I remember seeing this amusingly creepy episode over 30 years ago on CBS Late Night, when they reran it under the alternate title "McGarrett." I thought the premise was fascinating and fresh. When someone says something the serial killer doesn't like, the look on his face is foreboding. It was haunting how seeing the villains in the comic strip foreshadowed the murders. It's nice when writers come up with off-the-beaten-path episode ideas. After all, how else can you keep a show going for so many years? The Judy Moon lookalike was a nice twist. Ironically, Dan Williams was ideal for the climactic gambit: he always did remind me of a Doonesbury character! As always, McGarrett and the Five-0 team get through it with stoic professionalism.
5 Reviews
Another unique idea
VetteRanger27 January 2023
A series of murders ..... each six weeks apart. The victims seem to have no connection between them, but the ballistics match ..... definitely the same killer in each case, and 5-0 is stumped.
Of course, WE know who the killer is, and why. It's a disturbed young man who is fixated on a woman in a comic strip ..... a women men are always trying to cheat or take advantage of. It reminds me of the old Brenda Starr comic strip which was popular at about the same time.
Each six weeks a story arc comes to a conclusion and "Arthur" decides to help the object of his fixation by killing the man who threatens her well-being
But how will 5-0 stumble across the connection. Moreso, how will they track him down when they do?
Of course, WE know who the killer is, and why. It's a disturbed young man who is fixated on a woman in a comic strip ..... a women men are always trying to cheat or take advantage of. It reminds me of the old Brenda Starr comic strip which was popular at about the same time.
Each six weeks a story arc comes to a conclusion and "Arthur" decides to help the object of his fixation by killing the man who threatens her well-being
But how will 5-0 stumble across the connection. Moreso, how will they track him down when they do?
Elliott Street got some interesting roles on "Hawaii Five-O"
planktonrules15 March 2011
Warning: Spoilers
A few seasons earlier, Elliott Street played a slovenly mentally challenged man on an episode entitled "Grandstand Play" on "Hawaii Five-O". Now in "Draw Me a Killer", he plays a slovenly crazy guy who is a serial killer! Wow, did he get some 'interesting' roles on this show!!
The show begins with Street walking into a pawn shop and shooting the owner repeatedly--and referring to him as 'Ling Po'--though that is NOT his name. This is apparently the third killing he's done--all with three shots from the same gun, all with apparently no motive and all about 42 days apart. Because of the seeming random nature of the killings, Five-O is stumped. Only later, after one more killing, does Steve realize what the motive might be--the killer is crazy and believes he's helping a comic character named 'Judy Moon'. And so, whenever Judy is threatened by someone in the comic strip, the crazy killer finds someone who looks like the villain and shoots him--all to save his beloved Judy! It gets even creepier when the guy sees a woman who he thinks is THE Judy Moon and it takes a trap by Five-O to draw him out--but will the new villain, Danny, survive when the comic's creator draws him in the strip? It sure is a risky trap!
This one is delightfully creative--and it didn't matter that the show was in its sixth season--this one is not like any previous episode! In addition, the plot is engaging--and it's hard to hate the killer as he's clearly deranged. Cool stuff.
The show begins with Street walking into a pawn shop and shooting the owner repeatedly--and referring to him as 'Ling Po'--though that is NOT his name. This is apparently the third killing he's done--all with three shots from the same gun, all with apparently no motive and all about 42 days apart. Because of the seeming random nature of the killings, Five-O is stumped. Only later, after one more killing, does Steve realize what the motive might be--the killer is crazy and believes he's helping a comic character named 'Judy Moon'. And so, whenever Judy is threatened by someone in the comic strip, the crazy killer finds someone who looks like the villain and shoots him--all to save his beloved Judy! It gets even creepier when the guy sees a woman who he thinks is THE Judy Moon and it takes a trap by Five-O to draw him out--but will the new villain, Danny, survive when the comic's creator draws him in the strip? It sure is a risky trap!
This one is delightfully creative--and it didn't matter that the show was in its sixth season--this one is not like any previous episode! In addition, the plot is engaging--and it's hard to hate the killer as he's clearly deranged. Cool stuff.
Draw Me a Killer
ringfire21130 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Superb episode! Yes, another 10/10!!
With "Hookman" and this one it's definitely the best start of any season! These 2 I would say are the best of season 6. Although there's another one late in the season which is just as great ("Nightmare in Blue"), one that I would say is also the most disturbing one in the entire series.
Elliott Street is back from "Grandstand Play" (where I also liked him, if not the episode) and again here he plays a mentally challenged individual, albeit one more disturbed and deadly. His Arthur character here is really "out there". Loved the comic strip angle and the joke about Danno the crooked cop stealing apples and sending the cores to Judy Moon. LOL! Anyway, it's just a perfect episode. The series at its best! The score by Richard Shores was very good, especially the inclusion of the thumping sound (for Arthur's heartbeat I guess) right before he kills someone.
With "Hookman" and this one it's definitely the best start of any season! These 2 I would say are the best of season 6. Although there's another one late in the season which is just as great ("Nightmare in Blue"), one that I would say is also the most disturbing one in the entire series.
Elliott Street is back from "Grandstand Play" (where I also liked him, if not the episode) and again here he plays a mentally challenged individual, albeit one more disturbed and deadly. His Arthur character here is really "out there". Loved the comic strip angle and the joke about Danno the crooked cop stealing apples and sending the cores to Judy Moon. LOL! Anyway, it's just a perfect episode. The series at its best! The score by Richard Shores was very good, especially the inclusion of the thumping sound (for Arthur's heartbeat I guess) right before he kills someone.
A stand-out episode, but I'm not entirely sure why it's a fan favorite.
Ddey6511 August 2023
A not-so-honest pawn shop owner named Ho Toy (Clement Low) is closing up shop for the evening when suddenly he's approached by a roughly twenty-something young man who calls him by the wrong name, accuses him of causing trouble for a girl named Judy Moon and fires a few slugs into him killing him instantly. So why did this guy shoot the pawnbroker? Did he stiff the guy on a deal? Was he dealing with stolen goods? Not this time. His only crime was that he looked like one of the villains from the Judy Moon comic strip. And he's the third victim of this psycho killer who thinks of himself as Judy's guardian angel.
The Judy Moon comics are in the same category as Brenda Starr back in the period when she was wearing a black wig over her more familiar redlocks. Unfortunately, the Island of Oahu was populated with people who have the misfortune of looking like many of the villans from this loser's favorite comic strip. Along with Ho Toy, you've got a banker, a lawyer, and a random sailor from the US Navy. The poor guy probably had some well-needed shore leave from Vietnam after the phony Paris Peace Treaty, only to get gunned down by this dim bulb.
And wouldn't you know it, Arthur happens to encounter a woman in a local restaurant named Mary Ellen Farmer (Susan Foster) who just so happens to look like Judy Moon herself. And what a woman she is. I'd even go so far as to say she was better looking than her cartoon counterpart. The cops are clueless about why all these random people are being killed until a trip to the barber shop for McGarrett and the reading of the comics in the newspapers left for customers makes him realize what's going on.
A female psychiatrist and profiler (Jean Tarrant) tells the the Five-O gang that he's a lonely, low-life paranoid schizophrenic, but that's only half the story. This guy's not just psychotic, he's stupid. Luckily McGarrett knows what to do. He lures the Judy Moon cartoonist from the US Mainland (Lowell Palmer) to help them set up a trap by creating a new villain; a crooked cop who looks a lot like Lt. Danny Williams!
My opinion of the episode? Sure, I liked it. Though I honestly have no idea why other fans like it more than most. In the 12 seasons that this show ran, it had plenty of episodes that stood out more than others, and this was certainly one of them. But then so were episodes like "A Woman's Work is With a Gun" and "A Distant Thunder."
Speaking of shows that ran 12 seasons, decades after this in the first season of "The Big Bang Theory" we see a young girl on a bad date with Raj, and Sheldon notices that she looks like a major character in an Indian folk tale his mother used to read to him as a child. Sheldon Cooper had more tact on this issue than this lunatic.
The Judy Moon comics are in the same category as Brenda Starr back in the period when she was wearing a black wig over her more familiar redlocks. Unfortunately, the Island of Oahu was populated with people who have the misfortune of looking like many of the villans from this loser's favorite comic strip. Along with Ho Toy, you've got a banker, a lawyer, and a random sailor from the US Navy. The poor guy probably had some well-needed shore leave from Vietnam after the phony Paris Peace Treaty, only to get gunned down by this dim bulb.
And wouldn't you know it, Arthur happens to encounter a woman in a local restaurant named Mary Ellen Farmer (Susan Foster) who just so happens to look like Judy Moon herself. And what a woman she is. I'd even go so far as to say she was better looking than her cartoon counterpart. The cops are clueless about why all these random people are being killed until a trip to the barber shop for McGarrett and the reading of the comics in the newspapers left for customers makes him realize what's going on.
A female psychiatrist and profiler (Jean Tarrant) tells the the Five-O gang that he's a lonely, low-life paranoid schizophrenic, but that's only half the story. This guy's not just psychotic, he's stupid. Luckily McGarrett knows what to do. He lures the Judy Moon cartoonist from the US Mainland (Lowell Palmer) to help them set up a trap by creating a new villain; a crooked cop who looks a lot like Lt. Danny Williams!
My opinion of the episode? Sure, I liked it. Though I honestly have no idea why other fans like it more than most. In the 12 seasons that this show ran, it had plenty of episodes that stood out more than others, and this was certainly one of them. But then so were episodes like "A Woman's Work is With a Gun" and "A Distant Thunder."
Speaking of shows that ran 12 seasons, decades after this in the first season of "The Big Bang Theory" we see a young girl on a bad date with Raj, and Sheldon notices that she looks like a major character in an Indian folk tale his mother used to read to him as a child. Sheldon Cooper had more tact on this issue than this lunatic.
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