![]() Enterprise, and stationed at Coronado at some point in his career and was known by the nickname " Smooth Dog". It was mentioned that he has been deployed to Afghanistan, Iraq and North Korea, served on board the U.S.S. His time in the military is largely unknown due to the highly classified nature of most of his missions. Your superiors say that you are the best they have ever seen." Steve graduated from BUD/S Class 203 at the top of his class. Governor Pat Jameson once outlined his resume: " Amphibious, five years Naval Intelligence, six years with the SEALs. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy and went on to have a distinguished career. Arizona during the attacks on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Steve is a third-generation Navy veteran and was named after his late grandfather, Ensign Steven McGarrett, who perished on the U.S.S. Evidenced by his friendship with Mamo Kahike and the deference shown to him by Kapu leader, Kawika and Kamekona Tupuola, who affectionately call him "the big kahuna". Although a haole, Steve is accepted as kama'aina as he was born and raised on Hawaii, respecting and embrace the local culture, and can even speak "bird" (Hawaiian Pidgin). In the Season 6 episode Ka Pohaku Kihi Pa'a / The Solid Cornerstone, Steve admitted that he deeply regretted not patching things up with his father when he had the chance to.Īfter returning to Hawaii, McGarrett moved into his childhood home on the beach, where his father still lived in after the break-up of their family. This led to a decade-long period of estrangement between John and his children, as Steve and was in BUD/S in 2000. ![]() Mary went to live with John's older sister Debora, and Steve was sent to the Army and Navy Academy in California for his junior and senior years. This prompted his father John to send him and his little sister Mary away to the mainland for their own safety. A star quarterback, he attended Kukui High School when his mother Doris was murdered in a staged car accident in April 1992 when Steve was fifteen. It holds up as one of the high water achievements of television drama.Steve had a happy childhood and enjoyed spending time in the garage watching his father fix the his 1974 Mercury Marquis. Three cheers for "Hawaii Five O" and the people behind it. ![]() To manage to pull this off for so many years was a remarkable achievement. You can't give a police detective show a much higher compliment than that. Many times things were so interesting that the hour long show seemed to be over almost as soon as it started. And each episode was directed and edited with crispness and energy that kept everything moving and wasted no screen time. And McGarett and his staff would scramble against a deadline to understand the gimmick and solve the mystery or the heist or the caper before the 'bad guys' could get away with whatever they were planning. The screenplays always played fair with the audience, and almost always featured extremely clever plot devices, gimmicks or MacGuffins that made you admire the deviousness and ingenuity of the characters who were trying to do bad things under Five-O's watchful eye. H50 episodes had remarkably tight and internally consistent plots and screenplays. But the thing that sets Five O apart in my mind, is that whoever was in charge of story and script quality really knew their stuff and were allowed to do their job. The series creator took a chance and had Jack Lord play McGarrett as a hard-nosed, hard-driving tough guy instead of a "Teddy bear" type, but this worked because McGarrett was so obviously committed to his job and to "Law And Order" that his brilliance and energy won the audience over, and in fact made them like him even more than if he had been played as a "Basil Rathbone Sherlock Holmes" character. It had a lot a factors going for it : Spectacular opening and closing credit sequences, a grabber of a theme song, exotic locations, a charismatic lead actor who had great hair and knew how to work it, and a racially diverse and intriguing supporting cast. ![]() Although the plots and stories trailed off a little in quality near the end of the series, 'Hawaii Five O' in its prime was a remarkable example of how to do a television show right.
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