NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

Anybody Can Build a Bomb*
Original air date: 11/27/73

    Scientific types will laugh themselves silly with this episode. The bad guys, who want megabucks or they'll set off an atomic blast in Honolulu, send the governor a sample of "plutonium" and he handles it in his limo while sitting beside McGarrett! (See #195, Man on Fire, where Dr. Ormsbee says "any contact [with plutonium] can be fatal.") As well, "Uranium 238" is shown in tanks like propane, while "Polonium 210" is stored in acetylene tanks and a test tube. These last two components can both allegedly be purchased on the open market! Later on, the ransomers threaten to have a "modest radiation flash" in Kapiolani Park. The device to do this is hidden in an ice cream cart and after Dr. Elias Haig (Lew Ayres) moves the cart into a public washroom, there is a glowing explosion. Dr. Klaus Richter (Richard Angarola) comments, "Seal off that building, it'll be weeks [sic] before anyone can go near it." At the beginning of the show, when movers are unloading a box containing the bomb, the camera seems to be in slow motion. Robert Luck plays Harry Luck, one of the movers. His phone numer is 786-2300. When an HPD cop phones Chin Ho to say he's located a company connected with the bombing plot, Chin says something that sounds like "Go, man" or "Cool, man." Danny Kamekona plays Dr. Beaumont, Bill Edwards is Jonathan Kaye. Ed Fernandez, Les Keiter and David Espinda all appear briefly. There are Mickey Mouse balloons in Kapiolani Park -- did they pay a licensing fee to Disney?


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Die Stadt Honolulu wird von einer Organisation, die sich "Mercury" nennt, erpresst. Die Forderung lautet: 100 Millionen Dollar, andernfalls werde in der Stadt eine Atombombe gezndet. Zum Beweis der Ernsthaftigkeit der Drohung ist dem Erpresserbrief ein kleines Stck Plutonium beigelegt. Ein Experte besttigt die Mglichkeit, in einem kleinen Labor eine solche Waffe herzustellen. McGarrett und seine Mannschaft von "Hawaii 5 - 0" haben 36 Stunden Zeit, die Bombe zu finden.