116. Debbies Entführung

Little Girl Blue **
Original air date: 2/13/73

   People who watch this show soon after #78, ...And I Want Some Candy and a Gun that Shoots, will blink twice at some of the footage. Major chunks of this episode about two kidnappers who hold cops at bay from a bunker above the highway are taken directly from the previous one. The reason for this (told to me by star Ron Feinberg) was the previous episode was too violent to rebroadcast, but producer Leonard Freeman wanted to reuse some of the material, so this new show was virtually written around this footage for Feinberg. In #78, two cops come to the aid of a woman whose tires are shot out by a crazed marksman. One of the cops, Tom Ewa (Arte McCullough), who was shot in #78, returns to the scene and is shot while climbing the hill to the bunker. He falls down the cliff to the road where he stumbles to the side of the car where he was lying in #78 with Beau van den Ecker. (The second shot cop in #116 is Oriental.) Ewa dies later. Other re-used footage includes:
   -- a cop car has its flashing light shot out
   -- a cop car has its tires flattened
   -- McGarrett drives to the scene beside backed-up traffic accompanied by an ambulance
   -- McGarrett gets out of his car
   -- in a scene which is not exactly the same (but almost like an outtake), McGarrett orders Danno to get a helicopter because "we're gonna need some eyes"
   -- cops getting dressed in protective gear
   -- cops move behind a moving car as a shield (the car has the same license number)
   -- cops in protective gear run across the road to help their injured buddies
   -- they put the wounded cops in their car (seen through shot-out window)
   -- Danno says the chopper is on the way
   -- McGarrett speaks to the shot Tommy Ewa, Danno examines the dead second cop, same ambulance attendants as previous show
   -- McGarrett speaks to Duke, takes bullhorn
   -- the helicopter arrives, McGarrett tells Danno to stay out of the range of the rifle
   -- shot from the helicopter of the bunker, Danno says the "roof juts out quite a ways"
   -- stock shots of the HPD computer
   -- a shot flying over cars backed up on the highway
   -- the HPD communications van arrives, McGarrett opens the door (in #78 Kono is seen inside, the editing in #116 cleverly replaces him with another cop)
   -- near the end of the show, the helicopter drops tear gas on the bunker (several shots)
   -- McGarrett, wearing a bulletproof vest, leads a squadron of cops to the foot of the hill
   -- a scene of the cops climbing the hillside (Kono is edited out of this scene again)
   There's yet another reference to a different earlier show. In #12, Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember, Ron ("Ronald" in #116) Feinberg, playing the "developmentally delayed" Benny Apa (his character in #116 is a Korean war veteran who is merely "fatigued") has a big secret not revealed until the show's end: he doesn't have a driver's license. Feinberg's character in #116, Luther, kills the Oriental cop at the beginning because he doesn't have a driver's license as well. As in the previous sniper show, the assault on the bunker is total overkill. Nina Foch appears as Marion Scott, grandmother of the kidnapped girl, who tells McGarrett that "Debbie was born out of wedlock."

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Der geistesgestrte Luther und sein herzkranker Freund Frank entfhren die kleine Debbie Scott. Dabei ttet Luther einen Polizisten. Die beiden Gangster verschanzen sich mit ihrem Opfer in einem alten Bunker. McGarrett lsst die Mutter und die Gromutter Debbies mit dem Hubschrauber einfliegen - und erlebt eine groe berraschung: Die beiden Frauen beschuldigen sich gegenseitig der Mittterschaft. McGarrett versucht, ber sie an die Geiselnehmer heranzukommen.