Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)

Hawaii Five-O (with a capital letter "O" as the last character in the title) is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and created by Leonard Freeman (not to be confused with Hawaii Five-0, with a numeral zero as the last character in the title). Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons on CBS from September 20, 1968, to April 8, 1980, and continues in reruns. At the airing of its last episode, it was the longest-running police drama in American television history and the last scripted primetime show that debuted in the 1960s to leave the air.[lower-alpha 1]

Hawaii Five-O
Genre	Police procedural
Created by	Leonard Freeman
Starring	Jack Lord James MacArthur Kam Fong Gilbert Lani Kauhi Al Harrington Herman Wedemeyer William Smith Sharon Farrell Moe Keale Doug Mossman Danny Kamekona
Theme music composer	Morton Stevens
Opening theme	"Hawaii Five-O Theme" by Morton Stevens
Ending theme	Same as above
Composers	Bruce Broughton John Cacavas James Di Pasquale Harry Geller Ernest Gold Les Hooper Jerrold Immel Mundell Lowe Don B. Ray George Romanis Pete Rugolo Walter Scharf Richard Shores Fred Steiner Morton Stevens
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	281 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Leonard Freeman Philip Leacock Leonard Katzman Bill Finnegan[1]
Production locations	Honolulu, Hawaii
Running time	42–49 minutes
Production companies	Leonard Freeman Productions CBS Productions
Release
Original network	CBS
Original release	September 20, 1968 (1968-09-20) – April 5, 1980 (1980-04-05)
Related
Hawaii Five-0 (remake series)

The show starred Jack Lord as Detective Captain Stephen "Steve" McGarrett, the head of a fictional state police task force in Hawaii. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes in the series would end with McGarrett's catchphrase, "Book 'em!"