Tonight 50 years ago, CBS aired S03E22 "The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney".

I going to do my best with a quick recap but Mr. Mike excels in this arena so much better than I. Here's his review: http://www.fiveohomepage.com/5-0log3.htm#70

The Bomber (Mark Jenkins) is Marty Collins but we don't know this right away. He walks into Iolani Palace and politely asks for Danno. The greeter, Diane (Terrill Kekoolani) tells him the Five-O offices are on the second floor.

Inside the office, an old lady named Mrs. Moroney (Hope Summers) is griping to Chin about being forced to move back to the mainland by her children who believe she shouldn't be on her own at her age.

Marty walks in and takes everyone hostage when Jenny (Peggy Ryan) doesn't tell him what he wants to hear. Marty is all about getting Danno and demands that he show up sooner rather than later. An unsuspecting police officer, Officer Kyle (Vernie Hoke) walks into the situation just as things are going from bad to worse. All the while, Marty is have dream sequences where Danno is shot four time and falls back. (These sequences made me crazy and I think they did it four times, but I know three for sure. Two would have been plenty).

The group eventually moves into McGarrett's office because it's unoccupied. The boss is in Chicago and I'm sure he was being driven up the wall trying to help long distance.

In the process, Officer Kyle is shot, Chin gets a gun flare in his face and Danno is put into an impossible position. Eventually surrendering to Marty, they figure out the bomber's name and do a work up on him, his brother (I'm getting to it!) and to find any relatives. In the end, Marty is sniped by Officer Olena (Roland Naauao) and Danno has to figure out how to diffuse the bomb Marty revealed to everyone once he had Danno as a hostage! When it's all said and done, they've all been through the ringer and then the phone rings.

That's the cut and dried version.

I will say this is actually one of my favorites episodes. We see Danno in a leadership capacity that would have been nice to see more of in the series but there can be only one top-dog and that's McGarrett. Mr. Mike points out in his review that Danno does go between the buildings quite a bit and I doubt this would have happened real-life. I can forgive that to a point.

Another standout in this episode is Hope Summers as Mrs. Moroney because she doesn't take any crap from anyone including Marty! She's a tell-it-like-it-is type of character and she's refreshing in the situation. Again, real life, she probably would have been shot and killed being the one wild card of the group.

There are problems with this episode. The biggest is the reference back to S01E05 "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin" that is completely screwed up. Although, the flashbacks are great! Marty is seeking to avenge his brother's death (the teen Danno shot in the S01 episode) except the kid's name then was Thad Vaughn. It's now Joey Collins. (OOPS!) I'm sure the writers were trying to do something like they did in the earlier season episode "Beautiful Screamer" where McGarrett's nephew's death from S01 is mentioned. It just didn't work in this case because of the name foul up.

Another problem is the ending when Danno is taking instruction from Mossman (Doug Mossman) on how to disarm the vest. The tension is forced to me but again, this is something I can overlook because I know what they were trying to do. They were trying to suck us in as viewers but it fell a bit flat. I have to give credit to the actors, especially James MacArthur, in trying to salvage the ending.

Mr. Mike mentions the pocketknife Danno pulls out to make all the cuts. I don't know about anybody else, but when I was growing up in the 1970s and '80s, it seemed like everybody carried a pocketknife all the time. Problems would arise when the knives were too long and the school principal would confiscate them. In other words, I didn't find myself surprised and I don't find it distracting. It would have been more so if he didn't have one!

Anyway, these are my two cents. Happy 50th, "The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney"!!!