Episode 5.14: “The Child Stealers”
Directed by Corey Allen
Before joining previous Five-O guest star Dirk Benedict on the “Battlestar Galactica”, Richard Hatch used to kidnap babies! Hatch and fellow co-star Meg Foster play a pair of kidnappers who sell their victims to the head of an adoption company in L.A. (Richard Anderson, from the original Bionic Woman and Six-Million Dollar Man series).
Luigi’s Useless Information: No, Battlestar Galactica cast members do not count in the Spot the Trek Actors in Five-O game. Nice try anyway, cheater. However, guest star Meg Foster does add another point to our pointless game.
Episode 5.15: “Thanks For The Honeymoon”
Directed by Richard Benedict
Patty Duke proves that there is such thing as a career after child-stardom as a pregnant compulsive liar convict who decides to testify against mobster Lane Bradford (in one of his final roles) but only if she can have a penthouse apartment and be permitted to marry her beloved Larry Kent (who wins the award for Most Exaggerated Death Scene in the entire season). With babysitting time on his hands, McGarrett opts to nuzzle up to an old flame (Carol Lawrence).
Luigi’s Useless Information: Yes, that’s the same Lane Bradford guest starring in this episode that starred as Leonard Nimoy’s Martian ruler in the Republic serial Zombies Of The Stratosphere. No, a connection to Trek by association does not rule in your favor of getting another point. Deal with it.
E7pisode 5.16: “The Listener”
Directed by Richard Benedict
Robert Foxworth (a few years before Falcon Crest) guest stars as a psychiatrist who is tormented and blackmailed by an unseen crackpot (Greg Mullavy) who has cleverly wired his office, home, car, and clothes with 2-way speakers (what a clever guy). When the good doctor refuses to pay, the mysterious mental case begins to call the shrink’s patients…taunting them until they commit suicide. Real life mother and son Lisa and Radames Pera also guest star.
Luigi’s Useless Information: Robert Foxworth (who looks as if he could be Steve Zahn as Dr. Frasier Crane in The John Holmes Story in this one) counts as 1 point, folks. Come on, keep up already!
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Episode 5.17: “Here Today, Gone Tonight”
Directed by Michael O’Herlihy
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