Line #28 Trivia/HawaiiFiveO


1	* ActingForTwo:
2	** In "A Bullet for El Diablo", Edith Diaz plays the title dictator's daughter and the double who replaces her in an attempt to assassinate him. [[spoiler:(It works.)]]
3	** 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).
4	** In "Deep Cover" Dale Robinette plays a Navy engineer and his lookalike in a spy plot.
5	** In "Labyrinth" Tricia O'Neil plays a plastic surgeon's wife [[spoiler: after reconstructive surgery... which makes her look like the surgeon's mistress played by the same actress]].
6	** Steve [=McGarrett=] comes face to face with his double in "The Ninety-Second War, Part I"; and in "[[SeriesFinale Woe To Wo Fat]]" Jack Lord plays [=McGarrett=] and Prof. Raintree.
7	* ActorSharedBackground: Both Jack Lord and [=McGarrett=] are Capricorns, and have had experience as sailors.
8	* BannedEpisode:
9	** The 1970 episode "Bored, She Hung Herself" was banned after a viewer supposedly died from imitating a deadly yoga technique that looked a lot like AutoeroticAsphyxiation. The episode was barred from ever airing again, not even in syndication, and it's not included on the second season DVD box set.
10	** The 1977 episode "A Capitol Crime" was pulled from syndication after 9/11. The episode is about an old man holding hostages in a courthouse with a bomb strapped to him, which obviously wouldn't play too well after the Twin Towers bombing. It was eventually reinstated in the syndication package.
11	* CreatorBacklash: David Gerrold, in his days as a script typist for Creator/{{CBS}}, had the pilot script as one of his assignments - and he hated the drafts so much they immediately put him off watching the series!
12	* TheDanza: 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. See also Creator/SusanDey as Susan Bradshaw in "Target? - The Lady."
13	* DawsonCasting:
14	** In season 2's "Just Lucky, I Guess", Elaine Joyce played an 18-year-old prostitute; she was in her mid-20s at the time. There were other examples throughout the series... In season 9's "See How She Runs" then 27-year-old Creator/JessicaHarper plays 17-year-old Sunny Mandell.
15	** The then 19-year-old Creator/LindaPurl plays the title role in "The Hostage" namely a teenage (But said to be younger than 19) girl called Ruth.
16	** Averted in "Image Of Fear" with teenage Annie Carter played Katy Kurtzman, aged 13 during filming.
17	* DirectedByCastMember: Jack Lord, of course; in addition to directing six episodes he was also more or less an [[UncreditedRole uncredited executive producer]] (especially after creator and ''actual'' EP Leonard Freeman passed away in 1974).
18	* FakeNationality:
19	** Wo Fat, played by Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese-American Khigh Dhiegh.
20	** Mexican actor Creator/RicardoMontalban gets it twice: as the Japanese Tokura in "Samurai" and as European race car driver Alex Pareno in "Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain".
21	** 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 Montalbán]]. As Karen Rhodes put it in her book on the series ''Booking ''Hawaii Five-O'', "apparently a Japanese actor wasn't considered.")
22	** In "Ready, Aim.....," Fijian Manu Tupou and Vietnamese-French France Nuyen are cast as Japanese. She plays an actual Hawaiian which (would ''also'' make her a FakeAmerican) in "Small Witness, Large Crime".
23	** In "Clash of Shadows", Creator/GeorgeDiCenzo, of Italian descent, played Jewish Nazi hunter Yuri Bloch.
24	* FakeAmerican: A more traditional one turns up in "To Die In Paradise," with British actress Creator/PamelaFranklin as kidnapped country singer Bobbie Jo Bell. Much like [[Creator/JaneSeymourActress Jane Seymour]] and Creator/EmilyBlunt, Pamela Franklin played American ''as'' often, if not ''more'' often than she played her own nationality.
25	* FakeBrit: In "Termination with Extreme Prejudice" the very British Lady Sybil Danby is played by ''actual'' Brit Creator/JulietMills, her husband Lord Charles Danby is played by Australian Murray Matheson.)[[spoiler: Jack Lord briefly in "The Forty-Second War"; his surgically-altered double is a British double agent.]]
26	* FollowTheLeader:
27	** While not the first US drama to be set in exotic climes, or even the first to be set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, Creator/WarnerBros Television beat them to the punch with ''Hawaiian Eye'' in the UsefulNotes/TheFifties... but ''Hawaii Five-O'' was the first to be completely shot on location. (Apart from the odd episode filmed on the mainland like "Once Upon A Time".) [[Creator/QuinnMartin QM Productions]] attempted this three times: with the [[PilotMovie Pilot Movies]] ''Film/CodeNameDiamondHead'' and ''The Paradise Connection'' (with former ''Hawaii Five-O'' guest star Buddy Ebsen as a UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} lawyer looking for his son), but before all of these was the ShortRunner ''Caribe'' (a series which ''Series/CriminalMindsBeyondBorders'' is a SpiritualSuccessor to) set in UsefulNotes/TheCaribbean... [[CaliforniaDoubling But filmed in Florida]] thanks to its TroubledProduction ensuring filming throughout the various individual countries wasn't feasible.
28	** And then of course there were ''Series/MagnumPI'', ''Series/MiamiVice'' and ''Series/DeathInParadise''
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30	* MissingEpisode: See BannedEpisode above.
31	* TheOtherDarrin:
32	** 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; Both Ayres and Gregory later guested on the series (Ayres twice, in different roles, Gregory just once), as did pilot cast members Andrew Duggan (four times!) and Creator/LeslieNielsen. Kaye, meanwhile, was played by a total of '''six''' different actors.
33	** Albert Paulsen played villain Charley Bombay in season two's "Just Lucky, I Guess"; when the character returned in season eight's "[=McGarrett=] Is Missing" he was played by Charles Cioffi (making him TheDanza). He also had his name slightly changed to ''Charlie''.
34	* OutlivedItsCreator: The show outlasted Leonard Freeman by six years.
35	* PlayingAgainstType: Creator/AndyGriffith is a con artist in "I'm a Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!" while Buddy Ebsen as a crooked college professor running a scam involving stolen traveler's checks in "3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu".
36	* PlayingTheirOwnTwin: Sharon Farrell, before becoming a regular, in "Why Won't Linda Die?" [[spoiler: Except it's a subversion - she plays ''one'' woman [[FakeTwinGambit pretending to be two]].]]
37	* PosthumousCredit: Series creator Leonard Freeman died of complications from heart surgery shortly after the sixth season finished production on January 20, 1974. He's still credited for his work.
38	* ProductionPosse: When Seeleg Lester became story consultant in the show's final years, a lot of writers he'd worked with on ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' and ''Franchise/PerryMason'' contributed scripts.
39	* RealLifeRelative:
40	** In "Retire in Sunny Hawaii... Forever," Danny's Aunt Clara is played by James [=McArthur=]'s mother Helen Hayes.
41	** Creator/JamesMacArthur's real-life wife Melody Patterson appeared in the episodes "The Devil and Mr. Frog", "Nightmare in Blue" and "Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb?".
42	** Dennis Chun, Kam Fong's son, appeared in three episodes of the original series. He went on to play Sgt. Duke Lukela in the reboot.
43	* RecastAsARegular: Al Harrington and Herman Wedemeyer appeared in different roles on the show before assuming the roles of Ben and Duke respectively. Wedemeyer was in the first episode, playing Honolulu Police Lieutenant Balta.
44	* StuntCasting: In "The Bells Toll At Noon," famed mimic Creator/RichLittle plays a movie buff gunning for the men who he blames for his daughter's fatal overdose, with a very heavy amount of Creator/JamesCagney imitation.
45	** Also "Trouble in Mind," with Nancy Wilson as a singer - not [[Music/{{Heart\|Band}} that one]], the jazz singer.
46	** One of the main guest stars in Season 11's "Number One With A Bullet" two-parter is played by Hawaiian singer Yvonne Ellman as... [[TheDanza Yvonne Kaneoka]].
47	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
48	** Creator/RichardBoone, Creator/GregoryPeck and Creator/RobertStack were offered the lead role of [=McGarrett=].
49	** Creator/{{CBS}} told Creator/JackLord that if he didn't behave himself, they had Creator/LloydBridges on one of the islands, ready to take over for him.
50	* WrittenByCastMember: As well as playing the title role in "Stringer," guest star Music/PaulWilliams also has co-story credit.
51	* YouLookFamiliar: Very prevalent. Among the most notable examples:
52	** Actor Creator/AlHarrington appeared in five episodes, playing five different characters, before landing the recurring role of HPD Detective Ben Kokua.
53	** Creator/MartinSheen appeared in two episodes as different characters. As did Creator/MegFoster
54	** Creator/BruceBoxleitner appeared three times as different characters -- and two of them were in the ''same season''!
55	** Both Sharon Farrell and Moe Keale were guest actors (in three and eleven episodes respectively, each time as a different character) before joining the show as regulars in the final season.
56	** Creator/LeslieNielsen was a government agent in the pilot and a vengeful rancher in his only other episode ("We Hang Our Own").
57	** Andrew Duggan, also a government agent in the pilot [[spoiler: (but unlike Nielsen's character, he turned out to be TheMole)]], appeared in several other episodes, usually as a villain.
58	** Sportscaster Al Michaels, then the voice of the baseball Hawaii Islanders, appeared in a second season episode as a defense attorney for an AWOL sailor accused of murder.
59	** Elaine Joyce plays a prostitute is season 2's "Just Lucky, I Guess" and season 9's "Oldest Profession - Latest Price." [[spoiler:Her character ''isn't'' murdered in the latter.]]

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