The Season 5 fun continues with an STD-related murder in “Chain of Events” and Danny battling a case of amnesia in “Journey Out of Limbo”.

In my “Chain of Events” discussion, I talked about how the local station that I watched Hawaii Five-O on would always skip this episode and so the first time I watched it was for the podcast. However, if I’d checked out this episode in Karen Rhodes’s fabulous book Booking Hawaii Five-O (which I often forget to do because I’m a dumbass), then I would have also mentioned that this episode faced censorship in Hawai’i during its initial airing…because of politics.

At the time, Herman Wedemeyer…aka Duke…was running for re-election as the 12th district rep in the State House of Representatives. His opponent, Shirley Sax, claimed that his appearance in the episode meant that she should get equal airtime under an FCC regulation in place at the time. As a result, the episode wasn’t aired in Hawai’i. For the record, Duke is only in the episode for about 63 seconds and only has one line. Hope it was worth it, Shirley!

Anyway, here’s a pic of Dirk Benedict from the episode. He gets my vote.

“Journey Out of Limbo” has a trigger warning for animal death both in the episode and in the discussion. However, my discussion of it does go off the rails because I am weird. Gird your loins accordingly.

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In conclusion, I was rather verbose in this episode for some reason and it made editing a real bitch.

So, here’s a picture of Danny in his amnesia recovery Aloha shirt.