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Serpico
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Murder with a Golden Touch***
Original air date: 1/29/74
This show stars "John Mamo" who bears a suspicious resemblance to well-known character actor John Fujioka (see #157 -- "Hara-Kiri: Murder"). Mamo/Fujioka plays Tenjo Kayata, boss of the Asian Metal Arts Company. ("Tenjo" is a bogus name, it means "ceiling" in Japanese.) When private detective Henry Mott is found dead with gold dust on his clothes at the beginning, McGarrett tells Danno to check "all companies licensed to deal in gold in Hawaii," including Kayata's. Kayata is being scammed by his son-in-law Greg Lawrence (Peter Donat), who is in cahoots with the Cockney entrepreneur Joe Quillan (John Orchard). Lawrence and Quillan melt down stolen gold, cast it and dump it off Makapuu Point with the help of two salvage operators, Fleming (James J. Sloyan) and Boyle (James Davidson) to make it look like part of a 150-year-old shipwreck. There seem to be several extra people on both boats when the gold is being dumped into the ocean ... this increases the chance of the scheme getting known! Metals dealer Arthur Jentry is played by Peter Carew wearing glasses, a moustache and a wig (compare his appearance in #137, where he is bald). When Fleming and Boyle are found dead underwater, McGarrett says, "The finders were not keepers." (Sounds like an episode title!) Reuses "The Finishing Touch" music by Broughton, though the score is by Ray. Two other stock themes -- "echoing trumpets" and "underwater" are also heard as well as another which is reminiscent of "memories." McGarrett makes a goof when he says that the total amount of gold stolen from Kayata's was "185 pounds Troy weight" which is about "300 kilos." According to my dictionary, one pound Troy weight = .373 kilo, so 185 pounds would equal about 70 kilos.
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Der Chef der "Gesellschaft fr Metallkunst" verdchtigt seinen Schwiegersohn Gregory Lawrence unsauberer Machenschaften. Er lsst ihn durch einen Detektiv beschatten. Schon bald besttigt sich sein Verdacht: Lawrence hat aus dem Tresor seines Schwiegervaters 300 Kilogramm Gold abgestaubt. Er plant ein ganz groes Ding. Als er den Detektiv entdeckt, schiet er auf ihn. Als dieser seinen Verletzungen erliegt, bekommt Lawrence es mit McGarrett von "Hawaii 5 - 0" zu tun.
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