Series Cinematography by | |||
| Robert L. Morrison | (107 episodes, 1969-1975) | ||
| Frank V. Phillips | (21 episodes, 1968-1969) | ||
| Jack A. Marta | (13 episodes, 1979-1980) | ||
| Sherman Kunkel | (6 episodes, 1978-1979) | ||
| Jacques R. Marquette | (6 episodes, 1978-1979) | ||
| Jack Whitman | (5 episodes, 1977-1978) | ||
| 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 | (11 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 | (3 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) | ||
| Gibson Holley | (18 episodes, 1974-1979) | ||
| William Craig Smith | (14 episodes, 1969-1970) | ||
| Carl Macauley | (13 episodes, 1969-1970) | ||
| Albert Heschong | (12 episodes, 1968-1969) | ||
| Steven Myles Berger | (5 episodes, 1979) | ||
Series Set Decoration by | |||
| Buck Henshaw | (136 episodes, 1968-1980) | ||
Series Costume Design by | |||
| Richard Egan | (72 episodes, 1968-1972) | ||
Series Makeup Department | |||
| Jan Van Uchelen | .... | hair stylist (88 episodes, 1976-1980) | |
| Keester Sweeney | .... | makeup artist (86 episodes, 1969-1978) | |
| Don Schoenfeld | .... | makeup artist (22 episodes, 1968-1969) | |
| Fred Williams | .... | makeup artist (7 episodes, 1977-1980) | |
| Bob Mills | .... | makeup artist (4 episodes, 1974-1975) | |
| Alan Fama | .... | makeup artist (3 episodes, 1979-1980) | |
Series Production Management | |||
| Bernard Oseransky | .... | unit production manager / assistant production manager (68 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, 1972-1977) | |
| 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 (72 episodes, 1971-1974) | |
| 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) | |
| Robert Enrietto | .... | assistant director (4 episodes, 1974-1978) | |
| G. Warren Smith | .... | assistant director (4 episodes, 1979-1980) | |
| David Menteer | .... | first assistant director (3 episodes, 1980) | |
| Wesley J. McAfee | .... | assistant director (2 episodes, 1968-1977) | |
| Scott Maitland | .... | first assistant director (2 episodes, 1978-1979) | |
| 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 / ... (27 episodes, 1971-1978) | |
| Philip Mitchell | .... | production sound mixer (25 episodes, 1969-1970) | |
| Jerry Kosloff | .... | production sound mixer (20 episodes, 1970-1971) | |
| Bud Alper | .... | production sound mixer (16 episodes, 1971-1972) | |
| 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 (70 episodes, 1968-1971) | |
| Robert Busch | .... | location casting (34 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 (33 episodes, 1971-1978) | |
| 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 (128 episodes, 1968-1980) | |
| Morton Stevens | .... | composer: theme music / composer: stock music / ... (111 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 (158 episodes, 1968-1980) | |
| Richard Dixon | .... | assistant: production manager / assistant to production manager (44 episodes, 1970-1978) | |
| 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 (26 episodes, 1973-1979) | |
| Liam O'Brien | .... | story consultant (24 episodes, 1970-1971) | |
| Cliff Fenneman | .... | assistant to producer / assistant to production manager (23 episodes, 1973-1975) | |
| Robert Foster | .... | story editor (18 episodes, 1969-1970) | |
| 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 (8 episodes, 1973-1975) | |
| Seeleg Lester | .... | story consultant (6 episodes, 1979-1980) | |
| Douglas Denoff | .... | assistant to producer (5 episodes, 1978-1979) | |
| 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) | |
Production CompaniesDistributors
- Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1968-1980) (USA) (TV)
- Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (ARD) (1971-1973) (West Germany) (TV)
- Independent Television (ITV)
- Paramount Home Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD) (season 6)
- Paramount Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD) (season 1)
- Paramount Home Video (2007) (USA) (DVD) (season 2)
- Paramount Home Video (2008) (USA) (DVD) (season 3)
- Paramount Television
- Pro 7 (1989-1990) (West Germany) (TV)
- Pro 7 (1990-1993) (Germany) (TV)
- Viacom
- Ford Motor Company consideration furnisher
- Polifroni/Sabba casting
Additional Details
Also Known As:
McGarrett (USA) (rerun title)
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60 min (284 episodes)
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Fun Stuff
Trivia:
McGarrett's secretary, Jenny Sherman (Peggy Ryan) also appeared as the Governor's secretary, Millie in some early episodes.
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Goofs:
Continuity: After the original 1968 Mercury was retired, and replaced with a '74 Marquis Brougham 4-door hardtop, some stock footage was used of the '68 passing or in traffic.
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Quotes:
Det. Steve McGarrett:
[after each episode preview] Be there. Aloha!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Farscape: Crackers Don't Matter (#2.4)" (2000)
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I have been watching this show since I was 8 years old. I remember watching its final episode in 1980(when I was 14 years old). And its still on in syndication some 20 years later after it went off the air. For the astounding 13 seasons that it ran on CBS-TV(from 1968-1980),and again as a very short lived series called "McGarrett"(when Jack Lord's character leaves 5-O to become a private investigator),its no wonder why in point the shows still leaves viewers on the edge of their seats,and at the end its McGarrett telling his partner after he catches the bad guy or super villain to "book'em,Danno...murder one". This show set the standards today for all cop shows that were to follow it,and it still holds up. Kudos to the legendary Jack Lord(who died two years ago on his resort in Hawaii),and series creator Leonard Freeman who were the first to put Asian-Americans and other minorities in non-stereotypical roles(which followed the same format that producer Sheldon Leonard used when he put Bill Cosby as the first African-American in a starring role in "I Spy" four years earlier in 65). One of classic TV cop shows of the late 1960's and throughout the remainder of the 1970's,and it shows. Catch the reruns.