History Series / HawaiiFiveO

* BigNo: [[spoiler:Toni]] lets out quite a big one in "Thanks The Honeymoon" when [[spoiler:she discovers a mobster's attempt to kill her and new husband so she can't testify against him only ''partially'' successful.]]

* CatchPhrase: "Book 'em, Danno." Also played straight in later episodes with scenes on the mainland.

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* UglyGuyHotWife: played for tragedy in "Diary Of a Gun."[[spoiler:the gun of the title, part of shipment of Saturday Night Specials that [=McGarrett=] and the team are trying to crack down on; which a street tough used to shoot a tourist and dumped in a mailbox before the police caught him; the mail carrier on that route finds the gun when he mpties the box - and he keeps the gun. When he gets home he finds his wife getting dolled up to go out.... it's strongly implied that she's making extra money via TheOldestProfession. He follows his wife to a hotel, finds her with a football player. He ends up killing both of them.]]

** Similarly, Kelly Bishop gets "And Introducing" credit on "Oldest Profession - Latest Price." Donna Mills gets an "And" credit on "Murder - Eyes Only," as does Juliet Mills[[note]]no relation[[/note]] on "Termination With Extreme Prejudice." ditto, Jo Ann Harris on "And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon."

* {{Fanservice}}: It's a show set in Hawaii. What do ''you'' think? (Not to the extent of the new show, mind you.) Although the directors can be [[MaleGaze drawn to some of the female guest stars]] -- witness the loving shots of Kathleen (billed as Kathy) Beller in "The Waterfront Steal" -- and most of Simone Griffeth's camera time in "A Very Personal Matter" ''screams'' this trope. Season 12's "The Kahuna" provides a rare case of equal opportunity fanservice with Kimo and a HotScientist played by Cathy Lee Crosby [[ItMakesSenseInContext stripping down to skivvies to go diving while looking into mysterious deaths]]. And they don't waste any time getting Creator/MaudAdams into a skimpy bikini when she turns up in "Deep Cover" [[spoiler:as a FemmeFataleSpy after tech info for the KGB.]] Creator/SusanDey spends a good deal of "Target -- The Lady" in midriff-exposing outfits.

* {{Fanservice}}: It's a show set in Hawaii. What do ''you'' think? (Not to the extent of the new show, mind you.) Although the directors can be [[MaleGaze drawn to some of the female guest stars]] -- witness the loving shots of Kathleen (billed as Kathy) Beller in "The Waterfront Steal" -- and most of Simone Griffeth's camera time in "A Very Personal Matter" ''screams'' this trope. Season 12's "The Kahuna" provides a rare case of equal opportunity fanservice with Kimo and a scientist played by Cathy Lee Crosby [[ItMakesSenseInContext stripping down to skivvies to go diving while looking into mysterious deaths]]. And they don't waste any time getting Creator/MaudAdams into a skimpy bikini when she turns up in "Deep Cover" [[spoiler:as a FemmeFataleSpy after tech info for the KGB.]] Creator/SusanDey spends a good deal of "Target -- The Lady" in midriff-exposing outfits.

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* {{Fanservice}}: It's a show set in Hawaii. What do ''you'' think? (Not to the extent of the new show, mind you.) Although the directors can be [[MaleGaze drawn to some of the female guest stars]] -- witness the loving shots of Kathleen (billed as Kathy) Beller in "The Waterfront Steal" -- and most of Simone Griffeth's camera time in "A Very Personal Matter" ''screams'' this trope. Season 12's "The Kahuna" provides a rare case of equal opportunity fanservice with Kimo and a scientist played by Cathy Lee Crosby [[ItMakesSenseInContext stripping down to skivvies to go diving while looking into mysterious deaths]]. And they don't waste any time getting Creator/MaudAdams into a skimpy bikini when she turns up in "Deep Cover" [[spoiler:as a FemmeFataleSpy after tech info for the KGB.]] Creator/SusanDey spends a good deal of "Target -- The Lady" in BareYourMidriff mode.

* {{Fanservice}}: It's a show set in Hawaii. What do ''you'' think? (Not to the extent of the new show, mind you.) Although the directors can be [[MaleGaze drawn to some of the female guest stars]] -- witness the loving shots of Kathleen (billed as Kathy) Beller in "The Waterfront Steal" -- and most of Simone Griffeth's camera time in "A Very Personal Matter" ''screams'' this trope. Season 12's "The Kahuna" provides a rare case of equal opportunity fanservice with Kimo and a HotScientist played by Cathy Lee Crosby [[ItMakesSenseInContext stripping down to skivvies to go diving while looking into mysterious deaths]]. And they don't waste any time getting Creator/MaudAdams into a skimpy bikini when she turns up in "Deep Cover" [[spoiler:as a FemmeFataleSpy after tech info for the KGB.]] Creator/SusanDey spends a good deal of "Target -- The Lady" in BareYourMidriff mode.

** "The Case Against [=McGarrett=]" from 1975, finds [=McGarrett=] held hostage in prison, this time put on trial by Honore Vashon (Harold Gould) for the murder of Vashon's son Chris (in "V For Vashon: The Son," from 1972).

--->''If you're feeling lonely\\

* GoodJobBreakingItHero: [=McGarrett=] gets a huge one in "Bait Once, Bait Twice" when he tries to talk inside a woman who's DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler:(Well, how was ''he'' supposed to know it was all part of a plan to flush out a witness in protective custody so the witness (the woman's fiancé) can be killed by a sniper? By the way, she survives the episode.)]]

* JurisdictionFriction: [=McGarrett=] arrests Jack Fabian for the murder of an HPD cop, but Federal Agent Al Marsh wants Fabian to turn evidence against the Syndicate and is willing to offer him immunity from prosecution.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:"Up Tight," "To Kill or Be Killed," "Death With Father," "Is This Any Way To Run A Paradise?" "I'll Kill 'Em Again." The beginning of "Invitation to Murder," and "Small Potatoes." "One Born Every Minute" and "Murder Is A Taxing Affair." Dominick Vashon in "V for Vashon: The Patriarch."]]

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Murder - Eyes Only" as [=McGarrett=], Commander Wallace and an exonerated Lt. Waldron celebrating their triumph over Wo Fat. [[spoiler:He's escaped again, but [=McGarrett=] prepared for this by planting without Wallace's knowledge, phony coordinates that will lead Wo Fat ''not'' to the downed satellite which is up for grabs, rather to somewhere in downtown Shanghai. ]] and "The Bark and the Bite" in keeping with its LighterAndSofter tone,[[spoiler:[=McGarrett=] having failed to persuade a determined animal control official to let him off off the use of a dog to solve this week's case, issues this command, "Book me, Danno!" while sporting a ''huge'' grin.]]

* LighterAndSofter: While had a reputation for being straight-laced and serious, but do the odd lighter episode - but "The Bark and The Bite" was the only full-on comic episode; with the Lewis Avery Filer episodes (and the one with SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute M. Bordeaux), "Welcome To Our Branch Office" and "The Last of the Great Paperhangers" having a lighter touch than usual but not actually played for farce.

** One of the series' directors, Charles S. Dubin, played an apartment manager in the fifth-season episode "A Bullet For El Diablo," directed by Allen Reisner. Conversely, Reisner played the [[BigBad]] in another fifth-season episode, "Anybody Can Build a Bomb," directed by Dubin.

Running from 1968 to 1980, this show is synonymous with Hawaii, and its iconic theme song (which became a hit single for The Ventures) is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SgGONWY7Vo regularly played by the University of Hawaii marching band]] at home games for Hawaii sports teams. Appropriately, the overwhelming majority of the show was shot on location in Hawaii, only occasionally using studios in Los Angeles or other locations as called by episode plots. The show is currently available via various broadcast stations on syndication, on DVD, or streaming from CBS' website[[note]] only if you're in the US, however[[/note]] . As a testament to the show's influence, "Five-O" is still a widely used slang term for "police".

** Similarly, Kelly Bishop gets "And Introducing" credit on "Oldest Profession - Latest Price". Donna Mills gets an "And" credit on "Murder - Eyes Only," as does Juliet Mills[[note]]no relation[[/note]] on "Termination With Extreme Prejudice.", ditto, Jo Ann Harris on "And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon."
* AndThisIsFor: "Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb?", "The Bells Toll At Noon." Among others.
* ArtifactTitle: "The Flip Side Is Death,"[[spoiler: the plot involves 8-tracks, not LPs.]]

** Lester Cronin in "Paniolo". He's a crooked real estate developer that Five-O has been trying to bust. He pays a visit to a native Hawaiian and shows him that he now owns the deed to the native man's property. The native man (played by Frank Silvera) gives him a hard shove and walks away, not noticing that Cronyn has succumbed to DeathByFallingOver... he fell backward and struck his head on a tree stump.
** Also, it is doubtful anyone was sorry when [[spoiler: Travis Marshall]] was bumped off in "Honor Is an Unmarked Grave".
* TheBadGuyWins: A few times, but probably the most galling was in "The Jinn Who Clears The Way". [[spoiler: [=McGarrett=] has Wo Fat dead to rights for murder, grand theft and espionage, only for Jonathan Kaye from the State Department to show up and tell [=McGarrett=] he's here to take custody of Wo Fat, drop all the charges, and take him to the airport for a flight back to Hong Kong. A livid [=McGarrett=] asks why, and Kaye says the feds are using Wo Fat for a PrisonerExchange with the Chinese to get back a U-2 pilot who was shot down in China 3 years earlier and held ever since.]]
* BattleBolas: In "Though the Heavens Fall", a vigilante group use bolas to capture the criminals.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: [[spoiler: "East Wind, Ill Wind."]]
* BigNo: [[spoiler: Toni]] lets out quite a big one in "Thanks The Honeymoon" when [[spoiler: she discovers a mobster's attempt to kill her and new husband so she can't testify against him only ''partially'' successful.]]
* BigScrewedUpFamily: "One Big Happy Family". [[spoiler: The daughter is the most sensitive and [[ChildrenAreInnocent the only real innocent (she only steals a telephone book cover]], while the others go for money) whereas the father and son are murderers, the daughter-in-law is a MsFanservice who's used to scout for targets, and the mother (and leader) is a heartless racist who in the denouement says they only kill people who aren't family... and only rob the people they kill because their victims won't be using the money. Writer Alvin Sapinsley based this on a ''[[RippedFromTheHeadlines real family]]'', yet!]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu, Part II" has a scientist aiming to release some shortlived but very deadly bacteria to protest chemical warfare being persuaded (partly due to a telephone operator who falls in love with him) not to do so, but the vial he stole is taken... and cracked. He manages to control the spread of the germ, and the vial is incinerated along with the shack where it was kept, but [[HeroicSacrifice he himself is infected and succumbs]] as [=McGarrett=] and the woman he loves watch.]]
* BookEnds: "Up Tight" starts with Danny trying to keep a young woman high on LSD from jumping off a cliff, and ends with [=McGarrett=] trying to keep [[spoiler: the professor who turned her onto drugs]] from jumping off the same cliff. [[spoiler: The woman jumps, but the man is rescued and arrested.]]

** "Sign of the Ram", from the final season, involves a boxing-related murder and, of all things, astrology.
* BrattyTeenageDaughter: [[spoiler: Annie Carter in "Image of Fear." Spoilered because she isn't revealed as this until the third act -- in fact, she turns out to be TheChessmaster.]]

* ChekhovsBoomerang: "One Big Happy Family" [[spoiler: In this case. It's more like Chekhov's Phone Book Cover; the ''only'' crime Monica Ferguson is commits is stealing a phone book cover from the hotel the family's staying at. It gets them caught.]]

* TheChessmaster: The team frequently maneuver baddies into confessions by insanely complex plots, anticipate traps and seem to walk into them, only to reveal backups (and tape recorders) in place right when the baddies inevitably tell all before shooting, etc. Example, Season 4 "Good Night Baby, Time To Die!": a woman who is frightened because her framed boyfriend is said to be escaped from prison and coming for her, so she starts confessing to crimes [[spoiler: (the framed prisoner is not really loose; he's doing it all under Five-O supervision in order to be absolved.)]] Bad guys sometimes seem like Chessmasters, but of course ''their'' insanely complex plots always come a cropper after baffling the team for about 40 minutes. [[spoiler: Sort of exception: although Wo Fat's scheme in "The Ninety-Second War" is counteracted, it's done so in a way that he ''thinks'' it worked. Similarly in "Murder- Eyes Only" Wo Fat escapes with what he ''thinks'' is what he's after.]]

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: [[spoiler: Dr. Ames' mistress Lisa has a huge case of this in "Labyrinth." Lisa double-crosses ''both'' her partners in the scheme, Dr. Ames (drugged) and the chauffeur (blown up).]]
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Kono, Danno and Jenny. [[spoiler: [[KilledOffForReal Sadly averted]] with Chin Ho.]]
* CircusEpisode: "Presenting--In the Center Ring...Murder", in which Wo Fat enlists the aid of two brothers who are acrobats to carry out a hit on a visiting dignitary.

* CrazyPrepared: [[spoiler: Addison Barlow in "Invitation to Murder."]]

** One of the series' directors, Charles S. Dubin, played an apartment manager in the fifth-season episode "A Bullet For El Diablo", directed by Allen Reisner. Conversely, Reisner played the [[BigBad]] in another fifth-season episode, "Anybody Can Build a Bomb", directed by Dubin.
** Sutton Roley, who directed the episode "A Capitol Crime", has a cameo in the episode as Judge Thorwald.
** Richard Benedict, who directed several episodes (including the premiere "Full Fathom Five") appeared as a bartender in another early episode, "By the Numbers".
** Lawrence Dobkin, who appeared in the episode "The Year of the Horse", directed another episode from the same season, "The Miracle Man".

* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: "Why Won't Linda Die?"]]
* DeathByCameo: Theme song composer Morton Stevens played a jazz drummer (and the first on-screen victim of the poisoned cocaine sloating around) in the third season episode "Trouble in Mind".

* DirtyCop: HPD Sgt. Dean Lyman in "Right Grave, Wrong Body". Some time before the events in this episode, Lyman got into a shoot-out with a robber that stole a quarter of a million dollars, killed him, hid the body and took the money. All of this comes to light when an armed robbery and murder is committed with the dead robber's gun, which made it into the hands of another crook.
* DisposableWoman: In "Beautiful Screamer" and "Man in a Steel Frame" [[spoiler: Dan's girlfriend in the former, [=McGarrett=]'s girlfriend in the latter. They're ''only'' there to be murdered.]]

** [[spoiler:In "To Kill or Be Killed", a soldier on leave from UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar falls to his death, and his brother (suspected of being involved) is bidding to avoid the draft and flee to "Trudeau turf" (alias Canada) because while he's willing to fight he doesn't believe this particular war is justified, to the disgust of his father -- a military man. It turns out that the soldier committed suicide because he couldn't face returning to what he also felt was an unjust war; not only is the would-be draft-dodger caught, but his father disowns him by saying "Then I have two dead sons."]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: "Up Tight," "To Kill or Be Killed," "Death With Father," "Is This Any Way To Run A Paradise?", "I'll Kill 'Em Again." The beginning of "Invitation to Murder," and "Small Potatoes." "One Born Every Minute" and "Murder Is A Taxing Affair." Dominick Vashon in "V for Vashon: The Patriarch."]]

* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler:Chin Ho, after being revealed as a Five-O plant, immediately slugs the leader in the face and then attacks the other two thugs. While he's ultimately unsuccessful at trying to escape, and the leader mocks him at what he did being a mistake, he replies that it was worth it and he doesn't think he has much left to lose. Sadly, he's right.]] Also [[spoiler: Kert]] in "Thanks For The Honeymoon" when [[spoiler: he gets the cyanide away from his new wife - he's breathed in too much by that point, but he does manage to save his soon-to-be widow.]] [[spoiler: See BittersweetEnding above for another example.]]

* EverybodyLaughsEnding: "Murder - Eyes Only" as [=McGarrett=], Commander Wallace and an exonerated Lt. Waldron celebrating their triumph over Wo Fat. [[spoiler: He's escaped again, but [=McGarrett=] prepared for this by planting without Wallace's knowledge, phony coordinates that will lead Wo Fat ''not'' to the downed satellite which is up for grabs, rather to somewhere in downtown Shanghai. ]] and "The Bark and the Bite" in keeping with its LighterAndSofter tone,[[spoiler: [=McGarrett=] having failed to persuade a determined animal control official to let him off off the use of a dog to solve this week's case, issues this command, "Book me, Danno!" while sporting a ''huge'' grin.]]

** "A Touch of Guilt". The plot involves [[spoiler:a waitress who's raped by three college football players and stabs one of them -- he survives, and does hold the other two at gunpoint in the climax, but she doesn't shoot.]]

* EvilHasStandards: [[EvilMatriarch Sadie Ferguson]] in "Big Happy Family" doesn't countenance her daughter being hit by her brother. She doesn't have a problem with her son and husband killing strangers for money. But her daughter-in-law Rosalie's ReallyGetsAround tendencies offend her. [[spoiler: although Rosalie rebuffs the pass the dad makes at her.]]
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Agnes du Bois has one of these moments in "Horoscope for Murder," when she [[spoiler: and friend/fellow astrologer Mel Burgess are discussing the suicide of Rick Makulu, who looks like he was to DrivenToSuicide after the serial killings. Then Agnes realises [[AloneWithThePsycho she's alone in a room with the murderer]]...]]
* ExternalCombustion: "Blind Tiger". It temporarily blinds [=McGarrett=].
* EvilBrit: Savage in "A Gun For [=McGarrett=]."[[spoiler: And Marni Howard]].
* FakedKidnapping: In "Tiger By the Tail", lounge singer Bobby George, with the help of his two buddies, fakes his kidnapping to sock it to his father. The two friends turn it into a real kidnapping with a real ransom demand.

* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler: "Image Of Fear".]]
* GambitRoulette: "A Capitol Crime" - [[spoiler: Mary Beth's plan to keep her mobster boyfriend from being extradited to Chicago involves her crashing a hostage situation (the episode's main plot) conveniently taking place as Danny and colleagues are taking the mobster to the airport. So what was her plan B...?]]

* GoodJobBreakingItHero: [=McGarrett=] gets a huge one in "Bait Once, Bait Twice" when he tries to talk inside a woman who's DrivenToSuicide [[spoiler: (Well, how was ''he'' supposed to know it was all part of a plan to flush out a witness in protective custody so the witness (the woman's fiancé) can be killed by a sniper? By the way, she survives the episode.) ]]
* HeelFaceTurn:[[spoiler: Rosalie]] turns on the Fergusons in the denouement of "One Big Happy Family.".[[spoiler: Having had just about enough of her mother-in-law's contempt for her and them not letting her do her own thing.]]
* HiddenDepths: Of all people, Wo Fat in "And a Time to Die...". It's heavily implied that he lost his family long ago during uprisings in China, and he really didn't want to kill the girl he'd taken hostage, of whom he was surprisingly kind and forward with. The problem was, according to him, is that to be taken seriously on both sides he had to live up to his word, so he would have had her killed if her father didn't do as he'd asked. That was the only episode that showed Wo Fat as still someone human and not a CardCarryingVillain.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: In "Nine, Ten, You're Dead," a former boxer shatters the hand of a novice to keep him from ruining his health and life, causing the mobster backing the young boxer to put out a hit on the older man. A hitman arrives... and takes out the mobster, as his bosses felt he was out of control. The former boxer is left unharmed, because the hitman assures him he [[OnlyInItForTheMoney doesn't kill anyone without getting paid for it]].]]
* HookHand: The villain in "Hookman", as played by real-life double-amputee J. J. Armes.
* HowWeGotHere: "Nine Dragons".

* IdiotBall: Held tightly by Kimo and Lori in "Though the Heavens Fall" Sent to keep Meredith Howell safe when Five-O (correctly) suspect that Mr. Howell is the next target of a VigilanteMilitia and just sit outside....even though there's ''rear'' access and they could have stayed indoors. [[spoiler: So Howell is kidnapped right under their noses]]
* ItsPersonal: "Once Upon a Time", in which [=McGarrett=] is determined to take down fraudulent doctor C.L. Fremont after what happened to his sister's child.

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Chin Ho.]]

* ManchurianAgent: Wo Fat's spy ring makes use of them in "A Bullet for [=McGarrett=]".

** For the final fight of the entire series it's blatantly obvious that [[spoiler: Lord and Keigh Dheigh are using doubles for the big [=McGarrett=] vs. Wo Fat battle. It might have helped if Dheigh's stuntman had had a moustache...]]

* OneWordTitle: "Paniolo" (which is Hawaiian for 'Grandpa') and "Percentage".

** "The Box", from the first season, where [=McGarrett=] visits Oahu State Prison, only to be held hostage during a prison riot by Big Chicken, whom he put in prison earlier in the season, in the episode "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin"
** "The Double Wall", from the third season, where a prisoner, who claims he's innocent of the murder charge that sent him to prison, holds a prison doctor hostage to force [=McGarrett=] into re-opening his case.
** "The Case Against [=McGarrett=]" from 1975, finds [=McGarrett=] held hostage in prison, this time put on trial by Honore Vashon (Harold Gould) for the murder of Vashon's son Chris (in "V For Vashon: The Son", from 1972).

* RayOfHopeEnding: "Once Upon A Time, Part II" [[spoiler: [=McGarrett=]'s failed in his desire to have Dr. Fremont with charged with murder, but he and the FDA's Zipser have publicly unmasked her as a fraud - and [=McGarrett=]'s relationship with his sister (who was one of Fremont's devoted followers) is starting to heal.]]

* ReallyGetsAround: Walter in "Chain Of Events." [[spoiler: He winds up giving syphilis to a girl who does volunteer work for a senatorial candidate. The girl ends up giving it to the politician... who ends up giving it to his wife.]]
* RecycledPremise: Season 2's "Fifty Feet High and It Kills!" and season 10's "Tsunami" both involve a scheme to [[spoiler: carry out a tsunami hoax to cover up a crime.]]

** "The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney" features the brother of the boy Danno seemed to have killed in "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin," seeking revenge. [[spoiler: He didn't do it.]]

** "[[PunnyTitle The Spirit is Willie]]" sees author (and the Governor's friend) Millicent Shand return following the events of "Frozen Assets" as she suspects her niece's fiancé has faked his death in a scheme with a fake psychic to get the niece's money. [[spoiler: She's ''mostly'' right. [[KilledOffForReal Except for the bit with the fiancé]].]]
* SerialKiller: "One for the Money", "I'll Kill 'Em Again", "Wednesday, Ladies Free" and others.
* SeriesContinuityError: Chin Ho's oldest daughter is called Alia in "Engaged to Be Buried", but in "A Death in the Family" she's Suzy.

* SplitPersonality: [[spoiler: In "Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got The Bomb?", a senator is being terrorized by a bomber. Unknowingly, ''he's'' the bomber -- because he accidentally shot and killed his own father as a boy and has never forgiven himself. Also the answer to the question "Why Won't Linda Die?".]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:"Death with Father".]]

* TemporaryBlindness: [=McGarrett=] in "Blind Tiger", when an assassination attempt failed to kill him.
* TenLittleMurderVictims: "Invitation to Murder," with a deceased artist's family, who hated him, seemingly killing each other to get his estate. [[spoiler: They aren't. The will states that who's still alive after a year gets everything. The killer is... [[TwistEnding The late artist]]. He hated ''them'' as well, and arranged it so all but one of them would be murdered, with the remaining one framed for all the other killings. [=McGarrett=] figures it out before the remaining family members kick it.]]
* ThereAreNoCoincidences: Defied in "Full Fathom Five". Five-O are pressured by an attorney into looking for a missing woman, and in the process of their investigation discover a husband-and-wife team swindling and then murdering single women or widows who are rich. The original missing woman is truly a coincidence resolved in the first 20 minutes - she got tired of being rich and being pushed around by the lawyer, so she joined a commune. She just happened to fit the pattern of the other women who had disappeared and has no other bearing on the plot.

* VillainousBreakdown: Subverted in "The Miracle Man" [[spoiler: When the Reverend Andy is tricked into broadcasting to his waiting audience that he's been taking his faithful for all he can get - as well as sleeping with assorted attractive Sisters of his crusade; it's a subversion because he's not guilty of ''any'' crimes in the eyes of the law. But now everyone knows what Sister Harmony learned - "(he's) a liar, and a hypocrite!" Reverend Andy goes to pieces as the audience walks out the auditorium.]]
* WellDoneSonGuy: Elliot Bancroft in "Use a Gun, Go to Hell" ''really'' wants his dad to be proud of him. [[spoiler: Shooting and killing a senator in favour of strict gun control[[note]]which his dad is very ''isn't''[[/note]], and throwing the gun away probably wasn't the best way to do it - since it leads to all the trouble in the episode.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 2-hour pilot,([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=0cYwvFyCqiI&feature=emb_logo which has an intro fitting its TV movie status]]) is shown in syndication as a two-parter titled "Cocoon", has Creator/NancyKwan playing Rosemary Quong, a mildly [[TheSixties hippie]] grad student with a penchant for [[{{Fanservice}} miniskirts]]. Kwan gets second billing in the opening titles, right after Jack Lord, and they have several scenes together, including a beachfront cookout, playing up the contrast between the free-spirited Rosemary and the buttoned-down straight-laced [=McGarrett=]. The ending suggests that Rosemary is going to be [=McGarrett=]'s recurring love interest. [[AbortedArc She's never seen again.]]

* AbsenteeActor: Creator/JamesMacArthur, Creator/{{Zulu}} and Creator/KamFong are all absent from "Once Upon A Time, Part II" (which is set entirely on the mainland); the latter two are also missing from "The Ninety-Second War, Part II" and Zulu is further gone from "Good Night, Baby, Time To Die!" Jack Lord did not miss a single episode in the entire run.

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* EvilHasStandards: [[EvilMatriarch Sadie Ferguson]] in "Big Happy Family" doesn't countenance her daughter being hit by her brother. She doesn't have a problem with her son and husband killing strangers for money. But her daughter-in-law Rosalie's ReallyGetsAround tendencies [[spoiler: although Rosalie rebuffs the pass the dad makes at her.]]