Hawaii Five-O - The Fourth Season (1968)

Hawaii Five-0 Hits its Stride

Having watched each subsequent Hawaii Five-0 DVD official release since the First Season, this set is really the first one that doesn't come off as being overwhelmingly dated. The plots and execution of most of the episodes in the set compare favorably with the best of contemporary police dramas and the characters interact with ease and familiarity. The only caveat I would offer is a technical one: The fourth episode on disk five seems to have been mastered incorrectly. When I began playing it, I noticed interlacing artifacts whenever there was movement within a frame. I thought it might have been a problem with my equipment, but the other episodes played fine. The nearest I can tell is that the episode was encoded with reversed field dominance that could be corrected by ripping the episode and re-encoding it with an application like Apple's Final Cut. August 7, 2008

Jack Lord lives forever on these DVDs... thank you Amazon!

Having multiple seasons of Hawaii 5-0 is great, especially when there are so few shows on today that I like. Good clean drama with no killing and no off color schemes. Sex and violence are an addiction in today's culture... lets go back to the 50's - 70's. August 5, 2008

best ever

So far, the best in terms of storylines, tight editing and even music, especially after the lukewarm third season. great entertainment here if you are a fan. August 4, 2008

Best looking set yet

Season 4 has a few great things going for it:

-They tackle the most diverse set of topics yet in this season, and explore darker territory without ever resorting to exploitation........in other words it's remained a decent and noble show.
-one of the best set of episodes of any season regarding scripts and acting.
-It's the best looking picture quality yet for this series on DVD
-The actors are incredibly set in their roles and it perfectly gells in season 4
-The return of McGarrett's comic, man-of-a-thousand-faces foil, Louis Avery Filer! It's always a treat to see an episode featuring him.

This is one of the best all-around seasons of the show ever. I believe a step up from season 3 although they of course are all excellent. July 14, 2008

It gets better and better!

The show just keeps getting better and better. The video and sound quality is excellent. The discs do not feature images of the Five-0 boys as they did for Seasons 1-3, and I hope they put them back on for the remaining seasons. The more I see this show the more I respect Leonard Freeman and all of the incredible talents he brought together to make this series, - the time was right, the people were right, Hawaii and travel was still exotic and glamorous. And yet the themes in the episodes resonate today. Buy it, be there, Aloha!
The stories are getting very gritty and edgy - more of the seamy underbelly of paradise. My favorite is Skinhead, featuring an extremely creepy and frightening monster; the way the boys handle learning a certain secret shows them as very professional. The cross-exam of the rape victim makes abundantly clear how far women have come in certain respects, something often taken for granted these days. Also love Cloth of Gold, with a profoundly moving sad twist and a streak of kinky sleaze. There's a wonderful caper story in For a Million-Why Not? Both of these are terrific Danny episodes. Another great caper in 3000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu, which also shows how the death of an innocent young woman affects those close to her and the Five-0 boys. Some grisly moments in A Matter of Mutual Concern and No Bottles etc, more kink in 2Doves & Mr Heron and I Want a Gun...
Now, when is Season 5 coming out? And Season 6?... And Season 7?... July 14, 2008

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