NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich, but It Helps **
Original air date: 9/26/72

    William Shatner hams his way through his role as Texas private investigator Sam Tolliver who visits Hawaii to help his friend Wallace Shuster (Bill Edwards) get free of an insidous blackmail scheme, but ends up wanting to get in on the operation himself. Shatner seems to be having a good time, overpronouncing words like "bid-ness" and "dee-vorce" with a thick accent. Marlow plays William Speer, boss of the blackmailers, and does a good job, but lacks a certain malevolent omnipresence which one might expect. McGarrett orders the Five-O crew to check "every company that uses telex communications." Tolliver uses a videotape machine to turn the tables on Larry Toba (Tom Fujiwara), one of the blackmailers, and there is mention of satellite technology. The script wraps up things a bit too quickly at the end. Tolliver's family are being held captive back in Texas by associates of Speer, but once the bad guys are captured, McGarrett merely throws the matter over to the Texas cops to deal with and the show ends! A "real" phone number -- 589-0589 -- is used. Interestingly, McGarrett and Tolliver meet only at the end and are never seen in the same shot! I wonder if the fact that Jack Lord was under consideration for Captain Kirk in Star Trek (until he asked for too much money) resulted in some kind of ill feelings between himself and Shatner?


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Zwei mysterise Selbstmorde beschftigen die Mannschaft von "Hawaii 5 - 0". Schlielich fhren ihre Recherchen zu der Firma "Veritex": Die Ermittler kommen dahinter, dass diese merkwrdige Firma Erpressung in ganz groem Stil betreibt - und zwar mit modernsten technischen Mitteln. Bevor McGarrett und sein Team weitere Details der Erpressungsmanver herausbekommen, mssen sie feststellen, dass sie nicht die einzigen sind, die sich fr diese Firma interessieren.