Hawaii Five-O – To Hell With Babe Ruth

Season 2 (Episode 2)

Air Date: 1 October 1969

Writer: Anthony Lawrence

Director: Nicholas Colasanto

Synopsis
Five-O goes after a mysterious man who robbed a military armory. They soon find out that the man is someone who is living in the past and plans to fulfill the orders that he was given at the start of World War Two.

Guest Stars
Mark Lenard (Yoshio Nagata), Will Kuluva (Yuko Takuma), Virginia Wing (Heather Nagata), Bruce Wilson (Dr. Lukens), Tom Fujiwara (Jerry Minobe), Philip Batten (Capt. Barnes), Robert Brilliande (Doc), Vincent E. Eder (Officer Naaleu), Patricia Tuscano (Jenny), Beau Van den Ecker (Security Guard)

Notable Guest Stars

Will KuluvaWill Kuluva Mark LenardMark Lenard Virginia WingVirginia Wing

Production Number: 1729-0254

Production Notes

  • Writers Guild of America, USA Nomination: Episodic Drama (Anthony Lawrence)

Episode Notes

  • Episode set on December 6 and 7, 1969

A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!

Hawaii Five-O

Season 2 (Episode 1)

Air Date: 24 September 1969

Teleplay: Mel Goldberg

Story: Paul Harber and Mel Goldberg

Director: Nicholas Colasanto

Synopsis
When a widow of a soldier killed in Vietnam is found dead, Five-O realise that it is the latest in a series of deaths of women who have died after collecting money paid to them by the armed services.

Guest Stars
Harry Guardino (Sgt. Simms), Barbara Luna (Yoko Collins), Barbara Nichols (Betsy), James Hong (James Watanu), Clarence Garcia (Lt. Fujita), Loretta Swit (Anna Stockton Shroder), Lee Andersen (Bank V.P.)

Notable Guest Stars

Harry GuardinoHarry Guardino Barbara LunaBarbara Luna Barbara NicholsBarbara Nichols
Loretta SwitLoretta Swit

Production Number: 1729-0259

Production Notes

  • Primetime Emmy Award: Outstanding Achievement in Music Composition – For a Series or a Single Program of a Series (In Its First Year Only) (Morton Stevens)

Episode Notes

  • Taxi: Grayline
  • Business: Betsy’s

Hawaii Five-O – Crew – Season 2

Art Director

  • Carl MacAuley
  • Craig Smith: A Bullet for McGarrett; Leopard on the Rock; The Devil and Mr. Frog; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny Run; Killer Bee; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

Assistant Director

  • Dennis Donnelly: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!; Savage Sunday; Sweet Terror; King Kamehameha Blues; Leopard on the Rock; The Devil and Mr. Frog; Blind Tiger; Run, Johnny Run; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder
  • Robert Rubin: Killer Bee; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II
  • Max Stein: To Hell With Babe Ruth; Forty Feet High and It Kills!; Just Lucky, I Guess; The Singapore File; All the King’s Horses; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Which Way Did They Go?

Assistant to Producers

  • James Heinz: To Hell With Babe Ruth; Savage Sunday; Sweet Terror; All the King’s Horses

Assistant to the Production Manager: Bernard Oseransky

Associate Producer

  • James Heinz: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!; Forty Feet High and It Kills!; Just Lucky I Guess; A Bullet for McGarrett; King Kamehameha Blues; The Singapore File; Leopard on the Rock; The Devil and Mr. Frog; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Which Way Did They Go?; Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny Run; Killer Bee; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye
  • Larry Stewart: To Hell With Babe Ruth; Savage Sunday; Sweet Terror; All the King’s Horses

Casting

  • Pam Polifroni
  • Brown-Murray Associates: Leopard on the Rock; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Blind Tiger

Costumes: Richard Egan

Director of Photography: Robert L. Morrison

Executive Story Editor

  • Arthur H. Singer: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!; Forty Feet High and It Kills!; A Bullet for McGarrett; The Singapore File; Leopard on the Rock; The Devil and Mr. Frog; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Bored, She Hung Herself; Blind Tiger; Most Likely to Murder; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

Film Editor

  • Jack Gleason: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!; To Hell with Babe Ruth; Just Lucky, I Guess; A Bullet for McGarrett; All the King’s Horses; Blind Tiger; The One With the Gun; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye
  • Ira Heymann: Forty Feet High and It Kills!; Savage Sunday; Sweet Terror; King Kamehameha Blues; Leopard on the Rock; Bored, She Hung Herself, Run, Johnny Run
  • Robert L. Wolfe: The Singapore File; The Devil and Mr. Frog; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Killer Bee; Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder; Nightmare Road

Location Casting: Ted Thorpe

Makeup Artist: Keester Sweeney

Music Composed and Conducted by

  • Harry Geller: To Hell With Babe Ruth; Blind Tiger
  • Mundell Lowe: King Kamehameha Blues
  • Don B. Ray: Savage Sunday
  • Richard Shores: Sweet Terror; Which Way Did They Go?
  • Morton Stevens: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!

Music by

  • Richard Shores: Forty Feet High and It Kills!; Just Lucky, I Guess; A Bullet for McGarrett; All the King’s Horses; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II
  • Morton Stevens: Leopard on the Rock

Music Editor

  • Gene Feldman: The Singapore File; Leopard on the Rock; Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Killer Bee; The One With the Gun

Music Supervisor: Don B. Ray

Production Mixer: Philip N. Mitchell

Set Decorator: Buck Henshaw

Story Editor

  • Robert Foster: A Thousand Pardons — You’re Dead!; Forty Feet High and It Kills!; A Bullet for McGarrett; The Singapore File; Leopard on the Rock; The Devil and Mr. Frog; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild!; Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny Run; Killer Bee; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

Supervising Music Editor

  • Gene Feldman: Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

Unit Production Manager

  • Robert J. Huddleston
  • Max Stein: Run, Johnny Run; Killer Bee; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Nightmare Road; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

Created by Leonard Freeman

Executive Producer: Leonard Freeman

Supervising Producer: Franklin Barton

Produced by Leonard Katzman

Title Visualization: Reza S. Badiyi

Theme by Morton Stevens

Automobiles furnished by Ford Motor Company

Filmed Entirely on Location in Hawaii

Episodes Copyright: 1969 (1-19), 1970 (20-25)

TV Ratings (USA): 21.1 (No. 19)

A Leonard Freeman Production in Association with The CBS Television Network

Hawaii Five-O – Recurring Characters – Season 2

Other Recurring Characters


Peggy Ryan

Jenny Sherman (Peggy Ryan)

  • McGarrett’s Secretary

Episodes
Forty Feet High and It Kills!; The Singapore File; Leopard on the Rock; The Joker’s Wild, Man, Wild; Which Way Did They Go?; Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny, Run; The One With the Gun; Cry, Lie; Most Likely to Murder

 


Richard Denning

Governor (Richard Denning)

Episodes
All the King’s Horses; Blind Tiger; Cry, Lie; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part I; Three Dead Cows at Makapuu – Part II; Kiss the Queen Goodbye

 

 


Harry Endo

Che Fong (Harry Endo)

Episodes
Blind Tiger; Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny, Run; Most Likely to Murder; Nightmare Road

 

 


Ted Thorpe

Doc (Ted Thorpe)

Episodes
Bored, She Hung Herself; Run, Johnny, Run; Three Dead Cows At Makapuu – Part 1; Three Dead Cows At Makapuu – Part 2

 

 


Khigh Dhiegh

Wo Fat (Khigh Diegh)

  • Chinese Agent

Episodes
Forty Feet High and It Kills!; A Bullet for McGarrett