Weird FIVE-0

[RobertScorpio]

I just got season six of HAWAII FIVE-0. And there is the strange episode I had forgotten about.

Slim Pickens and his family of white trash come to Hawaii. They take turns getting jobs, and I mean small time jobs, and then killing the owner for like maybe $250, or so. Which they then use to pay for another week at another hotel until their next target (a gas station owner--a woman' salon owner) are chosen, killed, money taken (200$ if they're lucky)

At the end, there is no remorse. And Picken's wife said it isn't stealing since the dead people (they killed) were not kin.

McGarret, usually a cool cat, has this look on his face like "what the hell is going on?"

I sometimes think JACK LORD had no idea what the episode is about since he is hardly in it. And then, at the end, realized what the episode was about but it was too late to can.

Weird episode..

Rob
scorpio

 

[Mistral]

Sounds weird. Real strange, especially for the more sanitized times that it originally aired in.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Sounds weird. Real strange, especially for the more sanitized times that it originally aired in.

There is a scene in the episode where Picken's wife comments about seeing a whiteman sitting with an asian girl at the bar...pickens wife says..

"Next time lets pick a hotel where asians aren't allowed"..

Thats pretty risky for even back then....strange episode.

Rob

 

[ToddPence]

Sometimes in the 1960's production crunches and last-minute cuts resulted in putting something on the screen that didn't make much sense. I remembered somewhere on this forum I made a list of TV's all-time "WTF" episodes. I'll have to find that and repost it.

 

[Gojirob]

Do McGarrett, Dan-O and their men ever rescue those poor guys eternally rowing against the waves in the opening credits?

 

[Bloodwhiner]

Hawaii Five-0 -- greatest theme song ever.

As a kid I always loved watching the underbelly of the jet landing in the opening. Guess I'll be hunting down some episodes to watch.

 

[Misfit Toy]

Sounds weird. Real strange, especially for the more sanitized times that it originally aired in.

The episode aired in 1973, not exactly a sanitized time. It's lead-in was Maude. All In The Family, MASH and Sanford and Son were all on the air that season. This episode was unusual for Five-O, but it wasn't exactly breaking new ground.

 

[propita]

Hawaii Five-0 -- greatest theme song ever.

I think it's pretty much a tie with "Mission: Impossible."

 

[RobertScorpio]

Sounds weird. Real strange, especially for the more sanitized times that it originally aired in.

The episode aired in 1973, not exactly a sanitized time. It's lead-in was Maude. All In The Family, MASH and Sanford and Son were all on the air that season. This episode was unusual for Five-O, but it wasn't exactly breaking new ground.

Ummmm..yeah, it was. I actually went to a HAWAII FIVE 0 convention in 1997 and James Mcarther talked about CBS's brass not being happy with the mail that came in after that episode. For that time, it was very dark. Heck, even dark for our times.

Rob

 

[Misfit Toy]

Sounds weird. Real strange, especially for the more sanitized times that it originally aired in.

The episode aired in 1973, not exactly a sanitized time. It's lead-in was Maude. All In The Family, MASH and Sanford and Son were all on the air that season. This episode was unusual for Five-O, but it wasn't exactly breaking new ground.

Ummmm..yeah, it was. I actually went to a HAWAII FIVE 0 convention in 1997 and James Mcarther talked about CBS's brass not being happy with the mail that came in after that episode. For that time, it was very dark. Heck, even dark for our times.

Rob

As I said, it was unusual for Five-O, but all the other shows I mentioned featured darker content than that, so no, it wasn't groundbreaking for television as a whole. And if that episode seems dark to you for OUR times, then I'd say you don't watch much Law and Order or CSI.

 

[pookha]

misfit is right. tv in the early 70's had a drastic change from what went on before.
remember mash had started in 1972.

they may have had complaints about that episode but it was nothing about what they
hearing from the other shows.

really the big shift happened with all in the family.

 

[RobertScorpio]

misfit is right. tv in the early 70's had a drastic change from what went on before.
remember mash had started in 1972.

they may have had complaints about that episode but it was nothing about what they
hearing from the other shows.

really the big shift happened with all in the family.

Again...I was alive in those times. And yes I totally understand All In The Family changed tv...but for that time, that episode of FIVE 0 was a big deal.

And even before that was the episode that showed a teenager hanging her self which was never broadcasted again, and is not part of the DVD release from that season out of the wishes of the producers and their estates of Five 0

Just as KIRK's kiss with Uhura, there are other aspects of TV history that, at the time, were special and unique. This was one of the whether or not you or whoever doesn't see it that way. I was there..and it was.

Now..BOOK EM DANNO!!!.. For not seeing the bigger picture

Rob

 

[Green Shirt]

And even before that was the episode that showed a teenager hanging her self which was never broadcasted again, and is not part of the DVD release from that season out of the wishes of the producers and their estates of Five 0

Rob

Title of the ep was "Bored, She Hung Herself". One of the cooler episode titles of any series.

 

[ToddPence]

Hmm. The only other instance I know of of an episode airing only once and then NEVER being shown on TV ever again is that Twilight Zone episode with George Takei. Although that was later released on VHS and later DVD.