NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

For a Million...Why Not? **
Original air date: 11/9/71

    McGarrett is at the trial of Johnny Oporta on Maui (see #74) during this show, Danno is in charge. When McGarrett talks to Danno on the phone, the connection is terrible ... was the long-distance system in Hawaii really that bad? (Usually calls to the mainland or overseas suffer from these problems.) Al Harrington is Fred Noonan, one of the crooks. Glenn Cannon appears briefly as the owner of Carlson's Printing who is shot and Seth Sakai is seen as a lab assistant who utters "don't hold your breath" to Kono in Japanese (see the next show, where Che Fong does the same in Chinese). Sakai says there are only 40,000 combinations of the letters collected from the floor of the print shop, but it seems there should be many more. A good quote from McGarrett: "I thought the computer was a policeman's best friend." When one of the armored car guards is shot in the face, the results are particularly gory. The address of Tiki Gods Inc. is 15 Kakaako Road, Honolulu, Hawaii 96802. A date -- August 23, 1971 -- is seen, and a "real" phone number (944-1212) is mentioned. The way Danno figures out the bogus invoicing scheme at the end is a bit quick for my taste. The motivation of Hawkins (Sam Melville), the gang's leader, for the robbery is that he is an aggrieved Vietnam vet ("We'll set things right in this country ... we'll stop them from burying us with peace and poetry and pot") but this is not really developed. Danno's take-home pay is said to be $184.50 during the final banal phone conversation with McGarrett.


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Eine Bank mit sechs Millionen Dollar im Tresor wird berfallen, aber der Raub scheitert klglich. Die Bank reagiert sofort und lsst das Geld auf mehrere andere Banken verteilen. Niemand ahnt, dass die Gangster genau dies erreichen wollten: Ihr berfall war eine Finte, sie haben es auf den Geldtransporter abgesehen, der wesentlich leichter zu knacken ist als die Bank. Und diesmal gelingt der Coup. McGarretts Vertreter Danny hat ein schwieriges Puzzle zusammenzusetzen.

Die Folge mag ich sehr - SAM MELVILLE spielt darin eine Gastrolle [11] - einen gewissen Hawkins

Ja, Sam Melville ist ein toller Lichtblick in dieser Folge, aber auch von der Story sehr gut :)

 :( Da Steve hier nur "am Rande" fungiert,ist es nicht so mein Fall..(kicher,als ehemaliger riesiger Jack Lord Fan...)