Hawaii Five-0 – “King Kamehameha Blues”

Hawaii Five-0 Season Two DVD

Original Air Date: November 12, 1969
Starring: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Randall Duk Kim
Directed by: Barry Shear

Cat Out of the Bag Alert!  This review contains spoilers for this episode!

Synopsis: A group of young college students decide to break into the Bishop Museum and steal King Kamehameha’s cloak just for kicks.

Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): The students stage a test run to find out how quickly the police will arrive on the scene. Eddie (Randall Duk Kim) gets up on the roof of the museum and bypasses the alarm over a skylight so he can cut the wire and open it up. Once done he picks up a white cat which he has stashed aside. The cat, which has one blue eye and one yellow eye, is wearing a makeshift harness.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam with blue and yellow eyes on roof in harness

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam on roof in harness with Eddie Randall Duk Kim

Eddie lowers the cat, whose name is Sam, down into the museum by a rope attached to the harness. The cat meows on the way down and looks nervous.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam in harness being lowered through skylight by Eddie Randall Duk Kim

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam being lowered through skylight in harness

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam meowing while being lowered through skylight in harness

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam being lowered through skylight in harness filmed from below

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam being lowered by rope in harness

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam meowing while being lowered by rope in harness

Eventually Sam gets to the floor (a little roughly) and climbs out of the harness. Earlier one of the other students had thrown a little catnip pouch onto the floor where the cloak is displayed.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam steps out of harness on floor of museum

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam on museum floor

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam looking around museum

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam in museum

As Sam steps onto the floor around the exhibit an alarm goes off. But when guards and police appear moments later the cat is nowhere in sight.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam stepping into museum exhibit

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - white cat Sam approaching catnip pouch on museum exhibit

McGarrett (Jack Lord) and Danno (James MacArthur) arrive on the scene but everyone is clueless as to how the alarm was triggered. Kono (Zulu) then approaches carrying Sam. McGarrett smiles as they approach.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - Kono Zulu approaches group with white cat Sam

“Look what I found behind Queen Emma’s silverware. And I thought I knew all the cats on the island,” Kono smiles, handing Sam to McGarrett.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - Kono Zulu holding white cat Sam

Danno (James MacArthur) asks if McGarrett still wants him to find out who triggered the alarm. “No,” McGarrett says, handing Sam to him, “Take him downtown and book him for trespassing. Read him his rights and give him some milk and catnip.”

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - McGarrett Jack Lord holding white cat Sam with Danno James MacArthur

Danno laughs as McGarrett hands him the cat but Chin Ho (Kam Fong) isn’t laughing. Danno hands the cat to Chin, who then passes him back to Kono. “You heard what he said! Book him!”

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - Chin Ho Kam Fong holding white cat Sam

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - Kono Zulu holding white cat Sam

At least two cat actors played the part of Sam, because in this latter scene he has two blue eyes.

Hawaii Five-0 - King Kamehameha's Blues - Chin Ho Kam Fong holding white cat Sam

Final Mewsings: What happened to the catnip pouch?

Many thanks to Jerry Otwell for letting us know about the cat in this episode!


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