close-up of the Kamehameha Statue's face, and the ending with a police motorcycle's flashing blue light. The surname of recurring character Governor Sam Denning (played by Richard T. Jones) was a nod to actor Richard Denning, who played the Governor in the original series. Starting with the Season 7 many of the clips that were part of the original opening were removed and more action shots of the cast were included. On the March 19, 2012, episode, Ed Asner reprised his role as "August March", a character he first played in a 1975 episode. Clips from the 1975 episode were included in the new one, even though the 2010 series was intended to be in a different narrative universe than the Jack Lord series. The 2016 episode "Makaukau 'oe e Pa'ani?" features a sequence in which McGarrett (played by Alex O'Loughlin) briefly interacts with a CGI reconstruction of Jack Lord. Theme music Another legacy of the show is the popularity of the Hawaii Five-O theme music. The tune was composed by Morton Stevens, who also composed numerous episode scores performed by the CBS Orchestra. The theme was later recorded by the Ventures, whose version reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart, and is particularly popular with college and high school marching bands, especially at the University of Hawaii where it has become the unofficial fight song. The tune has also been heard at Robertson Stadium after Houston Dynamo goals scored by Brian Ching, a native of Hawaii. Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s. Slang term for police The phrase "five-O" (or any variation, such as "5–0", "5-O", and "five O") ) has often come to refer to the police in the United States. Episodes Broadcast history September 1968 – December 1968: Thursdays at 8:00 p.m. December 1968 – March 1971: Wednesdays at 10:00 p.m. September 1971 – February 1974: Tuesdays at 8:30 p.m. September 1974 – March 1975: Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. September 1975 – November 1975: Fridays at 9:00 p.m. December 1975 – November 1979: Thursdays at 9:00 p.m. December 1979 – January 1980: Tuesdays at 9:00 p.m. March 1980 – April 1980: Saturdays at 9:00 p.m. Syndication Hawaii Five-O survived long enough to overlap with reruns of early episodes, which were broadcast by