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* BannedEpisode: The 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 or on DVD.
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* FinalSeasonCasting: While Zulu (the original Kono) left the show in 1972, James [=MacArthur=] and Kam Fong hung around until 1979, with William Smith (as Kimo), Sharon Farrell (as Lori) and Moe Keale (as Truck) as the new regulars.
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* AbsenteeActor: James [=MacArthur=], Zulu and Kam Fong 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 - [[TakeThat unlike Alex O'Loughlin]] - did not miss a single episode in the entire run.
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* ActorAllusion: The villain of "A Bullet for [=McGarrett=]" is an American communist mole who learned his {{Brainwashing}} skills from Wo Fat while he was a POW during the Korean War. Khigh Dhiegh, the actor who played Wo Fat, had earned his first fame as the master brainwasher Yen Lo, who turns American [=POW=]s into double agents during the Korean War in ''TheManchurianCandidate''.
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* ManchurianAgent: Wo Fat's spy ring makes use of them in "A Bullet for [=McGarrett=]."
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* [[spoiler: TakingYouWithMe: "Death With Father."]]
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* FictionalCounterpart: Averted. There has never been a "Five-O"-like police agency in the history of Hawaii. Reportedly, phone books advised tourists to dial 911 instead of trying to find the number to Five-O.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Tim O'Kelly and Lew Ayres (Danny and the governor in the pilot) were replaced by James [=MacArthur=] and Richard Denning in the series (althoght Ayres returns [[YouLookFamiliar as different characters]] in "Anybody Can Build A Bomb" and "Deadly Persuasion"). Jonathan Kaye, played in the pilot by James Gregory, went through ''six'' actors in the course of the series.
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* AndStarring: ''Everyone'' other than Jack Lord. Seriously. The opening credits for the first few seasons: "Starring Jack Lord.[[note]]From season six onwards he had this billing on the ''end'' credits as well.[[/note]] With James [=MacArthur=] as Dan Williams; Zulu as Kono; Kam Fong as Chin Ho." This was maintained, with adjustments for cast changes, for the entire run.
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* AndStarring: ''Everyone'' other than Jack Lord. Seriously. The opening credits for the first few seasons: "Starring Jack Lord.[[note]]From Lord" (from season six onwards he had this billing on the ''end'' credits as well.[[/note]] With well) "With James [=MacArthur=] as Dan Williams; Zulu as Kono; Kam Fong as Chin Ho." This was maintained, with adjustments for cast changes, for the entire run.
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** [[spoiler: In "To Kill or Be Killed," a soldier on leave from the war in Vietnam falls to his death, and his brother (suspected of being involved) is bidding to avoid the draft and flee to "Trudeau turf"[[hottip:*: 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."]]
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** "The Case Against [=McGarrett=]" picks up where the three-parter "V For Vashon" left off, with Honore Vashon and other convicts putting Steve on trial.
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** [[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 germ, but is himself infected and succumbs as [=McGarrett=] and the woman he loves watch.]]
** [[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 germ, but is himself infected and succumbs as [=McGarrett=] and the woman he loves watch.]]
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* 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.
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minutes. [[spoiler: Sort of exception: although Wo Fat's scheme in "The Ninety-Second War, Part II" is counteracted, it's done so in a way that he ''thinks'' it worked.]]
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* BigScrewedUpFamily: "One Big Happy Family." [[spoiler:They're robbers, the father and son are murderers, and the mother 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.]]
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** Actor Al Harrington appeared in five episodes, playing five different characters, before landing the recurring role of HPD Detective Ben Kokua.
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->''"Book 'em Danno. Murder one."''
'''''Hawaii Five-O''''' is a detective show set in {{Hawaii}}, centered on the fictitious "Five-O" elite state police unit (a reference to Hawaii's status as the 50th state admitted to the United States) led by former Navy officer Steve [=McGarrett=], as played by Jack Lord.
Running from 1968 to 1980, this show is synonymous with Hawaii, and its InstrumentalThemeTune (which became a hit single for The Ventures) is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SgGONWY7Vo&feature=related 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. Forerunner of ''MagnumPI''.
A [[TheRemake re-imagining]] titled ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' started in 2010.
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!!''Hawaii Five-O'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActingForTwo
** In "A Bullet For El Diablo," the title dictator's daughter is replaced by a double in an attempt to assassinate him. [[spoiler:(It works.)]]
** Steve [=McGarrett=] comes face to face with his double in "The Ninety-Second War, Part 1."
** 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).
* AffablyEvil: Wo Fat
* AmericanAccents: Made use of Hawaiian dialect.
** In "Full Fathom Five," [=McGarrett=] refers to a missing tourist as a "rich haole[[hottip:*:Pronounced "how-leh" or "how-lee," it's the native Hawaiian word for "outsider;" can be used as a slang reference for tourists, mainlanders, or Caucasians in general.]] lady from the mainland."
** Fun drinking game: take a sip every time Chin Ho or Kono says "brudder".
* BellyDancer: Whenever a hula dancer appears, although this is usually limited to the opening credits.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: "One Big Happy Family." [[spoiler:They're robbers, the father and son are murderers, and the mother 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.]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted ''big time'', and one of the first American TV shows to do so. That's part of what made this show very famous.
** The two-parter "Once Upon a Time" was almost entirely shot in California because it was almost entirely set there. These episodes were among the few not to carry the "Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii" credit.
* CatchPhrase: "Book 'em, Danno."
* 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.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Kono
* CreatorCameo: Theme song composer Morton Stevens played a jazz drummer in the third season episode "Trouble in Mind".
* DirectedByCastMember: Jack Lord, of course, who was also more or less an uncredited executive producer (especially after creator and ''actual'' EP Leonard Freeman passed away in 1973).
* DownerEnding
** [[spoiler: In "To Kill or Be Killed," a soldier on leave from the war in Vietnam falls to his death, and his brother (suspected of being involved) is bidding to avoid the draft and flee to "Trudeau turf", alias Canada, 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 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."]]
** [[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 germ, but is himself infected and succumbs as [=McGarrett=] and the woman he loves watch.]]
* {{Fanfare}}
* ForensicDrama: It wasn't primarily this, but [[TheLabRat Che Fong]] showed up an awful lot.
* HulaAndLuaus
* JokerJury
* LargeAndInCharge: Big Chicken, played by pre-[[TheMaryTylerMooreShow WJM]]/pre-''[[TheLoveBoat Pacific Princess]]'' Gavin [=MacLeod=].
* LongRunner
* MadeOfIron: [=McGarrett=]. As the series went on the script writers actually had some fun with LampshadeHanging. One episode has a would-be killer fire at [=McGarrett=] several times with no effect until she screams, "What are you made of!?" [=McGarrett's=] response? It's not him but the bullets, which were blanks.
* MagicalDatabase: An early example, possibly the first for cop shows. The Honolulu Police Department computer was frequently called upon for information, sometimes for things that in real life weren't available in digital format until the 1990s or later.
* MasterOfDisguise: Lewis Avery Filer.
* NotSoDifferent: The whole point of the 1969 episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Not That Much Different]]".
* PilotMovie: ''Cocoon''
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Five-O is supposed to be an elite unit of the Hawaii State Police. The closest thing Hawaii has to a state police is the Sheriffs Division within the State Department of Public Safety, and they're limited to specific duties such as acting as process servers and providing security at state facilities.
* RoguesGallery: Wo Fat; Tony Alika; Honore Vashon; Lewis Avery Filer; Big Chicken
* SerialKiller: "One for the Money", "I'll Kill 'Em Again", "Wednesday, Ladies Free" and others.
* SyndicationTitle: ''[=McGarrett=]''
* TheTeaser
* TelevisionGeography: Mostly subverted, since most of the series was filmed on location in Hawaii, and locations were rarely specific enough to reveal obvious mistakes to most viewers.
* TemporaryBlindness: [=McGarrett=] in "Blind Tiger", when an assassination attempt failed to kill him.
* TheVietnamWar: Many of the early season episodes revolved around the war, ranging from naval personnel smuggling drugs out of Southeast Asia, screwed-up veterans committing (or being victims of) crime, to con men taking advantage of military personnel on leave.
* TitleSequence
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w opening titles]] are legendary.
** The canoe-paddling end credits bit (introduced in Season 2; the first season has a flashing police light) is also very well known.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 2-hour pilot, ''Cocoon'', has Nancy Kwan (''The World of Suzie Wong'') playing Rosemary Quong, a mildly [[TheSixties hippie]] grad student with a penchant for [[{{Fanservice}} miniskirts]]. Nancy 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.]]
* YellowPeril: [=McGarrett's=] Chinese nemesis, Wo Fat.
* YouLookFamiliar: Actor Al Harrington appeared in five episodes, playing five different characters, before landing the recurring role of HPD Detective Ben Kokua.
** MartinSheen appeared in two episodes as different characters.
** Bruce Boxleitner appeared three times as different characters -- and two of them were in the ''same season''!
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->''"Book 'em Danno. Murder one."''
'''''Hawaii Five-O''''' is a detective show set in {{Hawaii}}, centered on the fictitious "Five-O" elite state police unit (a reference to Hawaii's status as the 50th state admitted to the United States) led by former Navy officer Steve [=McGarrett=], as played by Jack Lord.
Running from 1968 to 1980, this show is synonymous with Hawaii, and its InstrumentalThemeTune (which became a hit single for The Ventures) is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SgGONWY7Vo&feature=related 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. Forerunner of ''MagnumPI''.
A [[TheRemake re-imagining]] titled ''Series/HawaiiFive0'' started in 2010.
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!!''Hawaii Five-O'' provides examples of the following tropes:
* ActingForTwo
** In "A Bullet For El Diablo," the title dictator's daughter is replaced by a double in an attempt to assassinate him. [[spoiler:(It works.)]]
** Steve [=McGarrett=] comes face to face with his double in "The Ninety-Second War, Part 1."
** 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).
* AffablyEvil: Wo Fat
* AmericanAccents: Made use of Hawaiian dialect.
** In "Full Fathom Five," [=McGarrett=] refers to a missing tourist as a "rich haole[[hottip:*:Pronounced "how-leh" or "how-lee," it's the native Hawaiian word for "outsider;" can be used as a slang reference for tourists, mainlanders, or Caucasians in general.]] lady from the mainland."
** Fun drinking game: take a sip every time Chin Ho or Kono says "brudder".
* BellyDancer: Whenever a hula dancer appears, although this is usually limited to the opening credits.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: "One Big Happy Family." [[spoiler:They're robbers, the father and son are murderers, and the mother 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.]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: Averted ''big time'', and one of the first American TV shows to do so. That's part of what made this show very famous.
** The two-parter "Once Upon a Time" was almost entirely shot in California because it was almost entirely set there. These episodes were among the few not to carry the "Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii" credit.
* CatchPhrase: "Book 'em, Danno."
* 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.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Kono
* CreatorCameo: Theme song composer Morton Stevens played a jazz drummer in the third season episode "Trouble in Mind".
* DirectedByCastMember: Jack Lord, of course, who was also more or less an uncredited executive producer (especially after creator and ''actual'' EP Leonard Freeman passed away in 1973).
* DownerEnding
** [[spoiler: In "To Kill or Be Killed," a soldier on leave from the war in Vietnam falls to his death, and his brother (suspected of being involved) is bidding to avoid the draft and flee to "Trudeau turf", alias Canada, 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 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."]]
** [[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 germ, but is himself infected and succumbs as [=McGarrett=] and the woman he loves watch.]]
* {{Fanfare}}
* ForensicDrama: It wasn't primarily this, but [[TheLabRat Che Fong]] showed up an awful lot.
* HulaAndLuaus
* JokerJury
* LargeAndInCharge: Big Chicken, played by pre-[[TheMaryTylerMooreShow WJM]]/pre-''[[TheLoveBoat Pacific Princess]]'' Gavin [=MacLeod=].
* LongRunner
* MadeOfIron: [=McGarrett=]. As the series went on the script writers actually had some fun with LampshadeHanging. One episode has a would-be killer fire at [=McGarrett=] several times with no effect until she screams, "What are you made of!?" [=McGarrett's=] response? It's not him but the bullets, which were blanks.
* MagicalDatabase: An early example, possibly the first for cop shows. The Honolulu Police Department computer was frequently called upon for information, sometimes for things that in real life weren't available in digital format until the 1990s or later.
* MasterOfDisguise: Lewis Avery Filer.
* NotSoDifferent: The whole point of the 1969 episode "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Not That Much Different]]".
* PilotMovie: ''Cocoon''
* RealityIsUnrealistic: Five-O is supposed to be an elite unit of the Hawaii State Police. The closest thing Hawaii has to a state police is the Sheriffs Division within the State Department of Public Safety, and they're limited to specific duties such as acting as process servers and providing security at state facilities.
* RoguesGallery: Wo Fat; Tony Alika; Honore Vashon; Lewis Avery Filer; Big Chicken
* SerialKiller: "One for the Money", "I'll Kill 'Em Again", "Wednesday, Ladies Free" and others.
* SyndicationTitle: ''[=McGarrett=]''
* TheTeaser
* TelevisionGeography: Mostly subverted, since most of the series was filmed on location in Hawaii, and locations were rarely specific enough to reveal obvious mistakes to most viewers.
* TemporaryBlindness: [=McGarrett=] in "Blind Tiger", when an assassination attempt failed to kill him.
* TheVietnamWar: Many of the early season episodes revolved around the war, ranging from naval personnel smuggling drugs out of Southeast Asia, screwed-up veterans committing (or being victims of) crime, to con men taking advantage of military personnel on leave.
* TitleSequence
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AepyGm9Me6w opening titles]] are legendary.
** The canoe-paddling end credits bit (introduced in Season 2; the first season has a flashing police light) is also very well known.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The 2-hour pilot, ''Cocoon'', has Nancy Kwan (''The World of Suzie Wong'') playing Rosemary Quong, a mildly [[TheSixties hippie]] grad student with a penchant for [[{{Fanservice}} miniskirts]]. Nancy 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.]]
* YellowPeril: [=McGarrett's=] Chinese nemesis, Wo Fat.
* YouLookFamiliar: Actor Al Harrington appeared in five episodes, playing five different characters, before landing the recurring role of HPD Detective Ben Kokua.
** MartinSheen appeared in two episodes as different characters.
** Bruce Boxleitner appeared three times as different characters -- and two of them were in the ''same season''!
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