Posted on 07/19/2013 9:52:04 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
...surprised how "Gun-Grabby" BOTH Jack Lord(Steve McGarrett) and Jack Webb(SGT Jow Friday)'s Characters were. Was I just BLIND all of those years?
Elvis gave him a gold plated handgun that was still part of his estate when he died thirty years later. So he couldn't have been that anti-gun.
I still remember the episode where a boxer is laying on the rubdown table and the janitor sneaks in and whacks him across the knuckles as hard as he can with a crescent wrench.
Also, seeing the dead Chin Ho being thrown out of a moving car and rolling to a stop was one of the more chilling scenes of the entire series to me.
Detestable may be a bit strong. Many people had fallen for this line of thinking at the time. Skyrocketing crime under Ford and Carter caused most rational people to think again.
I'll never forget that, I was pretty upset they did that.
My wife and I both enjoy watching NCIS, yet I have to admit, a lot of the information McProabie discovers comes from access that we now find out of bounds. For example, phone calls and records, encrypted emails and texts, credit card usage ... etc.
Don’t pay attention to Lt. Columbo’s tactics, either. :-(
In 1997, CBS made a 2 hour “Five-O” movie that was supposed to be the pilot for a revival (long before the current one).
It starred Gary Busey and most of the original cast who were alive then put in an appearance. It has never been seen outside the halls of CBS.
Reason being that they hired Stephen J. Cannell to produce it (even though he had never seen Five-O....watched a few episodes to get the gist of it). Among the actors used in the pilot was Kam Fong, who played Chin Ho Kelly (even though Chin Ho was killed off in the episode you mentioned....season 7, I believe)
Nobody involved with the original said anything because Kam Fong was in ill health and having financial problems. None of his former co-stars wanted to deny him the paycheck.
The story goes that when they screened this at CBS in New York, some intern noticed and pointed out that Chin Ho had been killed off. Reportedly sending Cannell right over the edge. By that point Fong had cashed his check, and there was nothing that they could do.
I would love to see this if it ever comes out on video.
LOL delicious trivia
That was a very anti-gun generation, something that flies in the face of the widespread perception that the 5 year old and 18 year old children of the 1960s were passing all (or any of) the left wing legislation.
They were well on their way to just eliminating the Second amendment.
Gun Control Act of 1968 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968
The Mulford Act was a 1967 California bill prohibiting the public carrying of loaded firearms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act
I remember one Five-O episode where the neighbors report seeing an `old man with a gun’. The cops go to his apartment & find a harmless old coot with an ancient Sharps carbine from the Civil War in his closet, and they CONFISCATE it!
WHY?
I’m interested in something like that holder for a closet wall. Any info.?
No doubt like many liberals, he was probably anti-gun for other people.
The names were changed to protect the innocent?
Ever watch the Episode of Hawaii Five-0 with the $15 25 cal pistols?
Many anti-gunners own guns, Carl Rowan shot someone with an illegal gun, Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda had guns, Diane Feinstein has a CCL, as do a number of anti-gunners.
They aren't so much anti-gun, as elitists.
Couple of other trivia bits for ya:
The actor who played Wo Fat was NOT Chinese! He was a
Brit of Turkish ancestry (still can’t believe that when
I watch reruns)
You will see the same actors turning up over and over again in supporting roles as different characters. I believe there were around a dozen members of the Screen Actors Guild living in Honolulu at the time.
Herman Wedermeyer (who played Duke Lukela) was a college football star in the 1940’s. “Squirmin’ Herman” was his nickname. Went on to play for the L.A. Dons of the old All-America Football Conference and the Baltimore Colts. Also served on Honolulu City Council (as a Republican) and in the Hawaii State House (as a Democrat??)
Magnum, P.I. was largely the work of Five-O production crew members who were desperate for ANY project that would keep them from having to move back to the mainland.
It used to be that you could find an adequate .25 for $32.00 or lower.
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