Hawaii Five-O - The Second Season
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Actor: Jack LordBrand: LORD,JACK
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1206 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Hawaii Five-O - The Second Season
DVD Review: A little Jack Lord goes a long ways.
Summary: 4 Stars
When I purchased season 1, I had not seen the show in at least 25 years, so it was kind of refreshing.
Now with season 2 I see why my parents did not watch it much.
I know Jack Lord was the star of the show but enough is enough and it seems he is at every murder in Hawaii day or night, no matter how big or small. The head of the state police should have his underlings do the dirty work.
The one thing that really gets me though is when McGarret goes undercover when everyone and his dog knows what he looks like.
Disc 5 on the set has some of the best episodes so far:
1.Killer Bee
2.Cry, Lie
3.The One With the Gun
4.Most Likely to Murder
This season really finished with some great episodes and now am fired up to get Season 3 when the price comes down !
DVD Review: Great TV
Summary: 5 Stars
Great TV. Simple but interesting story lines. Love the look of Hawaii. Brings back a lot of great memories.DVD Review: Nostalgia
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband watched this show when he was a kid with his Dad and brothers. Now we've been watching with our two children. While the show isn't as much fun for them as Get Smart or Remington Steele they've still enjoyed it and we'll be watching the episodes until we run out! These DVDs are good quality and it's interesting to see the 70s on display.DVD Review: Can't wait for the next one
Summary: 5 Stars
This was even better than originally seeing the series on TV. Excellent color and product was perfect. Will be ordering more soon. Amazons the best !!DVD Review: Just one thing missing..........
Summary: 5 Stars
Thank heaven Hawaii Five-0 is available on DVD now, almost through season 6. Six more seasons to go after that. I do have every 5-0 episode ever aired, but they're all on VHS, and most of them have small cuts in them -- cuts I never noticed until I watched the DVDs of the show. I've become a walking talking encyclopedia of a good deal of 5-0 trivia.
One obvious thing that diehard 5-0 fans immediately notice is that many significant scenes or parts of scenes cut from the series during its years in syndication are now restored. In many cases, those restorations have been pivotal, important scenes that tied many events together. By the time WGN was airing the series, so many cuts had been made in each episode that most of the time the show made little sense. Now with the DVDs, everything makes sense, including the mistakes. Mistakes are part of every show, and they make great fodder for discussion among fans.
But there's a problem when it comes to the DVDs for Season 2. Whoever put these DVDs together did the show a great disservice by OMITTING one of its episodes -- the very last episode in Season 2, "Bored, She Hung Herself."
For years there were two 5-0 episodes that were almost impossible to obtain: "Six Kilos" in Season One [a terrific episode!] and "Bored, She Hung Herself" in Season Two.
I'm not sure why "Six Kilos" became so hard to obtain, or why it was banned. It's a great episode for many reasons and it does not and never did encourage anyone to use or distribute drugs of any kind.
I have a nagging memory [which may be faulty] that "Bored, She Hung Herself" got itself banned because not long after viewing the episode, someone actually attempted trying to hang him/herself in real life and ended up dead. There was some attempt to put the blame on 5-0, but it came to nothing. That's what my nagging memory recalls. I'm not at all sure if I am correct.
But for whatever reason, "Bored" was banned in syndication.
"Bored" made the most sense for those of us who were part of the counterculture in the late 1960s, when all kinds of prohibited things were being discussed and/or experienced, with various, not necessarily positive, results. We did a lot of nutty stuff back then, and lots of that stuff could have been very dangerous. But the bulk of us are still here.
So I was thoroughly surprised when I finally got my hands on "Bored" and watched it. It's not a very good episode. For the most part, I not only wondered what on earth all the fuss was about; it bored ME (and I didn't hang myself!). Very few episodes of 5-0 have that effect on me.
As far as hanging oneself, only a very tiny part of the show dealt with the notion that a character's death was caused by attempting to hang herself for a mental/spiritual/and/or sexual high. The show quickly made it clear that McGarrett and the rest of the 5-0 team realized that this practice was NOT a cause of the victim's death, and very little about the practice of hanging oneself was discussed in the show.
Unlike most 5-0 episodes in general, this one was certainly one of the poorer episodes I've seen, and I've seen ALL of them, including those "banned" while the show was in syndication. I'd give it a 2-star rating where the highest rating would be a 5-star [and that would be generous]. It's not particularly interesting, and there's nothing whatever salacious or threatening about it. If anyone believes watching that episode might cause someone else to try to hang themselves to achieve some kind of "high", they are at best naive, or at worst, paranoid.
Those of us who are still persistent addicts of 5-0 are legitimately annoyed because we shelled out money for the ENTIRE group of episodes that made up Season Two. "Bored" is not in there. We've been cheated.
Today's world is a very different world than the 1960s counterculture. There is absolutely no reason NOT to include this episode.
"Six Kilos", the other difficult-to-aquire episode, is right where it belongs in the DVDs for Season One, and is one of the most interesting [plotwise and visually (when it comes to McGarrett's Hawaiian shirt wardrobe)] episodes in the entire series. I have no idea why this particular episode became one of the two 5-0 episodes that were banned.
So I cannot understand why, if "Six Kilos" was deemed appropriate to include in the DVDs of Season One [which it most certainly is], "Bored" is not appropriate for inclusion in Season Two.
So be aware when you buy Season Two of 5-0 on DVD: you're going to be missing the last episode of the season, and for no good reason.
I hope at some point the powers-that-be who make decisions about Season Two on DVD will press a NEW DVD that includes "Bored, She Hung Herself." It's a boring episode, but those of us who are collectors want EVERY episode, even the episodes we don't particularly enjoy.
We all buy DVDs of notable TV series because we assume we will receive EVERY episode in the series, including any pilots or 2-or-3-part episodes. That's why we spend our money on them. We want a COMPLETE collection of every season, not a CENSORED collection.
We do not buy these DVDs to be cheated. In Season Two, we are. We've been censored. And we're not happy about it.
The First Amendment guarantees us freedom of speech, and omitting "Bored" violates that amendment.
Apparently somebody thinks we're still impressionable little children 30+ years after the series originally aired. We're NOT YOUNG ANYMORE. We're all grown up and are coloring our hair and buying anti-wrinkle creams.
As parents and/or grandparents, or as aunts or uncles, we know enough to NOT permit small children to watch things that are unsuitable for them. We assume those of us who have adult children restrict their children's TV/DVD viewing in the same manner.
So to whoever made the decision to omit "Bored, She Hung Herself" from Season Two, I have only one thing to say:
"YOU'VE VIOLATED MY FREEDOM OF SPEECH! YOU'VE CHEATED ME OF A COMPLETE COLLECTION! AND I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING CENSORED!"
Description of Hawaii Five-O - The Second Season
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.Solving crimes and putting the perps behind bars is Steve McGarrett's bag. Why, he says so himself, and in so many words, in the very first of the 24 episodes collected in this five-disc set comprising the complete second season (1969-70) of Hawaii Five-0. Portrayed by Jack Lord, and described by no less an authority than the New York Times as "a model of steadfast decency" and "beyond cool but still so square he could have been Lawrence Welk's cop brother-in-law," McGarrett is the leader of the islands' crack, four-man police unit, and as usual, he has his hands full. Perhaps that's why the man has no discernible sense of humor and only the merest suggestion of a social life. Between keeping his famous hair in order, delivering stern lectures about right and wrong to clueless lowlifes, and, as he puts it in another Second Season episode, constantly worrying "about a world without law and justice. where no one gives a damn about anything," who has time for such trivialities? This season finds McGarrett and cohorts Danno (James McArthur), Kono (Zulu), and Chin Ho (Kam Fong) dealing with the usual complement of sleaze: murderers, gamblers, druggies, prostitutes, insurance scammers, low-rent terrorists, and so on. But Hawaii Five-0 offers its share of weirdness as well. In "Forty Feet High and It Kills!", Red Chinese uber-criminal Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh) and his crew orchestrate a fake tsunami warning so they can kidnap a brilliant scientist (an amusing performance by Will Geer) and force him to conduct genetic-tampering experiments designed to create a master race. In the fairly ridiculous "King Kamehameha Blues," a group of young folks steal the legendary king's robe from a museum, just to show they can; it's a measure of McGarrett's ultra-hardline attitude that the governor's offer of amnesty to the thieves if they'll return the precious garment really sticks in his righteous craw. And in "The Singapore File," McGarrett travels overseas in order to accompany a comely murder witness back to Honolulu; though tempted by her charms, he's far too scrupulous to indulge in any extra-curriculars while on the job (and Steve McGarrett is always on the job). Hawaii Five-0's other elements are a mixed bag. As always, the Hawaiian scenery is gorgeous. Morton Stevens' theme song remains one of the best ever, and much of the other music, especially the jazzy stuff, is also terrific. However, the show isn't big on either action or tension; too many scenes are slow and talky. And in the final year of the '60s, when men walked on the moon and Woodstock and Altamont marked the respective high and low points of the hippie movement, its depiction of the counterculture is laughably square; it's as if the entire decade barely happened. The box set includes brief, previous-week promos for each episode, but no other bonus material. --Sam Graham
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