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[Brian Flagg]

Season five question: Does Duke Lukela appear in the season five credits? Duke and Ben join the show in season five and while I remember Ben's appearance in the credits, I don't recall if Duke is included. Is he?

[Napoleon Solo]

Season five question: Does Duke Lukela appear in the season five credits? Duke and Ben join the show in season five and while I remember Ben's appearance in the credits, I don't recall if Duke is included. Is he?

Duke (Herman Wedemeyer) doesn't make the opening titles until season 9. He's only listed in the end titles until then.

[Brian Flagg]

I like Richard Shores' score for the Five-O fourth season episode, "Air Cargo--Dial For Murder." Lots of funky riffs with guitar and synths. He's probably the best composer no one ever heard of! As the episode was going along, I just knew it had to be Shores: catchy with dissonance and helping the story and on-screen action along with ease. He was brilliant. He also did good work for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s fourth season.

[Napoleon Solo]

I like Richard Shores' score for the Five-O fourth season episode, "Air Cargo--Dial For Murder." Lots of funky riffs with guitar and synths. He's probably the best composer no one ever heard of! As the episode was going along, I just knew it had to be Shores: catchy with dissonance and helping the story and on-screen action along with ease. He was brilliant. He also did good work for The Man From U.N.C.L.E.'s fourth season.

He also shows up as a composer on The Wild, Wild West, Perry Mason and The Girl From U.N.C.L.E. (which probably helped him get the MFU gig for that show's final season). Shores was a very good, very unheralded TV composer.

[Brian Flagg]

While we're on the subject of music, I believe that season 11's "Number One With a Bullet" will suffer from music replacement issues. IIRC, there was lots of Disco music, including the original Bee Gees songs. While this release is still a couple years down the road in terms of its DVD release, I believe that there will be some editing of this two-part episode.

[Napoleon Solo]

While we're on the subject of music, I believe that season 11's "Number One With a Bullet" will suffer from music replacement issues. IIRC, there was lots of Disco music, including the original Bee Gees songs. While this release is still a couple years down the road in terms of its DVD release, I believe that there will be some editing of this two-part episode.

You might be on to something, Brian. I have a very bad VHS copy of this two-parter and it'd be a shame if it were cut because of music clearance issues. It's probably the best that season 11 has to offer.

Edited by Napoleon Solo, 01 July 2008 - 11:24 PM.

[Napoleon Solo]

Here's the first episode where Duke (Herman Wedemeyer) appeared in the main titles:

[Brian Flagg]

Paramount has already snipped a music number from S3's "Trouble In Mind." When McGarrett goes to question Nancy Wilson at the Hula Bowl, the rehearsal of "Honeysuckle Rose" is cut. Not a big deal, but they did cut it.

[Napoleon Solo]

In the 1971-72 season, Hawaii Five-O suddenly opened up what was fair game for writers to put into episodes. Examples:

-- "Didn't We Meet at a Murder?" Three "ordinary" people are recruited to make a hit on a Chicago mob boss. One of the three was blackmailed into participating because he is a "homosexual transvestite."

-- "Skinhead" the accused rapist is really impotentent but wants to be implicated in the crimes so he appears to be a sexually active male.

-- "Cloth of Gold" the first of the murdered victims "liked to watch" videotaped sex sessions. The killer took vengeance on three men who hooked on an under-age girl who was videotaped having sex on drugs. Overall, a creepy episode where Five-O fails to prevent a single murder and can't catch the killer before he commits suicide.

[TheSaint]

Hope you don't mind my merging your Season 4 thread into this one, Napoleon. Since we talk about different seasons in this thread I thought I'd keep them all under one roof, so to speak.

[Napoleon Solo]

Hope you don't mind my merging your Season 4 thread into this one, Napoleon. Since we talk about different seasons in this thread I thought I'd keep them all under one roof, so to speak.

No problem here.

[Blofeld's Cat]

OOPS!

Looks like CBS/Paramount have stuffed up the initial artwork for Season 5, due out Nov 18.

LOL!

[Brian Flagg]

Can't wait, as usual! I guess Al "Ben" Harrington *really* wasn't liked on that show! (despite having the most impressive intro in the credits, other than McGarrett's, of course.)

[Napoleon Solo]

Can't wait, as usual! I guess Al "Ben" Harrington *really* wasn't liked on that show! (despite having the most impressive intro in the credits, other than McGarrett's, of course.)

I will always remember Zulu hanging out with fans watching episodes at the 1996 convention in Los Angeles. A fifth-season show was put in the projector (yes a film projector). He let out with a "Booooo!" when Al Harrington's appearance in the main titles. It was quite amusing (and seemed like good-natured kidding, at least to me).

[TheSaint]

I e-mailed TVShowsonDvd about the mistake on the cover, and was told that they had contacted CBS/P in the hopes that it's not too late to correct the mistake.

[Blofeld's Cat]

I e-mailed TVShowsonDvd about the mistake on the cover, and was told that they had contacted CBS/P in the hopes that it's not too late to correct the mistake.

Yeah, they actually noted that in their article. The whole thing's quite funny, really.

[Brian Flagg]

Can't wait, as usual! I guess Al "Ben" Harrington *really* wasn't liked on that show! (despite having the most impressive intro in the credits, other than McGarrett's, of course.)

I will always remember Zulu hanging out with fans watching episodes at the 1996 convention in Los Angeles. A fifth-season show was put in the projector (yes a film projector). He let out with a "Booooo!" when Al Harrington's appearance in the main titles. It was quite amusing (and seemed like good-natured kidding, at least to me).

I think that Harrington was better at playing the "Syndicate" heavy (as he did on "The Late John Louisiana" and "No Bottles, No Cans, No People") than a member of Five-O. Too bad Jack Lord bounced him to the curb, too. Boy, was Lord a jerk!

[Napoleon Solo]

Can't wait, as usual! I guess Al "Ben" Harrington *really* wasn't liked on that show! (despite having the most impressive intro in the credits, other than McGarrett's, of course.)

I will always remember Zulu hanging out with fans watching episodes at the 1996 convention in Los Angeles. A fifth-season show was put in the projector (yes a film projector). He let out with a "Booooo!" when Al Harrington's appearance in the main titles. It was quite amusing (and seemed like good-natured kidding, at least to me).

I think that Harrington was better at playing the "Syndicate" heavy (as he did on "The Late John Louisiana" and "No Bottles, No Cans, No People") than a member of Five-O. Too bad Jack Lord bounced him to the curb, too. Boy, was Lord a jerk!

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, I suppose. :-)

[Brian Flagg]

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, I suppose. :-)

That sword cut both ways, as Jack's pitiful health demonstrated...

Edited by Brian Flagg, 30 July 2008 - 05:11 PM.

[Napoleon Solo]

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away, I suppose. :-)

That sword cut both ways, as Jack's pitiful health demonstrated...

Based on the extras in the season 1 sets of Hawaii Five-O and Mannix, I think Mannix might have been the more fun show to work on. In either the video interview or audio commentary, Joseph Campanella says something to the effect the star sets the mood of a show.

[Brian Flagg]

RE: The Botched S5 Box Picture.

I don't mind Kono being on the box just so he doesn't still appear in the opening credits!

Anyone else remember Five-O airing late nights as "McGarrett."

[Napoleon Solo]

RE: The Botched S5 Box Picture.

I don't mind Kono being on the box just so he doesn't still appear in the opening credits!

Anyone else remember Five-O airing late nights as "McGarrett."

My copy of "Woe to Wo Fat," the series finale, was recorded as an installment of "McGarrett" on CBS late night, circa 1985. I think only 12th season episodes were shown as "McGarrett" on late night. Besides the altered title, they zapped the "wave" before commecial breaks.

[Blofeld's Cat]

Gawd!!

[TheSaint]

Chris McGarrett? I don't know. The last time they tried to restart 5-0 it only got as far as a pilot, which I hope they include on the eventual 12th season dvd set. I'll take a "wait & see" attitude with this.

[Brian Flagg]

Thankfully, Paramount has corrected the fifth season set's cover art. Now if they don't butcher the episodes with edits, we'll all be fine. I just hope the Vashon family isn't a singing group.

[Napoleon Solo]

Two Five-O related YouTube videos:

1. Jack Lord accepts an Oscar on behalf of the creators of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."



2. Helen Hayes as the mystery celebrity on "What's My Line?" After the panel deduces her identity, there's a reference to James MacArthur.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Just watched an episode with pre-Airplane/Naked Gun Leslie Nielsen, back when he was a serious actor, where he plays a cattle rancher with a Cain and Abel situation concerning his sons on his hand. I thought it was going to end like the really freaky one with Peter Strauss but didn't.

[Napoleon Solo]

Just watched an episode with pre-Airplane/Naked Gun Leslie Nielsen, back when he was a serious actor, where he plays a cattle rancher with a Cain and Abel situation concerning his sons on his hand. I thought it was going to end like the really freaky one with Peter Strauss but didn't.

The freaky episode was "Death With Father" in season 6, written by Anthony Lawrence and directed by Jack Lord. Lawrence wrote a number of episodes with less than happy endings but "Death With Father" may have been the most extreme example.

Nielsen, besides playing the cattle rancher, was also in the pilot as the U.S. intelligence chief in Hawaii.

[PrinceKamalKhan]

Just watched the one where Steve McGarrett solves a murder committed by Max Zorin(a very young Christopher Walken. Probably the youngest I've ever seen him.)

[Brian Flagg]

I'm pleased to see that Five-O's fifth season appears uncut and its original (amazing) underscore is intact! I'm only one disc into it, but have enjoyed Al Harrington as Ben. I'm impressed at how "nice" he is as a Five-O member, a sharp contrast to the two S4 episodes ("No Bottles, No Cans..."; "For a Million, Why Not?") being about as nasty as he could get! I'm looking forward to the Vashon Trilogy.