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Hawaii Five-O

September 26, 1968 - April 26, 1980

CBS 60 minutes

Color - 282 total episodes

Created by Leonard Freeman

Hawaii Five-O Cast

Jack Lord as Detective Steve McGarrett

James MacArthur as Detective Danny Williams (1968-79)

Richard Denning as Gov. Paul Jameson

Khigh Dhiegh as Wo Fat (1968-76; 1980)

Kam Fong as Det. Chin Ho Kelly (1968-78)

Herman Wedemeyer as Edward D. 'Duke' Lukela (1972-80)

Zulu as Det. Kono Kalakaua (1968-72)

Harry Endo as Che Fong (1969-77)

Al Eben as Doc Bergman (1970-76)

Al Harrington as Det. Ben Kokua (1972-74)

Peggy Ryan as Jenny Sherman (1969-76)

Maggi Parker as May (1968-1969)

Joseph Sirola as Jonathan Kaye (1968-72)

Morgan White as Att. Gen. Walter Stewart (1968-69)

Glenn Cannon as Att. Gen. John Manicote (1972-77)

Danny Kamekona as Che Fong (1968-69)/Nick Noble (1974-75)

Moe Keale as Truck Kealoha (1979-80)

Douglas Mossman as Det. Frank Kemana (1975)

William Smith as James 'Kimo' Carew (1979-80)

Laura Sode-Matteson as Luana (1978-80)

Sharon Farrell as Lori Wilson (1979-80)

Hawaii Five-O is an elite investigative unit that reports to the Governor of Hawaii (Richard Denning).

At the head is Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord), a serious, no nonsense cop in the tradition of Eliott Ness.

He is assisted by the able Danny Williams (James MacArthur) and a group that included Det. Kono Kalakaua,

Det. Chin Ho Kelly, pathologist Doc Berg and lab tech Che Fong.

Filmed on location, Hawaii Five-O boasted some of the most gorgeous scenery ever seen on TV

so perhaps the State of Hawaii should be listed as a co-star.

The unit is housed in the Iolani Palace in downtown Honolulu but crime took the group

all over allowing for many exterior locations.

Real Honolulu Police officers often played the extras on the show.

We never knew much about them personally. McGarrett was a bachelor and loved sailing

but that's a short resume. The stories featured the crimes.

James MacArthur had tired of the role after eleven years and he left the series to be replaced by

William Smith as Kimo Carew. In the show's last year only McGarrett remained of the original characters.

The pilot for Hawaii Five-O aired 9/20/1968 as a two hour movie called "Cocoon."

Tim O'Kelly played Danny Williams but it was felt he was too hard looking and MacArthur was cast.

Lew Ayres was the Governor but he didn't want to move to Hawaii and Mark Denning got that role.

In that pilot our good guys chased a really bad guy named Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh),

who would reappear throughout the show's life as a constant source of evil.

In the last show of the series in 1980 "Woe to Wo-Fat," McGarret gets his man.

Passings

John Joseph Patrick Ryan (December 30, 1920 – January 21, 1998), best known by his stage name Jack Lord.

Lord portrayed Steve McGarrett, the no-nonsense head of a fictitious Hawaii state police force,

in the CBS series from 1968 to 1980, one of the longest running hourlong dramas in television history.

The show was seen in 80 countries with a weekly audience estimated at more than 300 million.

Many of the 284 episodes ended with McGarrett collaring the criminals and saying to his sidekick

played by actor James MacArthur, "Book 'em, Danno!" Shot entirely on location in Hawaii, "Five-0"

was the forerunner of other island shows, including "Magnum, P.I."

Lord was producer and director of several episodes of the show which was created and produced

by the late Leonard Freeman.

James Gordon MacArthur (born December 8, 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor.

James MacArthur is best known for the role of Dan "Danno" Williams, reliable second-in-command

to Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord), head of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad Hawaii Five-O.

The role won him fans all over the world.

Richard Denning, formally known as Louis Albert Heindrich Denninger (March 27, 1914 - October 11, 1998),

was an American actor who starred in such movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954) and

An Affair to Remember (1957), and on radio with Lucille Ball as her husband George Cooper in

My Favorite Husband (1948-1951), the forerunner of television's I Love Lucy, for which Denning was

replaced by Ball's real-life husband, Desi Arnaz.He was most famous for his role as

Governor of Hawaii Paul Jameson in the CBS series Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980).

Kam Fong Chun (May 27, 1918–October 18, 2002) was born Kam Tong Chun in the Kalihi neighborhood

of Honolulu, Hawaii. He was an American actor whose claim to fame was his 1968 to 1978 star performance

as Chin Ho Kelly, a police detective on the CBS television network series Hawaii Five-O.

Herman John Wedemeyer (born May 20, 1924 in Hilo, Hawaii; died January 25, 1999 in Honolulu, Hawaii

was an American actor, football player, and politician. He is best known for portraying

'Sergeant/Detective "Duke" Lukela' on the crime drama Hawaii Five-O (1972-1980).

Wedermeyer, a running back, played college football for the St. Mary's College Galloping Gaels in Moraga, CA.

In 1945, he finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy voting, and he was inducted into the College Football Hall

of Fame in 1979. Wedemeyer was Hawai'i's first consensus All-American football player.

He bore the colorful nicknames 'Squirmin' Herman,' 'The Flyin' Hawaiian,' 'The Hawaiian Centipede,'

and 'The Hula-Hipped Hawaiian.'