# Hawaii Five 0 Intro!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2010, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237 "2010-08-24T02:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/21 "2010-08-24T07:47:29Z")
For comedies you can’t top [Get Smart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMj5LuT5hk). ---
**Author:** ![devilsknew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4da419/32.png) [@devilsknew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/devilsknew)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/22 "2010-08-24T08:04:04Z")
[Barnaby Jones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR_bXPPB7jw) [Rockford Files](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8EUrtEhfM&feature=related) [Kojak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z-3vP9HQ-E) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/23 "2010-08-24T08:20:45Z")
It didn’t have much action, but [The Name of the Game](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-xExiIxS48) had good theme music and interesting graphics. There were a lot of good themes for western shows. [The Virginian](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWet2qgieVc&feature=related) and [Rawhide](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl2fONPgIJE) were two of the best. [Peter Gunn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqd7kXrzpdM) is probably better remembered for its theme than for the show itself (the theme starts at about 1:33 in this clip). The theme to [Secret Agent](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4) became a top 40 hit for Johnny Rivers. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/24 "2010-08-24T09:13:51Z")
One of my all time [favourites](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xez4o1ujOPI). ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/25 "2010-08-24T10:16:27Z")
Nobody remembers [Mannix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzN7e6kN-w&feature=related). Another Lalo Schifrin original plus panties and a cool, hip black secretary. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/26 "2010-08-24T10:46:37Z")
I had an argument with a friend once that this show really existed or was it just a false childhood memory. Cool McCool [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ait8WKjryGI/hqdefault.jpg "Cool McCool - opening titles") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ait8WKjryGI) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/27 "2010-08-24T14:36:34Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > For comedies you can’t top [Get Smart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMj5LuT5hk). I’ve got the DVD boxed set. And the theme (longer, with more elements than the version in the TV show) is in my Spy Tunes playlist in iTunes and my iPod. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/28 "2010-08-24T14:45:49Z")
Going back to the OP: The first face you ever see you see in the first scene of “Hawaii Five-O” belongs to Soon-Tek Oh, who played several different Yellow Peril characters during the run of the series. He played one of Wo Fat’s lab technicians. In the pilot intro, the fraction of a second ominous music that you hear when the music starts is the end of a musical rendition of a scream. If you’ve seen the ep, you’ll understand, but basically it’s coming from a guy who is been subjected to many hours of sensory deprivation and has gone nuts. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/29 "2010-08-24T14:49:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > > [@Manduck](#): > > > > For comedies you can’t top [Get Smart](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvMj5LuT5hk). > > I’ve got the DVD boxed set. > > And the theme (longer, with more elements than the version in the TV show) is in my Spy Tunes playlist in iTunes and my iPod. A spy tunes playlist? fun idea. Then I’d have to start on my classic western playlist. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/30 "2010-08-24T14:52:34Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Nobody remembers [Mannix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzN7e6kN-w&feature=related). Another Lalo Schifrin original plus panties and a cool, hip black secretary. My Dad never missed it. [Rockford files](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8EUrtEhfM)for me. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/31 "2010-08-24T14:54:28Z")
> [@Shawn1767](#): > > Sorry, but yours doesn’t have a mummy, hovercraft, personal jets, laser cannons or a spider robot. > > My vote for best intro: > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88g1vCydZk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D88g1vCydZk) The Venture Bros. intro is a great homage and spoof of this. I can’t find it online. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/32 "2010-08-24T15:16:30Z")
Kam Fong as Chin Ho. Why? ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/33 "2010-08-24T15:29:22Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > A spy tunes playlist? fun idea. _ **Secret Agent Man** _, Johnny Rivers _ **Peter Gunn** _, Henry Mancini _ **Get Smart** _, Billy Strange _ **The James Bond Theme from ‘Dr. No’** _, John Barry _ **I Spy** _, Earle Hagen _ **The Pink Panther Theme** _, Henry Mancini _ **A Shot In The Dark** _, Henry Mancini _ **The Man From U.N.C.L.E.** _, Paul Brooks _ **Mission: Impossible** _, Lalo Schifrin _ **Baby Elephant Walk** _ (from _Hatari_), Henry Mancini (Not a ‘spy tune’, but it wouldn’t fit in another playlist.) _ **Casino Royale** _, Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass _ **James Bond Lives Down Our Street** _, Toy Dolls EDIT: I’ve just moved _ **Hawaii Five-O** _ by The Ventures into the Spy Tunes playlist. (It’s also in my Beach Music playlist.) . ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/34 "2010-08-24T17:12:30Z")
The Rat Patrol [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/0ZcbifYqpGc/hqdefault.jpg "The Rat Patrol Intro theme") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZcbifYqpGc) (note the compression covers on the end of the M-2s to make them function with blanks) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/X34OFJpnRwE/hqdefault.jpg "The Rat Patrol FULL Opening With Sponsor ID: Camel Cigarettes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X34OFJpnRwE) (the full version from later in the series) or Super Chicken [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FKss2pBYQ6Y/hqdefault.jpg "The Super Chicken Cartoon Theme Song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/35 "2010-08-24T21:48:22Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Nobody remembers [Mannix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzN7e6kN-w&feature=related). Another Lalo Schifrin original plus panties and a cool, hip black secretary. Something really weird happens in the middle of the sequence, when the letters “M-A-N-N-I-X” start appearing on the screen – the music completely fails to match up thematically with what’s going on on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/36 "2010-08-24T21:56:17Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > > [@Biggirl](#): > > > > Nobody remembers [Mannix](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUzN7e6kN-w&feature=related). Another Lalo Schifrin original plus panties and a cool, hip black secretary. > > Something really weird happens in the middle of the sequence, when the letters “M-A-N-N-I-X” start appearing on the screen – the music completely fails to match up thematically with what’s going on on screen. That’s because the music slows down just about then. That’s when they should have been showing the panties and the cute secretary. They should have hired me to do the title sequence. The only reason why they didn’t is probably because I was two at the time it was made. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/37 "2010-08-24T23:12:32Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Kam Fong as Chin Ho. Why? Sung very approximately to the tune of the song at the beginning of _Ghost World_: Kam Fong as Chin Ho Zulu as Kono Book 'em, book 'em, Dano On Hawaii Five-O! ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/38 "2010-08-24T23:34:30Z")
> [@kopek](#): > > or Super Chicken > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKss2pBYQ6Y) LOL forgot about that one. Loved it. Sang it fr years. George of the Jungle and Tom Slicj wasn’t bad either or theme from UnderDog. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/39 "2010-08-25T00:05:08Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > or theme from UnderDog. Have you heard the [Butthole Surfers version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVLiuto5Ec)? ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2010, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237/40 "2010-08-25T00:41:25Z")
“Miami Vice” is my all time favourite, while I admit it is obviously influenced by Hawaii Five-0. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hawaii-five-0-intro/551237.md?page=3)