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50th Anniversary Catch-Up Viewing
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Hawaii Five-O
"Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born"
Originally aired December 19, 1968
Wiki said:
Danny directs a methodical search for the unknown assailant who critically wounded McGarrett.
McGarrett is doing his morning beachside jog and has just saved a young boy from wandering into the water when he's approached by an unseen figure whom he thinks he recognizes and is shot three times. With McGarrett in critical condition, Danny finds himself under pressure from the Governor and the Attorney General (who notably appear together, usually being rotating boss figures) to not just find McGarrett's assailant, but also keep the department's usual business running. To that end, Danny is assisted by his own second banana, a 5-O agent named Lt. Leoloha (Doug Mossman) who pops out of the woodwork just for this episode. Danny decides to kill two birds with one stone by zeroing in on the target of Steve's latest investigation, one Charley Mangan (Paul Picerni), as a likely suspect, and he quickly gets in the swing of being the man in charge...
When a second victim is shot in the same manner, though, the team is able to make a connection...he was the key witness in the conviction of a crooked Naval supply officer 15 years prior...the result of an investigation spearheaded by McGarrett when he was in Naval Intelligence.
We finally get a look at the now-free supply officer, Joseph Trinian (John Larch), when he visits his wife, Emma (Vivi Janis), who hasn't remarried. The team pays her some visits, which is how she learns that he's a suspect in two shootings, and when she gleans from Joe that he plans to settle one more score, she alerts 5-O and helps them to work out who the third target might be...the prosecutor in the military tribunal, and the man who recommended McGarrett for his current position...who's now the Attorney General (Morgan White). That day the AG is watching the Kamehameha Day Parade from a balcony of the ʻIolani Palace. Wearing a Navy uniform that he got at a military supply shop, Trinian is heading up the open stairwell when the team gets there, and takes a tumble back down when Danny has to shoot him.
The coda, of course, has Steve on the road to recovery and Danny eager to hand him his job back.
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Hawaii Five-O
"Deathwatch"
Originally aired December 25, 1968
Wiki said:
Five-O fights to save the life of a gangster so that he can testify against his boss.
Assistant D.A. Charlie Kadison (Robert Turnbull) is making a quick stop by his office on a Sunday with his pregnant wife waiting in the car when he stumbles upon a burglar who's cracked open his safe full of evidence against a crime boss named Joseph Matsukino (James Shigeta) and is fatally shot. Mrs. Kadison (Maura McGiveney) ends up in the hospital, with her now-imminent delivery in jeopardy. McGarrett--now up and about and fully operational, because episodic television--is a close friend of the victim whom we've never met before, so he takes the investigation very personally, bringing Matsukino--who's scheduled to go to trial on Tuesday--and his right-hand man, Harry Cardonus (Nehemiah Persoff) into his office for questioning. Talking to Cardonus alone, McGarrett brings up the likelihood that Matsukino may attempt to off him, as he knows too much about his boss's operations. Sure enough, after his return to Matsukino's scenic oceanside lair, Cardonus lets his girlfriend use his car, and she gets blown up real good in his place.
Cardonus goes to McGarrett, intent on spilling everything he knows then and there because he's sure he won't live to see Tuesday, but McGarrett is determined to keep him alive to testify at the trial. Cardonus's fatalism proves well-founded, however, when multiple attempts are made on him in the well-guarded hotel suite where he's kept...one by a would-be shooter who climbs the outside via a rope; another by poisoned water, which kills one of the uniformed officers guarding the suite; and finally via an allergen in his food. In the meantime, Danno and Kono have tracked down the "boxman" who was responsible for cracking the safe and killing Kadison, but he's rubbed out before their eyes by shooters in a car.
The newspapers print a story the night before the trial about an unnamed trial witness having been killed, causing Matsukino to act particularly smug in the morning at the courthouse, confident that McGarrett now has nothing on him. But while he's gloating, an ambulance drives up and Cardonus is wheeled up on a stretcher...having enjoyed a good night's sleep in the hospital because Matsukino thought he was already dead. The story was about the boxman.
Before the end of the episode, Mrs. Kadison has successfully delivered, and is given words of consolation by Steve.
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I suppose they could have made his substitute a Howell Industries representative or something, but I guess they either forgot about that line or thought there had to be a more personal connection.
Could he have been another adoptee?
I have been re watching my Honeymooner set. It is sad there was only one season. It was a fun show.
Been catching bits of that in the background on Decades when I'm awake for it.
