Hawaii Five-O: Pilot – Cocoon

Season 1 (Episode 1)

Air Date: 20 September 1968

Writer: Leonard Freeman

Director: Paul Wendkas

Synopsis

Guest Stars
Nancy Kwan (Rosemary Quong), Leslie Nielsen (Brent), Andrew Duggan (Miller), James Gregory (Jonathan Kaye), Khigh Dhiegh (Wo Fat), Lew Ayres (The Governor), Tim O’Kelley (Danny), Philip Ahn (Attorney General), Mitzi Hoag (May), Noah Keen (Dr. Bernard), Russell Thorsen (Port Captain), Newell Tarrant (Doc), Wright Esser (Captain Schroeder), Yankee Chang (Tour Bus Driver), Iris Rainer (Jailed Hippie Girl), Dale Ishimoto (Arcturus Construction Guard), Soon Taik Oh (Wo Fat’s Lab Technician), Mark LeBuse (Arcturus Construction Foreman), Maxine Saltonstall (Mildred – Governor’s Secretary), Kaai Hayes (), Bill Saito (Burglar), Gertrude Flynn (Landlady), Baird Miller (Agent Tailing McGarrett), Ati Soo (), Richard Kuga (Wo Fat’s Lab Assistant), Sterling Mossman and the Gang

Notable Guest Stars

Philip AhnPhilip Ahn Lew AyresLew Ayres Khigh DhieghKhigh Dhiegh
Andrew DugganAndrew Duggan James GregoryJames Gregory Nancy KwanNancy Kwan
Leslie NielsenLeslie Nielsen Tim O'KellyTim O’Kelley

Production Number: 1310-5246-2669

Production Notes

  • Primetime Emmy Awards Nomination: Outstanding Achievement in Musical Composition (Morton Stevens)
  • Writers Guild of America, USA Nomination: Episodic Drama (Leonard Freeman)
  • Song: Ain’t No Big Thing

Hawaii Five-O – Crew – Season 1

Art Director

  • Al Heschong: Pilot/Cocoon
  • Carl MacAuley: Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II

Assistant Director

  • Dennis Donnelly: Face of the Dragon; One for the Money; Six Kilos
  • Michael S. Glick: Full Fathom Five; Tiger By the Tail; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; The Ways of Love; By the Numbers; Deathwatch; Up Tight
  • Charles Scott Jr.: Once Upon A Time – Part I
  • Max Stein: Pilot/Cocoon; Strangers In Our Own Land; Samurai; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; No Blue Skies; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; King of the Hill; The Box; Along Came Joey; Once Upon A Time – Part II; Not That Much Different; The Big Kahuna

Assistant Film Editor

  • Ruth Blythe: Pilot/Cocoon

Assistant Production Manager

  • Bernard Oseransky (all except Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II)

Assistant to the Production Manager

  • Bernard Oseransky: Face of the Dragon; One for the Money; Not That Much Different; Six Kilos

Assistant to Producers: James H. Heinz

Associate Producer

  • Sam Manners: Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II
  • Robert Rosen: Pilot/Cocoon

Casting

  • William J. Kenney: Full Fathom Five; Strangers In Our Own Land; Tiger By the Tail; Samurai; …And The Painted Daisies on His Coffin; The Ways of Love; No Blue Skies; King of the Hill
  • Al Onorato: By the Numbers; Deathwatch; Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; Face of the Dragon; The Box; One for the Money; Along Came Joey; Not That Much Different; Six Kilos; The Big Kahuna

Costumes

  • Richard Egan
  • Reeder Boss: Once Upon A Time – Part II
  • Vou Lee Giokaris: Once Upon A Time – Part I
  • Jack Muhs: Once Upon A Time – Part I

Director of Photography

  • Frank Philips
  • Richard S. Batcheller: One for the Money
  • Edward R. Plante Jr.: Once Upon A Time – Part I
  • Richard Rawlings: Pilot/Cocoon

Film Editor

  • Frank Capacchione: Deathwatch
  • Ira Heymann: Pilot/Cocoon; Samurai; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; The Ways of Love; King of the Hill; The Box; Along Came Joey; Not That Much Different; The Big Kahuna
  • Jack Gleason: Full Fathom Five; Tiger By the Tail; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; Face of the Dragon; One for the Money; Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II
  • Howard Smith: Strangers In Our Own Land; No Blue Skies; Up Tight
  • Bruce Shoengarth: By the Numbers; Six Kilos

Location Casting

  • Ted Thorpe (all except Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II)

Makeup Artists

  • Don Schoenfeld
  • Kenneth Chase: Once Upon A Time – Part I

Music Composed and Conducted by

  • Harry Geller: Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II

Music by

  • Morton Stevens
  • Harry Geller: King of the Hill
  • Richard Shores: Face of the Dragon

Music Supervision

  • Morton Stevens: One for the Money

Music Supervisor: Don B. Ray

Produced by

  • Leonard Freeman: Pilot/Cocoon; Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II
  • Joseph Gantman: Full Fathom Five; Tiger By the Tail; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; The Ways of Love; Up Tight
  • Sidney Marshall: Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; The Box; Along Came Joey; Not That Much Different; The Big Kahuna
  • Robert Stambler: Strangers In Our Own Land; Samurai; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; No Blue Skies; By the Numbers; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Deathwatch; King of the Hill; Face of the Dragon; One for the Money; Six Kilos

Script Supervisor

  • Maggie Lawrence: Pilot/Cocoon

Set Decorator

  • Buck Henshaw
  • Ray Molyneaux: Once Upon A Time – Part I
  • Herman Schoenbron: Once Upon A Time – Part II

Story Consultant

  • Franklin Barton: By the Numbers; Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; Face of the Dragon; The Box; One for the Money; Along Came Joey; Once Upon A Time – Part I; Once Upon A Time – Part II; Not That Much Different; Six Kilos; The Big Kahuna
  • Sidney Marshall: Full Fathom Five; Strangers In Our Own Land; Tiger By the Tail; Samurai; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; The Ways of Love; No Blue Skies; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Deathwatch; King of the Hill; Up Tight

Supervising Art Director

  • Al Heschong: Samurai; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; The Ways of Love; No Blue Skies; By the Numbers; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Deathwatch; Up Tight; The Box

Unit Production Manager

  • Michael S. Glick: Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; Face of the Dragon; The Box; One for the Money; Not That Much Different; Six Kilos; The Big Kahuna
  • Robert J. Huddleston: Full Fathom Five; Strangers In Our Own Land; Tiger By the Tail; Samurai; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; The Ways of Love; No Blue Skies; By the Numbers; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Deathwatch; King of the Hill; Up Tight; Along Came Joey

Created by Leonard Freeman

Executive Producer: Leonard Freeman

Title Visualization: Reza S. Badiyi

Automobiles furnished by Ford Motor Company

Filmed Entirely on Location in Hawaii (except Once Upon a Time Parts 1 and 2)

All episodes filmed in 1968

A Leonard Freeman Production in Association with The CBS Television Network

Hawaii Five-O – Recurring Characters – Season 1

Other Recurring Characters


Richard Denning

Governor (Richard Denning)

Episodes
Full Fathom Five; Strangers In Our Own Land; Samurai; By the Numbers; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember; Face of the Dragon; Six Kilos; The Big Kahuna

 

 


Maggi Parker

May (Maggi Parker)

Episodes
Full Fathom Five; Strangers In Our Own Land; Samurai; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; Twenty-Four Karat Kill; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Deathwatch; Up Tight; One For the Money; Once Upon A Time – Part I

 

 


Morgan White

Attorney General (Morgan White)

  • Name: Walter Stuart (Yesterday Died and Tommorrow Won’t Be Born)
  • Was a Naval Intelligence Prosecutor (Yesterday Died and Tommorrow Won’t Be Born)
  • Recommended Steve McGarrett for the head of Five-O (Yesterday Died and Tommorrow Won’t Be Born)

Episodes
Tiger By the Tail; Samurai; …And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; The Ways of Love; Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won’t Be Born; Along Came Joey


Herman Wedemeyer

Lt. George Balta (Herman Wedemeyer)

Episodes
Full Fathom Five; By the Numbers

 

 


Doug Mossman

Lt. George Kealoha (Doug Mossman)

Episodes
Twenty-Four Karat Kill; King of the Hill

 

 


Gavin MacLeod

Big Chicken (Gavin MacLeod)

Episodes
…And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin; The Box