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Didn't We Meet at a Murder? **
Original air date: 2/29/72
Simon Oakland as the gangster Mauritany (described as a "grim Neanderthal") gets knocked off pretty early in this show accompanied by some very interesting editing. The main titles are presented one word at a time. McGarrett tells Kono to "put your ear to the coconut wireless" (local expression for "the grape vine"). The "memories" theme is heard as TV repairman Clem (Morgan Upton) eats lunch with his wife Doris (Josie Over). When the two are seen in bed later, Doris is wearing lots of lipstick! Bill Edwards, seen later in the series as Jonathan Kaye, is the sexually ambiguous Frank Wellman (described as both a homosexual and transvestite) who plunges to his death (the shot of the guy falling is taken from #87, Bait Once, Bait Twice). McGarrett looks at pictures of various women on Wellman's wall and tells Danno that these women are men! When Wellman's death is written up in the newspaper, the headlines once again have lower case type. Kwan Hi Lim, looking younger than usual, plays the very oily Chang. When Bonnie Soames (Joanne Barnes) listens to music on the airplane at the beginning, she says, "I dialed Streisand, I get Stravinsky." Chin Ho is seen doing surveillance on top of a building with a walkie-talkie -- a shot from this will be used in subsequent seasons in the main titles. When Chin reports Wellman's license number, he first says "5J5-298," then repeats it as the correct number which is just "J5-298." Danno has a weird line when McGarrett tells him to give witnesses something to read in the office. Danno replies, "What? The new pension plan?" Prior to the murder, Clem tells Mauritany that he is turning on the TV because he wants "the tubes to warm up." But wouldn't this be a transistorized TV? One of the pivotal characters of the show -- Charlie Saunders, an ex-detective -- is not mentioned in the end credits at all!
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Diesen Fall wird McGarrett so schnell nicht vergessen: Scheinbar hat es der Chef von "Hawaii 5 - 0" diesmal mit einem perfekten Mord zu tun. Das Opfer ist der Mafiaboss Marty Mauritany. Die drei Tatverdchtigen, die McGarrett und seine Mnner ermitteln, sind allesamt unbescholtene Brger - und sie haben alle wasserdichte Alibis. Die Beamten tappen im Dunkeln. Dann hat McGarrett eine Eingebung: Er entwickelt eine Erpressungstheorie - und findet ein ganz anderes Mordmotiv.
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