Al Harrington
Why was he missing from so many Season 7 episodes?? He wasn't even in the opening credits towards the end until the last episode!
Why was he missing from so many Season 7 episodes?? He wasn't even in the opening credits towards the end until the last episode! - Calisun71
Why did Al Harrington leave the series?share
No reason was ever given for Ben's departure (or his arrival, for that matter!). However, during a 1996 Honolulu TV show about Five-O, Harrington said that he was chosen by Leonard Freeman to replace Zulu starting in the fifth season, despite the fact that Jack Lord "didn't approve" because Harrington was "too tall" or "too something." After Freeman died in early 1974, Harrington said "the writing was on the wall that I wasn't going to be there very much longer." He survived until the end of the seventh season, appearing in ten of the seventh season's twenty-four shows including the second last episode, though that was actually filmed much earlier. After he left, he was replaced by Doug Mossman as Frank Kamana and Herman Wedemeyer as Duke. Details of Harrington's final season are here: http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/season7.pdf
http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/fiveofaq.htm