dual personalities

During the week of VBS, all I can handle in the evening is to heat up a frozen pizza and watch reruns of Hawaii Five-0–the show that ran from 1968-1980, not the reboot (2010-2020).

Five-0, you will recall, was a special state police unit answering only to the Governor of Hawaii. It worked with Honolulu police to fight the underworld on the islands. The intro credits are iconic.

Det. Steve McGarrett led the team and always said, “Book ’em, Danno,” at the end of the show. Jack Lord, who played McGarrett, was 6 feet tall but looks much taller because his amazing hair gives him a good three inches of height.

I did not watch the show back in the day, although it was very popular with some boys I knew who liked to say, “Be there. Aloha.” It was an inside joke in their senior yearbook and all that. I think my father also watched it. He would have liked all those take-command kind of guys and frequent references to WWII and “Pearl”.

Anyway, I am enjoying it. Of course, the show was filmed entirely in Hawaii and that sets it apart as well. It is not Adam-12 on the backlot. (Although you know I love Malloy and Reed.)

Fun fact: The title of the show refers to Hawaii’s status as the 50th U.S. state; at the time of its premiere, Hawaii had officially been a U.S. state for only nine years.

Well, you know, I can’t always be reading the Psalms.