NOSTALGIE CRIME BOARD

Sam Kalakua ist ein direkter Nachkomme der letzten Könige Hawaiis. Er nimmt den Glauben seiner Väter sehr ernst. Diese Tatsache wollen sein Neffe George und dessen Frau Eleanor ausnutzen: Sie wollen ihm sein Grundstück abnehmen. Um Sam in den Wahnsinn zu treiben, inszenieren sie ein Spektakel um Pelè – die Feuergöttin. Prompt dreht der alte Sam durch – und beginnt wild um sich zu schießen. (Text: Kabel 1)

Deutsche TV-PremiereDo 05.10.1989PRO 7
Original-TV-PremiereMi 19.03.1969CBS



A mediocre conclusion to the first season. Sam Kalakua (John Marley) is a descendant of Hawaiian royalty and a distant uncle of Kono. (Danno remarks that Kono is "nine-tenths Hawaiian, one-tenth cop.") His nephew George (Robert Colbert) and haole niece Eleanor (Sally Kellerman) are trying to scare the old man to death so they can sell his property to a sleazy real estate mogul (Peter Leeds). They enlist the help of doped-up movie auteur Alistair Kemp (Jerry Cox) to create images of Pele, goddess of fire which are projected on a screen in Sam's front yard (how this is done is difficult to understand). Sam retaliates by shooting a gun and throwing a lamp filled with explosives which blows up. As a result of this, Sam is said to be a threat to his neighbors -- but his property is "a haunted house in the middle of a jungle"! The doctor who examines Sam is Robert Costa. When Danno grills Kemp, he asks the filmmaker: "What are you on, Kemp? Pills? Acid?" and talks about "psychedelic effects." When Kemp is about to crack, Danno says there "might be some sweat forming inside that acid head." Later when Kemp finds Danno snooping in some of his film cans, he says "What are you, some kind of klepto?" McGarrett examines the film using a freeze-frame technique which would probably cause the film to melt in the projector (see also episode #2 and #136, Banzai Pipeline). I don't know how McGarrett can recognize Kellerman as Pele -- I sure couldn't! The shot of Danno and McGarrett coming out of their office is the same as the one in episode #17. Of course, McGarrett and Danno know exactly where the high cliffs Sam is going to jump off are located, and so does niece Eleanor who appears in her Pele getup. (On his way there, McGarrett seems to be driving on the wrong side of the road.) The ending is stupid -- Eleanor steps a few feet behind Sam, who is about to walk face-forward off the cliff edge. But when McGarrett and Danno appear, she suddenly falls over the edge! The music in this episode by Stevens uses theramin-like noises to suggest the supernatural, and also some gamelan-like sounds.

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