“Hawaii Five-O: Selected Research. Prepared for James MacArthur February 1993”

In August of 2025, a suitcase with memorabilia (for want of a better word) connected with James MacArthur was discovered which contained spiral-bound binders about 3 inches thick. The title page of the first one says “Hawaii Five-O: Selected Research. Prepared for James MacArthur February 1993."

The information in these binders is divided up by season, with information about specific episodes including cast, crew, production notes, a list of shooting locations and sometimes other information, like who did stunt/double work.

The information sounds like it was pulled together from various sources, perhaps an attempt to reboot the series or produce movies based on it, compiled by someone at the Five-O franchise and/or CBS.

I am putting this information on my site under the link of JM RESEARCH at the end of the TRIVIA section of reviews where it is available. Most of this information is the same as the original pages from the binders which were photographed and then converted into PDF files. (The condition of many of the pages in the binders was too fragile to try scanning them.) Some pages have the information completely retyped and formatted as HTML files, because the originals were badly damaged.

These "research" pages currently go from seasons one to eight. The pilot episode is not included, because James MacArthur did not appear in that episode.

Thanks to Debi Smolinske for providing this material. -- MQ

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