Copyright ©1994-1999 by Mike Quigley. No reproduction of any kind without permission. Original air dates are taken from information supplied by the Iolani Palace Irregulars and Karen Rhodes' Booking Five-O.
= One of the very best episodes, a must-see. = Better than average, worthy of attention. = Average, perhaps with a few moments of interest. = One of the very worst, a show to avoid. The first show of season five features a revised main title with no teaser. Much of the show is concerned with the efforts of local thug Piro Manoa (Michael Ansara) to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O/D.A.'s team who are investigating him. The means by which this is done is extremely complicated, especially if it was all planned by the mysterious corporation Bryce Halsey years in advance -- how would they know so far ahead of time that Duke would be associated with Five-O? It's possible it was done by Manoa's "plant", Manicote's assistant Chris Lahani (George Chakiris), but on the other hand, there is no evidence to suggest that Lahani has the kind of specialized computer knowledge which could accomplish this. The plot is stretched beyond belief towards the end with Bryce Halsey (for whom Manoa is a front man) sending a helicopter to assassinate both Manoa and Lahani. Not only that -- how does McGarrett know where Lahani is going to meet Manoa? Laraine Stephens plays Manoa's sexy but bitchy accountant "Miss Simpson." When Manoa tries to persuade her to join him in a dip in his pool she resists and he says, "Put the numbers away and think about me as a man." In one of the series' great put-downs, she replies, "I already have, and I became violently ill." At the beginning of the show Wilfred Keale (later "Truck") is seen uncredited as one of Manoa's goons (he is addressed as "Moe"). Richard Morrison is the weasly informer Runny Gross and Jo Pruden is almost unrecognizable as his girlfriend Angie Caroll. Angie takes a taxi with the phone number 732-5577 on the roof. Karl Albrecht from Interpol is mentioned. The main item of interest for the show is the trivia revealed as the police department's "iron brain" computer is used to investigate various members of the Five-O team as well as Manicote's office to make sure they are "clean." (McGarrett says that even the "history of sexual behavior" will be included, to which Danno asks, "Do you want bachelors to sign [a release] too, Steve?" McGarrett replies, You got something to hide, Danno?") According to his birth certificate, McGarrett was born March 10, 1927 in Metropolitan Hospital and weighed 7 pounds, 11 ounces. Something is seriously wrong with this date, since McGarrett describes himself as a "Capricorn goat -- very stubborn." His measles immunization was done by M. Stevens, M.D., an in-joke referring to series composer Morton. In 1944 he was attending Valley High School. Some of his marks were: Biology - B; Journalism - A; Drafting - C; Geometry - A minus; American History - B minus; Phys Ed - A. Edward D. ("Duke") Lukela was born June 19, 1926. He has had Badge #260 since 2-11-62. He is 5'10", weighs 175 pounds and has blood type A, Rh negative. On one of Duke's ID cards, there is an emergency contact person, Joseph Meniosa, 17469 Ahonai Place, Honolulu with a phone number 277-9277, which is the same number as appears on some paperwork for Paul Drummond, who works for Manicote. Danno's credit card numbers are 06491351 0109 for Visa/Chargex and 4024 622 350128 for MasterCharge (expiry date of 02/73 or 75 on the latter) -- the logos for both companies are obscured. New Five-O team member Ben Kokua (Al Harrington) is said to be "Polynesian." All of this is quite fascinating, but I find that the all-pervasive computer knows a bit too much (even more than McGarrett does usually!).
Ricardo Montalban makes up for his wretched performance in #4, Samurai, with his portrayal in this episode of the egomaniacal racing car driver Alex Pareno, who arrives on Oahu with the intention of breaking the hill-climb speed record on Tantalus Mountain (elevation 2,013 feet, above Honolulu), but is subject to mysterious incidents of sabotage which may involve his girl friend Angela (Diana Muldaur). McGarrett is frustrated not only by Pareno's attitude, but also by the fact that he has "diplomatic status." Pareno's son Niki (Michael Margotta) is also involved in the plot -- at one point he asks Angela "Why don't you try and persuade me?", with a suggestion of asking for sexual favors. As well, Angela is being blackmailed by a former lover who "took some pictures" of her. Who done it becomes more obvious as the suspects are eliminated, but overall it's an OK show. Features the car on fire in the main titles -- during this sequence, the car is initially seen racing up the narrow Tantalus Mountain road, but when it crashes and explodes, it's on a wider road with a line down the middle and a "parking lane." McGarrett later refers to this accident as "a car over the cliff" -- "a car running into a cliff at the side of the road" would be more correct. Jimmy Borges appears uncredited as one of the "official scrutineers of the Sports Car Clubs of America."
William Shatner hams his way through his role as Texas private investigator Sam Tolliver who visits Hawaii to help his friend Wallace Shuster (Bill Edwards) get free of an insidous blackmail scheme, but ends up wanting to get in on the operation himself. Shatner seems to be having a good time, overpronouncing words like "bid-ness" and "dee-vorce" with a thick accent. Marlow plays William Speer, boss of the blackmailers, and does a good job, but lacks a certain malevolent omnipresence which one might expect. McGarrett orders the Five-O crew to check "every company that uses telex communications." Tolliver uses a videotape machine to turn the tables on Larry Toba (Tom Fujiwara), one of the blackmailers, and there is mention of satellite technology. The script wraps up things a bit too quickly at the end. Tolliver's family are being held captive back in Texas by associates of Speer, but once the bad guys are captured, McGarrett merely throws the matter over to the Texas cops to deal with and the show ends! A "real" phone number -- 589-0589 -- is used. Interestingly, McGarrett and Tolliver meet only at the end and are never seen in the same shot! I wonder if the fact that Jack Lord was under consideration for Captain Kirk in Star Trek (until he asked for too much money) resulted in some kind of ill feelings between himself and Shatner?
Danno is killing seemingly innocent kid victims again (see #5) in a show which also touches on gun control issues. John Rubenstein is the obnoxious brother of the shot boy, spouting anti-cop clichés at McGarrett and Danno like "gestapo" and "stormtrooper." There is a stock shot of the ambulance arriving at the hospital. During an impromptu press conference during a cop's funeral, McGarrett says that Danno has been a policeman for 10 years. There's a funny scene where Chin Ho is rummaging through a Goodwill box for evidence, to the amusement of people in the neighborhood, especially when he pulls out a brassiere. When Chin identifies himself as a cop, one kid says, "You're sure not Robin Hood!" Seth Sakai is Dr. Natanoa, Lynne Kimoto appears very briefly as Nurse Tofu [sic!!].
Things don't seem to be going well for Wo Fat, who is assisted by the "bungling" Carl Tu (Dannny Kamekona) and falling into disfavor with Peking as a result. Still, Wo manages to get hold of an ICBM guidance device, which brings the stern Jonathan Kaye (Joe Sirola) and numerous other big shots to Hawaii. McGarrett meets with Kaye in the top-secret defense installation in Diamond Head crater. McGarrett arrives by helicopter and when he departs, they are too cheap to film the copter taking off -- instead, they just run the arrival sequence backwards. When Che Fong is test-firing a gun, smoke can be seen coming out of Harry Endo's nose and mouth! (I asked Harry Endo about this at the Five-O Convention. He said that he never smoked and he doubted that the room was that cold!) When a piece of a rare African violet becomes a clue, McGarrett tells the Five-O men to check with "the garden society ... nurseries, garden supply dealers." Robert Nelson, Wo's tall henchman, identified in the credits as "Assassin 1" is addressed as "Chow Lee." Chin Ho drives a car with license number X-9404. The car that kills Chin's cousin George has the license BC-9517. The "military theme" is heard. The finale, where McGarrett throws Wo's phony passport on his desk in a rage, is a classic.
Army based computer technician Jack Gulley (Clu Gulager) kidnaps a scientist and tries to sell him to the government making the highest bid, first setting up three friends to pull off a payroll heist to distract the cops' attention. During the terrific gun battle during the robbery, someone is walking behind the action without the slightest concern. The way Danno makes a connection between Gulley and his hideout near the show's end is highly improbable. This show uses the background noise from a "heavy duty compressor pump" as an audio clue, similar to the "pile driver" sound of episode #214. Several stock music cues are used -- the military theme, violin themes (two of them), and "trombone interval" theme. There's also a stock shot of ambulances driving on the freeway and the cop car from the first season titles. Jonathan Kaye is played for the first time by Bill Edwards, and Wright Esser, Interpol boss Karl Albrecht in #88-89, The 90 Second War, is diamond merchant Vandervort. Ted Nobriga appears briefly as a surgeon. Michael Conrad looks like Frankenstein's monster when he escapes from the hospital and finds his way to Gulley's girlfriend's apartment. Her phone number is 589-0599, by the way. And speaking of phone numbers, we get a close peek at the "batphone" on McGarrett's desk which has the number 555-2368. The pushbuttons range from 2368 to 2379, with 2373 being red in color. Gulley phones on local 2371.
A pretty rank "contemporary issues show." At the beginning we are kept in the dark until one of the characters (William Valentine as Jacob Kalima) is murdered. Danno finally reveals Kalima's occupation as the camera moves in for a closeup: "He tracked down venereal disease." One of the people Kalima meets with before his death, Linda Rynak (Gaye Nelson), is supposedly an 18-year-old high school student, but she looks more like 14. Linda gets infected from having sex with her clean-cut boyfriend Walter Clyman (Dirk Benedict). Then Linda "does it" with upcoming politician James Trevor Warren (Linden Chiles), while working as a volunteer on his campaign. Described as "one man in a generation," Warren spouts Kennedy-like rhetoric (with a Kennedy-like accent) to an assembly of students. After Linda is also found murdered, her father (Lou Frizzel) says a "crazy, doped-up hippie" must have done it. Rynak flies off the handle, beating Walter to a pulp and then tries to shoot Warren after he finds some pictures in Linda's scrapbook of the two of them with suggestive messages. (He says that Warren and Linda must have had "sex like animals.") McGarrett arrives on the scene to save Warren and take him to the Five-O office ... but hold on, it's only the end of Act Three! The plot thickens as Warren's estranged wife is understandably upset at getting infected, hissing to her husband's campaign workers over the phone: "He gave me [long pause] syphilis." The true killer of Kalima and Linda is finally revealed as Warren's secretary Jean Holland (Mary Frann), who says of Linda: "Beneath all that innocence, filth ... disease." During the investigation, McGarrett tells Danno to check every car at Linda's school. While Danno and Ben are interviewing Sophie Norris (Ellen Blake), one of the people in the chain of disease, they hardly make any effort to keep the proceedings confidential! Stock laboratory shots to do with V.D. are seen. The "violin" theme is heard numerous times.
This show can only be described as "bizarre." Danno just happens to be out horseback riding and just happens to stumble across several conspirators planning the assassination of a visiting Chinese dignitary who just happens to be the central focus of the episode. Not only that, Danno is pursued by the bad guys, who shoot his horse which falls, causing Danno to become dazed. Yet he manages to struggle through the underbrush and come out on a cliff where he just happens to jump from a considerable height into the back of a dump truck filled with sand and knock himself out. Yeah, right... Aside from this plot weirdness, the show does have a few interesting angles on improving American-Chinese relations of the period -- McGarrett says, "The world turns, Duke.". There's a peculiar scene when Ben and Danno return to the riding stables -- Ben touches Danno's arm after Danno freaks at the sound like a gun, and Danno suddenly recoils. (Why don't they ask the owner of the stables more questions about what Danno was doing there, by the way?) Good music by Shores -- the "military theme" is heard when Hummel (Keenan Wynn) is looking at pictures of his son, who was killed in Korea. There are weird camera angles during the explosion at the end. In a scene at the airport, the shot where the camera completely rolls over is taken from #34, Leopard on the Rock.
This show, the only three-parter of the series, is one of the best. The major actors (Harold Gould, Luther Adler, Robert Drivas, Don Knight) all give excellent performances, and many of the Five-O stock performers (Arthur Hee, Moki Palacio, Yankee Chang, David Espinda, Galen Kam, Robert Costa, Beau Vanden Ecker) are on hand as well. There are freeze-frames employed during a courtroom sequence in part one, and when McGarrett looks out his office to the building across the street in part two. When Peter Makros, who blows up McGarrett's car, is found dead, his Social Security card has the number 547-10-8522 and was issued on 2/14/62. The phone number on a real estate sign in part three has only 6 digits -- 939-802. Robert Luck plays Sullivan, who was "pushing junk to high school kids." During the final show, lawyer Harvey Mathieson Drew (John Stalker) is being blackmailed by the elder Vashon. Drew's young male lover Bobb Raisbeck (John Beatty) says "You're getting what's coming to you, you old queen." Kwan Hi Lim plays the Vashons' very slimy henchman Tosaki.
A very cool opening sequence to this show -- but one wonders why absolutely no one sees the cops planting the phony bombs! The rest of the episode, which deals with Hawaiian nationalism (having the islands spoiled by "long haired freaks" and "damned hippie communes") compounded with bomb threats from Abraham Meleha (Manu Tupou) and Danno's efforts to deactivate the bombs, is not on this level but still enjoyable. McGarrett makes a big speech to the "radical seven" who have been imprisoned for a bomb blast which killed a woman, telling them that "nobody is above the law." (When the woman dies in the hospital, the "memories" theme is heard. Prior to her expiry, McGarrett speaks to her, saying "Hi, honey"!) McGarrett orders Five-O to check "hardware stores and other suppliers" for wire and clocks. I wonder why the "digital battery-operated clock" used as a trigger device for Meleha's bombs ticks! Meleha suggests to one of his co-conspirators that the government will "hang our blood brothers" despite the fact that there is no capital punishment in Hawaii. Beau Vanden Ecker plays Ellsworth, a cop who sets up a diversion to test the security of courthouse. An Underwood typewriter with broken letters provides valuable clues.
This episode is priceless, and should be in any fan's top ten. The script by Jerome Coopersmith, direction by Bob Sweeney and the score by Morton Stevens are all outstanding, as are the photography and the acting by the family of scammers: Andy Griffith as Arnold Lovejoy, Joyce Van Patten as his wife Rhoda and Kimberly Louis as their precocious daughter Melissa. There are some great sequences: McGarrett arrives at the home of gangster Charlie Walters (Bob Basso) and pushes Walters' goon Willie (Nick Nickolas) out of the way as he enters; Walters' thugs blast the shit out of a door with their guns, and then Willie breaks it down anyway; Walters shoots Frank Bitrell (Bryan da Silva), one of his bagmen and when Willie asks, "Suppose he was telling us the truth?" Walters says, "I made a terrible mistake"; and the scene at the beginning where a guy gets brass knuckles in the face. Harold Sakata (of Goldfinger fame), Seth Sakai as Shibata and Moe Keale (the last uncredited) are three low-level gangsters who want to muscle in on Walters' action. The ending of this film where Ben flashes his badge to the Lovejoy family is hilarious. Some license numbers seen during the show: 3E-3193 (a taxi); 9C-3322 (Shibata's car); and 2E-2557 (Walters' limo). When Lovejoy imitates a cop, he has badge number 795. Kwan Hi Lim appears as the boat captain Quan. A real street corner is shown -- Waialae Ave. (3640 block) and Kokohead Avenue (1200 block). It takes 5 minutes and 16 seconds after the beginning of the first act before the main titles finally appear. At one point Melissa says she wants to go to a "GP" movie ... According to an explanation by Motion Picture Association of America boss Jack Valenti: "[O]n November 1, 1968, we announced the birth of the new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry.... The initial design called for four rating categories: G for General Audiences, all ages admitted; M for mature audiences -- parental guidance suggested, but all ages admitted; R for Restricted, children under 16 would not be admitted without an accompanying parent or adult guardian; (later raised to under 17 years of age, (and varies in some jurisdictions)); X for no one under 17 admitted ... We found early on that the M category (M meaning "Mature") was regarded by most parents as a sterner rating than the R category. To remedy this misconception, we changed the name from M to GP (meaning General audiences, Parental guidance suggested). A year later we revised the name to its current label, 'PG: Parental Guidance Suggested.'"
The first Five-O appearance by Richard Hatch ("Richard Lawrence Hatch" in the credits) is by far the best of his three. He plays an egomaniacal slimeball named Gar who teams up with Nina (Meg Foster) to sell not only their own child to a California adoption agency run by equally sleazy Eugene Goodman (Richard Anderson), but to kidnap other children, all to make money to buy a boat and "be free." Both of them are living with no apparent means of support. Gar at one point says, "having a kid around for one night gets to be a drag." At the beginning of the show, Gar ditches his car (license number E-4978) by the airport and wipes it clean of fingerprints. But he forgets to wipe the passenger side lock and window handle (when he rolls the window, nothing seems to happen). As Gar takes a cab to the airport, his voice is looped with someone's other than Hatch's. When Gar and Nina deliver a child to Anderson, he wonders about them and their friends: "Haven't you people ever heard of The Pill?" When the kidnapped kid's parents broadcast an emotional appeal on TV several days later, of course Gar and Nina are watching! McGarrett compares the most recent kidnapping to a previous case, and wants Danno to check hospitals for footprints and fingerprints of both missing children. Then he wants the Five-O team to "get in touch with every state adoption agency in the country ... Check the identities of every Hawaiian infant born within the last six months who's been adopted anywhere." McGarrett is very stern throughout the show. Che Fong determines that the forged birth certificates were from the same printing company producing a business card for Gregory Ray, Insurance Agent at 3045 Pualei Circle, Honolulu (923-1256). (I don't follow the logic of this.) The printing company is called Speedoprint and the owner is Moe Keale playing "Keale" (identified in the end credits as "Alton"). Chin Ho smokes his pipe. The highlight of this show is where one of the kidnapped kids slobbers all over the arm of Meg Foster. There's another funny scene where Ben fingerprints a screaming child. The trombone interval theme is heard.
Patty Duke plays against type in portraying Toni, a tough broad in jail who makes a deal with McGarrett to testify against local hoodlum Manola (the very un-Hawaiian-looking Lane Bradford) in exchange for getting married and having a honeymoon, all under "protective custody." She says that McGarrett gets "right to the mother-lovin' point." When McGarrett and Manicote go out in the jail hallway to discuss the deal, it's quite likely Toni can hear every word! Toni uses the word "pregnant" (which she is). She describes herself and her boyfriend Marty (Larry Kert) as "like virgins." McGarrett gets romantic with old flame Margo (Carol Lawrence), a newspaperwoman who is covering the deal with Toni and Marty. McGarrett gives Margo a deep kiss as the "memories" theme is heard. There is even talk of marriage between the two! Of their past relationship, Margo says "we had something special going," and refers to McGarrett and herself as "consenting adults." The place where Manola commits the murder which Toni witnesses looks very much like the place where James Hong got knocked off in #24. Incidentally, Larry Kert & Carol Lawrence originated the roles of Tony & Maria in West Side Story on Broadway in 1957.
A diabolical psycho/electronics genius calling himself Cerberus (Greg Mullavey) bugs the office, home and car (red Cadillac, license #28-402) of psychiatrist Eric Fowler (Robert Foxworth). In his heavy breathing voice, Cerberus speaks of a "dirty little perversion." Fowler's phone number is 555-6321, a pay phone that Cerberus uses is 768-3200. Winston Char appears as Doctor Barnes. In Che Fong's lab, there are several direct link "batphones" on the wall. One is for HPD Liaison, one for the phone company, another for the FCC and yet another for McGarrett's office. Danno and Fowler change clothes at one point -- should be interesting, since Danno is somewhat shorter. As usual, Five-O was years ahead of its time -- Cerberus the psycho works for the Post Office!
This show is dumb. Danno is seen taking off in a helicopter from the Ala Wai Heliport (see #49) -- later claimed to be a "field north of Diamond Head" -- and eventually returns there. But later it's suggested that he was tricked by lights on the ground into believing he was flying to a different location than the intended one. I wonder if this lack of logic has anything to do with the fact that James MacArthur seems rather pissed off prior to the trip? This copter flight isn't the only thing about this episode that is far-fetched. The elaborate scam by which Barry Dean (Monte Markham) knocks off his boss Fleming (Douglas Kennedy) in cahoots with Fleming's wife June (Madlyn Rhue) is so complicated that it's almost like science-fiction. When Dean's identity card is shown close up, it reveals he lives at 124 Kahala Avenue, is 6 feet tall, 35 years old, weighs 185 pounds, has blue eyes and blond hair. When McGarrett introduces insurance investigator Bella Morgan (Sandra Smith) to Danno, he remarks, "She's very bright as you can see, so be careful." Bella helps Five-O catch Dean in what seems like a classic case of entrapment! In McGarrett's office there is a football team picture on his wall. Doug Mossman appears as a security guard. Wo Fat is claimed to have two doubles. Keith Bailey finds Danno's behavior inappropriate in this episode: "[During] the sequence where Danno waits in the living room for the bad guy to 'get his heart checked,' he goes to the hi-fi, does a crossword. . . and also has an alcoholic beverage at the bar. A policeman can't drink on duty (and Danno was there on an important police matter)."
Richard Basehart plays Donald Murdock, a wheelchair-bound developer who arranges for $40 million in untraceable stock to be stolen to help finance his latest venture. His "main man" is Laughlin, played by Ron Hayes. At the beginning of the show, Laughlin and Martin Johnson (John Farlas) are trying to disable an alarm system when they are surprised by a security guard. Laughlin knocks out the guard, killing him instantly! Laughlin's underlings include Jersey Fraser (Morgan Sha'an) driving a car with license number 3E-3640, Nephi Hanneman as Yoko (usually a woman's name), license number 2E-5373 and Daws Dawson as Linc (4E-5594). Stock shots of cop cars, including one from #36 near the bank. Danny Kamekona appears briefly at the beginning as computer expert Stan Cooper who is murdered, Bill Bigelow is Beaufort. McGarrett tells Ben to "check all freight terminals and the post office."
A very good show focusing on international intrigue. Mark Lenard makes up for his embarrassing performance in #25, To Hell With Babe Ruth, playing Roglov, a former Russian spy who is living in protective custody. At the beginning of the show, McGarrett visits Bill Druthers (Bill Edwards), a Jonathan Kaye-like bigshot in Washington, where snow can be seen falling outside Druthers' window. When McGarrett and Roglov shoot questions at the multiple-personalitied character played by Nehemiah Persoff while he is taking a lie detector test, the frequency of the questions seems highly unorthodox. There are stock shots of cop cars seen. Why does McGarrett's car have flags on its antenna at one point?
People who watch this show soon after #78, ...And I Want Some Candy and a Gun that Shoots, will blink twice at some of the footage. Major chunks of this episode about two kidnappers who hold cops at bay from a bunker above the highway are taken directly from the previous one. The reason for this (told to me by star Ron Feinberg) was the previous episode was too violent to rebroadcast, but producer Leonard Freeman wanted to reuse some of the material, so this new show was virtually written around this footage for Feinberg. In #78, two cops come to the aid of a woman whose tires are shot out by a crazed marksman. One of the cops, Tom Ewa (Arte McCullough), who was shot in #78, returns to the scene and is shot while climbing the hill to the bunker. He falls down the cliff to the road where he stumbles to the side of the car where he was lying in #78 with Beau van den Ecker. (The second shot cop in #116 is Oriental.) Ewa dies later. Other re-used footage includes:
-- a cop car has its flashing light shot out
-- a cop car has its tires flattened
-- McGarrett drives to the scene beside backed-up traffic accompanied by an ambulance
-- McGarrett gets out of his car
-- in a scene which is not exactly the same (but almost like an outtake), McGarrett orders Danno to get a helicopter because "we're gonna need some eyes"
-- cops getting dressed in protective gear
-- cops move behind a moving car as a shield (the car has the same license number)
-- cops in protective gear run across the road to help their injured buddies
-- they put the wounded cops in their car (seen through shot-out window)
-- Danno says the chopper is on the way
-- McGarrett speaks to the shot Tommy Ewa, Danno examines the dead second cop, same ambulance attendants as previous show
-- McGarrett speaks to Duke, takes bullhorn
-- the helicopter arrives, McGarrett tells Danno to stay out of the range of the rifle
-- shot from the helicopter of the bunker, Danno says the "roof juts out quite a ways"
-- stock shots of the HPD computer
-- a shot flying over cars backed up on the highway
-- the HPD communications van arrives, McGarrett opens the door (in #78 Kono is seen inside, the editing in #116 cleverly replaces him with another cop)
-- near the end of the show, the helicopter drops tear gas on the bunker (several shots)
-- McGarrett, wearing a bulletproof vest, leads a squadron of cops to the foot of the hill
-- a scene of the cops climbing the hillside (Kono is edited out of this scene again)
There's yet another reference to a different earlier show. In #12, Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember, Ron ("Ronald" in #116) Feinberg, playing the "developmentally delayed" Benny Apa (his character in #116 is a Korean war veteran who is merely "fatigued") has a big secret not revealed until the show's end: he doesn't have a driver's license. Feinberg's character in #116, Luther, kills the Oriental cop at the beginning because he doesn't have a driver's license as well. As in the previous sniper show, the assault on the bunker is total overkill. Nina Foch appears as Marion Scott, grandmother of the kidnapped girl, who tells McGarrett that "Debbie was born out of wedlock."
At the beginning of the show, a Physician's [sic] Ambulance is seen, but it's identified by a magnetic stick-on sign on its rear door. A stock shot depicting Seoul, Korea is actually a Chinese city, presumably Hong Kong. Chin Ho is seen in a full-length coat, though it doesn't seem particularly cold! McGarrett is too clever in this show. When McGarrett asks to see suspect's Sinclair's hands, Sinclair says he didn't know McGarrett went in for palm reading. McGarrett replies: "I have all sorts of interesting hobbies." Sinclair is played by Douglas Kennedy, who was Fleming in #113, Here Today, Gone Tonight and is also the foreman in #120, Jury of One. Kwan Hi Lim with a moustache is the oily "investment dealer" Yoshigo and Seth Sakai plays the Korean casino boss Kuang. The "memories" theme is heard briefly. When Howard, played by Mitch Mitchell, falls from his apartment building (stock shot), a woman screams, as usual.
Perhaps Kam Fong's most dramatic performance, as Chin Ho has to face the fact that his daughter Alia (Irene Tsu) is involved with Rono Vidalgo (Erik Estrada), a punk whose father Shako (Simon Oakland) is boss of a local vending machine racket. Shako is in a wheelchair with a cop's bullet in his spine. (Interesting this comes only 4 shows after The Odd Lot Caper, also starring a major character in a wheelchair.) When Chin raids Shako's company, Shako calls him "Pork Chop." Chin freaks out totally when he confronts one of Shako's goons Bertie (Donald Roessler) in McGarrett's office. An invoice from Shako's Star Island Company is shown for an order of "boxes of dynamite fuse" from the Stonehurst Construction Company, 28000 Kilho Blvd., Honolulu 96816. When an undercover cop takes pictures of Rono and Alia, one view from the rear of the car is totally wrong, since the cop is parked to the left front of Rono's Cadillac (license number 5B-7032). A car wired with a bomb that Bertie parks early in the show has an unusual license -- 7B-60. Yankee Chang appears as pool hall owner Harold Hanolo. One of Kam Fong's favorite episodes.
A crappy episode, mainly because of the lack of character development of the two leads, the "international trade broker"/counter-intelligence agent Djebara (Eric Braeden, in his last Five-O appearance) and "one of the last of the royal families of Indochina," Madame Souvang (Beulah Quo, whose accent is very hokey). The first act is exceptionally boring. When McGarrett meets Djebara's young daughter, he says "Hi, honey." This show is the source of the shot of Ben jumping over the fence in the main titles. There is a stock shot of driving in downtown Honolulu and the violin theme is heard a couple of times as well as the fade-in/fade out trumpets theme. Djebara's house is at 2861 Manoa Road. Pawnbroker Willard Allen's (Melvin Cobb) house number is 4105 and although his shop looks like it's on Hotel Street, he lives in a pretty classy neighborhood (the house seems familiar from a previous show). Djebara's station wagon has an unusual license number -- 3A-82. A good quote from McGarrett regarding a crook who has arthritis: "He couldn't open a can of cat food." McGarrett snaps his fingers eight times in one scene! When he and Danno find the body of cat burglar Sam York (a pretty agile old geezer, judging from his work at the show's beginning), there is a very subtle change in focus between the two when Danno is on the phone trying to call the lab. (Che Fong is in the end credits despite the fact he isn't seen in the show.) McGarrett promptly whips out his magnifying glass for the second time to check out the contact print hidden in the phone's mouthpiece. Bernie's Cab has the 732-5577 phone number. When McGarrett and Danno are on the radio in their cars, their lips sometimes don't match what they're saying. A sign in Japanese in the Ala Moana Shopping Center at the end says, "Don't hesitate to speak casual Japanese" (it's hard to translate!). The end is very confusing. When and where did Mme. Souvang get the film (supposedly stolen back from York by Djebara) which she turns over to the Russian agent (John Stalker, "Pale Man" in the credits)?
An interesting show, with Five-O having to figure out who is the lone holdout on a jury. Galen Kam and Terry Plunkett are two of the twelve, Bill Bigelow is the bailiff. Che Fong, identified as working for the "Hawaii Five-O crime laboratory," testifies in court. As McGarrett meets Duke on the steps of the Palace, he puts his hand on Duke's shoulder as they walk and then pats him on the back as they part. When the holdout, Clifford Sprague (Ray Buktenica), is confronted by one of the female jury members who wants him to give reasons why he won't vote "guilty," he says to her, "Don't tell me a male chauvinist pig hater like you believes in women's intuition." There are stock shots of driving and ambulances. No featured players in the cast at the end. Don "Lance" Over gives a good performance as the stern Judge Phillips.