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Serpico
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Try to Die on Time**1/2
Original air date: 12/4/73
The central character of this show, Harry Foxton (Jack Carter) expires pretty quick! (The license number on his car where he is found dead is 8E-5800.) The Five-O crew is dressed informally at the beginning of the show (even McGarrett). Later, they seem to be constantly in and out of McGarrett's office -- Chin seems particularly involved with the case. Close inspection reveals many of the characters sweating excessively throughout the episode. There's interesting focus, switching between McGarrett and Ben in one scene. A "photofax" is used to send a picture of Listie, a bad guy (played by newspaperman Eddie Sherman). His mug shot number is 38529, and the picture was taken on 5/18/73. McGarrett asks Ben to "check every distributor [of walkie-talkies] on the island." The "violin theme" is heard briefly. Various stock shots of driving and the all-knowing police computer. When McGarrett tells Danno to be careful when kicking in Listie's door, Danno says he will, adding, "I like Island living." (Listie's van has the license number 72-351.) When McGarrett discovers that someone escaped from Listie's apartment via the dumbwaiter, he says, "That went out with Bulldog Drummond." If you look carefully at Listie's corpse on the floor, you can see his eyelids moving. Doc determines that Foxton died of Lou Gehrig's disease, which is described by its official name -- amylotrophic lateral sclerosis. Yankee Chang is Peter Suyam, William Valentine plays Lewis, his butler. Louise Sorel is Foxton's sexy daughter Diane.
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Harry Foxton hat angeblich Krebs - und einen ziemlich eigenartigen Humor. Foxton veranstaltet eine ganz besondere "Lotterie": Wer seine Todesstunde am genauesten voraussagt, soll 240.000 Dollar erhalten. Was zunchst wie der schwarze Humor eines Todkranken aussah, entwickelt sich zu einem wahren Horrortrip: Eine ganze Serie von Mordfllen wird scheinbar von dieser "Lotterie" ausgelst. Und der Mrder ist McGarrett und seinen Leuten immer einen Schritt voraus.
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