Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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- Seasons
- 12
- Episodes aired
- 284
- Latest aired
- S12E20
- Total runtime
- 11d 16h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1968 – March 1969 25 episodes
- Season 2 September 1969 – March 1970 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1970 – March 1971 24 episodes
- Season 4 September 1971 – March 1972 24 episodes
- Season 5 September 1972 – March 1973 24 episodes
- Season 6 September 1973 – February 1974 24 episodes
- Season 7 September 1974 – March 1975 24 episodes
- Season 8 September 1975 – March 1976 24 episodes
- Season 9 September 1976 – May 1977 24 episodes
- Season 10 September 1977 – May 1978 24 episodes
- Season 11 September 1978 – April 1979 22 episodes
- Season 12 October 1979 – April 1980 20 episodes
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S01E01 Cocoon (1)
September 20 · 51min find the promo
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Red Chinese agent Wo Fat uses a sensory deprivation chamber to procure information from U.S. agents. Steve McGarrett, head of Hawaii Five-O, investigates the death of a close friend who appears to have drowned. Steve's knowledge about his friend and a mysterious white substance lead him into a high-level intelligence matter involving a foreign agent. McGarrett, head of Hawaii's state police force, poses as "control," possessor of the names of other agents. He allows himself to be captured and placed in the chamber; will he be able to withstand the torture?
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S01E02 Cocoon (2)
September 20 · 51min find the promo
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McGarrett is caught and cocooned, and must escape this torture and shut down Wo Fat's operation.
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S01E03 Full Fathom Five
September 26 · 51min find the promo
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Victor Reese and his wife Nora are conning rich widows out of their savings, and then poisoning them and dumping them in the ocean. McGarrett and company hatch a plan to use a female officer to trap the duo.
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S01E04 Strangers In Our Own Land
October 3 · 51min find the promo
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Five-O probes into the death of an official who was instrumental in the development of the islands, and discovers a tangled web of lies and deception.
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S01E05 Tiger By The Tail
October 10 · 51min find the promo
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A young singer, Bobby George, plans his own kidnapping as a stunt, but when his father offers $500,000 for his release, his co-conspirators decide to double-cross him and take the money.
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S01E06 Samurai
October 17 · 51min find the promo
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McGarrett and the gang must simultaneously protect a gangster from Japanese assassins and also try to convict him for his underworld activities.
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S01E07 ... And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin
November 7 · 51min find the promo
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Danny Williams is accused of shooting an apparently unarmed young boy. Meanwhile, in his investigation, McGarrett comes up against Big Chicken, a nasty dope dealer.
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S01E08 Twenty-Four Karat Kill
November 14 · 51min find the promo
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A woman buys fish from a monger, and is followed home and murdered. McGarrett and the team must discover who killed her and stop smugglers from completing their operation.
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S01E09 The Ways Of Love
November 21 · 51min find the promo
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After a girl dies during a high speed chase, a trail of clues leads McGarrett to a Los Angeles prison, where he must act the part of convict Steve Crowley to gain the trust of his cellmate for a break-out, which will help reveal the plans of the crime.
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S01E10 No Blue Skies
December 5 · 51min find the promo
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When a singer, Joey Rand, finds that his career doesn't pay well enough, he turns to cat burglary. However he doesn't reckon on Hawaii Five-O.
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S01E11 By the Numbers
December 12 · 51min find the promo
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A winning lottery ticket drags an army private into a the murky world of mob politics and vice.
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S01E12 Yesterday Died And Tomorrow Won't Be Born
December 19 · 51min find the promo
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When McGarrett is shot and badly wounded on a beachside jog, Danno and the team must work feverishly to find the culprit and prevent him from committing any more murders.
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S01E13 Deathwatch
December 25 · 51min find the promo
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McGarrett must protect a protect a mob underboss so he is able to testify against his superior, Joe Matsukino. However, Matsukino has many tricks up his sleeve to silence his former colleague permanently…
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S01E14 Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
January 1 · 51min find the promo
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When a young female student is found murdered on campus, suspicions fall on her boyfriend but McGarrett senses that something is not right.
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S01E15 King Of The Hill
January 8 · 51min find the promo
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Danno is taken hostage by a Vietnam veteran who is suffering delusional flashbacks and sees everyone as forces sent to kill him.
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S01E16 Up Tight
January 15 · 51min find the promo
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Young Eadie Hastings cannot be saved by Danno from jumping of a cliff, and Five-O think that she was high on speed. They track her source to a crank teacher, Professor David Stone, and Danno must pose as a surfer to investigate the drug pushers and users.
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S01E17 Face Of The Dragon
January 22 · 51min find the promo
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A man is found dead after having been robbed by a motorcyclist with a gun, and McGarrett is shocked to discover that the man was suffering from bubonic plague. The islands are quarantined, and the team must follow a series of clues to discover the cause of the outbreak.
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S01E18 The Box
January 29 · 51min find the promo
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Big Chicken returns in a tense prison hostage drama when McGarrett has to give himself over to the criminals as a bargaining chip and use psychology to take control of the situation.
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S01E19 One For The Money
February 5 · 51min find the promo
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When a girl is found murdered and numbered 'one', McGarrett suspects a serial killer. However the killer seems to be very selective in targeting members of a particular company, and suspicion soon falls on two brothers who stand to inherit the firm from their aged aunt.
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S01E20 Along Came Joey
February 12 · 51min find the promo
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When the boxing son of a policeman, Phil Kalama, is killed, he starts a personal vendetta, and McGarrett must both solve the crime and stop Kalama from committing another murder.
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S01E21 Once Upon A Time (1)
February 19 · 51min find the promo
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When the son of McGarrett's sister falls ill with cancer and she becomes involved in ‘naturology', her husband calls in Steve to investigate and persuade her to stop paying for the useless treatments. However, the quack doctor sets up a court case to prevent McGarrett from closing her practice.
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S01E22 Once Upon A Time (2)
February 26 · 51min find the promo
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McGarrett must use all legal means possible to win the court case against Dr. C.L. Fremont, stopping her fake treatments and saving his sister from more anguish and pain.
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S01E23 Not That Much Different
March 5 · 51min find the promo
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When a leader of a student peace movement is killed, McGarrett has to investigate the murder against a wall of silence and a distrust of the police by the activists.
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S01E24 Six Kilos
March 12 · 51min find the promo
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Chin Ho and Dan Williams are tracking a safecracker but he pulls a gun and Danno ends up shooting him. McGarrett takes his identity of Harry Brown and must infiltrate a sophisticated gang of international thieves.
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S01E25 The Big Kahuna
March 19 · 51min find the promo
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Sam Kalakua, a distant cousin of Kono, is being frightened into an early grave by an fake apparition of a Hawaiian god created by his nephew, who wants to sell the estate to a land merchant.