Originally Posted by Todd View Post
The casting of guest roles was rather flawed on Five-O, to say the least!

Among the problems:

1) Actor/actress is too young for the role they're playing. Martin Sheen in "Cry, Lie" was a good example.
I got one for you in this category: Katherine Cannon in "A Long Time Ago". Her character, Melissa Cole, was supposedly born in 1949 (not too far off from Cannon's real birth year of 1953). The problem ensues when she supposedly went to to high school with Danno. Even if you separated the pair by 4 years, that puts his birth year at around 1945 and puts the character at about 23 in 1968 (Season 1).

While this is possible, Danno acts like he has a bit more police experience than a single year (he has a 4-year degree from Berkeley after all according to "King of the Hill") even when considering the events in "...And They Painted Daisies on His Coffin". A direct contrast is "Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't be Born" when he has to take over when McGarrett is fighting for his life. I doubt very seriously they would put a rookie in the position of second in command at such an elite unit. The other point to be made, is that Danno was in the service at one point, a tidbit we discover in "Deadly Persuasion" (his automatic service weapon killed Harry Oakland). This is something the Army used to do and depending on the unit, still does.

When it's all said and done, the pair, in real life, were actually closer to being 15-16 years apart in age and he would have graduated high school years before she even started grade school! While it could be pulled off because James MacArthur looked younger than he was and Katherine Cannon tended to be cast in older roles, the disconnect is...nuts. By the way, the school they mention attending together was O'Fallon High...it's an all-girls school in San Francisco!