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1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
2	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w theme tune]] is considered by many to be one of the best TV themes ever.[[note]]When the 2010 remake tried to do an "updated" version with electric guitars and synth drums, the response was so negative that they had to hastily record a shortened version of the original theme with some of the original musicians in the orchestra.[[/note]] The theme song is by composer Morton Stevens. It became a hit single for The Ventures, a famous instrumental rock group.
3	** A bit of trivia: That distinctive music that plays over the old "[[{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}} CBS]] [[{{ComicStrip/Garfield}} Special]] [[Creator/DrSeuss Presentation]]" ident is from a cut on the soundtrack called "Call to Danger".
4	** In fact, the show's only Emmys were for Stevens' scores to the episodes "A Thousand Pardons, You're Dead!" and "Hookman" (he was also nominated for the pilot) -- and what's more, "Hookman" was up against two other episodes of ''the same series'' (Bruce Broughton's "The $100,000 Nickel" and Don B. Ray's "Nightmare In Blue").
5	* CaptainObviousReveal: In the PilotMovie tries really hard to make us think Brent (Creator/LeslieNielsen's character) is TheMole working for Wo Fat.[[spoiler: Miller's ever-present pipe]] gives it away long before the climax.
6	* EsotericHappyEnding: At the end of "Tricks Are Not Treats," [=McGarrett=] orders Chin Ho to arrest the bad guys, even though he really has zero evidence against them and knows they'll probably walk.
7	* HarsherInHindsight: "Paniolo" climaxes with title character Frank Kuakua ("paniolo" is a Hawaiian term for cowboy) heading to the mountains he calls home, where he dies. Frank was played by Frank Silvera (''The High Chapparal''), who passed away in an accident in his own home not long after filming this episode, leading to a TheCharacterDiedWithHim moment on his regular show.
8	* HilariousInHindsight:
9	** John Hillerman appeared in one episode that was partially filmed at the house that would later become [[Series/MagnumPI Robin's Nest]]. [[PlayingAgainstType And gets a massage there to boot!]]
10	** When the Meighans get arrested at the end of "The Meighan Conspiracy," Mrs. Meighan tells her AffablyEvil SmugSnake of a husband that he's better judge of a women than of men. Hubby is played by then (and for most of his life) closeted Robert Reed.
11	** In "Deep Cover," the villainous femme fatale is played by Creator/MaudAdams (between ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' and ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'') - Creator/JackLord, of course, was the first person to play Felix Leiter [[Film/DrNo in the movies]]... and in the same season's "My Friend, The Enemy", Luciana Paluzzi aka [[Film/{{Thunderball}} Fiona Volpe]] turns up. [[spoiler: This time she ''isn't'' a baddie.]]
12	** "Year Of The Horse" has Creator/GeorgeLazenby. [[spoiler: He ''is'' a baddie.]]
13	** When you consider the revival takes place in a SharedUniverse with ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', you can easily picture the season eight premiere "Murder - Eyes Only," a [[BigBad Wo Fat]] episode dealing with the murder of a Naval Intelligence commander during [=McGarrett=]'s Naval Reserve duty, as a PoorlyDisguisedPilot for some kind of ''NCIS: Hawai'i'' series. Sure enough, come [[Series/NCISHawaii 2021....]], although it didn't actually take that route via ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' due to ending in 2020.
14	** ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' buffs will get a kick out of James Gregory appearing in the PilotMovie (as the original Jonathan Kaye)[[note]]as well as in different guest roles on the series proper[[/note]] and later turning up on the ''Series/SanfordAndSon'' two-parter "The Hawaiian Connection" as a cop who makes a joke about giving [=McGarrett=] time to get his hair teased!
15	* MemeticMutation:
16	** "Book 'em, Danno."
17	** "Five-O" has become street slang for "the police", especially state troopers.
18	** The InstrumentalThemeTune composed by Morton Stevens is now [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SgGONWY7Vo&feature=related the semi-official fight song of the University of Hawaii]].
19	* NarrowedItDownToTheGuyIRecognize:
20	** It's likely adults watching "Horoscope For Murder" in its first run will have suspected [[spoiler: Tab Hunter's]] character knows something about a series of fatal stabbings around Honolulu.
21	** Similarly: with [[AndStarring special guest star]][[spoiler: Creator/CydCharisse]] in "Death Mask".
22	** Also applies to frequent guest stars. If Creator/NehemiahPersoff turns up, you have your villain[[spoiler: (except in "Will the Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?")]].
23	* QuestionableCasting: "To Hell with Babe Ruth" expects you the viewer to accept Mark Lenard and Will Kuluva as being Japanese - it's especially glaring when Lenard's character is in a scene with ''actual'' Japanese-American Virginia Wing as his daughter (i.e. most of the episode).
24	* RetroactiveRecognition
25	** An early 1970 episode, "Run, Johnny, Run", guest starred a 27-year-old Creator/ChristopherWalken. Also in the episode with a small role as an attorney is Al Michaels, at that point a local sportscaster in Honolulu, with ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' and NBC's ''Sunday Night Football'' far away in his future. [[MemeticMutation Do you believe in cameos? YES!]]
26	** Hippie drug dealer Big Chicken was played by Gavin [=MacLeod=], who'd go on to greater fame as [[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow Murray Slaughter]] and then [[Series/TheLoveBoat Captain Stubing]].
27	** In "Tricks Are Not Treats," [[Series/BarneyMiller Chano has Harris assassinated]], while Creator/PatMorita tends bar.
28	** Creator/JeffDaniels plays a college student/jewel thief in the Season 12 episode "The Flight of the Jewels".
29	** In "Kiss the Queen Goodbye," [[Film/PoliceAcademy Commandant Lassard]] is forced to help [[Recap/StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident the Romulan Commander]] and [[Film/TheSwordAndTheSorcerer King Richard]] to steal a gem.
30	** Creator/AnnetteOToole is the wife of an ex-military sniper with a troubled relationship with his mother in "...And I Want Some Candy and a Gun That Shoots."
31	** Creator/DirkBenedict gives one of the [[VictimOfTheWeek Victims Of The Week]] (there's two) syphilis in "Chain of Events".
32	** [[Series/LaverneAndShirley Shirley Feeney]] is the wife of the "Secret Witness."
33	** [[Series/{{Quincy}} Lee Potter]] helps [[Series/StElsewhere Dr. Westphall]] in his conning of rich male tourists in "One Born Every Minute".
34	** Apparently [[Series/BarnabyJones Lt. Biddle]] is Steve [=McGarrett=]'s brother-in-law.
35	** Who knew [[Series/GilmoreGirls Emily Gilmore]] ran a call-girl operation (as seen in "Oldest Profession - Latest Price")?
36	** Hawaii-born Creator/KellyPreston (then going by her real name of Kelly Palzis) appears in one of the final episodes, "For Old Times' Sake".
37	** Creator/JonathanGoldsmith in the episodes "By the Numbers" (billed as Jonathan Lippe) and "Man In a Steel Frame".
38	* SpecialEffectsFailure: In "Anybody Can Build A Bomb," when Dan Williams instructs police sharpshooters to "Nail that plane" - the one used to extortionists in a getaway plan - they do with the help of badly superimposed flames as the plane goes down the runway before it crashes. This happens again in "The Capsule Kidnapping".
39	** "Death's Name Is [[FunWithAcronyms Sam]]" suffers from several - the ridiculous fake moustache Creator/GeorgeTakei has to wear as Patrolman Blake who's drafted by Five-O to help the unit find out who's smuggling in parts of a surface-to-air missile into Honolulu. Then the mismatch of stock footage when [[spoiler: Patrolman Blake is blown out of the sky (the helicopter turns into a plane...) by the villain, played by John Colicos. That's right - [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kor kills Sulu]]!]] And there's ''another'' awful plane-related superimposition in the climax...
40	* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: Several, in fact. In "Death Is A Company Policy," Duke is framed as part of a scheme orchestrated by a criminal organisation with international scope called Bryce Halsey; given the company's representative [[KarmaHoudini escapes]] and Bryce Halsey remains out there at the end of the episode (although Duke does get his name cleared and returns to duty), the series had a golden opportunity for another recurring menace a la Wo Fat - but it never happened.
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