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Season 12 ; A Slight Re-Think


Well ,I'm coming down to the wire on viewing the series on DVD.

Tonight ,Ill be watching the final four of the series and
(BELIEVE IT OR NOT!) will finally ,for the first time see ,"Woe To Wo Fat"!

I stated elsewhere ,that I had seen some of season 12 back in 2007 (I know for sure I saw the 3 before the finale. Trouble was ,the local station did not air te finale but went back to "Full Fathom Five" ,the next night. 

I also missed the finale in 1980 and really was too busy growing up in the 1980s to even think about it. In the 1990s ,it wasn;t on Tv here in Phoenix much.

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Anyhow ,the re-think ,I'm talking about is ,some ofthe shows from this season are really not 'that bad'. Not crazy about the 'boxing' episode but the rest seem to have pretty good writing and the acting didn't suffer either.

Needless to say Jack Lord holds his own
of course ,I don't think anyone wuld expect less.

I feel the only real problems with S. 12 are these :

1. The ratings were waaay down ,so many never really did see these until reruns or DVD. People just 'assumed' the whole season was lousy because Danno & Chino Ho Kelly were no longer there.

2. The 1st female team member. It was a good idea but better if it had happened in an earlier season. Doing it in the midst of introducing 2 other new characters was a mistake. Also ,nothing personal to Sharon Farrell but a stronger female character & actress was needed. (If that could have chanegd the ratings at all anyway.)

3. If Jack Lord knew James was departing long before the end of Season 11 ,he should have said to him ,"Well if that's the case ,let's end this thing right and go out with a bang of an ending!" (Finale's were not common on TV back then.) That way there'd have not been a need for a season 12.


So ,i really feel there's good episodes here.



Top 4 for me (so far) are :

A Lion In The Streets

Use a Gun, Go to ****

A Shallow Grav3

(Edit : July 8th) : A Bird In The Hand




Go for it or just be a gopher!
(MR.) happipuppi13 🐕 *arf,man!*

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As of 12:25am (Arizona time) and after
6 months ...I have finally finished "Hawaii Five 0". [oool]
Took a lot of patience to get it done but now I feel I've paid the best
tribute i could to it's cast and all who worked on it ,that are no longer with us.

Only other thing i can say is ,I wish I'd watched it more when it was on CBS in the 1970s but ,being a kid ,I was more for sitcoms. I sure missed a lot of good action ,storylines and as mentioned ,a satisfactory conclusion to the show.

I only wish Wo Fat hadn't that file in his shoe. 


Aloha!  


Go for it or just be a gopher!
(MR.) happipuppi13 🐕 *arf,man!*

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I only wish Wo Fat hadn't that file in his shoe.

Well, now we gotta track down season 13! 

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

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 Good one.

Go for it or just be a gopher!
(MR.) happipuppi13 🐕 *arf,man!*

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Well, now we gotta track down season 13!  - ringfire211


Here you go: http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/5-0log13.htm

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Yep, that's the season!

No to Low Fat

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

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I agree. I have no issues with any of the episodes I've seen. So, I don't get it either, but I wasn't born yet when this show finished. Hell, I wasn't born until shortly before its replacement, Magnum P.I., was finished.

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Season 12 was not nearly as terrible as it's reputation would have us believe, but it is also definitely not up the quality of Seasons 1-9.
There are some good episodes in that final season that I do really enjoy, Though the Heavens Fall, Good Help is Hard to Find, Labyrinth, The Golden Noose, and my absolute favorite of the season The Flight of the Jewels.
They are not the only good episodes in the season but they are the standouts.

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Yes "The Flight of the Jewels" was very good, with a young Jeff Daniels. Always loved the model airplane idea.

Connery, Moore, and Brosnan! Accept NO substitutes!

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