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Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. Woe to Wo Fat
aired: Sat, Apr 5, 1980
In a desperate move to locate three world-famous scientists who have vanished, Steve McGarrett sets himself up to be kidnapped by assuming the identity of a fourth eminent scientist -- and is shocked to find himself once again locked in mortal combat with his eternal adversary, Wo Fat.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. The Moroville Covenant
aired: Sat, Mar 29, 1980
Paul Burke guest stars as attorney David Lawrence, a political candidate whose promising bid for the U.S. Senate is endangered by the murder of a man who tried to blackmail him. Although Lawrence swears he knows nothing about the murder, he admits that the dead would-be extortionist did have knowledge about him that could have destroyed his political future.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. A Bird in the Hand
aired: Sat, Mar 22, 1980
Someone is waging a bloody vendetta against a band of innocuous birdwatchers. Although Steve McGarrett feels certain that slaughter will continue, he can't comprehend the "who" and "why" of the killer.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. Clash of Shadows
aired: Sat, Mar 8, 1980
The murder in Hawaii of a famous Nazi-hunter and the discovery on his bullet-riddled body of a rare World War II German medal pulls Steve McGarrett and Five-O into the search for a Nazi war criminal. McGarrett learns from an Israeli government official that the dead man, Yuri Bloch, came to Hawaii on the trail of Emil Klaus, a fugitive Nazi mass killer.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. The Flight of the Jewels
aired: Sat, Mar 1, 1980
Three bright young graduate students use radio-controlled airplanes and some homemade scientific creations to pull off the " impossible": the theft of the priceless royal jewels of Liliuokalani, the last reigning queen of Hawaii.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. The Golden Noose
aired: Tue, Jan 15, 1980
From his gut reaction to Jonas Halloran, a brittle, clever aide-de-camp to Premier Lon Tho of Baradak, and to Nadira, a beautiful troubled girl, Steve McGarrett senses evil in the wind. Halloran arrives in Hawaii with Lon Tho to retrieve the Baradak Treasury's $150- million in gold, which has been held for safekeeping in arrangements surrounding the transfer of the gold.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. For Old Times Sake
aired: Tue, Jan 8, 1980
Counterfeiter Willie McFee reluctantly returns to his old game for a worthy cause, but he fails to foresee the luck that gives Steve McGarrett an inkling of his move.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. School for Assassins
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1980
Assigned to handle security for an important energy conference in Hawaii -- one that could determine America's energy sources for the next decade -- Steve McGarrett and his Five-O agents encounter international forces who will stop at nothing -- including murder by schooled assassins -- to try to insure the failure of the meeting.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. Labyrinth
aired: Tue, Dec 25, 1979
Steve McGarrett and his Five-O crew try to solve the kidnapping of a wealthy socialite, Mrs. Christine Ames, and at the same time, accommodate her husband, who declares that if the police are involved, the criminals will kill his wife. It is Mrs. Ames' hairdresser who finally comes up with some information about his customer that could be the key to the mystery.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. The Kahuna
aired: Tue, Dec 18, 1979
When the inhabitants of a privately owned Hawaiian island dig up the remains of two young people and bury them at sea to insure that autopsies will not be performed, Steve McGarrett launches an investigation into the reputedly accidental deaths.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. A Shallow Grave
aired: Tue, Dec 11, 1979
Steve McGarrett finds himself dealing with apparent psychic phenomena as he tries to trace the whereabouts of a jewel cache worth $2 million.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. Voice of Terror
aired: Tue, Dec 4, 1979
Tension, barely controlled fury and gut-numbing fear -- it's all there as Steve McGarrett confronts a pair of political terrorists who are threatening to kill their policewomanhostage unless their demands are met.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Use a Gun, Go to Hell
aired: Thu, Nov 29, 1979
In a powerful episode playing upon the easy availability of handguns, McGarrett and his Five-O unit follow the trail of pain and death left by one of the weapons, hoping to recover it before it can wreak yet more havoc. The wounding of a florist by a pistol-wielding bandit results in the first break for McGarrett in his stymied search for the assassins of an Hawaii state senator.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. Image of Fear
aired: Thu, Nov 8, 1979
Someone apparently is trying to convince Joan Carter and everyone she knows that she is mentally ill and only imagining the frightening attacks on her life, but one of those people -- Five-O boss Steve McGarrett -- isn't buying it.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Good Help is Hard to Find
aired: Thu, Nov 1, 1979
Is the Five-O crew as foolish and inept as they are beginning to appear to the public?
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Sign of the Ram
aired: Thu, Oct 25, 1979
Jayne Meadows guest stars as an astrologer whose ominous warnings tempt the skeptical Steve McGarrett to follow her clues in his investigation of a murder. The dead man, gambler Toby Wesson, was a friend of boxer Pete Shore, and owned a share of the promising young heavyweight's contract. Pete's depression over Wesson's death prompts him to confide in astrologer Jessica Humboldt.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. Though the Heavens Fall
aired: Thu, Oct 18, 1979
McGarrett goes after a unique secret ring of high-society vigilantes who are determined to see that justice is done -- even if they have to do it themselves.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. Who Says Cops Don't Cry?
aired: Thu, Oct 11, 1979
Honolulu policewoman Lori Wilson is on the scene when her husband, Honolulu cop and Five-O recruit, Kevin Wilson, is gunned down by bandits. McGarrett brings Five-O into the search for Wilson's killer, meanwhile, trying to dissuade grieving Lori from waging a risky personal crusade to find the fugitives.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. A Lion in the Streets (Part 1+2)
aired: Thu, Oct 4, 1979
McGarrett finds himself caught in the crossfire as a faction of embattled Hawaiian natives take on the Island's underworld. The prize -- control of a labor union and the 50th state's rich tourist business.
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. A Death in the Family
aired: Thu, May 4, 1978
Chin Ho Kelly, a longtime member of the Five-O force and friend of McGarrett's, is caught in the middle of an undercover chinatown operation and is killed.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. A Stranger in His Grave
aired: Thu, Apr 27, 1978
The baffling discovery in a cane field of the body of wealthy Hawaiian horsebreeder Frank Kealoha, whose startled widow claims he was formally interred four months earlier, leads Five-O boss McGarrett into an investigation of two -- possibly three -- related murders.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. My Friend, The Friend
aired: Thu, Apr 13, 1978
Luciana Paluzzi plays an international news reporter whose unwillingness to reveal her source for an impending kidnapping creates an international incident involving the Middle East.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Frozen Assets
aired: Thu, Mar 30, 1978
A mystery writer examines strange occurrences in experiments with a cryogenics institute. (Cryogenics is the freezing of living material for preservation for future use.)
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. Invitation to Murder
aired: Thu, Mar 23, 1978
Steve McGarrett is caught up in a series of puzzling murders immediately following the death of a famed artist whose estate seems to be the target of a killer.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. When Does a War End?
aired: Thu, Mar 16, 1978
Why are the firms owned by Yuhio Muromoto, a prosperous, respected Japanese- American business-man who appears to have the virtuous character of a saint, being bombed by a collector of World War II memorabilia? That's the question confounding Five-O Chief McGarrett.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. Angel In Blue
aired: Thu, Mar 9, 1978
A Honolulu police officer, working undercover for Five-O in order to smash a large scale narcotics operation, is found murdered. The obvious conclusion is that his masquerade was detected by the drug-smuggling group headed by Thomas Lynch. McGarrett decides to infiltrate Lynch's operation with another undercover cop. An officer from the island of Maui seems perfect for the job.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. Tall on the Wave
aired: Thu, Mar 2, 1978
Steve McGarrett and agent Danny Williams are enmeshed with a pair of frightened surfers, one of whom was actually responsible for the death of a girl, and the other who is on the run because he is strongly suspected of it.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. Head to Head
aired: Thu, Feb 16, 1978
In an strange turn of events, Steve McGarrett, in pursuing a bigtime drug dealer whom he suspects of having killed a Honolulu police officer, finds himself in bitter conflict with a federal agent.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. The Silk Trap
aired: Thu, Feb 9, 1978
David Birney guest stars as a glamorous young politician who is considered prime presidential material in many quarters and who is being blackmailed in an effort to force him to smother an explosive congressional investigation that he is directing.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. As Short Walk on the Long Shore
aired: Thu, Feb 2, 1978
With the help of a makeup expert, McGarrett, for the first time in his career, goes undercover in the disguise of a merchant seaman to find the killer of a labor-union reformer to forestall a costly waterfront strike.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. The Big Aloha
aired: Thu, Jan 12, 1978
Eleanor Parker guest stars as Constance Kincaid, the aristocratic matriarch of a wealthy, old-line Islands family that figures in a murder case being investigated by Steve McGarrett and his staff.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Tread the King's Shadow
aired: Thu, Jan 5, 1978
McGarrett becomes the unofficial watchdog of a love triangle consisting of 18-year-old David Kaluna, David's sweetheart 16-year-old Debbie Cameron, and George Cameron, Debbie's wealthy and influential father who detests David for his lowborn origin.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. East Wind, Ill Wind
aired: Thu, Dec 29, 1977
Dr. Salgee Sandanarik, exiled from the tyranny of his native land, dies in a watery tragedy. Five-O Chief Steve McGarrett assumes the death to have been an accident, but Sandanarik's widow bluntly and, as it happens, accurately, brands it as murder. McGarrett soon comes around to Mme.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. Tsunami
aired: Thu, Dec 22, 1977
The entire population of Honolulu, including even as shrewd a cynic as Five-O's McGarrett, is bamboozled by a clique of brilliant young University students who engineer a phony tidal wave alert in order to pull off the heist of millions of dollars worth of jewelry.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. Deep Cover
aired: Thu, Dec 8, 1977
The murder of a U.S. Navy submarine officer on a Hawaiian beach at about the same time that a nearby mystery submarine is detected, causes McGarrett to suspect that he may be investigating more than just a run-of-the-mill killing.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. Deadly Doubles
aired: Thu, Nov 17, 1977
During a major tennis competition in the Hawaiian Islands, tennis star Katrina Bukowski of the touring Eastern European team decides to defect to the U.S. She is secretly in love with American tennis star Brent Saunders who spirits her away from her "team supervisors" in preparation for seeking formal asylum in America.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Shake Hands with the Man in the Moon
aired: Thu, Nov 10, 1977
Steve McGarrett tries to find a way to crack through the commercialized facade of a U.S. astronaut turned real estate huckster, in an effort to solve the murder of a crusading investigative reporter.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. The Ninth Step
aired: Thu, Oct 27, 1977
Steve McGarrett's quest for two fugitives from the law who were involved in a sensational armored truck robbery and who may try a repeat performance, is complicated by the sudden appearance of a disgraced former Honolulu cop whose seemingly drunken behavior permitted the robbery.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Descent of the Torhces
aired: Thu, Oct 20, 1977
McGarrett and his Five-O crew seek the killer of an archeologist who may have died because of the rumor that he was trying to find and excavate the lost grave of the Hawaiian king, Kamehameha, thereby violating an ancient taboo.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. The Friends of Joey Kalima
aired: Thu, Oct 13, 1977
Honolulu Police Department officer, Joey Kalima, a friend of Steve McGarrett, is accused of over-looking an illegal bookmaking act perpetrated in a private home. He was a guest in the home when it was raided by the vice squad. The officer asks McGarrett to represent him at the Internal Affairs board of inquiry.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. The Cop on the Cover
aired: Thu, Sep 29, 1977
An aggressive magazine writer, Tern O'Brien, arrives in Hawaii to do a story on McGarrett just after the two teenage children of nuclear technologist Stuart Longworth are kidnapped. Terri presumptuously gives him her running critique of his handling of the case. Her reactions become so negative and indignant that they actually threaten to obstruct McGarrett's investigation.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. You Don't See Many Pirates These Days
aired: Thu, Sep 22, 1977
Italian actor Rossano Brazzi plays a wealthy shipping magnate who enlists the aid of Five-O Chief McGarrett and the Coast Guard when one of his freighters is hijacked on the high seas.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. Up The Rebels
aired: Thu, Sep 15, 1977
An Irish Terrorist engineers a hijacking from a U.S. military facility of a load of exotic new explosives for the purpose of smuggling it to northern Ireland.
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Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. A Sentence to Steal
aired: Thu, Mar 4, 1976
Trying to identify and bag the burglars who have been heisting a fortune in gold stored at various dental-supply warehouses, McGarrett sends an undercover agent into a rehabilitation institution for delinquent youths in hopes of securing a lead.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. Love Thy Neighbor-Take His Wife
aired: Thu, Feb 26, 1976
As Steve McGarrett and Five-O search for the kidnapper of the wife of a wealthy land developer, McGarrett can't quite persuade himself that the obvious abductor -- militant ecologist Ben Tanaka, who was "caught in the act" on videotape by a hidden television camera -- is, in fact, the criminal.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. The Capsule Kidnapping
aired: Thu, Feb 12, 1976
After a pretty but ruthless female Japanese terrorist, with the aid of two gullible American scientists, kidnaps the son of Japan's biggest industrialist and demands $1,500,000 in ransom, McGarrett and his Five-O crew search frantically for the boy.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. A Killer Grown Wings
aired: Thu, Feb 5, 1976
Three criminals threaten to destroy the entire Hawaiian cane sugar industry by using imported larvae of a strain of militant borer moth for which there is no known insecticide or natural enemy. Their plan: to devastate the land so that it becomes useless for planting, whereby one of the three can then snatch up the land at a fraction of its true value.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. Turkey Shoot at Makapuu
aired: Thu, Jan 29, 1976
Steve McGarrett and Five-O search for the killers of a girl and then of a hang-glider pilot. McGarrett is making painfully slow progress identifying and tracking down the killers until one of the victims' roommate, driven by grief and overwhelming guilt feelings, impulsively puts her own life on the line in an attempt to assist McGarrett.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. Anatomy of a Bribe
aired: Thu, Jan 15, 1976
Honolulu's soaring new Global Trade Center is devastated by a deadly fire, and investigation reveals that sub-standard building materials were responsible for the rapid spread of the flames. A crooked building contractor and a building inspector, both "on the take", become the targets for McGarrett and Five-O.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. Loose Ends Get Hit
aired: Thu, Jan 8, 1976
McGarrett watches with stunned realization as the state's rock-solid murder case against Islands racketeer Kum Chi suddenly vaporizes because McGarrett has been suckered by the prosecution's star witness.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. Legacy of Terror
aired: Thu, Jan 1, 1976
Steve McGarrett's Five-O force seeks the killer of an aged importer who was a Japanese spy in Hawaii before the Pearl Harbor attack. The importer was reputed to be the only person to know the hiding place of a fortune in gold, missing since World War II.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Deadly Persuasion
aired: Thu, Dec 18, 1975
Five-O officer Danny Williams, a European royal family visiting Hawaii and potentially many other people are periled by a deranged youth who is using a stolen vial of super lethal nerve gas in an attempt to avenge his dead father.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. Wooden Model of a Rat
aired: Thu, Dec 11, 1975
While trying to smash a smuggling ring trafficking rare and valuable oriental art objects, Five-O boss McGarrett is suddenly mortified to find himself under public attack and indicted on a charge of possessing one of the contraband articles.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. A Touch of Guilt
aired: Thu, Dec 4, 1975
Stabbed critically, a college football star is brought to a hospital by two other stars of the team, instigating a Five-O investigation involving the son of a well-known U.S. Senator and a cold-blooded cover-up of a gang rape.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Honor is an Unmarked Grave
aired: Fri, Nov 28, 1975
A publicity-hungry crime writer with a reputation for sensationalism discovers the remains of a youth missing for seven years, and ballyhoos the mystery as the subject of his next book, while publicly branding Five-O as incompetent for never having solved the case.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. The Waterfront Steal
aired: Fri, Nov 21, 1975
While Joao Mendoza, influential owner of warehouses in Honolulu, is creating a civic uproar by damning the police for their failure to halt a wave of warehouse burglaries, McGarrett and Five-O quietly joins in the search for the burglary gang.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. How to steal a Submarine
aired: Fri, Nov 14, 1975
Jack Cassidy guest stars as a narcotics smuggler and pusher who, unknown to Five-O Chief Steve McGarrett, is McGarrett's prime target in his investigation of a large-scale smuggling operation.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. Retire in Sunny Hawaii Forever
aired: Fri, Nov 7, 1975
Famed actress Helen Hayes guest stars in the role in Danny William's visiting Aunt Clara. Five-O becomes involved when a murder in Hawaii of an elderly gentleman, Clara Williams' seatmate on the plane, puts McGarrett on the trail of a small band of crooks who are stealing from abandoned bank accounts large quantities of money that rightfully belongs to the state of Hawaii.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. Sing a Song of Suspense
aired: Fri, Oct 31, 1975
McGarrett and Five-O must protect singer Chelsea Merrimam (guest star Lois Nettleton) from assassination by Hawaii racketeering kingpin Koko Apaleka, on whom Chelsea can pin a murder rap with her eyewitness testimony. Apaleka is determined to eliminate Chelsea to save himself, while McGarrett is equally determined to save Chelsea and to nail Apaleka by doing so.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. The Defector
aired: Fri, Oct 24, 1975
McGarrett locks horns with the overbearing and hardboiled Dr. Grant Ormsbee, a scientist who is conducting top-secret research for the U.S. Navy. At issue is Chiang Lee, a brilliant physicist, who has defected from an Asian nation to seek asylum in the U.S. and was forced to kill a man in self-defense upon arriving in Hawaii.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. The Case against McGarrett
aired: Fri, Oct 17, 1975
McGarrett is tried for murder by a group of dangerous convicts led by his sworn enemy, Honore Vashon, after he turns himself over to them in return for their release of nine hostages.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Death's Name is Sam
aired: Fri, Oct 10, 1975
Someone, somewhere in Hawaii is plotting to shoot down an airplane, utilizing a Russian-made surface-to-air missile (a "SAM"). That much seems clear to Five-O chief Steve McGarrett. But who, where, and when and which plane?
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Target? The Lady
aired: Fri, Oct 3, 1975
After Curt Anderson, a man with gambling connections, is found murdered in his Honolulu apartment, Steve McGarrett and his Five-O team hunt for a female courier for a Las Vegas casino, and discover that a hit man is racing to beat them to her.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. Termination With Extreme Prejudice
aired: Fri, Sep 26, 1975
Steve McGarrett's Five-O unit searches for Lord Charles Danby, a missing English tourist who apparently has drowned in the Waikiki Beach surf, and unmasks a British intelligence agent also eager to find Danby.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. McGarrett is Missing
aired: Fri, Sep 19, 1975
Five-O chief McGarrett finds himself with a serious leg wound, and at the mercy of an armed and dangerous escaped convict, Charlie Bombay. After collaring the escapee, McGarrett escorts him to the state prison aboard a police aircraft that crashes during a severe storm.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. Murder: Eyes Only ( Part 1 + 2)
aired: Fri, Sep 12, 1975
Five-O Chief Steve McGarrett's annual change of pace -- his active duty cruise with the naval re-serve -- takes on a familiar feel when he draws orders to investigate the murder of a naval intelligence officer by letter bomb.
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. 6,000 Deadly Tickets
aired: Tue, Mar 25, 1975
McGarrett joins forces with an air traffic conference investigator in an attempt to stop an airline ticket racket that not only bilks the carriers, but has also cost several lives. Travel agents have been forced to purchase stolen, unvalidated tickets as a form of "protection" -- or else. The telling clue to the deadly operation is revealed when one agent chooses "or else."
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. Diary of a Gun
aired: Tue, Mar 18, 1975
One cheap revolver, passing from hand to hand, causes mayhem and murder as McGarrett and his Five-O team pursue its bloody trail. McGarrett doesn't underestimate the deadly threat of the cheap gun, for he knows that "Saturday Night Specials" -- the street name for illegal weapons -- are lethal whether pros or amateurs pull the trigger.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. The Hostage
aired: Tue, Mar 11, 1975
Trying to use reason rather than force puts McGarrett at odds with a police captain when a deranged ex-Army sergeant shoots a cop and kidnaps a young girl. Not only does the Captain, but other outsiders also meddle with McGarrett's strategy to communicate and reason for the girl's release.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Hit Gun For Sale
aired: Tue, Feb 25, 1975
McGarrett goes all out to keep the lid on a threatened organized crime war by tracking both an unknown hit man and his target.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. And the Horse Jumped Over the Moon
aired: Tue, Feb 18, 1975
The "perfect crime" -- a sky-diving sea-air conspiracy for smuggling heroin into Hawaii -- has gone undetected by the law until a member of the smuggling ring tries to sell out for a fix.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. Study in Rage
aired: Tue, Feb 11, 1975
Untwisting the psychotic mind depicted in the unfinished surrealistic painting of a murdered psychiatrist is the task McGarrett must. tackle in order to find the victim's killer. The case soon takes a deadly turn as each interpretation of the painting becomes a clue that leads to other bodies.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. Small Witness Large Crime
aired: Tue, Jan 28, 1975
When Five-O nabs a shantytown ragamuffin for a minor theft, it sparks friction between McGarrett and a dedicated but impetuous female deputy public defender. The interference snags McGarrett's attempt to hide and protect the child from a hired killer.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. A Woman's Work is with a Gun
aired: Tue, Jan 21, 1975
Three troubled women take up armed robbery aboard scenic tour buses as a moneymaking project. The three women: Dina Hale, a lady with a hidden habit; Fay Scott, the mother of a desperately ill child; Margaret Hudson, an unhappily married housewife. All three turn to holding up tourists as a means of rectifying their financial shortages.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Computer Killer
aired: Tue, Jan 14, 1975
McGarrett's investigation of a murder is thwarted by a computer which has been fed with erroneous information in hopes of diverting the guilt for the crime away from the guilty party.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. Bones of Contention
aired: Tue, Jan 7, 1975
McGarrett digs into a 33-year-old mystery when he links a Honolulu murder to a missing, anthropologically valuable human fossil that disappeared in China shortly before Pearl Harbor.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. Hari Kiri Suicide Murder
aired: Tue, Dec 31, 1974
A shamed Japanese banker ritualistically kills himself, and McGarrett want to know why. McGarrett demands answers from a prominent financial consultant, played by guest star Ossie Davis, and the deceased's assistant when Five-O discovers the pair are involved in an international swindle.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Presenting in the Center Ring, Murder
aired: Tue, Dec 10, 1974
Wo Fat, international spy and relentless nemesis of McGarrett's, reappears in Hawaii in pursuit of a visiting foreign minister who is under the protection of the Five-O unit. But the minister's grand-son's yen to see a circus provides Wo Fat with the perfect opportunity to carry out his nefarious plot.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. Welcome to our Branch Office
aired: Tue, Dec 3, 1974
A Honolulu businessman accuses McGarrett and his investigative team of shaking him down for $100,000 "protection" money. Five-O is under heavy suspicion until it's discovered that two mainland con men have found a quartet of look-a-likes to masquerade as the real investigative team.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. A Gun for Mcgarrett
aired: Tue, Nov 26, 1974
Both bearing scars of gangland violence, McGarrett and an elegant dealer in objets d'art, Marni Howard, are sympathetically drawn together. McGarett's search for the brutal mobsters responsible for his injuries becomes periodically and pleasantly interrupted by a romantic interlude with the chic Miss Howard.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. How to Steal a Masterpiece
aired: Tue, Nov 12, 1974
Irreplaceable Lautrec and Gauguin art works mysteriously vanish from a millionaire's private collection despite three fail-safe electronic security systems. McGarrett and his Five-O team are called into the caper when the thieves demand a quarter-million-dollar ransom from the shrewd art collector.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. The Two-Faced Corpse
aired: Tue, Oct 29, 1974
A gangland-style slaying investigation takes a bizarre turn when an autopsy reveals the victim had two physical identities. Under suspicion for the murder are the victim's wife and his business partner, who stand to gain large sums of money from the death. McGarrett's case is further complicated by the information that the syndicate had an old grudge against him.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. We Hang Our Own
aired: Tue, Oct 22, 1974
McGarrett steps in when powerful Hawaiian cattle baron Col. J.J. Farraday makes his own laws to avenge the beating death of his son. Farraday and his Hawaiian "cowboys" ready a hanging tree when elder son Jay claims his younger brother was slain by a jealous husband following a bar fight over a local girl.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. Right Grave, Wrong Body
aired: Tue, Oct 15, 1974
A current wave of liquor store robberies and shootings are strangely linked to a fiveyear old bank robbery in which neither the quarter-million-dollar booty nor the thief was ever found. Charles Cioffi guest stars as an HPD officer, who, when the link in the crimes is uncovered, desperately hunts for the man behind the liquor store crimes.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Bomb, Bomb, Who's got the Bomb?
aired: Tue, Oct 8, 1974
Notes threatening the life of the state Senate crime committee chairman bring McGarrett into the investigation. Handwriting analysis and a psychiatrist's diagnosis of someone's possible split personality become the prime clues in McGarrett's search for the possible killer.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Steal Now, Pay Later
aired: Tue, Oct 1, 1974
McGarrett is on the trail of a suave crook who peddles his stolen goods to legitimate businessmen by socializing with fashion models and buyers. The wily thief has eluded the law so far by directing and supervising the hijacking of goods on the mainland and in Hawaii totally by telephone.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. I'll Kill 'Em Again
aired: Tue, Sep 24, 1974
Postcards from a psychopath taunting McGarrett to remember crime victims of the past precede a series of re-enacted murders. Eddie Josephs, in his twisted thinking, puts down the authorities by recreating murders featured in a series of Honolulu magazine articles lauding Five-O's solving of past crimes.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. Hawaiian Nightmare
aired: Tue, Sep 17, 1974
A geothermal dynamics genius, plagued by personal financial problems and pressured by a loan shark, plots an extortion scheme that would trigger a man-made volcanic eruption, wiping out the entire city of Hilo. McGarrett and his Five-O unit speed to the big island of Hawaii in an effort to avert the deadly threat contained in the extortion note.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. The Young Assassins
aired: Tue, Sep 10, 1974
Danny and a college professor are kidnapped and held as hostages, to be killed unless two members of a radical group are released from jail. McGarrett, backed by the Governor, refuses to comply with the ransom demands of the kidnappers, even though he knows he is risking the lives of his aide and the professor.
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. 30,000 Rooms and I Have the Key
aired: Tue, Feb 26, 1974
A well-to-do, stylish, Raffles-type jewel thief steals from Waikiki hotel rooms for the thrill of the chase. As his calling card, he leaves a series of clues which add up to an elegant method of operation. McGarrett sets a trap for the thief, but the thief eludes him with a stunning ploy -- and then sends him an engraved invitation to the next intended burglary.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. Killer at Sea
aired: Tue, Feb 19, 1974
Impressionist John Byner makes his dramatic debut as a shipboard comedian beset by gambling debts. McGarrett and Five-O become involved while investigating the robberykidnapping of business manager Vincent Gordon on board a cruise ship, described only as "a man in a Panama hat."
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. Mother's Deadly Helper
aired: Tue, Feb 12, 1974
Anthony Zerbe guest stars as a right-wing extremist who embarks on a murderous crusade against what he considers laxity in law enforcement and too-lenient judges. After the case against hit-man Joseph Furika is dismissed for lack of evidence, he is murdered in the street outside the courthouse.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Nightmare in Blue
aired: Tue, Feb 5, 1974
McGarrett calls on attractive HPD policewomen, senior officers and scientific technology when the Five-O force is confronted by a series of five rape-murders. One of the enigmas McGarrett must investigate concerns the fact that the murderer-rapist seems to have gained the confidence of his victims.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. Death With Father
aired: Tue, Jan 22, 1974
Jack Lord makes his directing debut with this episode about a retired Federal narcotics agent whose son becomes embroiled in a heroin refining operation. McGarrett becomes suspicious of the activities of young Tom Morgan, a university chemistry major, when an informer tells him that the son of ex-narcotics agent Cliff Morgan is making "smack" for an international syndicate.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. Murder with a Golden Touch
aired: Tue, Jan 29, 1974
A bunco scheme revolving around a million dollars in sunken treasure sends McGarrett and Five-O on an investigation that stretches halfway around the world and to the Pacific depths off Oahu.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. Secret Witness
aired: Tue, Jan 15, 1974
A young man, Ted Reynolds, is an eyewitness to a murder, then becomes the next target of the assassin. In his flight from the assassin, Reynolds loses his library card, and the card is quickly put to use by the killer, who starts an all-out-hunt for Reynolds.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. One Born Every Minute
aired: Tue, Jan 8, 1974
A bunco game using phony diamonds as bait and preying on well-heeled male Waikiki tourists sends McGarrett and Five-O into action in an attempt to head off a sinister racket. The bunco artists em-ploy a beautiful girl as their come-on, but the con game seems to go awry when one of the victims plunges to his death from the window of a Honolulu hotel.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. The Banzai Pipeline
aired: Tue, Jan 1, 1974
The Banzai Pipeline, one of the world's most exciting and dangerous surfing beaches, forms the backdrop for a trio of slayings. McGarrett, attempting to build a land-fraud indictment against a swindler, is thwarted when the man is found murdered near the Pipeline.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. The Flip Side is Death
aired: Tue, Dec 18, 1973
A daring bank robbery carried out under the cover of a mock military emergency sends McGarrett and his Five-O detectives to the windward side of Oahu. McGarrett turns to the sparsely populated part of Oahu and a posh resort hotel when an apparently insignificant clue -- a golf ball -- is found near one of the abandoned Army vehicles used in the robbery.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. The $100,000 Nickel
aired: Tue, Dec 11, 1973
Victor Buono guest stars as Eric Damien, an international thief, who enlists a carnival sleight-of-hand artist to steal a nickel valued by coin experts at $100,000. The theft is discovered and the thief, Arnie Price, panics and drops the rare coin into a newspaper vending machine. Damien then kid-naps Price's wife and demands the return of the coin in exchange for the woman's life.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. Try To Die on Time
aired: Tue, Dec 4, 1973
Comedian Jack Carter makes a rare television dramatic appearance when he guest stars as gambler Harry Foxton, central figure in a macabre $240,000 lottery based on the projected hour of his death. Five-O must unravel a complicated web of relationships and sort out a tangled skein of clues which seem to defy solution.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Anybody Can Build a Bomb
aired: Tue, Nov 27, 1973
Lew Ayres guest stars as Dr. Elias Haig, a nuclear physicist caught up in a brazen extortion scheme. The conspirators demand $100,000,000 cash from the government in exchange for their assurance not to blow up a portion of Honolulu with an atomic bomb.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. The Finishing Touch
aired: Tue, Nov 20, 1973
The murder of a printer and the discovery of a forged municipal bond send McGarrett to a documents expert for help in investigating a destructive ring of forgeries of government securities. But McGarrett becomes suspicious of Norman Cargill, the man he called in to help him, when, curiously, authentic documents that should have the fingerprints of certain bank employees on them do not.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. A Bullet for El Diablo
aired: Tue, Nov 13, 1973
Maria Ramos, the daughter of a despised Latin American dictator, is kidnapped near her University of Hawaii dormitory, and her father arrives in Honolulu within hours to oversee plans for her rescue. Maria is returned safely, but shortly after, her dictator-father, known as El Diablo, is murdered.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. Flash of Color, Flash of Death
aired: Tue, Nov 6, 1973
An opal smuggler and killer, Jeff Hobbs, is set up by a glamorous Eurasian woman who clears the way for her accomplices to enter a Honolulu jewelry store and rob him and the jeweler of a fortune in opals. Although Hobbs appears to be a reputable gem merchant, McGarrett becomes suspicious of him during his investigation into a series of Honolulu jewel thefts.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. Why Wait Till Uncle Kevin Dies?
aired: Tue, Oct 30, 1973
Steve McGarrett investigates a string of five murders of wealthy men and enlists the aid of an undercover agent from the mainland to reveal a pay-before-death inheritance scheme.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Murder is a Taxing Affair
aired: Tue, Oct 16, 1973
A corrupt federal tax agent, pursuing a criminal under indictment for tax evasion, sees his last chance to strike it rich and kills the fugitive for $600,000 in hot money.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. Tricks Are Not Treats
aired: Tue, Oct 23, 1973
The assassination of one of Honolulu's most active flesh peddlers threatens an all-out war between two competing vice empires and brings McGarrett and the governor's office into action to avert gang-style warfare.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. The Sunday Torch
aired: Tue, Oct 9, 1973
A peculiar pattern of arson send McGarrett and his Five-O force searching for clues to the identity of a fire-bug who strikes on weekends. A young man who fits the classic profile of a pyromaniac is carefully set up in what appears to be a foolproof frame.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. One Big Happy Family
aired: Tue, Oct 2, 1973
A family of ruthless nickel-and-dime killers, having already left a trail of death across the mainland, start a new wave of terror when they reach Hawaii. The wanton family mystifies McGarrett and the Five-O unit when a thorough investigation can find no big pay-off for a series of terrible killings.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. Charter For Death
aired: Tue, Sep 25, 1973
Nehemiah Persoff guest stars as Leo Paoli, a deported mobster fleeing a Corsican exile and trying to get a cache of $5-million. Meanwhile, McGarrett and the Coast Guard board the derelict schooner left abandoned by the fleeing Paoli, unaware of the plague-carrying rodents aboard.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. Draw Me A Killer
aired: Tue, Sep 18, 1973
McGarrett attempts to solve the riddle of a series of apparently motiveless slayings that come at six week intervals. The slayings -- of a sailor, banker, pawnbroker and lawyer -- leave the Five-O unit without clues to the identity of the killer.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. Hookman
aired: Tue, Sep 11, 1973
A double amputee sets out to avenge the loss of his hands by killing every law officer who, he feels, contributed to his maiming. His sniper style assassination of a Honolulu policeman launches McGarrett and his Five-O force into a desperate effort to stop him before he can kill other lawmen.
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. Jury Of One
aired: Tue, Mar 13, 1973
A police informer tells McGarrett that one of the jurors in the murder trial of an island strong-arm has been bribed in an effort to produce a hung jury.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. The Diamond That Nobody Stole
aired: Tue, Mar 6, 1973
A cat burglar strikes at the home of a socially prominent island family, setting off a fast-moving series of events that lead to a death. McGarrett's search for clues takes him to a rundown neighborhood where an unseen assailant starts taking shots at him.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. Engaged to Be Buried
aired: Tue, Feb 27, 1973
McGarrett attempts to crack an extortion ring preying on small businessmen. The detective's investigation seems to run into a roadblock when it is learned that one of the gang members is courting the daughter of Chin Ho, one of McGarrett's trusted deputies, and that they appear headed for a wedding.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Percentage
aired: Tue, Feb 20, 1973
A travel agent operating gambling junkets is slain as a warning to his partner to stop competing for the gambling business. The surviving agent, a former bookie, attempts to carry on the business but finds matters complicated when one of the clients is killed and McGarrett and his Five-O unit start getting closer to the truth.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. Little Girl Blue
aired: Tue, Feb 13, 1973
Nina Foch plays a grandmother whose only grandchild is kidnapped by two ineffectual crooks. As McGarrett and his Five-O forces attempt to move up the mountain where the child is being held, the kidnappers lay down a withering fuselage of rifle fire.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. Will the Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?
aired: Tue, Feb 6, 1973
Nehemiah Persoff plays an obscure shopkeeper who calls himself Peter Winkler and becomes the catalyst in a plot to assassinate a high level Iron Curtain defector. McGarrett becomes interested in Winkler when the shopkeeper is involved in a minor incident and no proof can be found that a "Peter Winkler" does, indeed, exist.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. The Odd Lot Caper
aired: Tue, Jan 30, 1973
Richard Basehart plays the mastermind behind a 40 million-dollar conspiracy to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Basehart, as Murdock, senior partner in a stock exchange firm, conceives a daring and seemingly foolproof plan to rob the exchange. But a succession of murders which were not in Murdock's plan puts McGarrett on the trail of the conspiracy.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. Here Today, Gone Tonight
aired: Tue, Jan 23, 1973
McGarrett and Danny Williams must solve the riddle of how a suspected killer can appear to be in two places at one time. The investigators appear to be at an impasse -- until faint clues are developed to throw the light of reality on the crime.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. The Listener
aired: Tue, Jan 16, 1973
Dr. Eric Fowler, a psychiatrist, becomes the victim of an extortion effort by a clever paranoiac found too disturbed to treat. The person, an unseen but apparently omnipresent electronics wizard calling himself Cerberus, the Hound of Hell," threatens Dr. Fowler and his patients through a series of ingenious electronic plants.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Thanks for the Honeymoon
aired: Sun, Jan 9, 1972
Patty Duke and Carol Lawrence are the guest stars as McGarrett goes after the untouchable king-pin of narcotics traffic in the islands. Toni (Patty Duke), an underworld fringe character, agrees to turn state's evidence against the mobster on one condition -- that McGarrett must release her from prison and arrange her wedding to the father of her unborn child.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. The Child Stealers
aired: Tue, Jan 2, 1973
An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers. McGarrett's probe uncovers similarities between this kidnapping and another in the past, and he traces the operation to a "legitimate" attorney who is operating a child-stealing racket from the Mainland.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot!
aired: Tue, Dec 19, 1972
Andy Griffith and Joyce Van Patten pay a husband and-wife team of confidence operators who get caught between two of the islands' most powerful mobs, almost touching off a war among competing underworld factions.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. The Clock Struck Twelve
aired: Tue, Dec 5, 1972
A series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes, and McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial. But McGarrett discovers that vigilante sympathizers have penetrated security and planted explosives in the courthouse. With just hours remaining before the trial starts, Danny begins the delicate job of disarming the bombs.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. V for Vashon: The Patriarch -Part III
aired: Tue, Nov 28, 1972
With his son in prison and his grandson dead -- both as a result of McGarrett's actions, the patriarch of the Vashon crime syndicate, old Dominick, devises a cunning scheme to frame the chief of Five-O and send him to prison in disgrace.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. V for Vashon: The Father - Part II
aired: Tue, Nov 21, 1972
The Vashon family buries young Chris Vashon and launches a vendetta against Five- O's chief investigator, whom they hold responsible for the boy's death. With Chris dead, his father, Honore, swears vengeance against McGarrett and imports an assassin to rid the Vashon family of its arch nemesis.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. V for Vashon: The Son - Part I
aired: Tue, Nov 14, 1972
McGarrett's investigation into a new crime outbreak leads to a band of youths led by Chris Vashon, a third generation member of a crime family headed by his grandfather, Dominick. McGarrett succeeds in bringing young Vashon to trial, but, after the boy is freed, a new outbreak of terror begins.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. Journey Out of Limbo
aired: Tue, Oct 31, 1972
Keenan Wynn guest stars as the trusted friend of a Chinese diplomat who is the object of an assassination plan which Danny Williams stumbles upon, but whose details he cannot remember when he is injured.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Chain of Events
aired: Tue, Oct 24, 1972
The slaying of a public health official while conducting an investigation into venereal disease leads McGarrett into the world of politics and intrigue. Starting with an appointment list of the slain official, McGarrett works his way up to a meeting with a highly respected candidate for public office.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. Fools Die Twice
aired: Tue, Oct 17, 1972
Army officer Jack Gulley, played by Clu Gulager, devises a bizarre scheme to kidnap a top government scientist and collect a ransom of one million dollars in diamonds. The officer's plan proceeds flawlessly until he commits the mistake of double-crossing his fellow conspirators.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. The Jinn Who Clears the Way
aired: Tue, Oct 10, 1972
Khigh Dhiegh returns as the sinister criminal genius Wo Fat to match wits with McGarrett. This time, a petty criminal is slain during the theft of a secret ballistic missile device, and McGarrett suspects that his arch nemesis, Wo Fat, is behind the theft.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Pig in a Blanket
aired: Tue, Oct 3, 1972
Danny Williams is involved in the shooting of a teenager following the death of a fellow police officer, and a cry goes up to sacrifice the lawman to public opinion.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich - But It Helps
aired: Tue, Sep 26, 1972
A series of deaths of well-to-do businessmen puts the Hawaii Five-O unit into the investigation of a lucrative blackmail operation. William Shatner plays an enterprising mainland private detective who finds the key to the blackmailing operation and orders the execution of its chief. But Ben Kokua short-circuits the ploy when he shows up as the "assassin."
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain
aired: Tue, Sep 19, 1972
Ricardo Montalban plays Alex Pareno, a wealthy auto-racing enthusiast whose mechanic is slain on the eve of Hawaii's most important road race. Following the death of another mechanic on the dangerous Tantalus Mountain race course,McGarrett becomes suspicious of Angela, Pareno's glamorous fiancee.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. Death Is a Company Policy
aired: Tue, Sep 12, 1972
McGarrett is puzzled when a computer programmed to help solve the slaying of anunderworld figure's "business associate" indicates that the culprit is one of McGarrett's own people
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. R & R & R
aired: Tue, Mar 7, 1972
McGarrett seeks a killer whose targets have been wives of army men who have come to Hawaii to meet their husbands on furlough. A break in the case comes when one of the wives receives a wire to meet her husband in Honolulu, but McGarrett learns that her husband had been killed in action prior to the sending of the telegram.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. Follow the White Brick Road
aired: Tue, Feb 29, 1972
Danny Williams goes undercover as a sailor to flush out a drug ring operating from a vessel in the U.S. Seventh Fleet. The Five-O team and Naval Intelligence have only a few days before the ship lands in Pearl Harbor to find the drug pushers and the kilo of heroin rumored to be aboard the ship.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. Didn't We Meet at a Murder?
aired: Tue, Feb 22, 1972
A wealthy young widow is one of the victims in an intricate blackmail plot that leads to the murder of a Chicago mobster. During the investigation, McGarrett discovers the blackmail scheme and a plot to rob a Hawaiian bank.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Good Night, Baby - Time to Die
aired: Tue, Feb 15, 1972
A convicted murderer escapes from prison and threatens to kill his former girl friend, so McGarrett sets up an elaborate police protective system around the girl in an effort to capture the killer.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. Cloth of Gold
aired: Tue, Feb 8, 1972
Members of a not-too-legitimate real estate company become victims of a poison contained in a rare shellfish. McGarrett knows that the two men were murdered, but is stumped by the origin of the poison and how it was administered to the victims.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. While You're at It, Bring in the Moon
aired: Tue, Feb 1, 1972
Barry Sullivan guest stars as an eccentric billionaire suspected of killing one of his business associates, but who is afraid to leave his antiseptic yacht even to clear himself of the crime.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. Skinhead
aired: Tue, Jan 25, 1972
A young Hawaiian girl is assaulted in a parking lot and a braggart soldier is arrested and tried for the crime. The soldier is found guilty, but a fact in his medical history leads McGarrett to believe the wrong man may have been convicted.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. The Ninety-Second War: Part II
aired: Tue, Jan 18, 1972
McGarrett learns that communist agent Wo Fat needs 90 seconds in order to carry out his plot against a U.S. missile tracking base.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. The Ninety-Second War: Part I
aired: Tue, Jan 11, 1972
A powerful unknown source sets up an elaborate scheme to frame McGarrett as a thief.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Bait Once, Bait Twice
aired: Tue, Jan 4, 1972
A young woman is forced to fake a suicide attempt so that her fiancée' will come out of hiding -- a gambling czar wants him dead.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. Odd Man In
aired: Tue, Dec 28, 1971
Hume Cronyn returns in a guest star appearance as Lewis Avery Filer, the criminal with a thousand faces, who escapes from the Oahu prison after devising a scheme to steal $4-million from drug smugglers. Filer, as in past crimes, taunts McGarrett with clues, but this time his plan includes having McGarrett help him rather than hinder him.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. Is This Any Way to Run a Paradise?
aired: Tue, Dec 14, 1971
McGarrett searches for an ecology fanatic whose pranks are harmless until he threatens the lives of those he feels are the cause of the island's pollution. The islanders are sympathetic to the prankster -- until he carries out his threat of murder.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Nine, Ten, You're Dead
aired: Tue, Nov 30, 1971
A syndicate boss seeks revenge when his light-heavyweight boxer's hand is smashed by a punchy ex-fighter. McGarrett and his Five-O team desperately search for the punchy attacker, not only to bring him to justice but also, to protect him from the mobster.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. A Matter of Mutual Concern
aired: Tue, Nov 23, 1971
McGarrett fears a gangland war is imminent when it seems a mainland syndicate is trying to take over criminal operations. Criminal operations up to this time have been under the control of four unfriendly families, and McGarrett expects trouble because he suspects them of having murdered the messenger sent by the mainland syndicate.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. Rest in Peace, Somebody
aired: Tue, Nov 16, 1971
McGarrett receives calls and clues from a man saying he will kill somebody important in 48 hours. His only clue to the identity of the victim: a key sent by the anonymous assailant.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. The Burning Ice
aired: Tue, Nov 9, 1971
Jackie Cooper guest stars as Dr. Alex Southmore, who becomes a suspect in the investigation of his wife's murder when McGarrett finds holes in the confessed killer's story. McGarrett believes the murderer is still at large when he learns that the confessed killer was a conscientious objector in the Korean war and is a patient with a terminal illness in the hospital where Dr. Southmore practices.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. For a Million... Why Not?
aired: Tue, Nov 2, 1971
Five upstanding citizens seek their own revenge through a criminal act -- the theft of $6 million. The precision and elaborate planning employed by the group make their scheme a seemingly perfect crime, even to the Five-O investigation team.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Air Cargo - Dial for Murder
aired: Tue, Oct 26, 1971
McGarrett, while investigating the death of an airport security undercover agent, comes upon an air cargo hijacking ring. The case becomes more involved when another airport employee is found dead and over a quarter of a million dollars is discovered among his personal effects.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. ...And I Want Some Candy and a Gun That Shoots
aired: Tue, Oct 19, 1971
A psychotic sniper endangers the lives of motorists as he fires at cars from a hillside bunker overlooking a major highway. Five-O, aided by the Honolulu police department, employs every method to penetrate the sniper's seemingly impregnable position, and to take him alive and avoid any senseless bloodshed.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Two Doves and Mr. Heron
aired: Tue, Oct 12, 1971
Vic Morrow guest stars as Edward Heron, a tourist in Hawaii, who, after being mugged and hospitalized, becomes the object of McGarrett's suspicions when he refuses to press charges and disappears from the hospital. The mugger discovers he got more than he hoped for when he finds in Heron's wallet a key to a storage locker holding $250,000.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. 3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu
aired: Tue, Oct 5, 1971
Buddy Ebsen guest stars as a cunning college professor who plots an elaborate scheme to cash $750,000 worth of stolen travelers checks. Operating under the guise of a legitimate tour guide, the professor sees his plans go awry when one of the tour members becomes ill, is murdered in his hospital bed, and McGarrett is called in to investigate.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. Wednesday, Ladies Free
aired: Tue, Sep 28, 1971
A strangler murders five women, leaving each wearing a blonde wig and their faces garishly made up. Monte Markham guest stars as Jerry Rhoades, a private investigator whose wife is among the victims, and who has joined McGarrett's search for the criminal. Together, they desperately work against time to find a link between the female victims and capture the killer before he strikes again.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. No Bottles... No Cans... No People
aired: Tue, Sep 21, 1971
A small-time hoodlum tries to eliminate the competition and open the way for a mainland crime syndicate to operate in Hawaii. McGarrett and his Five-O team are assigned by the Attorney General's office to block the syndicate's operation and put the mobster out of business permanently.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. Highest Castle, Deepest Grave
aired: Tue, Sep 14, 1971
A ten-year-old missing persons case is reopened when the bodies of a man and a woman are found during an archeological dig and medical reports show the pair to have been murdered.
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Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. The Grandstand Play: Part II
aired: Wed, Mar 10, 1971
The son of a professional baseball player is witness to a murder that takes place in a ballpark, but he's too frightened to tell his father or the authorities.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. The Grandstand Play: Part I
aired: Wed, Mar 3, 1971
The son of a professional baseball player is witness to a murder that takes place in a ballpark, but he's too frightened to tell his father or the authorities.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. The Bomber and Mrs. Moroney
aired: Wed, Feb 24, 1971
An armed lunatic who blames Danny Williams for his brother's death invades Five-O headquarters seeking revenge, takes four people hostage, booby-traps the door with dynamite, and reveals that he himself, is a walking time bomb.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Dear Enemy
aired: Wed, Feb 17, 1971
Vera Miles guest stars as a wife who fakes evidence appearing to link two murders, in an attempt to trick McGarrett into reinvestigating the homicide charge for which her husband was convicted. McGarrett discovers the hoax, but at the same time stumbles across the solution to an earlier and more significant crime which may indeed prove the woman's husband innocent.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. The Gunrunner
aired: Wed, Feb 10, 1971
An investigation by Five-O reveals that a munitions dealer has arranged for the kidnapping of his own wife so that he can induce a beleaguered government to pay a higher price for an arms shipment.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. F.O.B. Honolulu: Part II
aired: Wed, Feb 3, 1971
Almost-perfect counterfeit plates for U.S. twenty dollar bills are desperately sought, not only by American but by various international agents as the ultimately successful trail leads to Hawaii where Five-O must deal with murder, treason and doublecross. The drama is in two parts.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. F.O.B. Honolulu: Part I
aired: Wed, Jan 27, 1971
Almost-perfect counterfeit plates for U.S. twenty dollar bills are desperately sought, not only by American but by various international agents as the ultimately successful trail leads to Hawaii where Five-O must deal with murder, treason and doublecross. The drama is in two parts.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. To Kill or Be Killed
aired: Wed, Jan 13, 1971
A combat hero, returning from Vietnam, is found dead under mysterious circumstances, and McGarrett and his Five-O unit find their investigation is obstructed for some unknown reason by Army Intelligence.
Episode 16
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 16. Ten Thousand Diamonds and a Heart
aired: Wed, Jan 6, 1971
A prisoner is broken out of prison by a wealthy gangster so he can mastermind a $10 million robbery of the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Paniolo
aired: Wed, Dec 30, 1970
McGarrett's investigation into the death of a real estate agent leads to the island of Maui.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. The Double Wall
aired: Wed, Dec 16, 1970
Monte Markham plays convicted murderer Harry Kellem, whom Five-O must try to prove innocent in order to save the life of a prison doctor who Kellem is holding hostage. In a twist of the bizarre, a fellow prisoner being held behind bars for another crime confesses to the murder, then dies before he can repeat the confession to anyone else.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. The Payoff
aired: Wed, Dec 9, 1970
Steve McGarrett must apprehend a hoodlum and his girl friend in order to save their lives. The two are being sought by two men from whom they stole a large cash ransom which they acquired by carrying out an abduction.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. Beautiful Screamer
aired: Wed, Dec 2, 1970
A strangler who writes the poetry of Byron in lipstick on the legs of two victims, one of them Danny's fiancée, must be stopped in time to prevent a third murder.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. Over Fifty? Steal
aired: Wed, Nov 25, 1970
Distinguished actor Hume Cronyn guest stars as Avery Filer, a master burglar of such brazen daring that he ignites a political inferno. Filer glories in such taunting, publicity-grabbing stunts as reporting his thefts to the Five-O crew and defying McGarrett to produce sufficient evidence against him.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. The Last Eden
aired: Wed, Nov 18, 1970
McGarrett's unit searches for the conspirators who framed nightclub star Jimmy Nuanu, a crusader for ecological balance in Hawaii, to make him appear to be the saboteur of an inadequate sewage treatment plant.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. The Late John Louisiana
aired: Wed, Nov 11, 1970
McGarrett leads an all-out search for the witness to a two-year-old murder in order to protect her from Harry Quon, one of Hawaii's most-wanted criminals and the crime's prime suspect. McGarrett must find the girl, who previously was presumed to be dead, and persuade her to testify before Quon and his men take more drastic steps to stop her from talking.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. The Reunion
aired: Wed, Nov 4, 1970
A millionaire businessman is accused of being a former Japanese officer responsible for extreme physical and mental cruelty to U.S. World War II prisoners of war. McGarrett and Five-O attempt to exonerate him from accusations made by former members of a U.S. Air Force squadron who are in Hawaii for a reunion, and to protect him from threatened physical harm.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Force of Waves
aired: Wed, Oct 28, 1970
The investigation of a boat explosion in which a wealthy businessman dies and McGarrett is seriously injured leads the Five-O team to believe that the widow's former husband is responsible for the sabotage.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. The Ransom
aired: Wed, Oct 21, 1970
The efforts of McGarrett's Five-O police unit to rescue a wealthy young boy from his ransom-hungry abductors backfire when McGarrett's own man, Kono, also becomes a prisoner of the thugs. Kono helps Timmy escape, but is unable to make a getaway himself. The hoods, determined to win their ransom demand of a quarter-million dollars, notify McGarrett that Kono's life is now worth that sum.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. The Guarnerius Caper
aired: Wed, Oct 14, 1970
The theft of a priceless violin belonging to a Russian musician touring in Honolulu threatens to explode into an international incident. With the danger that the Soviet government will make propaganda out of the loss, Washington asks McGarrett to drop the case, in the hope that the thieves will return the violin for a ransom.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Time and Memories
aired: Wed, Oct 7, 1970
A tender memory in McGarrett's past is suddenly shaken when his former fiancée,Cathy Wallis, finds her husband slain. McGarrett becomes personally involved in the case and jeopardizes his job when Cathy becomes the prime suspect.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. The Second Shot
aired: Wed, Sep 30, 1970
McGarrett must thwart an elaborate assassination attempt on the life of a self-exiled Greek doctor. The plot thickens when Klaus Marburg, an influential foreign correspondent who comes to Hawaii to interview the doctor, finds himself the target of an assassin.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. Trouble in Mind
aired: Wed, Sep 23, 1970
Contaminated heroin shatters a failing singer's desperate attempt at a comeback. Caught in the same quagmire of crime are the singer's drummer friend who dies from the toxic dope; Mike, who offers much needed help to McGarrett; and a member of McGarrett's own Five-O police team, who appears implicated in the smuggling.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. And a Time to Die
aired: Wed, Sep 16, 1970
Five-O is confronted with the problem of corralling foreign agents responsible for critically wounding a U.S. government undercover agent upon his return from a 10-year mission in Red China. McGarrett and his aides must then move swiftly to prevent a threat against the kidnapped daughter of the surgeon who is to operate on the wounded U.S. agent. Khigh Dhiegh is again seen as Wo Fat, the Red agent leader in Hawaii.
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Episode 25
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 25. Kiss the Queen Goodbye
aired: Wed, Mar 11, 1970
A high-voltage jewel thief in the guise of a socialite sets out to steal a treasured gem belonging to Hawaiian royalty. Using a former movie idol in her scheme to get the jewel, the thief arrives at the governor's gala where she finds that McGarrett and his team of investigators make her plan more difficult.
Episode 24
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 24. Three Dead Cows at Makapuu: Part II
aired: Wed, Mar 4, 1970
Five-O has 12 hours to find a test tube filled with the deadly "Q strain," which science genius Alex Kline has hidden.
Episode 23
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 23. Three Dead Cows at Makapuu: Part I
aired: Wed, Feb 25, 1970
A scientific genius disappears after discovering a biological mutation which is hostile to every form of life on earth.
Episode 22
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 22. Nightmare Road
aired: Wed, Feb 18, 1970
A famous research scientist, duped into believing he shot a man, disappears from his vital government post. Meanwhile, McGarrett's investigation is being hampered by officious help from another arm of the government.
Episode 21
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 21. Most Likely to Murder
aired: Wed, Feb 11, 1970
When a policeman's wife is murdered, the officer attempts to take the law into his own hands to seek out and execute the killer.
Episode 20
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 20. Cry, Lie
aired: Wed, Feb 4, 1970
Chin Ho Kelly, one of McGarrett's trusted investigators, is accused of taking a bribe from a narcotics dealer.
Episode 19
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 19. The One with the Gun
aired: Wed, Jan 28, 1970
A dishonest poker game causes a young honeymooner to lose his life. McGarrett's investigation is complicated when the victim's brother, dissatisfied with the progress on the case, sets out to track down the assailant and almost becomes a criminal himself.
Episode 18
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 18. Killer Bee
aired: Wed, Jan 21, 1970
A veteran of Vietnam has grave psychological problems which compel him to become a kidnapper. McGarrett is called into the kidnapping cases, and discovers that the young veteran is being driven into a catatonic state deliberately.
Episode 17
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 17. Run, Johnny, Run
aired: Wed, Jan 14, 1970
During the pursuit of an AWOL sailor, a fight ensues and one of two shore patrolmen is shot. But McGarrett and the Five-O team run into Navy resistance when they try to bring the suspect in under civil law to protect him.
Episode 15
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 15. Blind Tiger
aired: Wed, Dec 31, 1969
A surprise birthday party for McGarrett ends with an attempt on his life. The attempt fails but McGarrett is left blinded. Despite being incapacitated, it takes an order by the governor to stop him from searching for his assailant. Meanwhile, his assistants tear the city apart to find the man who injured their boss.
Episode 14
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 14. Which Way Did They Go?
aired: Wed, Dec 24, 1969
Ossie Connors, an adversary from McGarrett's past, manages to accomplish the perfect robbery right under the nose of Five-O.
Episode 13
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 13. The Joker's Wild, Man, Wild!
aired: Wed, Dec 17, 1969
A spoiled Texas heiress pits a beachboy against a playboy in a bizarre card game. As the rivals vie for the attentions of the Texas rose, Five-O becomes the thorn in her plans.
Episode 12
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 12. The Devil and Mr. Frog
aired: Wed, Dec 10, 1969
The kidnapped son of a wealthy man escapes, and the father demands that Five-O recover the $300,000 ransom money he has paid. McGarrett and his team of investigators have only the boy's description of a frog and the devil to lead them to the extortionists.
Episode 11
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 11. Leopard on the Rock
aired: Wed, Dec 3, 1969
The safety of a hated dictator becomes McGarrett's responsibility when the man, whose personal jet is forced to make an emergency landing in Hawaii, becomes the target of a killer.
Episode 10
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 10. All the King's Horses
aired: Wed, Nov 26, 1969
McGarrett is asked to build a case against an ex-racketeer for the political benefit of a state probe committee. During the committee hearings, state committee head Charles Irwin intends to show that ex-con Mike Finney is heading a crime syndicate that controls Hawaii's labor force. But Mc-Garrett's investigation produces nothing derogatory against Finney. Instead, McGarrett's suspicions are aroused and he begins an intensive investigation of Irwin.
Episode 9
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 9. The Singapore File
aired: Wed, Nov 19, 1969
McGarrett is called to Singapore by a terrified girl he is seeking as a witness to a local murder. The girl, the only witness to a felony committed by one of Hawaii's most wanted criminals, pleads with McGarrett to come to Singapore and bring her back to Hawaii to testify, for she is tired of running.
Episode 8
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 8. King Kamehameha Blues
aired: Wed, Nov 12, 1969
McGarrett seeks a university student in Hawaii who needles the establishment by stealing one of the 50th state's most cherished symbols, the royal robe of King Kamehameha. The theft, originally a prank, takes on a more serious dimension when the students decide not to return the garment.
Episode 7
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 7. Sweet Terror
aired: Wed, Nov 5, 1969
A foreign agent exposes McGarrett to the grim possibility of germ warfare and the potential loss of Hawaii's sugar industry. Meanwhile, McGarrett and his three-man special police force pick up clues, which lead to the agent's whereabouts, and the startling discovery that they may be too late to thwart his sabotage plans.
Episode 6
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 6. A Bullet for McGarrett
aired: Wed, Oct 29, 1969
A radical Chinese Maoist student attending the university is found dead just as McGarrett has obtained evidence of his connection with Communist intelligence ring.
Episode 5
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 5. Savage Sunday
aired: Wed, Oct 22, 1969
Steve McGarrett encounters a small guerrilla force who steals arms from an armory to support a revolution in their own country. The foreign revolutionaries break into the armory on a quiet Sunday morning, and McGarrett is called into action, setting off an island-wide search for the terrorist band.
Episode 4
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 4. Just Lucky, I Guess
aired: Wed, Oct 15, 1969
A respectable small-town salesman witnesses the murder of a prostitute but, afraid of personal embarrassment, refuses to testify. Unable to build a case without his help, McGarrett enlists the help of a policewoman to catch the ringleaders with $200,000 worth of heroin.
Episode 3
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 3. Forty Feet High and It Kills!
aired: Wed, Oct 8, 1969
Hawaii is the target of a false tidal wave being broadcast by a Red Chinese agent to cover the kidnapping of a renowned scientist. Professor Lochner, the scientist, has discovered revolutionary breakthrough in genetics that will produce a superior race, and the foreign power wants the scientist and his formula -- at whatever cost.
Episode 2
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 2. To Hell with Babe Ruth
aired: Wed, Oct 1, 1969
McGarrett pursues a Japanese mental patient determined to fulfill his assignment of 28 years ago -- sabotage Pearl Harbor.
Episode 1
Hawaii Five-O (Classic): 1. A Thousand Pardons - You're Dead!
aired: Wed, Sep 24, 1969
McGarrett probes the deaths of the brides of three soldiers killed in action in Vietnam.The death of each of the brides occurs after she collects the G.I. insurance. McGarrett's attempts to unravel the mystery are hampered when he runs afoul an Army Sergeant war hero. Meanwhile, Five-O sets a trap for a dance-hall hostess who appears to know more than she is telling.

