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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]]''.
* [[Banned Episode]]: The 1970 episode "Bored, She Hung Herself" was banned after a viewer supposedly died from imitating a deadly yoga technique that looked a lot like [[Autoerotic Asphyxiation]]. The episode was barred from ever airing again, not even in syndication, and it's not included on the second season DVD box set.
* [[Fake Nationality]]:
** Wo Fat, played by Anglo-Egyptian-Sudanese-American Khigh Dheigh. Yes, really.
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