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Got my 2nd season today and with the controversial episode(for those times) missing and other episodes edited, come on Paramount, not good. Don't get me wrong. I love the show but I wish they would speed up the release times and stop messing with the original versions. Like previous post, 5 stars but only gets 3 because it's an incomplete set. I'm still excited to add it to the collection though.
The Salt Lake City area has a local station, KPNZ I think, that had been playing 2 episodes/night(8pm,9pm Mon-Fri ish) for awhile now (past year or so), but up until lately they had discontinued it and replaced it with stupid info-commercials and other lame shows. The lineup use to be Hawaii Five-0 at 7pm, then an hour of Magnum PI and then another hour of Hawaii Five-0. That was some sweet programming. At least I could get my Hawaii Five-0 fix before they started coming out on DVD.
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Corporations listen to lawyers. Okay, a missing episode. That's frustrating. But editing down episodes? I think that someone who is bored might hang themselves after reading the disclaimer at the bottom of the box.
I will be returning this set.
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You have got to be kidding!!! To include edited versions of unidentified episodes of "Hawaii Five-O" and exclude the individual episode, "Bored, She Hung Herself", on this second season set is completely egregious. Shame on the cheap, uncaring, and myopic people at Paramount and Amazon. What kind of encore will be performed for distribution of season 3? Commercials inserted into the episodes? How about no ending credits for each episode? I am not impressed at all.
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While Hawaii Five-0 is a terrific show, I can't give this set the five stars it deserves. I am a completist. When I start a collection of DVDs, I want to see every show in the series. This collection leaves out the 16th episode "Bored, She Hung Herself". I have never seen this lost episode (it aired only once). I understand that the content of the episode is disturbing as it pertains to events that have occured today. Isn't this exactly what T.V. portrays. All you have to do is look at Law and Order, CSI, NYPD Blue and the myriad of shows that portray the ugly crimes of today in much more grandor and grotesque imagery. We do not censor the violence, nudity, language and sex of these programs. I could be wrong, and this episode may indeed be too graphic or disturbing to see the light of day, but our kids watch far worse in their cartoon selections on a daily basis and in their video game choices. This show was not meant for kids. It is adult programming, and we should be given the opportunity to decide for ourselves what shows we should watch. All this set needed was a disclaimer or warning about this episode. It makes me wonder how many other episodes of Hawaii Five-0 will be cut, and what are the reasons for these. After all, censorship was tougher in the sixties than today, and this episode did air. I believe that this sort of censorship is appalling, unless we are going to do the same to every show in existence today. Five-0 fans want every episode. Listen to us.
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FIVE STARS for HAWAII FIVE-O Season 2.
WHAT'S RIGHT with this set???
1) Almost all of the "This is Jack Lord....be here, aloha" promos are INCLUDED. There isn't one for "TO HELL WITH BABE RUTH" on disc one, but so far I haven't found any others "missing". This means either a) the powers that be actually LISTEN to our suggestions, b) that these promos DON'T exist for season one, or c) both A & B are true! Each disc contains the four promos for the episodes on that disc, accessable in a set from the main menu OR viewable PRIOR to the appropriate episode. You can also "skip" the PROMO and just watch the episode. They do NOT appear between the show and the end credits/theme, but rather at the START of each matching episode. Maybe for season THREE the producers could "plug" them into the preceding episode in their correct place (HINT--see above letter "a").
2)Once again AUDIO and VIDEO quality is excellent. Menu design is easy to use. Packaged in slim line cases inside a slipcase box, 6 discs, 24 episodes. Well packaged and produced.
What's WRONG with this set??
1) The episode BORED, SHE HUNG HERSELF is NOT included, only a footnote on the back of the box as noted by other reviewers. As lamentable as this may be, dare I say one can understand the probable reluctance of the legal department to include an episode which might "give people bad ideas". It only takes one nut with a lawyer to make things bad for all of us and heaven knows there's no shortage of either nuts or lawyers in this day and age!
2) Certain, unspecified episodes may be edited. You may be able to tell which if you carefully watch your DVD timer. But, unless you've got a fantastic memory of every episode as it aired nearly forty years ago, will you really miss a few seconds here and there?? After all, the episodes are ENJOYABLE in syndication, so why not just ENJOY THEM on DVD (without the annoying commericials!). Sure, it would be NICE to have them complete and unedited as they were back in 1969-70, but I'd rather have an "edited" version than NO version at all! Episodes run 51 minutes each (except those edited few!). I haven't watched them all, so I don't yet know WHICH episodes are edited, but ALL EPISODES on discs one and two are full length, 51 minutes. Perhaps I'll update this later with more time info if I can figure out which are edited!
IN CONCLUSION: Worth the price of admission. Still, in my opinion, the BEST police show ever with far and away the BEST theme music of any TV show, anywhere! Just ENJOY the great TV and try not to think about what's "missing!"
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