Well here's
Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise (4.13), airing on
December 14th, 1971. I didn't expect to get to this one for awhile, but as Sam reminded me he already looked into this episode back on
page 26 of this thread. When I saw that this was the next episode in my list, I neglected to look at my notes.
The estate is briefly seen in this episode, but only in stock footage from past Hawaii Five-O episodes.
From 28:58 to 29:02 the security guard and guard dog footage from
The Gunrunner is seen (click for larger version):
If the shot were continued, the guard would take another step and "the Gunrunner's" wife would turn on the light seen in the screen shot below from
The Gunrunner. But in
Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise they cut to a shot of a different home before the guard takes that step.
When the show cuts to the different home, a man comes in the night and murders the owner of this different home. Then (presumably the next morning), the Anderson Estate reappears at 32:37, when McGarrett comes to investigate the murder. But what we actually see from 32:37 to 32:46 is stock footage from
Sweet Terror, as Sam pointed out. In the car are four bad guys from Sweet Terror, not McGarrett as the show is implying. In fact, even when the show originally aired, a sharp eye could have noticed one person in the back seat wearing a light colored wide brimmed hat, when McGarrett should have been the lone person in the car.
This is really getting down to the nitty gritty now, but I'm nothing if not a stickler for details. This stuff is important right?
From 32:45 to 32:52 the camera is in the car with McGarrett, and it looks almost identical to what's seen in
Sweet Terror, but it's actually slightly different. I'm thinking that for some reason in
Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise they chose to use footage that was an alternate take of the in car footage made for
Sweet Terror. It's kind of neat really, as I think we're getting a bit of insight into how they made the show and how they selected which takes to use. I'd say they chose the right take the first time, for use in
Sweet Terror. The mirror isn't in the way as much as it is in
Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise (the mirror is there in
Sweet Terror, just hardly visible in the screenshots). I wonder what Jack Lord thought of having to go back to the other end of the driveway to take another shot. Probably just a normal day of working in television for him.
Sweet Terror:
Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise:
If you're still reading this, we then get to 32:53 to 32:57, where McGarrett pulls up opposite the door used as the front door in Magnum P.I. This is the same footage that was used in
Sweet Terror:
That's it for this episode. I wonder why they didn't make entirely new shots at the house they actually used for the murdered man. I guess since all this totals a mere 24 seconds, it wasn't a big deal, especially for a television show in 1971.
Next up will be
Death's Name is Sam.
