Have you seen this man? The one who isn’t Hawaii Five-O’s James MacArthur, that is?
His name’s Arte McCollough, and after finding my YouTube channel last month he contacted me because, aside from appearing in eight episodes of Five-O from 1971 to ’76 while also working for the Honolulu Police Department, he had “the lead role in a United Airlines TV commercial here in Hawaii that played for over a year” in the mid-’70s.
He added that the Sunday Manoa’s 1972 song “Honolulu, I Am Coming Back Again” was featured in the United ad, “a story about flying from San Francisco to Honolulu and the dreams I had while flying; scenes at the beach, parks, etc., with a wife and child; [and] arriving in Honolulu meeting them.” Arte would love to be able to show the ad to his extended family, including many grandchildren and great-grandchildren who never got the chance to see it on TV.
If you’ve seen this commercial, which may have been produced by Phil Arnone in cooperation with Honolulu’s KGMB Channel 9, and have a copy, please email me at [email protected].