Hawaii Five-O - Any Interest Out There? - Page 7

Jeff# · 03-14-2007, 08:57 PM

The late Sylvester "Pat" Weaver -- one of pioneering producers at NBC for several decades who created both The Today Show and The Tonight Show was a crimefighter???

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Jeff# · 03-14-2007, 10:12 PM

I forgot to mention that Herman Wedemeyer (Det. Duke Lukela) wasn't the only future Five-O team member to play other cops earlier in the series.

The year before Duke was promoted from HPD uniformed cop to Five-O detective, Douglas Mossman (who was never shown in the opening credits) played Det. Frank Kemana in a number of 7th Season episodes. Mossman, who is still acting in this century, also played cops on this show going back to the beginning in 1968 (he was the HPD police lieutenant at the beginning of Act 1 in "Twenty-Four Karat Kill"). He also has the distinction of being the only series regular to leave the show and come back in still more guest roles.

Corey3rd · 03-14-2007, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

The late Sylvester "Pat" Weaver -- one of pioneering producers at NBC for several decades who created both The Today Show and The Tonight Show was a crimefighter???

Dennis Weaver...I went to school with a Pat Weaver - damn those names that sound the same.

Although Pat did pass on the genes that kept this planet free of Aliens!

Jeff# · 03-14-2007, 10:43 PM

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Dennis Weaver...I went to school with a Pat Weaver - damn those names that sound the same.

Although Pat did pass on the genes that kept this planet free of Aliens!

Ha ha ha!

Well, I'm sure Sigourney forgives you.

Dennis Weaver was good at fighting crime as Chester Goode on GUNSMOKE, but he did it best as McCloud.

Jeff# · 03-14-2007, 11:06 PM

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DVD Talk gives season 1 a "Highly Recommended" rating. Full review here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=26813

I agree with much of that review, but this one part is incorrect:

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Its name derived from Hawaii's status as our 50th state, Five-O is a fictional state police agency headed by former Navy officer Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), answerable only to Governor Paul Jameson ('50s sci-fi star Richard Denning).

This fictional Governor's name was Phillip Gray! Who was Paul Jameson?

One thing I noticed that we briefly discussed earlier is that the one thing missing from these episodes is the first wave that originally appeared at the beginning of each episode before the opening teaser. The rest of the waves at the end of each act are still there fortunately (and if they had removed those, there would be hell to pay), but why the beginning? It's only a few seconds!

Corey3rd · 03-15-2007, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

This fictional Governor's name was Phillip Gray! Who was Paul Jameson?

found this at http://www.bigbob.com/five-o/h50faq.html :

What was the governor's name?
There is some misinformation in some references on TV shows. There are at least two such references which have the gov's name listed as Philip Grey. However, that was a DIFFERENT character played by Richard (the governor) Denning in the episode "24 Karat Kill" in the first season -- a U.S. TREASURY AGENT named Philip Grey. The governor's name shows up first in "The 90-Second War". It isn't mentioned, it's seen. There is a scene where Jonathan Kaye has McGarrett, Army & Navy brass, and the governor in the secret Diamond Head bunker. Each man has a nameplate. The governor's clearly reads: Paul Jameson. That name is also used in "A Capitol Crime" when Barnard Hughes's character demands to speak to "Governor Paul Jameson."

Jeff# · 03-15-2007, 12:38 AM

Interesting....It was Phillip Gray throughout the 12 seasons. Other than those few items you mentioned about his being referred to as Jameson, I thought Hawaii Five-O had a script supervisor, which would prevent that kind of lack of continuity with character names.

Corey3rd · 03-15-2007, 07:43 AM

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Interesting....It was Phillip Gray throughout the 12 seasons. Other than those few items you mentioned about his being referred to as Jameson, I thought Hawaii Five-O had a script supervisor, which would prevent that kind of lack of continuity with character names.

But there were a lot of actors that were playing different characters on the show. In the documentary they have the one guy who played 30 different roles - including 25 bad characters. Didn't one of the cons in "The Box" also play one of McGarrett's main men in later seasons?

There needs to be a website called "Repeat Offenders" that keeps track of how many times an actor appeared on a show under multiple roles.

Jeff*H · 03-15-2007, 09:51 AM

One actor who appeared in seasons 1-7 as a guest star each year was Ed Flanders. He started with "Uptight" in season 1 and returned every season thereafter for 6 more seasons. I always found his performances to be very interesting, especially the scientist he played in Season 2's "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu". Unfortunately, Ed Flanders committed suicide in 1995.

Jeff# · 03-15-2007, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Corey3rd

But there were a lot of actors that were playing different characters on the show. In the documentary they have the one guy who played 30 different roles - including 25 bad characters. Didn't one of the cons in "The Box" also play one of McGarrett's main men in later seasons?

Yep. Samoan actor Al Harrington appeared as one of the prisoners in "The Box" in 1969.

Three years later he came back to Five-O as a regular in the role of Ben Kokua for all of Seasons 5, 6 and the early part of the 7th season. Since they didn't change the opening credits in mid-season may explain why Al's replacement Doug Mossman wasn't added even though he too was a regular.

Al Harrington did a lot of work after he left this series, including a 5 part story arc in which "The Jeffersons" vacationed in Hawaii in 1980. He's my dad's age (71) and according to the IMDB, Al is working as a character actor in movies now.

Jeff# · 03-15-2007, 09:36 PM

I wasn't planning to post again so soon, but from again checking the IMDB site I noticed that guest stars John Larch & Vivi Janiss were also married in real life....until her death in 1988. Larch played Joe Trinian -- the man who ordered a hit on McGarrett in "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born".

In that same episode Doug Mossman makes his second appearance as Lt. George Keahola.

By the way, whatever happened to Maggi Parker who played Steve's original secretary May in 11 of the first season episodes? She seemed to disappear after that.

Bob Hug · 03-16-2007, 09:13 AM

Here's a link to Paramount showing what's been remastered on the series and what hasn't.

http://www.paramounttv.com/series/ha...0_complete.htm

Steve...O · 03-16-2007, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Bob Hug

Here's a link to Paramount showing what's been remastered on the series and what hasn't.

http://www.paramounttv.com/series/ha...0_complete.htm

Thanks Bob. It looks like two episodes in the first 5 seasons have not been remastered. The previously mentioned 2nd season episode that was pulled from syndication and a 5th season one.

Does anyone know exactly what caused the hanging episode to be pulled?

As for Season 1, the episodes I've seen do look great and have been a joy to watch. Some of the episodes do date very badly with the heavy emphasis on the hippies and their lingo, etc. It blew my mind watching these

Steve