Hawaii Five-O overview (vintage edition)

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

(This month at the crack_van highlights both series of the show; please see cccarioca's amazingly in-depth and funny overview of the reboot here)

The original Hawaii Five-O series ran from 1968 to 1980 and centered around a state police force operating out of Iolani Palace in Honolulu, HI. It was captained by former naval intelligence officer Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord and Jack Lord’s hair):



and included Danno (played by an incredibly baby-faced James MacArthur):



Chin Ho Kelly:



and Kono Kalakaua:



Yes, it's true. The characters in the original show look nothing like those in the new version. The only six-packs going on the first time around involved pop tabs.

Shot on location in Hawaii, the show was notable for its camaraderie, a panoply of guest stars (including The Love Boat’s own Captain Stubing, who played a drug dealer named -- and I am not joking -- “Big Chicken”) and McGarrett’s infamous line, “Book ‘em, Danno” which ended many a criminal career and episode in one gritty swoop.

The Five-O boys battled drug dealers, assassination attempts, serial killers, counter-insurgent revolutionaries, thieving college students, terrorists, mad bombers, bank robbers and McGarrett’s own nemesis, Wo Fat, a dirty, dirty Communist.

Plus of course, there was That Song.

EARWORM ACCOMPLISHED.

And in answer to the unspoken question, that’s a capital O at the end of the title.

The fandom:

We’re big on episode epilogues and cutscenes. We like our stories long and our HTML loud. And whoa nelly do we love our hurt/comfort, generally involving Danno as the whompee. At one point, there was enough whomping on Danno that one fic challenge involved simply writing something that didn’t involve Danno getting hurt. That was the whole challenge.

Want to know more?

--Hawaii Five-O wikipedia page

Fandom resources:

--The Hawaii Five-O FAQ (developed originally on alt.fan.hawaii.five.o)
--MJQ Net’s awesome Hawaii Five-O page, complete with all the DVD boxes, highlighting Jack Lord’s hair in all its glory
--Central Dispatch: The Hawaii Five-O Fan Club Newsletter
--A digitized collection of the zine Pau Hana largely maintained by a group called the "Iolani Irregulars"

Enjoy!

Comments

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

EARWORM ACCOMPLISHED.

OMG, how could I have forgotten that music?? It's been years since I've heard it, but as soon as I clicked... ARRRGH!!!

*tries not to hum theme tune under her breath*

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Give in to the humming.

Just think, I've been working on this entry for a couple days now. I can't even remotely hum anything else :)

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

This is part of an Evil Plot on your part, y/y?

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

...y/y?

What happened to the plausible denial portion of that equation?

Also: Mebbe... ;)

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

*muahahahahahahaha!*

Okay but it worked, didn't it?

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

I will have my revenge (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo)!!!







WTF were Halston, Bob Mackie, and Anderson Cooper's mom Gloria Vanderbilt doing on The Love Boat, anyway???

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

I am not clicking that link. Any link labeled "my revenge" I am not clicking. It is like a personal motto I have.

*phlbbbbbbbbt*

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

You know you want to!

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

I do! It is the natural state of people to be curious, but your cunning revenge plan totally failed with the labelling of the revenge "my revenge".

I am suspecting, however, from the rest of your comment, that it involves the Love Boat. Cunning. Ver' cunning.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Now this... well, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWyxZR69CI0) must be seen to be believed. LOL

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

That is AWESOME.

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Inorite??

[pattyfeidt.livejournal.com]

this is the best! I am gonna share this in my lj so my friends who miss this can get a kick out of it!

[kittenmommy.livejournal.com]

Yay! :D

[bustedflush.livejournal.com]

Yay, so excited for fics from the original -- can't wait!

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh excellent! *squee*

[deejay.livejournal.com]

Good vintage fanfic here at Gina's site: http://www.solosojourn.com/

Re:

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Oh definitely! I have a couple of Gina's stories to rec this month :)

Do you have any personal favorites?

Re:

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Or I would have recced them, had her site not gone kaput in the last 24 hours. Any chance you know of any place else to find her work?

[eccentrikita.livejournal.com]

one fic challenge involved simply writing something that didn’t involve Danno getting hurt. That was the whole challenge.

I like you guys already.

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

:D We aim to recruit please!

[gritsinmisery.livejournal.com]

EARWORM ACCOMPLISHED.

That was the number one fan-favorite tune played by the band while in the stands at every football and basketball game when I was in high school, and it's still right up there today for my kids.

(Okay, maybe "Sweet Georgia Brown" was #1 for basketball -- at least pregame while the teams were running drills -- but let's not quibble.)

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

I did not realize that! A marching band version I would think would rock out!

/me goes off to search YouTube

[cccarioca.livejournal.com]

*grins* That video ... yeah, I love the reboot like crazy, but for sheer awesome, nothing will ever beat the opening theme of the original show.

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

I think you might have a point...but on the other hand, reboot!Kono is wicked hot. And Danno never *actually* leapt on Steve in the original series, and from everything I'm reading, that Very Special Episode is due to air any day now on reboot.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

ACK, your links don't work! (I think there is an extra " at the end of them, maybe?)

That song ROCKS

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

OH my stars and garters they did not work at all. GO ME. This is what's known as Overthinking Everything and writing it all up in a Google Doc for obsessive revising pre-cut n' paste. Nevermind! It's all fixed!

Thank you very much for pointing this out. Fixed now! Nothing to see here! :)

[hsv-fangirl.livejournal.com]

Now that's the REAL DEAL! Not this new reboot show.

[twigged.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[hardboiledbaby]

Jack Lord’s hair in all its glory

Ah, yes, THE HAIR OMG *ROFL*

Great job, babe!

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[nikojen.livejournal.com]

I'm late noticing this, but OMG, I LOVE YOU!

I've been a bit torn by the popularity of the new show, because as much as I wanna love the epic bromance they apparently have going, I can't quite get over its not being *my* Steve/Danny/Chin/Kono dynamic.

Scurrying off to enjoy the recs.

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

YAY! They're both really strong shows, I think, but very very different from my pov. I just happen to love the original like whoa.

I hope you like the recs!

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

This is a most hilarious pimp. My high school marching band played the 5-O theme all the time.

Jack Lord's hair. Was his hair bulletproof or what?

[oddmonster.livejournal.com]

Better: it was fiberglass, baby. A triumph of 70s engineering meets mens grooming products. I'm also fairly confident it could be removed in one piece and used as a flotation device if necessary. His hair was simply that epic.