And... all the Hawaiian girls that would come running out after Tattoo yelled "The plane.. the plane !! " on Fantasy Island. I wonder if it's only a coincidence that my wife looks Hawaiian (she's from Peru) ?? ha ha ha
@@manlor13 : The lady running on the beach, and the close-up, is/was: Elizabeth Malamalamaokalani White Logue. She was a reservation agent at Hawaiian Air Lines, a model, and part-time actress, also. She would be 80 years old, if she were still living. I'm not sure if Elizabeth got cancer, or not. There is another actress named Elizabeth Logue, which is very confusing.
@@BartBrennan-tz8hc : The woman who ran along the beach, and the close-up of her face, was Elizabeth Malamalamaokalani White Logue. She was a reservations agent @ Hawaiian Air Lines, a model, and part-time actress, also. She was 23 or 24 years old, when she was seen in the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O". I don't know if she got cancer or not. There is another actress named Elizabeth Logue, which is confusing. The HULA dancer's hips in the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O" is/was, Helen Kuoha-Torco. Helen became a business professor @ "Windward Community College"; in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
The helio shot from the beach, to the hotel, to Jack Lord, and the reverse angle with him turning around, is quite likely the greatest thing ever filmed. EVER!!!!
Apparently they edited that zoom in shot into individual sequential stills because in those pre-stabilization days the footage was too shaky from the helicopter. And it turned out to be even better than a smooth zoom in.
I can't think of any other catchphrase that is more memorable from that era or any era. I also remember "Heeeeere's Johnny" for Johnny Carson's intro each night.
The theme song brings tears to my eyes because it brings wonderful memories of my youth watching the show with Dad and Mom flanking me in the living room. They're gone now as well as the original cast this excellent series ... that's life folks.
The freeze frame on hula dancer's hips. Which is followed by another freeze frame as her hips go higher before it releases back into real time. Absolute genius editing!
A lot of younger folks won't get the extraordinary craft and skill of this intro. Back then, there was no computer software to cut, paste, sequence etc. This had to be done by hand. Extraordinary. The intro is great but the effort to get it on film was greater.
💯Agreed!! As a child, the impact this had coming into our home and becoming a part of us. I didn't even see this in color until later, few people on my block had a color tv. What a powerful part of my childhood. Wouldn't trade my generation for no other. You're right, you had to be there to appreciate how much it really meant in its original glory..
Here in 2024, I'm now 59. I sure wish we could go "back to the future" to the 1970's and just stay there !!! This was when t. v. shows were actually FUN to watch !! Shows like Hawaii 5-0, the Love Boat and Fantasy Island, were an opportunity to go somewhere exotic without leaving home. 🥰❤ I had a massive crush on Jack Lord . Very handsome man.
I believe this song has lyrics. My Mum used to have an old album of Don Ho's. This theme song was on it and was called "You can come with me"... "If you're feelin lonely... you can come with me...Put your arms around me...Laaaaay beside the Seaaaaaaaaa!! We will think of something to do. Sung in Don Ho's loungey style.
@@roquefortfiles The song was composed by Morton Stevens, who scored a number of the episodes, and recorded by The Ventures, an instrumental band. The theme had no words and nothing to do with Don Ho as an original composition.
When Jack Lord went to Hawaii to tape the show, he fell in love with the islands and moved there permanently, never moving back to the mainland. There is a mural of him at the Honolulu Intl Airport. The remake of this show wasn't bad, but really couldn't compare to the original.
@@trumancapote9097 Comparing Hawaii Five O with Dallas where the bs of the rich women wearing the most rediculous clothes is so so so unrealistically funny insult to Hawaii Five O!
This series made Honolulu and the islands the tourist spot of the world, AND the airline to take them there, United Airlines. Hawaii will always be grateful to Jack Lord and the series for what they did for the Hawaiian economy.
The original opening of Hawaii 5-0 is like watching a 60-second music video... Very slick and every image appearing and moving along to the beat of the theme song... All done manually on real motion picture film by very creative editors... unlike today with computer imaging or manipulation... Old school know-how and magic right here!
As we of a certain age say "fuck 'em, Danno". I remember my mum watching this in the seventies, and even though the programme was a bit poor (compared to some like Jim Rockford), the intro theme set us off, and we kids all wanted to be "Five-O". Now the "Five-O" is despised because black American criminals tell our children what to do and we can't stop it. At least we know that we can't be blamed for how they have conducted their lives in the last fifty-five years, but we surely will be.
We watched in the family room…everyone had their spot or chair. Maybe a throw pillow on the floor or leaning up against our giant sized round leather ottoman…good times
If anyone is interested the airplane is a United Airlines DC-8. My father was a United DC-8 pilot and of his retirement celebration in 1968 he rented a condo at the Ilikai from another pilot for a month. My mother, brother and I flew over two weeks before he retired (my dad was the pilot on that flight) and we spent the entire month there with my dad dropping in now and then for the first two weeks as he took his final flights. Especially since this show went on the air just a couple of months after that I have always connected the two.
Jack Lord on a rooftop turning to stare into the camera, so frozen that you think it's a freeze frame and then you see his hair move in the breeze. EPIC!!!!
Born in 1970 myself and had the luck of growing up in Hawaii for a spell. My dad was military so we went where he did. Hawaii, Philippines, Guam, it was wild and I swam those beaches in the opening shots. Man I wish I would have moved back when I got older..
1970 as well. I didn't watch the show much when I was a kid. My grandparents did and I do remember it being on while we were there. The theme song stuck in my head on the way home. Watched a few episodes here or there with reruns but finally after 53 years I have watched every single episode. Seasons 11 and 12 sadly we're not all that good. Even the finale was really weak but overall a Great show.
This intro is so far ahead of its time that 50 years later we still aren’t cool enough to deserve this flawless masterpiece edit: some people chose to see this comment as dunking on 1968. It’s dunking on 2023, too, guys. It’s dunking on years that haven’t even come yet. I’m saying it’s a good opening sequence. I’m not saying “good for 1968 because everything in 1968 sucked lol”. I’m saying it’s good for 2068.
Reza Badiyi was the guy who put this together. He directed episodes of a LOT of dramatic TV series in that era, and the episodes he directed always have a special richness compared to the other episodes of the series. He also came up with Mary Tyler Moore's hat toss in her opening credits.
Now THIS is the original theme music. Most of these other claims on youtube are wrong - this is it. This is the BEST intro ever in any show and probably the most iconic tv theme song. Lots of great memories.
@@mkmcclure ... let's not forget the theme songs of "The Trilogy" before the rural purge of CBS... ...that would be: ..."The Ballad of Jed Clampett" (The Beverly Hillbillies)... ...the Green Acres theme song... ... Petticoat Junction... ...I believe that all three of these songs are just as Iconic...
Still the greatest opening sequence to a TV series by miles. The beauty of Hawaii, the quick cut photography in tempo w/ the music, pretty spectacular.
Exactely. Giving you an idea what was all about (police action in Hawaii), presenting the protagonists, and all this in a spectacular & haunting way, making you anticipating for the following episode. The definition of a good intro.
I was in elementary school when this show came out. Watched it all the time. Once during a talent show in the school auditorium this kid was on stage with a drum set. He played that theme on his drum set and it was spot on! I've never heard kids cheer so loud in my life. It was awesome!
This intro is the best of all time, everything about this had every fiber in my body at attention, I remember as a kid I could not live without it, Jack lord's famous spin in the camera, I remember wishing I was jack lord, and I'm black, that brief belly dancer was my girl friend, I wanted those kids to be my friends, even the airplane I wanted to fly in,Hawaii five 0 was just epic
jake snow one of my favorite Jack Lord lines was in Season 1, “And they Painted Daisies on his coffin”, Steve McGarrett sees this punk looking at him, sunglasses on, swinging his chain. McGarrett sardonically says to him, “Unless you want to swallow that chain, you better sit down. You dig?” Epic response!! That hippie sat down. Boom! 😀😀
OMG! I think a lot of us had strong feels about this one. My 8 year old self was in love with Jack Lord (yes the turnaround). Another friend, we're in Australia mind, said his year old self thrilled to the Polynesian woman when she looks in the camera. Can a woman possibly look like that? he'd wonder.
I remember the hula dancer you referred to in the opening...eventually became a professor at one of the Hawaiian universities and had just retired when I was looking, just a few short years back.
TV themes in the 60's were great reflecting that music in general was that good. Five - 0 had pace to it that was presented in its theme. Mission impossible , I dream of Jeannie, Bonanza ,Odd couple, Star Trek, The Avengers, so many themes were SO good.
Cheers to the next 50-100 years. If its the year 2150 and you're living on this Earth, hello and don't forget to grab a delicious soda, sit back, relax and enjoy watching Hawaii Five-O To whoever reading this in the year 2150: It's me, Yonatan K. d'Esparzo. I just want to say hello, good luck, God bless you and enjoy watching Hawaii Five-O. Happy holidays and merry Christmas. We love you and are angels by God watching over you. Man I'm definitely both surprised and shocked to hear that RUclips still exists. You probably don't know what MySpace is but it was a very early social media platform. Anyway, good luck and God bless humanity if humans still happens to exist in the year 1,000,000 either still on Earth or living on an entirely different planet altogether.
@@mickpowell8503 That young lady and the running Nurses in the MASH intro were my always must see. I had and still have a crush on the front running Brunette nurse.
Oddly enough, the man who conceived of the opening sequence, Reza Badiyi, was also responsible for the opening sequence to the Mary Tyler Moore Show which was also one of my favorties.
This one and good times and Barney Miller and the Jefferson's and Love, American style and Beretta and starsky and hutch, and Dallas all in the family. All great intros.
Arguably the best tv theme song ever. The introduction video is also well done, notably the woman at about 30 seconds turning to look at the camera is so captivating and beautiful. Hawaii Five-O is one of the best police dramas ever produced. Anytime I watch episodes I'm generally glued to the tv. even after all these years.
I grew up with this show. Waiting for the cold opening's dramatic finish leading to the opening credits would always put the hair on your arms up. You WAITED for the opening credits. It gave me a chill then and still does. Absolute classic show.
All TV intros in the 60s and 70s were awesome. You can tell that a huge effort was put into its production. The intro alone is very fascinating to watch and you have to see the episode from the start or else it wouldn't be the same. Hawaii Five-O is one of those catchy themes that stood the test of time
The intros were very important, and I have have played games with my kids where we hum an intro and guess what the programme is. Even my kids know of these shows. As for modern shows?
Yup. Music has been comoditized. Not just movie music. As a teen in the 80s, already I could tell that the music from my time was lame. I had to go back to my parents' youth to find worthwhile music. It hasn't improved since then sadly. All songs sound the same on the radio these days. No wonder movie themes have gone the way of the dodo. So has the jingle. I wonder why companies spend any money on forgettable ads.
This opening made me want to become a film editor, amongst other examples of great image cutting. I really loved (love) the intercutting of the dancing hips and the waves, very witty. I became a video editor and then an audio producer, so this was part of my inspiration.
The First Felix Liether in DR NO. The proposed Captain James Kirk. I still liked Jack Lord. He could kick ass with no problem. Especially against his arch enemy
Most exciting intro ever, this is a huge memory of my childhood. Growing up in a town in middle England, this was so exotic and looking at it now it represents its era perfectly with all the "jet age" imagery. We live in very negative times these days, but this is very proud of its time, if you see what I mean.
The music on it's own is incredible, but editing the video to fit the music is art. Actual Genius. It's the single most exciting and griping intro in tv history
1967 kid, enamored w/ this show. So fun to shoot footage of an MIA/POW event yesterday here in Honolulu and seeing the female statue at the top of the stairs of the ‘Punchbowl’ Memorial and totally recognizing it from the Five-O intro!
I used to watch this show with my grandfather, it was one of his favorite shows. RIP Gramps, I'm sure you're still watch Five-O in heaven. Love you and miss you.
CroPETROforeverNBA at 7/8 years old would watch intro to see the belly dance, and that 2nd girl , all i knew at that age was, man i want that on my face
CroPETROforeverNBA I know!!!! This was the EXACT intro to the show that I saw all the time when I watched it when I was five years old, back in 1971!!! ☺
Ross Wood lol! I used to do the exact same thing at exactly that age!! It's really hilarious cuz I thought to comment that and two seconds later I read your comment. I guess it was a generational thing. Haha greetings!
Yes, still chill producing. Hawaii hadn't even been a state for ten years when this intro came on every week to let us know this exotic place had planes and technology and a police force and cool as hell Jack Lord.
Must be one of the best TV theme tunes ever. I also love the extensive use of “sunburst”, “fast cutaways” and “fisheye” shots so typical of late Sixties and early Seventies films and TV...
I can't imagine what it was like to be someone just watching television in 1968 like, I'll check out that Hawaii detective show premiering tonight, to suddenly be hit with this incredible opener. They all struck gold with this.
Oh man.... that is the BEST EVER!!! I was so crazy about that theme that when I learned to play both the flute and the clarinet at school, I played that tune over and over again, driving my parents crazy.
Love the music and intro as it reminds me of my family gathering around the TV after dinner, and after we've done our homework to watch this together:) Our time to relax and something that we all liked. ♥️♥️♥️. My Dad was gone for 1 yr on single your duty, 2 tours in Vietnam plus an extra 8 months trying to get housing at Ft Hood Tx while we were in Georgia so the simple things meant a lot to us kids.
Three moments of superb acting in this intro: 1. Jack Lord's iconic turn to the camera. His body begins the turn, then his head snaps sharply to the right to complete it. 2. Zulu boarding the ship with the shotgun at port arms. "None of you guys are going to stop me." 3. Kam Fong's intense stare into the camera. "I am the smartest guy in this room and there's no way you get away with this." Honourable mention: the freeze-frame on James MacArthur to show his blue eyes.
That Jack Lord turnaround is boss AF. I can't imagine the time and energy that went into editing this especially considering this was an age before video editing on computers.
If you're in you late 40's, 50's or older, that intro and song should give you chills!!
I watch that serie and I'm a kiddo too young
I'm not even older than this video
Yes it definitely does
Yep.
It does. Love it!
As a kid watching this series I fell in love with the hawaiian lady running on the beach and looking at the camera what a beautiful face and and eyes!
We all did!
@@manlor13 Greetings! Her name was Helen Kuoha-Torco. She croaked from cancer in 2018. I have always been mesmerized by her!
And... all the Hawaiian girls that would come running out after Tattoo yelled "The plane.. the plane !! " on Fantasy Island. I wonder if it's only a coincidence that my wife looks Hawaiian (she's from Peru) ?? ha ha ha
@@manlor13 :
The lady running on the beach, and the close-up, is/was: Elizabeth Malamalamaokalani White Logue. She was a reservation agent at Hawaiian Air Lines, a model, and part-time actress, also.
She would be 80 years old, if she were still living. I'm not sure if Elizabeth got cancer, or not. There is another actress named Elizabeth Logue, which is very confusing.
@@BartBrennan-tz8hc :
The woman who ran along the beach, and the close-up of her face, was Elizabeth Malamalamaokalani White Logue. She was a reservations agent @ Hawaiian Air Lines, a model, and part-time actress, also. She was 23 or 24 years old, when she was seen in the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O". I don't know if she got cancer or not. There is another actress named Elizabeth Logue, which is confusing.
The HULA dancer's hips in the opening credits of "Hawaii Five-O" is/was, Helen Kuoha-Torco. Helen became a business professor @ "Windward Community College"; in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
1970 kid here, watching this in 2024. It's still awesome.
This, Adam 12, SWAT.........
You can also still watch the show. It's very popular.
Still available on Streaming services. Brings back being a kid in 1969. It was a very popular song 🎵, They even played it on the radio.
I loved this show growing up. I have my ringtone as the Hawaii 5 O theme song
1970 in the house with you, friend! This intro is part of the backdrop of our childhoods!!
The helio shot from the beach, to the hotel, to Jack Lord, and the reverse angle with him turning around, is quite likely the greatest thing ever filmed. EVER!!!!
Apparently they edited that zoom in shot into individual sequential stills because in those pre-stabilization days the footage was too shaky from the helicopter.
And it turned out to be even better than a smooth zoom in.
@@vernshein5430 I don’t disbelieve you but how did you come by that information - it was an amazing shot
@@andrewshore262 Read it in an interview by the cinematographer involved.
You're so right, it's soo catchy, memorable . Makes you want to go Hawaii, almost like if it were an ad fr tourism dept
and not a single hair out of place on that head ever.
“Book him Danno” one of the most iconic catchphrase of that era!
Twerking born in that intro
I can't think of any other catchphrase that is more memorable from that era or any era. I also remember "Heeeeere's Johnny" for Johnny Carson's intro each night.
" One more thing!"@@JC-life-is-good
OMG! I forgot about that.
Greatest opening in TV history.
The theme song brings tears to my eyes because it brings wonderful memories of my youth watching the show with Dad and Mom flanking me in the living room. They're gone now as well as the original cast this excellent series ... that's life folks.
Yes, it is life. But still sad. I wish I could do it all over again. I miss the innocence and optimism of youth.
My mum loved this show, we’re in Australia
You all are so lucky.
As kids we were not allowed to watch it. "Too much violence".
Lmfao.
Compared to today.
Your story is the same as mine. Great memories - Mom, Dad and me watching the show.
@@kitkatcats3360 while watching a show that portrays murder, drugs etc ? hhahahaha
The freeze frame on hula dancer's hips. Which is followed by another freeze frame as her hips go higher before it releases back into real time. Absolute genius editing!
hypnotic --- inducing an barely escapable trance !!!
The Hula Dancer in the intro with the freeze frame then other freeze frame. Her name is Kaneohe Oahu.
The genius of Reza Badiyi. What can you say?
The Marine Corps base that's on Oahu is her name? Wow what a coincidence!@@markhicks71
@@markhicks71
No, it was Helen Kuoha-Torco
You listed a place name. :)
The most badass TV intro ever. Never gets old.
Never.
You and me both totally agree absolutely BAD ASS 👍😎
Agree. The opening credit sequence to Miami Vice was close, but Hawaii 5-O is still the best.
I totally agree.
Nothing says 'badass' like "Zulu as Kono".
This is one of the best television show intros hands down
A lot of younger folks won't get the extraordinary craft and skill of this intro. Back then, there was no computer software to cut, paste, sequence etc. This had to be done by hand. Extraordinary. The intro is great but the effort to get it on film was greater.
Papa Kohn Del, u mean they play 4 real??
("for" took too long to spell btw)
💯Agreed!! As a child, the impact this had coming into our home and becoming a part of us. I didn't even see this in color until later, few people on my block had a color tv. What a powerful part of my childhood. Wouldn't trade my generation for no other. You're right, you had to be there to appreciate how much it really meant in its original glory..
Well said :)
Very well edited intro and quite innovative - freeze frames, speed up slow down shots. Upside down shots. Cut well to the music still stands up today.
@PMW1 that escalated quickly
Here in 2024, I'm now 59. I sure wish we could go "back to the future" to the 1970's and just stay there !!! This was when t. v. shows were actually FUN to watch !! Shows like Hawaii 5-0, the Love Boat and Fantasy Island, were an opportunity to go somewhere exotic without leaving home. 🥰❤ I had a massive crush on Jack Lord . Very handsome man.
Agreed! I just turned 56. Time flies, these shows are still amazing.
I still watch old shows on DVD or downloads. Very little of today's shows get attention from me. 59 years old
Absolutely 👍 💯
People had respect for others
Jack Lord was way cool.
THIS THEME SONG IS STILL A CLASSIC AFTER 53 YEARS.
I believe this song has lyrics. My Mum used to have an old album of Don Ho's. This theme song was on it and was called "You can come with me"... "If you're feelin lonely... you can come with me...Put your arms around me...Laaaaay beside the Seaaaaaaaaa!! We will think of something to do. Sung in Don Ho's loungey style.
@@roquefortfiles The song was composed by Morton Stevens, who scored a number of the episodes, and recorded by The Ventures, an instrumental band. The theme had no words and nothing to do with Don Ho as an original composition.
@@pedegars Book me
Only Miami Vice can surpass them but M.V. was over violenced!
Better than a close runner uo, Mission Impossible with the match lighting the fuse. Lalo Schiffrin composed that one.
When Jack Lord went to Hawaii to tape the show, he fell in love with the islands and moved there permanently, never moving back to the mainland. There is a mural of him at the Honolulu Intl Airport. The remake of this show wasn't bad, but really couldn't compare to the original.
Same with the DALLAS series.
@David James I agree whole heartedly.
@@trumancapote9097 Comparing Hawaii Five O with Dallas where the bs of the rich women wearing the most rediculous clothes is so so so unrealistically funny insult to Hawaii Five O!
Wow he was my hero 😢 love 💘that show 👏❤
This series made Honolulu and the islands the tourist spot of the world, AND the airline to take them there, United Airlines.
Hawaii will always be grateful to Jack Lord and the series for what they did for the Hawaiian economy.
The original opening of Hawaii 5-0 is like watching a 60-second music video... Very slick and every image appearing and moving along to the beat of the theme song... All done manually on real motion picture film by very creative editors... unlike today with computer imaging or manipulation... Old school know-how and magic right here!
also, tv shows since then dont use more than a 10 seconds for the intro.
Oh yes, real talent, trata why I love it.
Which is why I’m gonna watch Sabotage by Beastie Boys now
Miami Vice came close to the standard in the mid-80s. Again, the local scenery played a starring role.
That's what makes it so great! This was done 55 years ago with Motion Picture film and manually!
I came here to see Jack Lord turn around with every hair in place. That's the coolest turn around ever.
Ha ha.
Hurricane proof hairspray 😂
@@loraa3873 They’re called typhoons if they’re in the Pacific.
To those people that dislike this song..."Book 'em Dano!"
Wacky Joe I don’t even know what that means.🤔
Oh, okay thanks.👍
As we of a certain age say "fuck 'em, Danno". I remember my mum watching this in the seventies, and even though the programme was a bit poor (compared to some like Jim Rockford), the intro theme set us off, and we kids all wanted to be "Five-O". Now the "Five-O" is despised because black American criminals tell our children what to do and we can't stop it. At least we know that we can't be blamed for how they have conducted their lives in the last fifty-five years, but we surely will be.
Dump them in jail and throw away the key.
Well said!👍
What a great time to be alive back then. Everybody in the living room watching.
We never missed a show, when we heard that opening intro it was just pure magic and absolutely nothing like it on TV.
You said it😎
We watched in the family room…everyone had their spot or chair. Maybe a throw pillow on the floor or leaning up against our giant sized round leather ottoman…good times
Yes those time are very golden
Still one of the BEST intro's for a TV series ever!
They can't make great shows like that any more
Correction: THE best!
@@CJ_7519 Aloha
@@glenng7085, aloha, brother🤙!
The remake of this show is truly horrible.... A total and complete insult to your intelligence.... Trust me....
Mission Impossible (Lalo Schiffrin) pretty damn good
Quite simply the greatest tv intro of all time 👍
Facts! This intro and Baretta's were the best.
Mission Impossible?
So who was the brunette in the intro?
@@BartBrennan-tz8hc Helen Kuoha-Torco. She died of cancer in 2018.
@SelenaKnight-n7h Thank you very much for your help! I was ten years old when the show started and I have never forgotten that woman to this day!.
If anyone is interested the airplane is a United Airlines DC-8. My father was a United DC-8 pilot and of his retirement celebration in 1968 he rented a condo at the Ilikai from another pilot for a month. My mother, brother and I flew over two weeks before he retired (my dad was the pilot on that flight) and we spent the entire month there with my dad dropping in now and then for the first two weeks as he took his final flights. Especially since this show went on the air just a couple of months after that I have always connected the two.
United used to offer free liquor on one's way to the islands. Ah. The good old days.
The turn around Jack Lord performs is no doubt the best ever!
Crazy zoom-in!!!
He’s also handsome
@@MasalaMamajust like Alex O'Loughlin
@@MasalaMamavery
Twerking Hawaiin girl... long before what we see today
Jack Lord on a rooftop turning to stare into the camera, so frozen that you think it's a freeze frame and then you see his hair move in the breeze. EPIC!!!!
The Jack Lord "turn" is EPIC!! So bad ass. There's nobody cooler.
He looks bad ass
@@fernmann7 I am a huge fan. The turn is epic. What an intro!! And just the slightest crack of a smile. Boss!!
Jack Lord was Elvis’ favorite actor, I mean, you can’t get any cooler than that!
@@gopmario Jack went to Elvis Hawaii concert in 72 or whatever it was.
That rapid zoom in to Jack Lord and the swift cut to him turning to face the camera. Genius.
0:15❤
I am 52 years old and the theme song still gives me goosebumps, the same as a child 😊. I love this era forever! 70's baby I was born in 1970.
Born in 1970 myself and had the luck of growing up in Hawaii for a spell. My dad was military so we went where he did. Hawaii, Philippines, Guam, it was wild and I swam those beaches in the opening shots. Man I wish I would have moved back when I got older..
Me , in 1968...
👍
Born in 1964 and this really brings back memories.
@@mkey570now it would probably cost a fortune just to rent a shack over there.....😮
1970 as well. I didn't watch the show much when I was a kid. My grandparents did and I do remember it being on while we were there. The theme song stuck in my head on the way home. Watched a few episodes here or there with reruns but finally after 53 years I have watched every single episode. Seasons 11 and 12 sadly we're not all that good. Even the finale was really weak but overall a Great show.
This takes me back to when my dad and I saw this together. He went far too soon. Miss you dad.
The coolest thing ever on TV in the 70's ...period....
When the gorgeous lady turns her head to look into camera sets my heart into overdrive along with great music
That cutie is probably now around 70, and someone's granny.
It’s Nancy kwan she’s 85 and still around and looking good I love that part too Nancy’s spectacular
One of the most recognizable and effectively dramatic intros of all time. And remains timelessly iconic.
Absolutely
Absolutely!! one of my favorite openings. Just hearing those drums roll in at the start and the hair STILL goes up on my arms.
Actually it is. Mash is second
The Hawaii Five-O theme is so catchy. I could listen to it all day.
Me too
I do !
It’s Radiobirdman’s song Aloha Steve and Danno
If you find somebody that does not like this song Steve McGarrett's going to say Book Em Danno!
Hozawbout the take from the band at University of Hawai'i ?
This intro is so far ahead of its time that 50 years later we still aren’t cool enough to deserve this flawless masterpiece
edit: some people chose to see this comment as dunking on 1968. It’s dunking on 2023, too, guys. It’s dunking on years that haven’t even come yet. I’m saying it’s a good opening sequence. I’m not saying “good for 1968 because everything in 1968 sucked lol”. I’m saying it’s good for 2068.
No TV show intro will touch this, all the intro for the show now is LAME
@@greatfullded Truth.
@cel Fake compliment alert! No intro or music is "ahead of its time." It's good or great, or it ain't.
THEM 70s
Reza Badiyi was the guy who put this together. He directed episodes of a LOT of dramatic TV series in that era, and the episodes he directed always have a special richness compared to the other episodes of the series. He also came up with Mary Tyler Moore's hat toss in her opening credits.
The song, the big wave, the turn, the wry smile. The whole thing is brilliant. Jack Lord, oh so handsome.
Now THIS is the original theme music. Most of these other claims on youtube are wrong - this is it. This is the BEST intro ever in any show and probably the most iconic tv theme song. Lots of great memories.
Mission Impossible's music is equally iconic.
@@mkmcclure ... let's not forget the theme songs of "The Trilogy" before the rural purge of CBS...
...that would be:
..."The Ballad of Jed Clampett" (The Beverly Hillbillies)...
...the Green Acres theme song...
... Petticoat Junction...
...I believe that all three of these songs are just as Iconic...
When thinking of the best TV theme song ever, I go back and forth between this, Peter Gunn, and The Jeffersons. But dang, I think it's probably this.
I LOVE THE OLD HAWAII 5.0
Yeah.. But the 5.1 is pretty sick too.
Whatevz..tomato potato..
Still the greatest opening sequence to a TV series by miles. The beauty of Hawaii, the quick cut photography in tempo w/ the music, pretty spectacular.
Exactely. Giving you an idea what was all about (police action in Hawaii), presenting the protagonists, and all this in a spectacular & haunting way, making you anticipating for the following episode. The definition of a good intro.
Monday night football intro was good too. Everything was better then. Even the wars.
Miami Vice would like a word
@@weege001 I'm willing to bet the opening to MV was inspired by this.
Yes certainly one of the best but the 6 million dollar man intro beats it for me !
Nothing beats the 70's !!! The best decade ever !!!!
I remember lying on the lounge room floor back in the 70's watching this show with my mum ..nice memories.
I would lay on the carpet in front of the tv when my mom and dad would watch this show.
Best opening theme of all time,love it when camera races up to Jack Lord,still makes my hair stand up behind my head
Itt ráisés your Hacklés you Mêan
absolutely --- Top of the I, anything you want - no comparisons ever ... Jack Lord escapes definition, Blessings !!!
I`m definitely agree with you.
I used to just WAIT for that opening shot of Jack Lord!
I was in elementary school when this show came out. Watched it all the time. Once during a talent show in the school auditorium this kid was on stage with a drum set. He played that theme on his drum set and it was spot on! I've never heard kids cheer so loud in my life. It was awesome!
This intro is the best of all time, everything about this had every fiber in my body at attention, I remember as a kid I could not live without it, Jack lord's famous spin in the camera, I remember wishing I was jack lord, and I'm black, that brief belly dancer was my girl friend, I wanted those kids to be my friends, even the airplane I wanted to fly in,Hawaii five 0 was just epic
jake snow one of my favorite Jack Lord lines was in Season 1, “And they Painted Daisies on his coffin”, Steve McGarrett sees this punk looking at him, sunglasses on, swinging his chain. McGarrett sardonically says to him, “Unless you want to swallow that chain, you better sit down. You dig?”
Epic response!! That hippie sat down. Boom! 😀😀
jake snow I dare say to add to that every woman alive wanted to be be his love interest?!
OMG! I think a lot of us had strong feels about this one. My 8 year old self was in love with Jack Lord (yes the turnaround). Another friend, we're in Australia mind, said his year old self thrilled to the Polynesian woman when she looks in the camera. Can a woman possibly look like that? he'd wonder.
I agree with you. We used to pretend we were Jack Lord spinning around with that wry smile back when we were in grade 3. 1972. No joke.
I remember the hula dancer you referred to in the opening...eventually became a professor at one of the Hawaiian universities and had just retired when I was looking, just a few short years back.
I m from France 🇫🇷 this is something I will never forget in my youth
Still crying
Too good
Still today
I mean 59
Classic. Greatest intro ever. Jack Lord was amazing and left all of his wealth to the state of Hawaii benefiting many charities today.
TV themes in the 60's were great reflecting that music in general was that good. Five - 0 had pace to it that was presented in its theme. Mission impossible , I dream of Jeannie, Bonanza ,Odd couple, Star Trek, The Avengers, so many themes were SO good.
The “Hawaii 50” intro, as well as the ending scenes capture an energy and feeling that makes it art.
Unbelievably well done.
Unbelievable editing!
And to think that this was all before computers and editing software (like the Avid editing system) existed.
THE most KICKASS Theme Song in Television History!
trha2222: Yes but I must admit that the theme from "Rawhide" comes close.
Swat theme is right up there
Miami Vice theme 1985
I think the opening theme alone might have sold the show! TV viewers in 1968 hadn't seen or heard ANYTHING like this before!
Good the bad and the ugly no debate
Cheers to the next 50-100 years. If its the year 2150 and you're living on this Earth, hello and don't forget to grab a delicious soda, sit back, relax and enjoy watching Hawaii Five-O
To whoever reading this in the year 2150:
It's me, Yonatan K. d'Esparzo. I just want to say hello, good luck, God bless you and enjoy watching Hawaii Five-O. Happy holidays and merry Christmas. We love you and are angels by God watching over you. Man I'm definitely both surprised and shocked to hear that RUclips still exists. You probably don't know what MySpace is but it was a very early social media platform. Anyway, good luck and God bless humanity if humans still happens to exist in the year 1,000,000 either still on Earth or living on an entirely different planet altogether.
One of the greatest theme songs of all time.
I am 44 years old and started watching Hawaii 5-0 this year and really like the program. I am in the 1968-1969 season currently.
"Zulu as Kono" -- one of the all-time classic TV credits!
+MKIVWWI Agreed.
MKIVWWI Kono dealing with Cop Blockers
@ MKIVWWI.... "Zulu as Kono".... my brother and I would crack-up every time....
Zulu was his stage name. His real name was Gilbert Kauhi. RIP.
Right up there with "Demosthenes" on Kojak
That turnaround at :017 makes it clear: "I'm The Man."
And the girl at :29 was a stunner
That he was.
Coolest character intro in TV history. Bar none.
@@mickpowell8503 That young lady and the running Nurses in the MASH intro were my always must see. I had and still have a crush on the front running Brunette nurse.
@@mickpowell8503 her name is a mouth full ...Elizabeth Louise Malamalamaokalani White Logue ! say that fast 5 times !
Absolutely the best intro to any TV show ...ever....from one who got to enjoy it the first time around!
Oddly enough, the man who conceived of the opening sequence, Reza Badiyi, was also responsible for the opening sequence to the Mary Tyler Moore Show which was also one of my favorties.
Uh Miami Vice nuff said
This one and good times and Barney Miller and the Jefferson's and Love, American style and Beretta and starsky and hutch, and Dallas all in the family.
All great intros.
Agree 100%. There are so many great ones, but this tops them all.
Ditto agree.
As a kid at the time, this was the coolest intro to any TV show of that time
Well, the Jonny Quest intro was pretty cool, as were the Mission Impossible and The Avengers intros 🎉
Book em Dano
It still is! The introduction is beyond legendary! It's GOLD!
Im 53 and this still bad ass !
Can you imagine the workflow to edit that? SO MANY CUTS!!! As a modern creator... nothing but respect for the production team!
Arguably the best tv theme song ever. The introduction video is also well done, notably the woman at about 30 seconds turning to look at the camera is so captivating and beautiful.
Hawaii Five-O is one of the best police dramas ever produced. Anytime I watch episodes I'm generally glued to the tv. even after all these years.
Elizabeth Malamalamaokalini Logue is her name. She is the same woman running down the beach.
The theme is not a song, it is a tune.
One of the best intro's ever, gives me heavy goosebumps, Book 'em Danno!
One of my late Dad's favorite shows.. I hear this theme and automatically think of him..
blica 1 Lovely memories. Same here
I remember lying in bed at night and hearing this on the tv downstairs...that and the Johnny Carson show lol..
+Rhythmista One of my late mom's favorite shows too, and when I hear it I automatically think of her too.
Your dad was cool.
😭😭😭 mine too
This song is part of my childhood. I remember I could not go to bed on Thursday nights until I saw this intro.
I grew up with this show. Waiting for the cold opening's dramatic finish leading to the opening credits would always put the hair on your arms up. You WAITED for the opening credits. It gave me a chill then and still does. Absolute classic show.
Iconic opening.....and jack lords iconic hair. 👍
All TV intros in the 60s and 70s were awesome. You can tell that a huge effort was put into its production. The intro alone is very fascinating to watch and you have to see the episode from the start or else it wouldn't be the same. Hawaii Five-O is one of those catchy themes that stood the test of time
True. I wonder why that art is almost completely lost now.
The intros were very important, and I have have played games with my kids where we hum an intro and guess what the programme is. Even my kids know of these shows. As for modern shows?
Yup. Music has been comoditized. Not just movie music. As a teen in the 80s, already I could tell that the music from my time was lame. I had to go back to my parents' youth to find worthwhile music. It hasn't improved since then sadly. All songs sound the same on the radio these days. No wonder movie themes have gone the way of the dodo. So has the jingle. I wonder why companies spend any money on forgettable ads.
This opening made me want to become a film editor, amongst other examples of great image cutting. I really loved (love) the intercutting of the dancing hips and the waves, very witty. I became a video editor and then an audio producer, so this was part of my inspiration.
The editing of this was unique for the time and even of the individual eps was quite fast-paced compared to the norm of those years.
Best TV theme ever. And it takes me back to my childhood, love it!
The original Hawaii 5 0 is the best! The new one can't compare !
normally the case with all these remakes.
But a hollywood bereft of ideas,to be expected.
The new one is good too. It joins the generations. My mom loved to watch this one and I watched the new one.
Featuring Jack Lord and his indestructible hair!
Catzilla "Jack Lord's Suits by Versace.
Jack Lord's Hair by Kevlar"
+Catzilla He looked top notch kicking Wo Fat's @ss.
Hair like a surfing wave
Comedians had fun with that one in the 1970s.
The First Felix Liether in DR NO. The proposed Captain James Kirk. I still liked Jack Lord. He could kick ass with no problem. Especially against his arch enemy
Still my favorite. The old Hawaii Five 0 was the best opening music ever put on TV. Thank you Mort Stevenson you did the best
I'm not sure if Mort Stevenson did the best but Morton Stevens sure did! 😉
Well, For me, It's still Mission Impossible and Streets of San Fran far as the music score itself is concerned. Hawaii 5.0 is cool tho!
RIP Don Wilson of The Ventures. Best theme song of all time.
That long zoom in to Jack Lord and his turn around - never forget it.
Shrek brought me here and Scarface cause of Paul 😂
It was on the 30th floor of The LLika Hotel as it zooms in fast as Jack Lord turns for the reverse angle shot.
That shot and the fisheye effect at the airport are the staples of this intro.
This and the Rockford Files are my favorites. But so many good theme songs in the 60’s and 70’s
The cinematography of this Hawaii Five-O footage was unmatched at this time.
Sweet Lord...this tune gave me thrills 30+ years ago,still does.
Hands down the best Theme tune.
Most exciting intro ever, this is a huge memory of my childhood. Growing up in a town in middle England, this was so exotic and looking at it now it represents its era perfectly with all the "jet age" imagery. We live in very negative times these days, but this is very proud of its time, if you see what I mean.
The head turns are epic!
0:29 Especially the Hawaiian Gal.
Anyone know who she is ?
@@johnhunter5900 shes Ms Hawaii herself!
The was a "tenseness" about the theme title - with the action, fly-overs, fast cuts... that carried into the actual show.
Brilliant.
The music on it's own is incredible, but editing the video to fit the music is art. Actual Genius.
It's the single most exciting and griping intro in tv history
Totally agree. Camera work and imagination fantastic.
I think this and Mission Impossible TV series had the two best intros ever
You have no idea whatsoever what "genius" is.
@@mja91352 I DO have an idea... and it's not you.
The editing is perfect
1967 kid, enamored w/ this show. So fun to shoot footage of an MIA/POW event yesterday here in Honolulu and seeing the female statue at the top of the stairs of the ‘Punchbowl’ Memorial and totally recognizing it from the Five-O intro!
I used to watch this show with my grandfather, it was one of his favorite shows. RIP Gramps, I'm sure you're still watch Five-O in heaven. Love you and miss you.
Hawaii Five-O's legacy continues to live on even after 50 years.
or Five-O years :)
So powerful, every part of this intro has been recorded into my brain since maybe '71..
This takes me back to my childhood in the 70's
Now go watch the intro to Good Times and the Waltons
The BEST TV theme song ever. Ever.
The 1960s were without doubt the best musical decade. The tune and film editing of this intro is superb.
Unforgettable intro to a TV series, unforgettable music by the Ventures.
I miss that time in my life. The song brings back memories of being young.
Me also after dinner all of us couldn't wait for H 5 0. My dad looked xacly like Jack Lord. Miss him so much.❤
My favorite Hawaii Five-O villian was the the big Asian guy who later in his life became a spokesperson for Jenny Craig, Whoa Fat!
BEST INTRO OF ALL TIME XD
CroPETROforeverNBA at 7/8 years old would watch intro to see the belly dance, and that 2nd girl , all i knew at that age was, man i want that on my face
What's the name of it?
CroPETROforeverNBA I know!!!! This was the EXACT intro to the show that I saw all the time when I watched it when I was five years old, back in 1971!!! ☺
Definitely hard to beat!!! Correct sync makes it even better, though.
Ross Wood lol! I used to do the exact same thing at exactly that age!! It's really hilarious cuz I thought to comment that and two seconds later I read your comment. I guess it was a generational thing. Haha greetings!
Never missed an episode, sitting on the couch with Dad, growing up in the 70's. Good, old days!!
One of the greatest themes and one of the greatest police dramas ever. Damn, the hula girl shaking it was from my childhood.
Yes, still chill producing. Hawaii hadn't even been a state for ten years when this intro came on every week to let us know this exotic place had planes and technology and a police force and cool as hell Jack Lord.
Must be one of the best TV theme tunes ever. I also love the extensive use of “sunburst”, “fast cutaways” and “fisheye” shots so typical of late Sixties and early Seventies films and TV...
Cinematography and score decades ahead of their time - in a good way. It bears repeating: Greatest TV intro ever.
...way ahead of their time.
Truth be told, I'm yet to see a TV series intro theme song and footage that tops it.
I can't imagine what it was like to be someone just watching television in 1968 like, I'll check out that Hawaii detective show premiering tonight, to suddenly be hit with this incredible opener. They all struck gold with this.
there were shows like Hawaii 5-0 before,most notably Hawaiian Eye several years prior.
Has to be the best TV theme tune ever. I can't listen to this without the hairs on the back of my neck standing up. Perfection
One of the best TV themes ever!
In my opinion,....The BEST
Oh man.... that is the BEST EVER!!! I was so crazy about that theme that when I learned to play both the flute and the clarinet at school, I played that tune over and over again, driving my parents crazy.
Love the music and intro as it reminds me of my family gathering around the TV after dinner, and after we've done our homework to watch this together:) Our time to relax and something that we all liked. ♥️♥️♥️. My Dad was gone for 1 yr on single your duty, 2 tours in Vietnam plus an extra 8 months trying to get housing at Ft Hood Tx while we were in Georgia so the simple things meant a lot to us kids.
Used to watch it every Thursday night at 9 pm with my dad😢❤😢
Growing up as a kid in the 70’s and 80’s was simply epic and understated!!” and I wouldn’t trade it for the world...”
“Book ‘em DanO!!”
1968-80...Incredible run for a show in this genre. Especially in that era.
Three moments of superb acting in this intro:
1. Jack Lord's iconic turn to the camera. His body begins the turn, then his head snaps sharply to the right to complete it.
2. Zulu boarding the ship with the shotgun at port arms. "None of you guys are going to stop me."
3. Kam Fong's intense stare into the camera. "I am the smartest guy in this room and there's no way you get away with this."
Honourable mention: the freeze-frame on James MacArthur to show his blue eyes.
That Jack Lord turnaround is boss AF. I can't imagine the time and energy that went into editing this especially considering this was an age before video editing on computers.