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| Excellent piece Sam, thanks for posting it................
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Back in 2006 CBS originally stated they did not plan to release "5-0" to DVD anytime soon, because there were so many seasons. So, I purchased a "homemade" complete series set (of syndicated episodes) on DVD from a website.
Somehow this set includes an original broadcast version of this famous "banned", lost episode "Bored, She Hung Herself"!!  The quality is poor, and if you have a headache at the moment, I wouldn't suggest watching it then. But, it is still watchable non-the-less! It looks as if someone got a hold of an original film reel of the episode's original (1971-?) broadcast and played it against something (wall of some kind?) while filming it to burn it onto DVD's.
I'm really greatful and happy to have this episode, as I doubt it'll ever see the light of day in a restored DVD version or something. There may not be a good enough version left to make a copy from either?? Whatever the case, even though I'm buying the official "5-0" sets as they come out, I'm still happy to have this old "bootleg" set so I can have the one lost episode!
NOTE: "Hawaii Five-0" Season 11 comes out on DVD Tuesday (20th)...along with Season 1 of the new show!! 
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| What's up with this banned episode? Why was/is it so controversial?
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| Styles Bitchley wrote: | | What's up with this banned episode? Why was/is it so controversial? |
http://www.mjq.net/fiveo/5-0log2.htm
Bored She Hung Herself*1/2
Original air date: 1/7/70 -- Plot -- Opening Credits -- End Credits
Timings: Teaser: 4:42; Main Titles: 0:56; Act One: 5:35; Act Two: 14:13; Two Bumpers: 0:05 each; Act Three: 16:42; Act Four: 7:49; End Credits: 0:49; Total Time: 50:56.
This episode has never been seen on TV since the original broadcast, presumably because of an issue with some of the subject matter. One of the lead characters, Don Miles (Don Quine) engages in various hippie pursuits like yoga, natural foods, chanting "Hare Krishna" and hanging himself by the neck from the ceiling, this supposedly being yoga-related. In reality, it is more likely related to autoerotic asphyxiation. Some viewer tried this at home and died, according to Mrs. Leonard Freeman, speaking to fans at the 1996 Five-O convention in Burbank, CA. When Don's girlfriend Wanda (Pamela Murphy) is found hanging and dead, McGarrett is on the case. At first it looks like a suicide, but the coroner (played by casting director Ted Thorpe) says "It's possible she was assaulted," adding, "The victim was already dead when she was hung." Her father, psychiatrist Warren Parker (William Smithers), seems very chummy in a creepy manner to Wanda at the beginning of the show when he dries her off with a towel. He obviously has a good practice, because he is later seen driving a Jaguar XKE. Herman ("Duke") Wedemeyer appears at the crime scene as Lt. Grayson. When he shows some drugs from Don's pad to McGarrett, the Five-O boss comments "Let the good times roll!" The 13-year-old next door neighbor kid (Joel Berliner), who found Wanda hanging, is precocious, full of hip sayings like "Wanda was getting bagged all the time" and "outta sight". He describes Don as "a health freak ... he doesn't believe in dropping anything unless it's organic." The boy's father (Eugene McDunnah) was worried his son would turn into a "dope fiend" by associating with Don. When Parker gets heavy with McGarrett, McGarrett blames his problems on the "generation gap." Parker's response is to threaten to get McGarrett fired! The father of the kid next door is revealed as the real killer ... he says that Wanda "was making a big play for me ... she kept leading me on, then she turned me down." For people trying to collect a complete set of episodes, this one is the most difficult to find. There are bootleg copies of it floating around; some of them look like they were projected on a wall and filmed with a camcorder (not recommended if you are an epileptic because of the strobe-like flickering). The DVD release of season two does not contain this episode.
MORE TRIVIA:
Near the beginning of the show, Wanda's body is taken away in a Physicians Ambulance. Her corpse is not covered with a sheet, which means that when McGarrett looks in the ambulance window, he can identify her (leaving the dead body uncovered in this manner is not standard procedure -- as the ambulance drives down the street, people could see Wanda's exposed body).
Although Weatherly's alibi about the time he left his office falls apart when McGarrett and Danno point out inconsistencies between it and what the security guard at Weatherly's company said, the other big "clue" that Weatherly murdered Wanda is fragments of cashmere found under Wanda's fingernails, from when she struggled with her killer. Weatherly owns several cashmere sweaters, but how does anyone know this? Despite the mediocre quality of the bootleg prints, it does not look like Weatherly is wearing a cashmere sweater when he is being interviewed by Five-O early on in the show. He certainly doesn't bring up the fact that he owns several cashmere sweaters prior to the end.
When Weatherly makes his big confession to Five-O, his wife is nowhere to be seen.
Don and Wanda are hardly "hippies," but the usual Five-O version of what a "hippie" was like.
Don's writer friend Boswell seems to be hardly the "freak" as described by Parker or the "way-out guy" as described by Hank. He acts in a very "swish" manner, however. Boswell is uncredited and is played by director John Newland, who was allegedly gay in real life.
The title of this episode does not make any sense. Wanda is hardly "bored"!
Here are some screen captures from the episode: #1; #2; #3.
In 2010, a new bootleg copy of Bored surfaced. Interestingly, there are two cards for Viacom at the end as follows: #1 and #2. According to Wikipedia, Viacom was founded May 3, 1971. But Bored was originally aired on January 7, 1970, over a year before. So you have to wonder when did this controversy over the show which resulted in it being banned arise ... assuming that these end cards (which suggest the print was going to be used for syndication) are really supposed to be there and weren't just edited on from another print.
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| ...so I guess they're worried about being liable if someone hangs themselves after watching it? Funny, it seems pretty tame compared to today's shows - I'm thinking episodes of Law and Order or CSI.
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With the release of the twelfth season, the five-year "journey" of the original Hawaii Five-O comes to a close ("Bored, She Hung Herself" notwithstanding).
With all the attention paid to the reboot version, it's easy to forget that the classic show exists in the same universe as Magnum, P.I. and that many of the same sets and locations are used in both programs. Any self respecting MPI fan should be grabbing up Five-O 1.0, especially since Amazon routinely sells the first several seasons for as low as $11.99!
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