Patty Duke has signed up for a guest role in Hawaii Five-0.

The actress will appear in one episode of the show's upcoming second season, Entertainment Weekly reports.

Duke will play a woman suffering from Alzheimer's whose adult son is murdered.

When the team go to inform her of his death, they realize that her illness means she believes her son is still a child.

Duke, who won an Oscar for her role in The Miracle Worker, previously guest starred in an episode of the original Hawaii Five-0 in 1973. Her own vehicle The Patty Duke Show ran from 1963 to 1966.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a333539/patty-duke-to-guest-star-on-hawaii-five-0.html

Patty Duke Returns to TV in "Hawaii Five-0"
Oct 10, 2011
by William Keck


Tonight Patty Duke is returning to TV for a guest appearance on "Hawaii Five-0". It's a role she couldn't turn down.

"I play a woman in the second stage of Alzheimer's whose son was involved in a nefarious deal with gold coins in the ocean," says Duke.

"McGarrett [Alex O'Loughlin] and Lori [Lauren German] come to inform my character that her son is dead and find that I'm living 20 or 30 years in the past. In her head, he] son is still a boy coming home from school any minute for a sandwich."





Duke knows all too well what it's like coping with mental illness, having battled bipolar disorder for decades. Grateful that it's been three years since she suffered her last episode of severe panic attacks and irritability, she will continue taking her meds for the rest of her life.

"I've been on this medication for 30 years and just want to throttle the people I meet who tell me, 'I don't need it,'" she says. "They have that right, but not the right to impose all the results that come with that on their friends and family."

http://www.tvguide.com/News/Patty-Duke-Returns-1038572.aspx

I love Patty. Good for her. :)

I'm looking forward to this episode with Patty.

My sister said Peter Fonda will be on also.

Sweet!! Go Patty!! :cool: :D