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The article states: "Another legacy is the popularity of the arranged Hawaii Five-O theme song performed by The Ventures, a surf music band (The TV theme sounds different than The Ventures one.)."
This is probably wrong. As I wrote in the discussion in Talk:The Ventures article, it was Morton Stevens that wrote and performed the Hawaii Five-0 theme, not the Ventures. The Ventures later covered the song but had nothing to do with the TV-series. But I am not certain. - Kricke 16:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
What are you talking about? The shot right before Mother Columbia is the entire Punchbowl monument, which has that statue at the center - here: Punchbowl Memorial. Immediately before THAT shot are a bunch of shots of water and a woman on the beach, preceded further by Jack Lord atop the Ilikai. -- Pergish1 ( talk) 17:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
In the episode where they went to North Korea, did they refer to a roadise bomb as an IUD? — Preceding
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The theme for "Hawaii Five-O" can be heard at the beginning of "Shrek 2" (2004), when one of the palace musicians begins playing it, instead of the usual royal fanfare music. 24.92.48.99 05:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
I edited the part that stated "Another legacy is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme song, composed by Morton Stevens later covered by surf music band The Ventures and by Radio Birdman, a punk-era band from Sydney." It is common knowledge that The Ventures did not cover the song, rather, they performed the original theme music for the show. It now reads: "Another legacy is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme song, composed by Morton Stevens and performed by surf music band The Ventures and later covered by Radio Birdman, a punk-era band from Sydney." Raygun85 ( talk) 12:58, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I read somewhere, that the FBI mailed a letter to Honolulu, requesting the aid of "Hawaii Five-O", and specifically metioning Steve McGarrett. I do not know if the story is true, or if it is fiction. 204.80.61.10 14:20, 17 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
This could have been a "joke" by the FBI... however I cannot find any references — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.81.139 ( talk) 18:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Considering all of the television shows that have found there way to being released on VHS/DVD, I am surprised a show as popular as "Hawaii Five-O" has not been one of them. Does anyone know a reason for this omission? 204.80.61.10 14:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
Amazon.com has a few select episodes, but no boxed sets US 71 02:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
The series has become available on DVD. Seasons 1 and 2 should be out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Collinf ( talk • contribs) 14:13, August 21, 2007 (UTC).
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That was Truck. But, since "wiki-wiki" was already a common Hawaiian phrase, this info is hardly wikipediaworthy. 24.75.243.228 18:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
In some of the episodes from the fourth season, Kono uses the phrase several times. 152.133.13.2 ( talk) 17:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I was reading this article, and I noticed that there are many punctuation errors, such as there being no spaces in between periods and the first word of the next sentence in many places. WikiScott ( talk • contrib) 01:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Och... I can't remember enough details to add to this, but on the off chance anyone else remembers, there was a CoCo 2 game which lovingly parodied this right down to a "Book 'Em" line. I can remember playing the first bit. Shame that all of the disks we owned have long since succumbed to bit rot... - 70.20.68.113 ( talk) 04:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, alone in the world who thinks that McGarrett never referred to Danny Williams as "Danno" but rather "Dan'l"? Did Lord ever refer to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.12.252.12 ( talk) 01:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In season four, McGarrett uses the phrase, "Book 'em, Danno" several times. 152.133.13.2 ( talk) 17:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Putting this here for now... can be sifted through and rewritten to form a more interesting and coherent tale of Five-O's pop-culture influence.-- Father Goose ( talk) 03:38, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Did you(or someone else) completely edit out the similarities between the series' usage of the CBS Honolulu station(KGMB Channel 9) and the usage of their Miami station WFOR(Channel 4) on "CSI: Miami"?...that removal was TOTALLY unnecessary!...please reinstate this tidbit... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 01:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Apparently, there's SOMEBODY who persists in editing out a LOT of important stuff that's totally relevant to this page...I'm telling you, there IS a similarity to this series using the services of KGMB and "CSI: Miami" using WFOR's newsvans!...please reinstate this soon... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 01:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Baldwin's right!...DON'T delete what you think is irrelevant info, especially how United Airlines is the "official" airline of the series!...please don't upset us REAL "Five-O' fans by this extreme censoring of the facts, whether you neede verification or not!... Michaela92399 ( talk) 18:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Phrases like 'Jack Lord was a perfectionist and insisted on the best from everyone' are fannish and reduce the article's credibility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.187.103 ( talk) 10:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
The section currently says that "Bored, She Hung Herself", has never been shown again due to fears of someone dying trying to copy a scene from the episode. I have read this, and a differing reason that states that the Hare Krishna mantra resulted in a threatened defamation lawsuit. In the episode itself the victim apparently died from a supposed yoga ritual involving hanging as meditation. All I could find on either story was repeated hearsay, no original source for either story. Does anybody have such a source? — MJBurrage( T• C) 17:35, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Excuse me, but the "Law and Order" trilogy does NOT count as "police drama";what comes close would be "Law and Order:SVU", but "Hawaii Five-O" would still count as a REAL police drama!... Michaela92399 ( talk) 02:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Michaela's right!... a REAL "police drama" would have a car chase(at least one per episode) and inter-office/inter-precinct blah-blah amongst the regular cops/detectives(and ocasional interference from the boss in Internal Affairs!), like in " NYPD Blue", or " Hunter"!...all three "L&O" shows have NONE of these on a regular/semi-regular basis...please correct this soon!... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 02:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
CBS just came out with their Fall 2009-10 schedule, and unfortunately, even though Ed Bernero was told that his "modern-day update" of the series would be on this fall, it WASN'T!...can you please update the section on the page?...thanks... Michaela92399 ( talk) 02:20, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Let's all hope so!... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 02:19, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Who put the citation needed tag on the CBS not releasing a return date for the show? How can you cite something that has not happened or been released? ~ Brother William ( talk) 14:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Rather than starting an edit war, I am bringing the matter here for discussion. I do not think that the list of guest stars has any value to the article as it stands now. It is just a runon list of names with no real purpose. All TV shows have guest stars, why does this article (and others for that matter) need to have any section just listing names that happened to appear on this or any other show? Nicholasm79 ( talk) 02:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
If so, please provide source. Thank you. User F203 ( talk) 16:18, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Looks like a car to me: [1] The best part: Leslie Nielsen was a guest star! → Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:33, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I am putting this here for the record. The character's name is Chin Ho Kelly. It is logical to put it anywhere in the article that it belongs in proper context. It seems as if certain users want to remove a mention of it from certain sections of the article. Anyone is welcome to post here in this open forum why that would be a good idea, otherwise it will remain in the article as I can see no reason why it doesn't need to be there. Nicholasm79 ( talk) 03:58, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
The disambiguation says "This article is about the 1970s TV show." For a show that ran from 1968-1980, shouldn't that be "This article is about the 1960s-1980s TV show" ? SpaceHistory101 ( talk) 21:16, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article mention the use of the turm Five-O to refer to police. According to Urban Dictionary this is part of the show's legacy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.235.33.23 ( talk) 21:15, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Was "Hawaii Five-0" inspired by the TV show "Hawaiian Eye" which preceded it? Anyone know? Thanks. 69.228.116.149 ( talk) 14:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
It states in the article that the last season was in 1980. Was the show cancelled by CBS because of low ratings, lack of original ideas (as stated by James MacArthur), new supporting cast (along with Jack Lord),or some other reason? Or was the show ended because Jack Lord decided it was time to end it? Could someone give a reason why 1980 was the last season, since that fact should be in the article on the program. Magnum P.I. began it's run in Hawaii after Hawaii Five-O, so CBS thought that a show set in Hawaii was still good for ratings, (which turned out to be a wise decision as Magnum P.I. was a big success for the network). When a long running show stops production, I think the reason why it ended should be stated. Thank you very much. 74.76.237.57 ( talk) 15:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Bennett Turk.
I changed this line because the light in the original series is a rotating light (gumball machine) but the light in the remake is full of LED's. SWMSEMFEM ( talk) 21:42, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Correct, especially since the HPD originally used Harley-Davidson FLHP-Road King motorcycles, while currently, they use BMW K1500P motorcycles... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 20:54, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't McGarrett's first name be written as Stephen? It's established in at least three episodes (e.g., "Death is a Company Policy", "The Ninety-Second War, pt II", "Wooden Model of a Rat") that this is the case, in fact it's shown to be Stephen J. McGarrett, although I don't think it's ever established what the J stands for. I know it's a common practice for people named Stephen to write their name as Steve, but shouldn't the first instance of his name be something like "Stephen (Steve) McGarrett"?
Assuming this change were made, if the above episodes were used as verification, would that be considered original research? 209.179.40.208 ( talk) 16:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Why are we using "Hawaii Five-O" (with a capital 'O') if the actual name of the show was "Hawaii Five-0" (with a zero)? Seems like the appropriate way to both title an article and refer to the subject in an article is with its actual name. If it needs some kind of reference to differentiate it from the newer series, then there are better ways to do that than just "we're going to call it the wrong name". Chuck ( talk) 07:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
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The article states: "Another legacy is the popularity of the arranged Hawaii Five-O theme song performed by The Ventures, a surf music band (The TV theme sounds different than The Ventures one.)."
This is probably wrong. As I wrote in the discussion in Talk:The Ventures article, it was Morton Stevens that wrote and performed the Hawaii Five-0 theme, not the Ventures. The Ventures later covered the song but had nothing to do with the TV-series. But I am not certain. - Kricke 16:07, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
What are you talking about? The shot right before Mother Columbia is the entire Punchbowl monument, which has that statue at the center - here: Punchbowl Memorial. Immediately before THAT shot are a bunch of shots of water and a woman on the beach, preceded further by Jack Lord atop the Ilikai. -- Pergish1 ( talk) 17:45, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
In the episode where they went to North Korea, did they refer to a roadise bomb as an IUD? — Preceding
unsigned comment added by
Nino Hero (
talk •
contribs)
02:00, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
The theme for "Hawaii Five-O" can be heard at the beginning of "Shrek 2" (2004), when one of the palace musicians begins playing it, instead of the usual royal fanfare music. 24.92.48.99 05:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
I edited the part that stated "Another legacy is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme song, composed by Morton Stevens later covered by surf music band The Ventures and by Radio Birdman, a punk-era band from Sydney." It is common knowledge that The Ventures did not cover the song, rather, they performed the original theme music for the show. It now reads: "Another legacy is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme song, composed by Morton Stevens and performed by surf music band The Ventures and later covered by Radio Birdman, a punk-era band from Sydney." Raygun85 ( talk) 12:58, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
I read somewhere, that the FBI mailed a letter to Honolulu, requesting the aid of "Hawaii Five-O", and specifically metioning Steve McGarrett. I do not know if the story is true, or if it is fiction. 204.80.61.10 14:20, 17 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
This could have been a "joke" by the FBI... however I cannot find any references — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.175.81.139 ( talk) 18:21, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
Considering all of the television shows that have found there way to being released on VHS/DVD, I am surprised a show as popular as "Hawaii Five-O" has not been one of them. Does anyone know a reason for this omission? 204.80.61.10 14:19, 26 April 2006 (UTC)Bennett Turk
Amazon.com has a few select episodes, but no boxed sets US 71 02:50, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
The series has become available on DVD. Seasons 1 and 2 should be out. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Collinf ( talk • contribs) 14:13, August 21, 2007 (UTC).
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That was Truck. But, since "wiki-wiki" was already a common Hawaiian phrase, this info is hardly wikipediaworthy. 24.75.243.228 18:04, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
In some of the episodes from the fourth season, Kono uses the phrase several times. 152.133.13.2 ( talk) 17:29, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I was reading this article, and I noticed that there are many punctuation errors, such as there being no spaces in between periods and the first word of the next sentence in many places. WikiScott ( talk • contrib) 01:41, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
Och... I can't remember enough details to add to this, but on the off chance anyone else remembers, there was a CoCo 2 game which lovingly parodied this right down to a "Book 'Em" line. I can remember playing the first bit. Shame that all of the disks we owned have long since succumbed to bit rot... - 70.20.68.113 ( talk) 04:16, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
Is it just me, alone in the world who thinks that McGarrett never referred to Danny Williams as "Danno" but rather "Dan'l"? Did Lord ever refer to this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.12.252.12 ( talk) 01:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
In season four, McGarrett uses the phrase, "Book 'em, Danno" several times. 152.133.13.2 ( talk) 17:31, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Putting this here for now... can be sifted through and rewritten to form a more interesting and coherent tale of Five-O's pop-culture influence.-- Father Goose ( talk) 03:38, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Did you(or someone else) completely edit out the similarities between the series' usage of the CBS Honolulu station(KGMB Channel 9) and the usage of their Miami station WFOR(Channel 4) on "CSI: Miami"?...that removal was TOTALLY unnecessary!...please reinstate this tidbit... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 01:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
Apparently, there's SOMEBODY who persists in editing out a LOT of important stuff that's totally relevant to this page...I'm telling you, there IS a similarity to this series using the services of KGMB and "CSI: Miami" using WFOR's newsvans!...please reinstate this soon... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 01:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Baldwin's right!...DON'T delete what you think is irrelevant info, especially how United Airlines is the "official" airline of the series!...please don't upset us REAL "Five-O' fans by this extreme censoring of the facts, whether you neede verification or not!... Michaela92399 ( talk) 18:51, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Phrases like 'Jack Lord was a perfectionist and insisted on the best from everyone' are fannish and reduce the article's credibility. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.157.187.103 ( talk) 10:07, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
The section currently says that "Bored, She Hung Herself", has never been shown again due to fears of someone dying trying to copy a scene from the episode. I have read this, and a differing reason that states that the Hare Krishna mantra resulted in a threatened defamation lawsuit. In the episode itself the victim apparently died from a supposed yoga ritual involving hanging as meditation. All I could find on either story was repeated hearsay, no original source for either story. Does anybody have such a source? — MJBurrage( T• C) 17:35, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Excuse me, but the "Law and Order" trilogy does NOT count as "police drama";what comes close would be "Law and Order:SVU", but "Hawaii Five-O" would still count as a REAL police drama!... Michaela92399 ( talk) 02:49, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
Michaela's right!... a REAL "police drama" would have a car chase(at least one per episode) and inter-office/inter-precinct blah-blah amongst the regular cops/detectives(and ocasional interference from the boss in Internal Affairs!), like in " NYPD Blue", or " Hunter"!...all three "L&O" shows have NONE of these on a regular/semi-regular basis...please correct this soon!... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 02:18, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
CBS just came out with their Fall 2009-10 schedule, and unfortunately, even though Ed Bernero was told that his "modern-day update" of the series would be on this fall, it WASN'T!...can you please update the section on the page?...thanks... Michaela92399 ( talk) 02:20, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
Let's all hope so!... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 02:19, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
Who put the citation needed tag on the CBS not releasing a return date for the show? How can you cite something that has not happened or been released? ~ Brother William ( talk) 14:52, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
Rather than starting an edit war, I am bringing the matter here for discussion. I do not think that the list of guest stars has any value to the article as it stands now. It is just a runon list of names with no real purpose. All TV shows have guest stars, why does this article (and others for that matter) need to have any section just listing names that happened to appear on this or any other show? Nicholasm79 ( talk) 02:08, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
If so, please provide source. Thank you. User F203 ( talk) 16:18, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
Looks like a car to me: [1] The best part: Leslie Nielsen was a guest star! → Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots 23:33, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I am putting this here for the record. The character's name is Chin Ho Kelly. It is logical to put it anywhere in the article that it belongs in proper context. It seems as if certain users want to remove a mention of it from certain sections of the article. Anyone is welcome to post here in this open forum why that would be a good idea, otherwise it will remain in the article as I can see no reason why it doesn't need to be there. Nicholasm79 ( talk) 03:58, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
The disambiguation says "This article is about the 1970s TV show." For a show that ran from 1968-1980, shouldn't that be "This article is about the 1960s-1980s TV show" ? SpaceHistory101 ( talk) 21:16, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
Shouldn't this article mention the use of the turm Five-O to refer to police. According to Urban Dictionary this is part of the show's legacy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.235.33.23 ( talk) 21:15, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
Was "Hawaii Five-0" inspired by the TV show "Hawaiian Eye" which preceded it? Anyone know? Thanks. 69.228.116.149 ( talk) 14:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
It states in the article that the last season was in 1980. Was the show cancelled by CBS because of low ratings, lack of original ideas (as stated by James MacArthur), new supporting cast (along with Jack Lord),or some other reason? Or was the show ended because Jack Lord decided it was time to end it? Could someone give a reason why 1980 was the last season, since that fact should be in the article on the program. Magnum P.I. began it's run in Hawaii after Hawaii Five-O, so CBS thought that a show set in Hawaii was still good for ratings, (which turned out to be a wise decision as Magnum P.I. was a big success for the network). When a long running show stops production, I think the reason why it ended should be stated. Thank you very much. 74.76.237.57 ( talk) 15:05, 1 August 2011 (UTC)Bennett Turk.
I changed this line because the light in the original series is a rotating light (gumball machine) but the light in the remake is full of LED's. SWMSEMFEM ( talk) 21:42, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
Correct, especially since the HPD originally used Harley-Davidson FLHP-Road King motorcycles, while currently, they use BMW K1500P motorcycles... Baldwin91006 ( talk) 20:54, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
Shouldn't McGarrett's first name be written as Stephen? It's established in at least three episodes (e.g., "Death is a Company Policy", "The Ninety-Second War, pt II", "Wooden Model of a Rat") that this is the case, in fact it's shown to be Stephen J. McGarrett, although I don't think it's ever established what the J stands for. I know it's a common practice for people named Stephen to write their name as Steve, but shouldn't the first instance of his name be something like "Stephen (Steve) McGarrett"?
Assuming this change were made, if the above episodes were used as verification, would that be considered original research? 209.179.40.208 ( talk) 16:31, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
Why are we using "Hawaii Five-O" (with a capital 'O') if the actual name of the show was "Hawaii Five-0" (with a zero)? Seems like the appropriate way to both title an article and refer to the subject in an article is with its actual name. If it needs some kind of reference to differentiate it from the newer series, then there are better ways to do that than just "we're going to call it the wrong name". Chuck ( talk) 07:09, 28 March 2015 (UTC)