Those first pounding drums are still enough to put most of us back on the couch. A wave curls over, the camera swoops toward a lone figure on a penthouse balcony, and Jack Lord turns around as Morton Stevens’s theme kicks in. The Ventures took that theme to No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1969. Then, at the end of the hour, came the line everybody’s uncle tried at least once: “Book ’em, Danno.” Hawaii Five-O ran on CBS from September 20, 1968,…
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