HAWAII FIVE-O ON DVD

According to the WWW site WWW site TVShowsonDVD.com, Season Four of Hawaii Five-O will be released on June 10, 2008. You can see the cover art by clicking on this link.

Season Three of Hawaii Five-O was released on DVD on January 22nd, 2008. Artwork for the third season box set appears on the left.

Season Two of Hawaii Five-O was released on DVD on July 31st, 2007.

The set does not include the suppressed episode "Bored She Hung Herself" as per a disclaimer on the back of the box, which also says that some episodes are edited. These omissions were only revealed in the last two weeks prior to July 31st when people began to receive review copies of the set; prior to this, web sites suggested that the season was "complete" and would include the suppressed episode, based on information supplied by Paramount.

In the second season box set, the main titles are actually the main titles from season one -- Paramount/CBS seemingly never bothered to remaster these. The only difference in the second season titles is the line "as Dan Williams" instead of "as Danny" for James MacArthur's credit. If this is the case, then all the second season DVD episodes are "edited." I've also been told that the main titles for the last season two episode -- "Kiss the Queen Goodbye" -- uses the theme music from season one.

On the positive side, the set does include the previews for the next episode (with one exception), which are placed on the DVDs prior to the episodes they refer to. These previews look remarkably cleaned up, similar to the shows themselves.

I have updated my usual "anal-ysis" for "Bored She Hung Herself" with a new and lengthy synopsis of the complete plot of the episode, as well as the beginning and end credits. To see this, click on this link.

P.S.: This episode has been uploaded to Usenet newsgroups as well as file-sharing and torrent web sites. I will not provide information on how you can get the show via these methods!

The first season, available on DVD since March, 2007, is a 7 disc set with all 23 episodes, plus "Cocoon," the pilot movie, for a total time of 21 hours, 10 mins, and 40 seconds.

The only "extra" with the first season DVD box set is the documentary "Emme Tomimbang's Island Moments: Memories of Hawaii Five-O," a 45-minute-long show that aired in October 1996 on KHNL, NBC affiliate in Honolulu, at the time of the first Hawaii Five-O reunion. In this show, James MacArthur is the co-host with Honolulu TV personality Emme Tomimbang as they reminisce with various cast and crew. Persons featured include Rose Freeman, Marie Lord (Jack Lord's wife), Zulu (Gilbert Kauhi), Glenn Cannon, Kam Fong, Harry Endo, Jimmy Borges and others. This show has been edited since its original broadcast to remove any film clips from shows later than the first season.

Be warned if you purchase DVDs of the show on Ebay and other Internet sites, especially complete sets: anything after the fourth season is not official and is either taken from dubs of TV broadcasts or the Columbia House video tape episodes which are now out of print.