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Air Cargo...Dial for Murder ***
Original air date: 11/2/71 -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
There is an air of "a bad horoscope" about this episode about a scheme to steal air cargo and sell it on the black market. The script, direction and continuity all suffer from some problems. For a start, some of the character development is annoying. Eric Ling (James Hong) has a major attitude towards McGarrett during their first meeting. Anita Putnam (Marion Ross), receptionist at the air cargo company, seems ill-suited to answering the phone (she seems more concerned with primping her hair), although she does emote well later when she reveals to McGarrett that she had to get involved in the scheme because her 18-year-old daughter got into sniffing coke and taking LSD. And Hal Sullivan (Don Chastain), mastermind of the scheme, is just plain snotty! There are several boo-boos as well. One of the phone numbers used as a "drop" is APele 79247 (why the use of word phone prefixes?), but later when Putnam is being grilled by McGarrett, she recalls it as 79277. Another phone number -- KAwena 20699 -- is mentioned. The number for the Aloha Hotel has only 6 numbers: 589850. Joanna Grayson (Sheri Rice) dies and a sheet is pulled over her face, but just before it covers her, you can see her eyelids move! There's a stock shot of Tokyo airport (complete with what looks like student demonstrators), but in the following scene where airport employees (one of them white) find James Hong's frozen body, this is obviously not in Japan. James MacArthur seems to be having memory problems in the sequence following this: "Chalk up another murder for the [pause] ring. He died about eight hours of [pause] ... uh ... before he turned up in Tokyo." A few moments later he continues: "If the Tokyo police hadn't checked with ... the ... Interpol, we'd still be looking for him." While the cops film John Malcolm (Bill Bigelow) forging invoices, a negative view is shown. When Eric Ling gets cold feet re his participation in the scheme (prior to his murder, of course), Sullivan asks, "Whatever became of our inscrutable Oriental?" Chin Ho makes inquiries of Kim Wong (Myrtle Hilo), and she says, "You sound as if you just came off the boat." Chin also comes forth with a Chinese proverb in a discussion with McGarrett. Bill Bigelow must have been annoyed after this episode aired -- although his role is fairly prominent, he gets no credit at the end, unlike Sheri Rice, who doesn't have a single line! There's a classic quote from Che Fong to McGarrett: "Very clever ... and you're not even Chinese!" McGarrett himself comes across with a snappy quote from Thoreau's Walden when testing some answering machines in Che Fong's lab: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer." I like the way the scream at the beginning leads into the main titles. The "memories" theme is heard a couple of times as is the "trombone interval" theme.
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Als es bei einer Luftfrachtfirma zu verdchtigen Unregelmigkeiten kommt, wird der Agent Jerry Turner in die Firma eingeschleust. Bevor er die entscheidenden Hinweise geben kann, wird Turner ermordet. Nun bernimmt das Team von "Hawaii 5 - 0" den Fall. McGarrett lsst alle Angestellten der Firma berprfen und stt dabei auf eine geheimnisvolle Anita P., die niemand kennt. Sie scheint der Schlssel zu diesem Fall zu sein. Doch die Suche nach ihr ist alles andere als einfach.
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