Video: '1st Hawaii Five O tv promo 1968'

(Friday, September 20, 1968, 9:00-11:00 p.m. EDT) — Hawaii Five-O, an American police procedural drama series about a special state police task force headed up by Detective Captain Steve McGarrett, debuted tonight on CBS-TV as a two-hour pilot.

The program, which debuted as a weekly one-hour series on Thursday, Sept. 26, 1968, at 8:00 p.m., starred Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Gilbert Lani Kauhi (aka Zulu) and Richard Denning.

Created by Leonard Freeman, Hawaii Five-O was shot on location in Honolulu, Hawaii, and throughout the island of Oahu and other Hawaiian islands with occasional filming in locales such as Los Angeles, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

Video: 'Hawaii Five 0 Intro'