Actor Ed Asner will guest star in "Hawaii Five-O," reprising a role he played in the original series, according to a December 10, 2011 press release from CBS. Asner will join castmembers Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim Grace Park and Masi Oka in episodes airing in the spring of 2012.
Multiple Emmy Award winner Ed Asner (“Mary Tyler Moore,” “Lou Grant”) will reprise his role of August March, a character he played in an episode of the original “Hawaii Five-0” in 1975, called “Wooden Model of a Rat.”
In a first for the series, footage from the 1975 episode featuring Asner and his character’s backstory will be used, showing him as an up-and-coming world class smuggler. The character has spent 30 years in prison for murder and is now a reformed man. March lives on O’ahu and is approached by the Five-0 to assist on a smuggling case.
“It is thrilling to, for the first time, merge the original ‘Hawaii Five-0’ and our new show by having the classic, versatile and award-winning actor Ed Asner reprise his role of August March, a character Mr. Asner first played 36 years ago. There is no better way to form a bridge between our reboot and the original series,” said Executive Producer Peter Lenkov.
HAWAII FIVE-0, now in its second season, stars Alex O’Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim, Grace Park and Masi Oka and airs Mondays (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.
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