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45 years ago, Danno booked ’em for the last time, when Hawaii Five-O aired its final episode. The show — which starred Jack Lord as tough-as-nails Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, who headed up a special police task force that rooted out organized crime and espionage in the Hawaiian islands — debuted in 1968, making it the last scripted 1960s drama still on the airwaves when it took its final bow. The show made Lord a superstar and familiarized many viewers with Hawaii, which had only become a U.S. state in 1959, and its impact is still being felt today, in...

A suspect was arrested in his nursing home last week for the unsolved murder of a 16-year-old student nearly half a century ago.Nearly five decades after her partially clothed body was discovered on the second floor of her Honolulu high school, modern DNA testing has led to an arrest that could solve the cold case murder of 16-year-old Dawn Momohara. Momohara, discovered with an orange cloth wound tightly around her neck, was found on the second floor of the English building at McKinley High School in Honolulu on March 21, 1977. She was a sophomore at the school at the...

This week's feature is a classic western featuring cinema great and conservative Republican actor Gary Cooper. It's great to see him and Steve McGarrett battling each other 10 years before Jack Lord ever said "Book 'em Danno."

Many years ago, Bill Murray on Saturday Night Live did a great game show skit called "quien is mas macho." That stood for, "who is more macho." As I recall, Lloyd Bridges was considered as were Ricardo Montalban and Jack Lord. Here is the FReeper game show: WHO IS MORE DISGUSTING? --- quién es más repugnante First contestants: quién es más repugnante.... Miguel Moore o El Blob? Miguel Moore El Blob ========================================== Please add you own contestants.