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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Gene Nelson |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 26 September, 1968 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Paramount |
| ESRB RATING: | Mature |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | 0, 5, Television, five, hawai, hawia, o |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 7 |
| UPC: | 097368891647 |
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Customer Reviews of Hawaii Five-0 - The Complete First Season
The best overall police drama ever! I have been waiting as many others for years for the release of this series. Even when I contacted the TV stations airing the show, they didn't know when if at all Paramount would release it. I then wrote a letter directly to them. No reply, but I'd like to think it helped. Yes Law & Order and Gunsmoke have lasted longer than Hawaii Five-O, but this show has a lot to be proud of. It is late 60's early '70s TV but it doesn't get old. The topics and drama then are applicable now, it's presently however that we tolerate frank violence on TV. Five-O did it with "class and style" in part due to act-based segments and scored music. Much of it is a stretch from reality but the plots involving crime are mostly true and unfortunate human conditions of greed, revenge, drug use., etc. All you young folks out there give this one a try.
The Best Cop Show Ever
From the famous opening score to the script writing, Hawaii Five-O- season one is excellent. It contains good acting, chemistry, and some good plot twists. The pilot episode is slightly James "Bondian" in style (minus the gadgets). The shows are just good old fun-- clear cut good guys who don't have "a darker side" fighting and winning against the bad guys. You can't lose with these very entertaining episodes.
Thirteen hundred minutes well spent!
First off, "Hawaii 5-0" was like nothing that had preceded it!
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>Although the show was filmed in glorious color, showing Hawaiian locales at their most appealing, the story lines were truly shaded in black and white. Unlike today's fare, one could distinguish between the good guys and the bad ones.
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>Chief among the former is Steve McGarrett, played with a hard-hitting, take-no-prisoners swagger by the great Jack Lord. The fact that Lord never won an Emmy for his fine performance is another one of the industry's injustices.
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>In the first season, we learn that McGarrett is a former Naval officer, leading an elite team of investigators in the fictional police unit known as "Hawaii 5-0." So influential was the show during its twelve-year run, many a visitor to the state actually thought that such an enforcement agency existed.
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>This is a testament to the brilliant cast (including James McArthur, Kam Fong, Zulu, and Richard Denning as "The Governor"), expert writing, exciting guest stars, eye-catching camerawork, exotic locations, and the best durn theme song ever created for television.
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>The first season of the show didn't just delve into typical cop fare. Stories dealt with quack doctors, the controversial Viet Nam war, the social revolution and the hippie movement, along with international espionage.
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>As far as the latter is concerned, the pilot episode (included on this compilation) introduces McGarrett's chief nemesis, the sinister Chinese agent "Wo Fat," memorably played by Khigh Dhiegh. The actor would appear frequently throughout the show's tenure.
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>Guest stars included such familiar faces as singer Tommy Sands, Andrew Duggan, Sally Kellerman, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone, Leslie Nielsen, Farley Granger, Jeanette Nolan, Gavin MacLeod, Nancy Malone, Nancy Kovack, and Kevin McCarthy. Emmy-worthy turns are also delivered by Yaphet Kotto as a tortured war veteran ("King of the Hill"), Ron Feinberg as a mentally-challenged murderer ("Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember") and Joanne Linville as a fraudulent doctor in the two-parter "Once Upon a Time."
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>As was common during the era, Caucasian actors were allowed to play "ethnic" roles, thus one can forgive the casting of the aforementioned Feinberg, Simon Oakland, David Opatoshu, and John Marley, respectively, as native Hawaiians. Even Hispanic actor Ricardo Montalban gets to don slanted eyes as a Japanese crime lord.
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>Hey, it was the 60's and "political correctness" was not quite in the vernacular.
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>The quality of the compilation is superb, with sound and picture of the highest. Each disc is easily navigable, allowing the viewer to play all episodes back to back or shift to each individually. The bonus feature, an eleven-year-old documentary, is very informative, suitably paying homage to star Lord and creator Leonard Freeman.
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>It is obvious that the producers of the set respect the fond memories of the show and the fans that will flock to purchase each season.
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