NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu ***
Original air date: 10/5/71

    Five-O is on the trail of a gang cashing travellers' checks in Hawaii led by the wily Professor Pierce (Buddy Ebsen). McGarrett says that "fencing this stuff is like trying to sell hot badges at a policeman's picnic." As the gang approaches Hawaii by plane, one of their members, Whitney Davis (Glenn Cannon) suffers what appears to be a heart attack. Davis' real name is Floyd O'Neill. Winston Char is one of the two Physicians ambulance attendants meeting the plane. Tom Fujiwara is Frank Okawa, boss of the WORLD WIDE TRAVELLERS CHECK $ CO [sic -- this is on their letterhead] at 103 N. King Street, Honolulu 96817. A scene where a cop car passes people going to church is from #36. Galen Kam appears as a cashier who is talking to Mr. Chang (Yankee Chang, uncredited): "She's a groovy chick but she's got all these hairy hangups." When Okawa is brought to Five-O headquarters in a cop car, he is first seen sitting alone on the left in the rear seat. In subsequent shots he is in the middle, the left, middle, left and finally as they arrive at the palace there are two people in the back seat! A restaurant is called the Grog and Sirloin. Some interesting flashbacks and editing. McGarrett's final line to the plane load of crooks is a classic: "Aloha, suckers."


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Professor Ambrose Pierce ist ebenso hochintelligent wie kriminell. Der Wissenschaftler hat einen Plan entwickelt, wie man gestohlene Traveller-Schecks gefahrlos zu Bargeld machen kann. Dazu braucht er allerdings die Hilfe von Gangstern, die sich als akademische Reisegruppe tarnen. Whrend die Gruppe uerst erfolgreich aktiv ist, kommt es zu unerwarteten Problemen. Als zwei nicht eingeplante Morde passieren, kommt McGarrett der Bande schlielich auf die Schliche.