H50: A Death in the Family (Clip 1 of 3)

[MissGreenAgain]

Chin Ho looks real skinny here. Is that Reni Santoni there?

[hawaiifo9]

@MissGreenAgain .....it's Reni santoni indeed ...

[mcgarrettlover105]

awwww...... when steve cried i cried. :(

[mcgarrettlover105]

yah i saw the vid on here i wish i could see all the episode.

[storrs19]

Jack Lord was a perfectionist which is part of the reason Hawaii Five-O is such a great show. Lucille Ball was the same way. Both were very tough to work with but that is what made them great. Nice to have 10 seasons on dvd now and hopefully the final two will be out within the next year. I really wish they would include "Bored, She Hung Herself" as well so we adults can watch the program.

[StukInBuf]

Hard to believe that now all the Five-O leading men(Messrs. Lord, Zulu, Fong, and now MacArthur) are all gone.

The signposts we've grown up with have all gone away...

[EchigoDragon]

Don't show Daniel Dae Kim this clip!

[sapphiretaurus]

It breaks my heart to see those last few seconds when McGarrett vows vengeance, and holds back tears. It shows what a great actor Jack Lord was.

[bobbya16]

I watched 5-0 from the time it first aired.. I was 16 when this episode came out and I remember how devastated I was that Chin Ho was killed...to me the show was never the same even though it lasted two more seasons...

[PinkysHouse]

think it is the sadest one

[woohooboy]

The decision to kill off the character of Chin Ho Kelly was a very unusual and dramatic step since tv characters were seldom killed off in those days. More often than not, they were written out or replaced quietly with no word given on screen to the change that's taken place....

Nowadays, the death card is something tv producers and writers often use to either boost ratings or shake things up.....

This was well handled and made all the more poignant with moving performances by the whole cast.

[mcgarrett11]

The reason this episode is no longer seen in current syndication packages is because when Paramount digitally remastered a new set in 1997, they only remastered 209 episodes out of 278. This episode was NOT one of them, for whatever reason.

[Neville6000]

@mcgarrett11; Another episode you won't see anymore, in syndication or on DVD, is 'Bored, She Hung Herself', simply because it has a scene where a woman hangs herself when doing a yoga move. Apparently, somebody can strangle themselves by doing the move, so it can't be seen any more.

[misterspiffy2008]

William Shatner once said that Jack Lord was offered the lead role on the first Star Trek series. They gave it to Shatner because Lord would have wanted Star Trek shot in Hawaii.

[childofthemarshalsea]

I heard Lord was asking too much money to play the role. I don't think it was for the reason you mentioned because Jack Lord moved to Hawaii when he accepted the role of Steve McGarrett but they didn't start filming H50 until 1967, one year after Star Trek was already on the air.

[kkirves]

@misterspiffy2008

FYI..

Kam Fong, the actor who played Chin Ho Kelly, was a retired Honolulu Police Officer prior to Hawaii 5-0

[Amber474]

@misterspiffy2008:

(cool name, btw ^_^) Is that for real, the whole Hawaii thing? If so.... LOL. Jack Lord was so full of himself

[sapphiretaurus]

@Amber474 No, that was not true. Jack Lord was not full of himself, but a good businessman. He wanted a 50% ownership of the show (Star Trek).

[d4seasons]

@misterspiffy2008 j. lord was great. sad that he died in 1998. i went to hawaii in 1986 & while attending a luau i had my picture taken w/ the host & actor who used to be on hawaiian-eye & hawaii five-O. i believe in 1990 CBS offered lord to reprise his role to do a tv movie on hawaii five O. his wife said jack just wanted to play golf & be left alone. the newspapers stated cbs cannot book him. it would have been fun. lord also played the first felix on james bond's dr. no. enjoy.****

[sapphiretaurus]

@misterspiffy2008 Not true. That was in 1966, when he wasn't even living in Hawaii, and Hawaii Five-O was not even an idea in the producer's mind. Jack wanted a 50% ownership of Star Trek, from what accounts say.

[jksonny]

Is David Caruso's 'CSI' character a semi-parody of Steve McGarrett? They seem very similar.

[Razza1091]

OMG! I never knew Chin Ho gets killed. I'm only on the second series. This was a shock.

Thanks for uploading.

[storrs19]

Thanks so much! I have never seen this episode since this show is not aired any more. What a sad ending for Chin Ho Kelly.

[StukInBuf]

It is said that Jack won 2 emmys for his McGarrett role. Was this season, namely this epi, one of them?

[StukInBuf]

All these years, never having watched the episodes on CBS(I was only a kid), and hardly ever seeing this season's reruns... I always thought Chin Ho had retired from the force. Man, this jolts the mind!

Mcgarrett11... Thanks a million, from chilly and subzero wind-chilled Buffalo!

And Jack Lord in his McGarrett role, what a legend! I'm sure Ricardo Montalbán and he are reminiscing over the epi's in "Five-O" they did together in TV heaven!