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** And in "Welcome to Our Branch Office", where criminals have set up a phony Five-O office with simulacra of our heroes, three of the main four are impersonated by people with similar attributes -- but the fake Danny Williams, like the ''real'' Danny Williams, is played by James MacArthur (in the end credits, "Fake Danny" is the only one of the four not listed).
* [[Actor Allusion]]: The villain of "A Bullet for McGarrett" is an American communist mole who learned his [[Brainwashing]] skills from Wo Fat while he was a POW during the Korean War. Khigh Dhiegh, the actor who played Wo Fat, had earned his first fame as the master brainwasher Yen Lo, who turns American POWs into double agents during the Korean War in ''[[The Manchurian Candidate]]''.
* [[Directed by Cast Member]]: Jack Lord, of course, who was also more or less an uncredited executive producer (especially after creator and ''actual'' EP Leonard Freeman passed away in 1973).
* [[Fake Nationality]]:
** Wo Fat, played by Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese-American Khigh Dheigh. Yes, really.