They all went down in droves because just scenes of palm trees and beaches can get pretty boring.

Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do... the place just grows on you.

The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location.

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

Nobody really knows what makes a hit TV show.

And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing.