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Hawaii Five-O - The Complete First Season

starring: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Harry Endo
directed by: Gene Nelson

: Hawaii Five-O - The Complete First Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: HAWAII FIVE-O: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON (DVD
EAN: 0097368891647
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 7
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 1271 minutes
Sales Rank: 3105
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1968



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Product Description:
Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii the show followed Jack Lord as he played Steve McGarrett head of an elite state police unit investigating 'organized crime murder assassination attempts foreign agents felonies of every type.' James MacArthur played his second-in-command Danny ('Danno') Williams with local actors Kam Fong Zulu Al Harrington and Herman Wedemeyer among others playing members of the Five-O team. Guest stars included Helen Hayes Ricardo Montalban Leslie Nielsen Herbert Lom Hume Cronyn among others. McGarrett's nemesis is the evil Wo Fat 'a Red Chinese agent in charge of the entire Pacific Asiatic theatre. System Requirements:Run Time: 1270 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368891647 Manufacturer No: 889164

Amazon.com:
There's plenty to like about Hawaii Five-0, the late '60s cop show debuting on DVD by way of this seven-disc set including all episodes from the first season, along with the two-hour pilot that preceded it. Like the music, featuring Morton Stevens' popular theme song. Or the lovely Hawaiian scenery. And let's not forget 'Book 'em, Danno,' the signature line delivered (although not nearly as frequently as one might expect) by star Jack Lord's Steve McGarrett, not to mention Lord's perfect hair and wrinkle-free slacks. As for everything else, let's just say that Hawaii Five-0 has not aged well. Some of that is inevitably due to the infinitely more sophisticated production values of the series that have followed in its wake; Five-0's technology, sets, and other practical elements are laughably primitive by current standards. Problem is, the cheese factor extends to pretty much every other aspect of the show as well. Most of the action sequences are utterly tension-free, and the pace is frequently glacial, with interminable scenes bogged down by talky exposition. The dialogue is risible: McGarrett refers to one adversary as 'a dirty, double-dealing fink,' while the so-called hippies who populate the islands utter the kind of idiocies that could only have been written by cubes whose closest contact with the counterculture came from TV commercials for Hai Karate men's cologne ('Looks like splittin' the scene was real cool, baby' is but one egregious example). Lord does a decent job as the stiff-but-heroic McGarrett, variously described as 'a hardhead,' 'an organizational misfit,' 'a brilliant operator,' and 'a rebel,' but by and large the acting (including guest shots by Sal Mineo, Ricardo Montalban, Gavin MacLeod, and Yaphet Kotto) is wooden. Story-wise, 'Cocoon,' the pilot, features an intriguing premise wherein U.S. intelligence agents undergo sensory-deprivation torture before spilling their secrets; elsewhere, the elite Five-0 team deals with jewel thieves, gold smugglers, kidnappers, gamblers, murderers, mobsters, all-purpose 'criminal masterminds,' and even 'Red agents' spreading the bubonic plague. In sum: with its light (if not quite frothy) tone, Hawaii Five-0 will offer harmless escapism to some viewers, especially those with a nostalgic bent. Others, however, will long for more substantial fare--you know, like Deal or No Deal. The DVD set includes a single bonus feature: 'Emme's Island Moments: Memories of Hawaii Five-O,' a retrospective with James 'Danno' MacArthur and other cast and crew members. --Sam Graham



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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - $432 FOR INCOMPLETE "COLLECTION" ---OR--- BETTER/CHEAPER BOXED SET
I was suckered into buying this 1st set, like many others, out of pure LOVE for this series. And ... Read More


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - LOUSY acting
Reminds me of that ham actor on CSI Miami, except it's not just the star that is a losu actor. The ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - good price if you can still play vhs
as the title insinuates.... got these for an old fan of macGarret .. wheelchair bound.


Rating: 1 out of 5 stars - Hawaii Five 0 The Complete First Season DVDs
First of all, this is NOT the COMPLETE First Season of Hawaii Five-0. The episode previews are MISSING. ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - For "Cocoon" Alone, It's Worth The Money
Until I purchased this, I had never seen the pilot episode of "Hawaii Five-O". Nor do I remember any of ... Read More

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