Kill and Kill Again Hawaii Five O

"Volume 'em, Danno. Murder 1."

— Steve McGarrett

Hawaii Five-O is a detective bear witness prepare in Hawai'i, centered on the fictitious "Five-O" elite state police force unit (a reference to Hawaii'south status as the 50th country admitted to the United States) led by onetime Navy officer Steve McGarrett, as played by Jack Lord.

Running from 1968 to 1980, this bear witness is synonymous with Hawaii, and its iconic theme song (which became a hitting single for The Ventures) is regularly played past the University of Hawaii marching ring at home games for Hawaii sports teams. Appropriately, the overwhelming bulk of the show was shot on location in Hawaii, just occasionally using studios in Los Angeles or other locations as called past episode plots. The prove is currently bachelor via various broadcast stations on syndication, on DVD, or streaming from CBS' website ^note only if you're in the U.s., nonetheless . Equally a attestation to the bear witness'southward influence, "Five-O" is nonetheless a widely used slang term for "police".

A airplane pilot for a prospective revival series (produced by Stephen J. Cannell and starring Gary Busey, with James MacArthur's Danny appearing as the new Governor) was produced in 1997 but never aired. A completely re-imagined series, titled Hawaii Five-0 (with a nix, non an "O"), ran for a decade, 2010-20.

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"Danno, I want the volume on these Tropes..."

• Absentee Actor: James MacArthur, Zulu and Kam Fong are all absent-minded from "Once Upon A Fourth dimension, Part II" (which is set entirely on the mainland); the latter two are also missing from "The 90-Second War, Part II" and Zulu is farther gone from "Skilful Night, Babe, Time To Dice!" Jack Lord did not miss a unmarried episode in the entire run.
• Affably Evil: Wo Fat, and to a lesser extent—in that he'due south more affable than evil—Lewis Avery Filer. The former moved to Faux Affably Evil from the season nine premiere onward.
• Emphasis upon the Incorrect SylLABle: A trait of Jack Lord. Witness his saying "PRO-tectors" when saying protectors or "KAY-sette" when saying "cassette."
• And Starring:
  • Anybody other than Jack Lord. Seriously. The opening credits for the first few seasons: "Starring Jack Lord" (from season half-dozen onwards he had this billing on the end credits besides) "With James MacArthur as Dan Williams; Zulu as Kono; Kam Fong as Mentum Ho." This was maintained, with adjustments for cast changes, for the entire run.
  • Similarly, Kelly Bishop gets "And Introducing" credit on "Oldest Profession - Latest Price". Donna Mills gets an "And" credit on "Murder - Optics Simply," equally does Juliet Mills ^note no relation on "Termination With Extreme Prejudice.", ditto, Jo Ann Harris on "And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon."
• And This Is for...: "Bomb, Flop, Who'due south Got the Flop?", "The Bells Toll At Noon." Among others.
• Artifact Championship: "The Flip Side Is Decease," the plot involves viii-tracks, non L Ps.
• Artistic License – Biology: "A Bullet for El Diablo" has a dictator's daughter substituted by her twin one-half-sister. Fifty-fifty Stephen Hawking couldn't summate the odds on that.
• Asshole Victim:
  • 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 human's property. The native man (played by Frank Silvera) gives him a difficult shove and walks away, not noticing that Cronyn has succumbed to Death past Falling Over... he fell backward and struck his head on a tree stump.
  • Besides, information technology is doubtful anyone was sorry when Travis Marshall was bumped off in "Honor Is an Unmarked Grave".
• The Bad Guy Wins: A few times, but probably the almost galling was in "The Jinn Who Clears The Way". McGarrett has Wo Fat expressionless to rights for murder, grand theft and espionage, only for Jonathan Kaye from the Land Department to testify upwardly and tell McGarrett he's here to take custody of Wo Fat, drib 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 Prisoner Exchange with the Chinese to go dorsum a U-2 pilot who was shot down in China 3 years earlier and held ever since.
• Battle Bolas: In "Though the Heavens Autumn", a vigilante group use bolas to capture the criminals.
• Belly Dancer: Whenever a hula dancer appears, although this is usually limited to the opening credits.
• Ameliorate to Dice than Be Killed: "Eastward Wind, Ill Current of air."
• Big "NO!": Toni lets out quite a big one in "Thanks The Honeymoon" when she discovers a mobster'southward attempt to kill her and new husband so she can't testify against him only partially successful.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: "One Big Happy Family". The daughter is the almost sensitive and the only real innocent (she simply steals a telephone book embrace, while the others go for money) whereas the father and son are murderers, the daughter-in-law is a Ms. Fanservice who'due south used to sentinel for targets, and the mother (and leader) is a heartless racist who in the denouement says they just 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 existent family, however!
• Bloodshot Ending: "Three Dead Cows at Makapuu, Function II" has a scientist aiming to release some shortlived but very deadly bacteria to protest chemical warfare being persuaded (partly due to a phone operator who falls in love with him) not to do so, just 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 he himself is infected and succumbs every bit McGarrett and the woman he loves watch.
• Bookends: "Up Tight" starts with Danny trying to proceed a immature adult female loftier on LSD from jumping off a cliff, and ends with McGarrett trying to keep the professor who turned her onto drugs from jumping off the aforementioned cliff. The woman jumps, but the homo is rescued and arrested.
• The Boxing Episode:
  • "Nine, Ten, You're Dead" finds the Five-O team searching for an crumbling boxer who took a wrench and smashed the hand of a Syndicate-owned fighter, in social club to forbid him from becoming encephalon-damaged like he is. Naturally, the mob is also looking for him—to kill him in retaliation.
  • "Sign of the Ram", from the last flavor, involves a boxing-related murder and, of all things, astrology.
• Bratty Teenage Daughter: Annie Carter in "Image of Fear." Spoilered considering she isn't revealed as this until the third act — in fact, she turns out to be The Chessmaster.
• Busman's Holiday: Danny has one without even leaving Honolulu in "Double Exposure" - which takes place on his day off.
• Cartwright Curse: If you become into a relationship with Dan Williams or Steve McGarrett, don't expect it to concluding.
• Catchphrase: "Volume 'em, Danno." Also played straight in later episodes with scenes on the mainland.
• Chekhov'south Boomerang: "One Big Happy Family" In this case. It'south more like Chekhov's Telephone Book Cover; the only crime Monica Ferguson is commits is stealing a phone book cover from the hotel the family'due south staying at. It gets them defenseless.
• Chick Magnet: McGarrett.
• The Chessmaster: The team oftentimes maneuver baddies into confessions past insanely complex plots, conceptualize traps and seem to walk into them, simply to reveal backups (and record recorders) in place right when the baddies inevitably tell all earlier shooting, etc. Instance, Flavour 4 "Proficient Nighttime Infant, Time To Dice!": a woman who is frightened considering her framed boyfriend is said to be escaped from prison and coming for her, so she starts confessing to crimes (the framed prisoner is not really loose; he's doing it all under Five-O supervision in order to exist absolved.) Bad guys sometimes seem like Chessmasters, but of grade their insanely complex plots always come a cropper later on baffling the team for about forty minutes. Sort of exception: although Wo Fat's scheme in "The Ninety-2nd State of war" is counteracted, it's done so in a way that he thinks information technology worked. Similarly in "Murder- Eyes Just" Wo Fat escapes with what he thinks is what he'south subsequently.
• Chewing the Scenery: Cal Bellini goes way, way over the top as a revolutionary in "Vocalism of Terror."
  • Likewise, Seth Sakai proves in "Double Exposure" that you tin can overact via eating pieces of pineapple.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: 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).
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Kono, Danno and Jenny. Sadly averted with Chin Ho.
• Circus Episode: "Presenting—In the Center Ring...Murder", in which Wo Fat enlists the help of 2 brothers who are acrobats to carry out a striking on a visiting dignitary.
• Clear My Name: On a number of occasions, near notably with McGarrett in "Human being in a Steel Frame."
• Crazy-Prepared: Addison Barlow in "Invitation to Murder."
• Creator Cameo:
  • Ane of the series' directors, Charles S. Dubin, played an apartment managing director in the fifth-season episode "A Bullet For El Diablo", directed by Allen Reisner. Conversely, Reisner played the [1] in another fifth-season episode, "Anybody Can Build a Bomb", directed past Dubin.
  • Sutton Roley, who directed the episode "A Capitol Crime", has a cameo in the episode as Approximate Thorwald.
  • Richard Benedict, who directed several episodes (including the premiere "Total Fathom Five") appeared every bit 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 aforementioned season, "The Miracle Man".
• Daddy's Little Villain: "Yes, My Deadly Daughter."
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • Dan Williams takes charge in "For a Million... Why Non?" and "Lease for Death" when McGarrett is sidelined by a trial and quarantine respectively (although he nonetheless appears in both episodes). "Weep, Lie," meanwhile, is a rare episode to focus on Mentum Ho.
  • Danny also takes accuse in episodes where McGarrett is critically injured, such equally "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born" (McGarrett is critically wounded by an assassinator), "Blind Tiger" and "Forcefulness of Waves" (McGarrett was critically injured by bombs in both of those episodes).
• Dead Person Impersonation: "Why Won't Linda Die?"
• Death by Cameo: Theme vocal 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".
• Death of a Child:
  • "The Listener": A psychiatrist is targeted by a homo who's bugged not only his home but his office — the villain averts Even Evil Has Standards by amidst other things playing a young boy a taped conversation between the doctor and the boy's female parent, where she reveals he has a fatal brain neoplasm. The doctor tells the boy the tumour is shrinking... and afterwards tells McGarrett that the boy really is dying.
  • The 2-parter "Once Upon a Fourth dimension": McGarrett's sister is in thrall to a quack medico who claims she can cure her babe, who has cancer. The child passes away long before the stop of part one.
• Destination Defenestration: "I'll Kill 'Em Again" and "Stringer."
• Disco: With a vengeance in the season 11 two-parter "Number One With a Bullet," thanks to the plot involving mob activity around a discotheque.
• Muddied Cop: HPD Sgt. Dean Lyman in "Right Grave, Incorrect Body". Some time earlier the events in this episode, Lyman got into a shoot-out with a robber that stole a quarter of a meg dollars, killed him, hid the body and took the money. All of this comes to lite when an armed robbery and murder is committed with the dead robber'southward gun, which made it into the easily of another crook.
• Disposable Adult female: In "Beautiful Screamer" and "Man in a Steel Frame" Dan's girlfriend in the former, McGarrett's girlfriend in the latter. They're merely there to be murdered.
• Distinguished Admirer's Piping: Chin Ho on occasion.
• Downer Ending:
  • In "To Impale or Be Killed", a soldier on leave from The Vietnam War falls to his decease, and his brother (suspected of existence involved) is bidding to avoid the typhoon and flee to "Trudeau turf" (allonym Canada) because while he's willing to fight he doesn't believe this particular state of war is justified, to the disgust of his male parent — a military man. It turns out that the soldier committed suicide because he couldn't confront returning to what he also felt was an unjust war; not but is the would-be draft-dodger caught, merely his father disowns him by saying "Then I have 2 dead sons."
• Driven to Suicide: "Up Tight," "To Kill or Be Killed," "Expiry With Begetter," "Is This Any Way To Run A Paradise?", "I'll Kill 'Em Again." The beginning of "Invitation to Murder," and "Minor Potatoes." "I Built-in Every Minute" and "Murder Is A Taxing Affair." Dominick Vashon in "Five for Vashon: The Patriarch."
• Tedious Surprise: Some of the guest players...and a frequent offender among the regulars, Jack Lord.
• Dying Moment of Crawly: Chin Ho, after being revealed as a Five-O plant, immediately slugs the leader in the face up and then attacks the other two thugs. While he'southward ultimately unsuccessful at trying to escape, and the leader mocks him at what he did existence a mistake, he replies that it was worth it and he doesn't think he has much left to lose. Sadly, he's correct. Also Kert in "Thanks For The Honeymoon" when he gets the cyanide away from his new wife - he'southward breathed in too much by that point, but he does manage to salvage his soon-to-be widow. Meet Bittersweet Ending above for another example.
• Eager Rookie: Sandi Welles, a rookie officer who debuts in season 9, is this to a T. Eager to get involved in the cases she'due south assigned, she gets a little foolhardy and places her own life in serious danger multiple times.
• "Everybody Laughs" Catastrophe: "Murder - Eyes Only" equally McGarrett, Commander Wallace and an exonerated Lt. Waldron celebrating their triumph over Wo Fatty. He'due south escaped once more, but McGarrett prepared for this by planting without Wallace's knowledge, phony coordinates that will lead Wo Fat non 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 Lighter and Softer tone, McGarrett having failed to persuade a adamant animal command official to let him off off the use of a dog to solve this week's case, issues this command, "Volume me, Danno!" while sporting a huge smiling.

• Everybody Lives:
  • "A Bear upon of Guilt". The plot involves a waitress who'south raped by iii college football players and stabs one of them — he survives, and does concur the other two at gunpoint in the climax, but she doesn't shoot.
  • "The Last of the Dandy Paperhangers" is non only an Everybody Lives episode, just also has no violence at all.
  • "Tread the Rex's Shadow" goes even further with no violence and non even any criminal offence. The daughter of a wealthy haole and the poor native boy run off — her racist dad wants her back. They get married, and she'll be having the guy's child.
• Everything Is Online: Otherwise there wouldn't be the episode "Computer Killer."
• Evil Cripple: The villain in "Target - A Cop." Not to mention the championship grapheme in "Hookman."
• Evil Laugh: A Tony Alika specialty, encounter "Stringer" and "A Lion In the Streets."
• Evil Has Standards: Sadie Ferguson in "Big Happy Family" doesn't countenance her girl existence hit past her brother. She doesn't take a problem with her son and husband killing strangers for money. But her girl-in-law Rosalie's Really Gets Around tendencies although Rosalie rebuffs the pass the dad makes at her.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Agnes du Bois has i of these moments in "Horoscope for Murder," when she and friend/fellow astrologer Mel Burgess are discussing the suicide of Rick Makulu, who looks like he was to Driven to Suicide after the serial killings. Then Agnes realises she's alone in a room with the murderer...
• External Combustion: "Blind Tiger". Information technology temporarily blinds McGarrett.
• Evil Brit: Savage in "A Gun For McGarrett." And Marni Howard.
• Faked Kidnapping: In "Tiger Past the Tail", lounge singer Bobby George, with the help of his two buddies, fakes his kidnapping to sock information technology to his father. The two friends plough it into a real kidnapping with a existent ransom demand.
• Fan Disservice: "The Box" opens with a shower scene in prison. Non so bad you say? Large Chicken's taking the shower.
• Fanfare: The iconic theme music.
• Fanservice: Information technology'south a show set in Hawaii. What practice you think? (Non to the extent of the new show, mind y'all.) Although the directors can exist fatigued 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'southward camera fourth dimension in "A Very Personal Affair" screams this trope. Season 12'south "The Kahuna" provides a rare case of equal opportunity fanservice with Kimo and a Hot Scientist played by Cathy Lee Crosby stripping down to skivvies to go diving while looking into mysterious deaths. And they don't waste whatever time getting Maud Adams into a skimpy bikini when she turns up in "Deep Embrace" every bit a Femme Fatale Spy after tech info for the KGB. Susan Dey spends a good bargain of "Target — The Lady" in Bare Your Midriff mode.
• Peppery Redhead: Liana Labella in "My Friend, The Enemy."
• Final Season Casting: While Zulu (the original Kono) left the prove in 1972, James MacArthur and Kam Fong hung effectually until 1979, with William Smith (as Kimo), Sharon Farrell (as Lori) and Moe Keale (as Truck) equally the new regulars.
• Forensic Drama: Information technology wasn't primarily this, but Che Fong showed up an awful lot. As did the often forgotten Doc Bergman, the coroner.
• Forgotten Theme Tune Lyrics: The vocal has lyrics.

  If yous're feeling lone
  You can come with me
  Feel my arms around you
  Lay beside the sea
  We will call back of something to do
  Practice information technology 'til it's perfect for y'all
  And for me as well
  You can come with me!

• Gambit Roulette: "A Capitol Crime" - Mary Beth's plan to continue her mobster swain from beingness extradited to Chicago involves her crashing a hostage state of affairs (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...?

• Skilful Task Breaking It Hero: McGarrett gets a huge one in "Bait Once, Bait Twice" when he tries to talk inside a adult female who'due south Driven to Suicide (Well, how was he supposed to know it was all part of a plan to flush out a witness in protective custody and so the witness (the woman'due south fiancé) tin can be killed past a sniper? By the way, she survives the episode.)
• Heel–Face Turn: Rosalie turns on the Fergusons in the denouement of "One Big Happy Family.". Having had just about plenty of her mother-in-law's contempt for her and them not letting her do her ain matter.
• Hidden Depths: 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 Prc, and he really didn't want to kill the daughter he'd taken hostage, of whom he was surprisingly kind and frontwards 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 accept had her killed if her male parent didn't do as he'd asked. That was the but episode that showed Wo Fatty as nonetheless someone human and non a Carte du jour-Carrying Villain.
• Hoist past His Own Petard: In "Nine, Ten, Y'all're Expressionless," a former boxer shatters the hand of a novice to continue 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, every bit his bosses felt he was out of command. The former boxer is left unharmed, considering the hitman assures him he doesn't kill anyone without getting paid for information technology.
• Hook Hand: The villain in "Hookman", as played by real-life double-amputee J. J. Armes.
• How We Got Here: "Nine Dragons".

• Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: "Though the Heavens Fall."
• Idiot Ball: Held tightly by Kimo and Lori in "Though the Heavens Autumn" Sent to keep Meredith Howell rubber when Five-O (correctly) doubtable that Mr. Howell is the next target of a Vigilante Militia and simply sit down outside....fifty-fifty though at that place'south rear access and they could have stayed indoors. So Howell is kidnapped right nether their noses
• It's Personal: "In one case Upon a Fourth dimension", in which McGarrett is determined to take downwardly fraudulent doctor C.L. Fremont later on what happened to his sis's child.
• Jerkass: MdGrant Ormsbee in "The Defector" and "To Impale a Mind."
• Joker Jury
• Jurisdiction Friction: McGarrett arrests Jack Fabian for the murder of an HPD cop, merely Federal Agent Al Marsh wants Fabian to plough evidence confronting the Syndicate and is willing to offer him amnesty from prosecution.
• Killed Off for Real: Chin Ho.
• Large and in Accuse: Big Craven, played by pre-WJM/pre-Pacific Princess Gavin MacLeod.
• Lighter and Softer: While had a reputation for existence straight-laced and serious, merely do the odd lighter episode - only "The Bawl and The Seize with teeth" was the simply total-on comic episode; with the Lewis Avery Filer episodes (and the one with Suspiciously Similar Substitute M. Bordeaux), "Welcome To Our Co-operative Office" and "The Last of the Not bad Paperhangers" having a lighter affect than usual but not actually played for farce.
• Long Runner: Allow'southward put it this manner, Hawaii Five-O is the simply scripted, prime-time U.S. series to have debuted during the 1960s and made it all the manner to the 1980s.
• Fabricated of Iron: McGarrett. As the serial went on the script writers actually had some fun with Lampshade Hanging. Ane 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'due south not him but the bullets, which were blanks.
• Manchurian Agent: Wo Fat's spy ring makes use of them in "A Bullet for McGarrett".
• Principal of Disguise: Lewis Avery Filer.
• Master Forger: I case involves a man who was a professional person counterfeiter for the mob in his youth, before he faked his death to escape the lifestyle. At present a happy retiree, he learns that his facility is going bankrupt. Attempting to save information technology, he unearths two steel printing plates for $xx bills that he'd fabricated in his younger days. Ane of his "exam" printings is just detected because a depository financial institution has a policy of checking older bills with specialised computer-assisted imagine scanning. Unfortunately, the teller informs a news coiffure about this, which alerts the homo's old mob dominate that his lackey is alive and well. The man's friends are held hostage while two thugs coerce the human being into printing more simulated $20s.
• Multilayer Façade: "Highest Castle, Deepest Grave."
• Obvious Stunt Double:
  • For Jack Lord and Walt Davis in the crane hunt climax of "The Skyline Killer" (Davis plays "The Killer"). Indeed, the doubles are and then obvious that Walt Robles and Chuck Couch get separate billing in the terminate credits.
  • For the concluding fight of the entire series it'southward blatantly obvious that Lord and Keigh Dheigh are using doubles for the big McGarrett vs. Wo Fat boxing. It might have helped if Dheigh's stuntman had had a moustache...
• Omniscient Database: An early example, perhaps the beginning for cop shows. The Honolulu Police Department computer was frequently called upon for data, sometimes for things that in real life weren't available in digital format until the 1990s or later.
• I-Word Title: "Paniolo" (which is Hawaiian for 'Grandpa') and "Percentage".
• Ooh, Me Accent'southward Slipping: Albert Paulsen's Ecuadorian accent shows up quite a flake as gangster Edmonds in "Nine, Ten - You're Expressionless." Australian Murray Matheson's British accent wavers a tad as Lord Charles Danby in "Termination with Extreme Prejudice."
• Pilot Movie: While the airplane pilot movie has the same proper name as the serial, it runs in two parts in syndication as ''Cocoon" (with the standard opening title sequence changed to remove the shot of James MacArthur, equally he didn't play Dan in the pilot).
• Pre-Mortem I-Liner: A hitman disguised as a doctor to his hospitalized target in "Expiry with Father":

  Hitman: Fourth dimension for your shot.
  Patient: What shot?
  Hitman: This one. [kills him with a silencer-equipped gun]

• Prison Episode:
  • "The Box", from the first season, where McGarrett visits Oahu State Prison, just to be held earnest during a prison house riot by Big Chicken, whom he put in prison earlier in the season, in the episode "...And They Painted Daisies On His Bury"
  • "The Double Wall", from the 3rd season, where a prisoner, who claims he's innocent of the murder accuse that sent him to prison, holds a prison doctor hostage to strength 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'due south son Chris (in "V For Vashon: The Son", from 1972).
• Product Placement: If a aeroplane is seen flying or landing in/leaving Hawaii, more often than not it'll exist one of the United Airlines fleet.
• Pulled from Your Solar day Off: Happens a lot to McGarrett.
• "Ray of Promise" Ending: "Once Upon A Time, Part Two" McGarrett'southward failed in his desire to have Dr. Fremont with charged with murder, but he and the FDA's Zipser accept publicly unmasked her as a fraud - and McGarrett'south relationship with his sis (who was one of Fremont's devoted followers) is starting to heal.
• Reality Is Unrealistic: Five-O is supposed to be an aristocracy unit of measurement of the Hawaii State Law. The closest thing Hawaii has to a state police is the Sheriffs Sectionalization inside the Land Department of Public Safety, and they're express to specific duties such equally acting every bit process servers and providing security at state facilities.
• Really Gets Effectually: Walter in "Chain Of Events." He winds up giving syphilis to a girl who does volunteer work for a senatorial candidate. The girl ends upwards giving information technology to the politician... who ends up giving it to his married woman.
• Recycled Premise: Season two'southward "50 Feet High and It Kills!" and season 10's "Tsunami" both involve a scheme to bear out a tsunami hoax to cover up a crime.
• Re-Release Soundtrack:
  • The music from Saturday Night Fever that's used in "Number I with a Bullet" is notably absent from the streaming versions.
  • "The Execution File" is stripped of its Comprehend Version of "Do Ya Call back I'grand Sexy?" on the DVD.
• Rogues Gallery: Wo Fat; Tony Alika; Honore Vashon; Lewis Avery Filer; Big Chicken.
• Scenery Porn: Yes.
• Sequel Episode:
  • "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. He didn't do it.
  • "The Example Against McGarrett" picks upwardly where the three-parter "V For Vashon" left off, with Honore Vashon and other convicts putting Steve on trial.
  • "The Spirit is Willie" sees author (and the Governor's friend) Millicent Shand render 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 coin. She's mostly right. Except for the bit with the fiancé.
• Serial Killer: "1 for the Money", "I'll Kill 'Em Once more", "Wednesday, Ladies Costless" and others.
• Series Continuity Error: Chin Ho'south oldest girl is chosen Alia in "Engaged to Be Buried", but in "A Death in the Family" she's Suzy.
• The Smurfette Principle: Lori Wilson is the merely female person regular in all twelve seasons... and she didn't arrive until the concluding season (and just appeared in ten episodes at that, disappearing before the Series Finale "Woe To Wo Fat").
• Spell My Name with an "Due south": In the end credits for "Face up of the Dragon," invitee star Nancy Kovack is billed as Nancy Kovak.
• Split Personality: In "Flop, Bomb, Who'due south Got The Flop?", a senator is being terrorized past a bomber. Unknowingly, he's the bomber — considering he accidentally shot and killed his own father equally a boy and has never forgiven himself. Likewise the answer to the question "Why Won't Linda Die?".
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Monsieur Bordeaux in "30,000 Rooms and I Have the Key" for Lewis Avery Filer. Both characters came from the same writer, and the three episodes — Mr. Filer was in "Over Fifty? Steal" and "Odd Man In" — even share music ("Over Fifty? Steal" has an original score by Morton Stevens, the other 2 accept tracked music).
  • "The Sign of the Ram" literally has Jessica Humboldt standing in "Horoscope for Murder"'due south Agnes Du Bois (They've traded practices, and so she's in Albuquerque).
• Syndication Championship: McGarrett
• Taking You lot with Me: "Death with Father".
• The Teaser
• Telly Geography: Mostly subverted, since about of the series was filmed on location in Hawaii, and locations were rarely specific plenty to reveal obvious mistakes to near viewers.
• Temporary Blindness: McGarrett in "Blind Tiger", when an assassination endeavor failed to kill him.
• Ten Picayune Murder Victims: "Invitation to Murder," with a deceased artist's family, who hated him, seemingly killing each other to go his estate. They aren't. The will states that who's notwithstanding alive after a year gets everything. The killer is... The late artist. He hated them as well, and arranged information technology so all just ane of them would be murdered, with the remaining one framed for all the other killings. McGarrett figures it out before the remaining family members kicking it.
• At that place Are No Coincidences: Defied in "Full Fathom Five". Five-O are pressured past an attorney into looking for a missing woman, and in the process of their investigation observe a hubby-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 xx minutes - she got tired of beingness rich and being pushed around past the lawyer, so she joined a commune. She just happened to fit the design of the other women who had disappeared and has no other begetting on the plot.
• Title Drop:
  • "Strangers In Our Own Land," "One for the Money," "Merely Lucky, I Guess," "A Bullet for McGarrett," "Why Wait Till Uncle Kevin Dies?" and "The Terminal of the Bang-up Paperhangers" all work their respective episode titles into the dialogue.
  • "Nine Dragons" non simply has a title drop - it's the proper name of the island in Hong Kong where the activity's fix in AND the name of the triad gang Wo Fat runs.
  • A visual, instead of verbal one in the Vashon trilogy - Chris Vashon punches the letter 5 on people'southward faces with his custom signet ring.

• Championship Sequence:
  • The opening titles are legendary.
  • The canoe-paddling end credits bit (introduced in Season 2; the first season has a flashing constabulary light) is as well very well known.
• Truth in Television: When August March (the Big Bad in "Wooden Model Of A Rat") is held and gunpoint and told to reliquish his weapon, he puts his gun in the floor slowly and advisedly. Casually tossing aside a loaded weapon in standard movie/Television set mode is a bang-up manner to ensure it discharges on landing and possibly shooting yourself.
• Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: played for tragedy in "Diary Of a Gun."the gun of the championship, part of shipment of Sat Dark Specials that McGarrett and the squad are trying to fissure down on; which a street tough used to shoot a tourist and dumped in a mailbox before the law caught him; the mail carrier on that road finds the gun when he mpties the box - and he keeps the gun. When he gets dwelling house he finds his wife getting dolled up to become out.... it's strongly implied that she'due south making extra money via The Oldest Profession. He follows his wife to a hotel, finds her with a football game role player. He ends up killing both of them.
• Villainous Breakdown: Subverted in "The Miracle Man" When the Reverend Andy is tricked into broadcasting to his waiting audience that he's been taking his faithful for all he can get - every bit well as sleeping with assorted bonny Sisters of his crusade; it's a subversion because he'southward not guilty of any crimes in the eyes of the law. Simply now everyone knows what Sister Harmony learned - "(he'south) a liar, and a hypocrite!" Reverend Andy goes to pieces equally the audience walks out the auditorium.
• "Well Done, Son!" Guy: Elliot Bancroft in "Use a Gun, Go to Hell" really wants his dad to be proud of him. Shooting and killing a senator in favour of strict gun command ^notation which his dad is very isn't , and throwing the gun away probably wasn't the best way to do it - since it leads to all the problem in the episode.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: The 2-hr pilot,(which has an intro fitting its TV movie status) is shown in syndication equally a two-parter titled "Cocoon", has Nancy Kwan playing Rosemary Quong, a mildly hippie grad student with a penchant for miniskirts. Kwan gets 2nd billing in the opening titles, correct after Jack Lord, and they have several scenes together, including a beachfront cookout, playing upwards the dissimilarity between the free-spirited Rosemary and the buttoned-downward directly-laced McGarrett. The ending suggests that Rosemary is going to be McGarrett's recurring love interest. She'due south never seen once again.
• Xanthous Peril: McGarrett'south Chinese nemesis, Wo Fatty.
• Zeerust: Quillan's mention of the shilling in "Murder With a Golden Affect" from 1974 (i.eastward. three years after the UK had decimalised its currency. In fairness, many Brits had difficulty getting their heads effectually the new coinage.)

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McGarrett: [to the villains at the end of "3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu"] Aloha. Aloha, suckers!

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