While investigating the cast, Steve discovered a personal connection that allowed him to learn about the impactful role his grandfather had at Pearl Harbor. Elsewhere, Adam returned to the scene and was quickly thrust into yet another mystery while working at his new construction job. As it happened, Adam came across bone fragments that had him feeling uneasy and turning to Jerry for help into looking into the discovery under the radar of Kono and the team. Tonight in “Wehe Ana (Prelude),” Detective Danny Williams takes center stage in an episode which puts the spotlight on one of our favorite members of the Five- 0 task force!

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• The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
• Five-0 investigates the 10-year-old cold case of a missing teen when a boy suffering from PTSD undergoes hypnosis and realizes he may have witnessed her murder.

The fun begins when a comatose patient begins to show signs of improvement leaving him in need of some police protection. As we soon discover, the comatose patient happened to be the key witness to the final HPD case Danny worked on before joining the Five- 0 task force. While it appears that Danny will not be working with his Five- 0 family on protecting the witness, he does get a little help from nurse Jenny (Orange Is the New Black star Lori Petty) and his former HPD Captain, Tanaka (Michael Paul Chan). Don’t miss a minute of CBS’ hit Friday night drama Hawaii Five- 0 when it airs this Friday, April 2. CBS and remember you can watch the latest episodes of your favorite CBS series online through CBS. What are you looking for the most from this Friday’s new Hawaii Five- 0? Join the conversation in the comments section below or by tweeting @Hidden.

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Hawaii Five- O - Wikipedia. Hawaii Five- O is an American police proceduraldrama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Struck By Lightning Full Movie In English there. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 1.

At the airing of its last episode, it had been the longest running police drama in television history. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Captain Steve Mc. Garrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1. Many episodes would end with Mc. Garrett instructing his subordinate to . The program continues to be broadcast in syndication worldwide.

Alex O'Loughlin, who plays Lt. Steve McGarrett on Hawaii Five-0, has hinted that the eighth season of the show (which is currently in the middle of its seventh.

Created by Leonard Freeman, Hawaii Five- O was shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii, and throughout the island of Oahu and other Hawaiian islands with occasional filming in locales such as Los Angeles, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Hawaii Five- O was named in honor of Hawaii's being the 5.

Although the show's name has always ended with the numeral . In the show, Mc. Garrett oversees state police officers – the young Danny Williams, veteran Chin Ho Kelly, and streetwise Kono Kalakaua for seasons one through four. Honolulu Police Department Officer Duke Lukela joined the team as a regular, as did Ben Kokua, who replaced Kono beginning with season five. Occasionally, Mc. Garrett's Five- O team is assisted by other officers as needed: medical examiner Doc Bergman, forensic specialist Che Fong, and a secretary. The first secretary was May, then Jenny, and later Malia, Lani and Luana.

With the aid of District Attorney and later Hawaii's Attorney General John Manicote, Mc. Garrett is successful in sending most of his enemies to prison. One such crime syndicate was led by crime family patriarch Honore Vashon, a character introduced in the fifth season.

Most episodes of Hawaii Five- O ended with the arrest of criminals and Mc. Garrett snapping, . By the 1. 2th and final season, series regular James Mac. Arthur had left the show (in 1. Kam Fong. Unlike other characters before him, Fong's character, Chin Ho, at Fong's request, did not just vanish from the show, but instead was murdered while working undercover to expose a protection ring in Chinatown in the last episode of season 1. New characters Jim 'Kimo' Carew (William Smith), Lori Wilson (Sharon Farrell), and Truck (Moe Keale) were introduced in season 1. Duke Lukela. Mc. Garrett's tousled yet immaculate hairstyle, as well as his proclivity for wearing a dark suit and tie on all possible occasions (uncommon in the islands), rapidly entered popular culture.

While the other members of Five- O . Mc. Garrett's nemesis is a rogue intelligence officer of the People's Republic of China named Wo Fat. The communist rogue agent was played by veteran actor Khigh Dheigh. In the show's final episode in 1. Occasionally, a show would flash back to Mc.

Garrett's younger years or to a romantic figure. In the episode . Because Steve Mc. Garrett is also a commander in the Naval Reserve, he sometimes uses their resources to help investigate and solve crimes. Hence the closing credits of some episodes mentioned the Naval Reserve. Producer Leonard Freeman moved to Hawaii to recuperate after suffering a heart attack.

One source states the idea for the show may have come from a conversation Freeman had with Hawaii's then- Governor John A. Ultimately, Jack Lord – then living in Beverly Hills – was asked at the last moment. Lord read for the part on a Wednesday, was cast, and flew to Hawaii two days later. On the following Monday, Lord was in front of the cameras. Freeman and Lord had worked together previously on an unsold TV pilot called Grand Hotel.

Freeman took the name Wo Fat from a restaurant in downtown Honolulu. Watch Chasing Mavericks Online Full Movie. The name Chin Ho came from Chinn Ho, the owner of the Ilikai Hotel where the penthouse shot of Steve Mc. Garrett in the opening title sequence was taken. Zulu was a Waikiki beach boy and local DJ when he was cast for the part of Kono, which he played for the next four years. Characters. Nick Kellogg (Danny Kamekona; seasons 5–7, 1. HPD/5- 0. Ben Kokua (Al Harrington; seasons 5–7), Detective.

Frank Kamana (Douglas Mossman; season 7), Detective. Sandi Welles (Amanda Mc.

Broom; seasons 8 & 9), Officer. James (later . Grant Ormsbee (Pat Hingle; seasons 8 & 9)Production. The show then moved to a Fort Ruger location for seasons two to eight. A third studio was built at Diamond Head, and was used during the last four seasons.

A problem from the beginning was the lack of a movie industry in Hawaii. Much of the crew and cast, including many locals who ended up participating in the show, had to learn their respective jobs as they went along.

Jack Lord was known as a perfectionist who insisted on the best from everyone. Lord's high standards helped the show last another six years after Leonard Freeman's death from heart trouble during the sixth season. But occasionally episodes would focus on the other actors, and let them showcase their own talents, such as Danno defusing bombs in .

Since Jack Lord had a financial interest in the show, he referred to other regular cast actors in the program as a . At least two episodes were shot in Los Angeles, one in Hong Kong, and one in Singapore. Episodes shot in these locations were the only ones not to bear the . Early shows began with a cold open suggesting the sinister plot for that program, then cut to a shot of a big ocean wave and the start of the theme song. The line he spoke was, .

Most of the promos are slightly edited to remove references to . All of the primary cast members take turns with the iconic . During the first season, the theme music was played over a short film of a flashing blue light attached to the rear of a police motorcycle in Waikiki heading west (the film is shown at twice the normal speed, as can be seen from people crossing a street behind the police motorcycle). TV's top 1. 0 credits sequences, as selected by readers.

A typical episode, on average, would have at least two- thirds of all footage shot on location, as opposed to a . It is also remembered for its unusual setting during an era when most crime dramas of the era were set in or around the Los Angeles or New York City areas. The Hawaii- based television show Magnum, P. I. The first few Magnum P.

I. Magnum's producers made a few attempts to coax Jack Lord out of retirement for a cameo appearance, but he refused. Many local people were cast in the show, which was ethnically diverse by the standards of the late 1. Produced and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it starred Gary Busey and Russell Wong as the new Five- O team. James Mac. Arthur returned as Dan Williams, having become governor of Hawaii. The new series opening credit sequence is an homage to the original; the theme song is cut in half, from 6.

Most of the iconic shots are replicated, beginning with the helicopter approach and close- up turn of Mc. Garrett at the Ilikai Hotel penthouse, the jet engine intake, a hula dancer's hips, the quickly stepped zoom- in to the face of the Lady Columbia statue at Punchbowl, the close- up of the Kamehameha Statue's face, and the ending with a police motorcycle's flashing blue light. Starting with the Season 7 many of the clips that were part of the original opening were removed and more action shots of the cast were included. On the March 1. 9, 2.

Ed Asner reprised his role as . Clips from the 1. Jack Lord series.

Theme music. The tune was composed by Morton Stevens, who also composed numerous episode scores and performed by the CBS Orchestra. The theme was later recorded by the Ventures, whose version reached No. Billboard Hot 1. 00 pop chart.

The tune has also been heard at Robertson Stadium after Houston Dynamo goals scored by Brian Ching, a native of Hawaii. Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1.

The first, . Band leader Deniz Tek, who grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan during the heyday of MC5 and The Stooges, commented that he found Sydney of the early 1.