History Trivia / HawaiiFiveO

* FakeAmerican: A more traditional one turns up in "To Die In Paradise," with British actress Pamela Franklin as kidnapped country singer Bobbie Jo Bell. (Much like Jane Seymour and Creator/EmilyBlunt, Pamela Franklin played American as is not ''more'' often than she played her own nationality.

** Played straight in one episode that had scenes set in the Philippines... which were more likely shot in Hawaii. Though considering the superficial similarities and how many Filipinos were in Hawaii even during the time the series first aired, it's partially justified.

** Tim O'Kelly as Danno, Creator/LewAyres as The Governor and James Gregory as State Department official Jonathan Kaye (a recurring character on the series) in the pilot movie; Ayres later guested on the series (twice, in different roles), as did pilot cast members Andrew Duggan (four times!) and Creator/LeslieNielsen. Kaye, meanwhile, was played by a total of '''six''' different actors.

* PlayingAgainstType: Andy Griffith is a con artist in "I'm a Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!"

** [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 Ego the Living Planet]] is an Eastern European gymnast [[spoiler: who moonlights as a jewel smuggler/murderer]] in "Deadly Doubles."

* FakeAmerican: A more traditional one turns up in "To Die In Paradise," with British actress Pamela Franklin as kidnapped country singer Bobbie Jo Bell. (Much like Creator/JaneSeymour and Creator/EmilyBlunt, Pamela Franklin played American as is not ''more'' often than she played her own nationality.
FakeBrit: While in "Termination with Extreme Prejudice" the very British Lady Sybil Danby is play by actual Brit Juliet MillLord Charles Danby

** In "Ready, Aim.....," Fijian Manu Tupou and Vietnamese-French France Nuyen are cast as Japanese.(she plays an actual Hawaiian in "Small Witness, Large Crime.")

Elaine Joyce plays a prostitute is season 2's "Just Lucky, I Guess" and season 9's "Oldest Profession - Latest Price [[spoiler:Her character ''doesn't'' murdered in the latter.]

* TheDanza: Averted with the main cast, but in "Number One With A Bullet," in a crossover with CastTheExpert, genuinely Hawaiian singer Yvonne Elliman (''Music/JesusChristSuperstar'', ''Film/SaturdayNightFever'') plays aspiring singer Yvonne Kanekoa.

** In "Ready, Aim.....," Fijian Manu Tupou and Vietnamese-French France Nuyen are cast as Japanese.

** The episode used to be on YouTube (CBS can look askance on such things, so it gets pulled quickly).

** Mexican actor [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Ricardo Montalban]] gets it twice: as the Japanese Tokura in "Samurai" and as European race car driver Alex Pareno in "Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain". At least they weren't in the same season (although seeing these episodes back-to-back in reruns can be jarring...).
** Mark Lenard, alias [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Sarek]], played a Japanese saboteur in "To Hell With Babe Ruth" with the intensely European Will Kuluva also cast as a Japanese. Oh dear. (Then again, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Lenard's role was originally meant for Ricardo Montalban]]. As Karen Rhodes put it in her book on the series ''Booking '''Hawaii Five-O''''', "apparently a Japanese actor wasn't considered.")

* WrittenByCastMember: As well as playing the title role in "Stringer," guest star Paul Williams also has co-story credit.

** Tim O'Kelly as Danno, Lew Ayres as The Governor and James Gregory as State Department official Jonathan Kaye (a recurring character on the series) in the pilot movie; Ayres later guested on the series (twice, in different roles), as did pilot cast members Andrew Duggan (four times!) and Creator/LeslieNielsen. Kaye, meanwhile, was played by a total of '''six''' different actors.

** Steve [=McGarrett=] comes face to face with his double in "The Ninety-Second War, Part I".
** And in "Welcome to Our Branch Office", where criminals have set up a phony Five-O office with simulacra of our heroes, three of the main four are impersonated by people with similar attributes -- but the fake Danny Williams, like the ''real'' Danny Williams, is played by James [=MacArthur=] (in the end credits, "Fake Danny" is the only one of the four not listed).

** Andrew Duggan, also a government agent in the pilot [[spoiler: (but unlike Nielsen's character, he turned out to be TheMole)]], appeared in five other episodes, usually as a villain.

** The episode is on YouTube, but the copies are pretty bad.

** Creator/BruceBoxleitner appeared three times as different characters -- and two of them were in the ''same season''!