Air Cargo...Dial for Murder
Episode 79, season 4. Original air date: 11/2/71.
Whenever there's an Asian version of Hollywood Shuffle made, someone will have to note how every single recognizable Asian character actor spent time in the 70s between playing monks or railroad coolies on Kung Fu or criminals on Hawaii Five-O. Jimmy Wong (perhaps most known for his role in Seinfeld as the unhelpful restauranteur in the famous Chinese restaurant episode) has definitely played both. Early on in this episode, he's quaking before McGarrett and shivering before his superior who has implicated him in a murder stemming from their cargo-insurance scam. "Whatever happened to our inscrutable oriental?" the crime boss asks. Jimmy Wong trembles and says "You don't understand! We're on a collision course with McGarrett." The plot is pretty convoluted but it has a hilarious part about the fancy new invention of telephone answering machines, which McGarrett quickly masters to his advantage as well as a classic interrogation of the implicated secretary played by Marion Ross (who looks older here than she did on Happy Days--but not as old as the grandmother she seems to play on ever single sitcom today).
Highlight: McGarrett quoting Thoreau into the answering machine--"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
Whenever there's an Asian version of Hollywood Shuffle made, someone will have to note how every single recognizable Asian character actor spent time in the 70s between playing monks or railroad coolies on Kung Fu or criminals on Hawaii Five-O. Jimmy Wong (perhaps most known for his role in Seinfeld as the unhelpful restauranteur in the famous Chinese restaurant episode) has definitely played both. Early on in this episode, he's quaking before McGarrett and shivering before his superior who has implicated him in a murder stemming from their cargo-insurance scam. "Whatever happened to our inscrutable oriental?" the crime boss asks. Jimmy Wong trembles and says "You don't understand! We're on a collision course with McGarrett." The plot is pretty convoluted but it has a hilarious part about the fancy new invention of telephone answering machines, which McGarrett quickly masters to his advantage as well as a classic interrogation of the implicated secretary played by Marion Ross (who looks older here than she did on Happy Days--but not as old as the grandmother she seems to play on ever single sitcom today).
Highlight: McGarrett quoting Thoreau into the answering machine--"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer."
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