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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S03E01 ... And A Time To Die
September 16 · 60min find the promo
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Five-O must act swiftly when the daughter of a top neurosurgeon is kidnapped by Wo Fat in order to make the surgeon operate on a wounded U.S. undercover agent who is carrying secret inforrmation of use to the Chinese.
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S03E02 Trouble In Mind
September 23 · 60min find the promo
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Singer Eadie Jordan has not only a comeback concert to perform, but also a serious heroin addiction. Poisoned heroin is being peddled on the islands, and McGarrett must try to save Eadie from scoring for the last time.
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S03E03 The Second Shot
September 30 · 60min find the promo
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Dr. Lemira, an opposition leader for Greece, is living in exile in Hawaii, but Klaus Marberg is sent to assassinate him. His plan is to get himself shot and work his way into Dr. Lemira's confidence so he can kill him easily. McGarrett must work out this plot and save the day before it is too late.
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S03E04 Time And Memories
October 7 · 60min find the promo
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When a lawyer is murdered, his wife becomes the top suspect and McGarrett investigates. However, matters are complicated by the fact that the woman had a relationship with McGarrett, and he jeopardises his job because of this.
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S03E05 The Guarnerius Caper
October 14 · 60min find the promo
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Shortly after giving a recital, the violin of a visiting Russian virtuoso is stolen, and McGarrett must retrieve it before the theft turns into an international incident.
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S03E06 The Ransom
October 21 · 60min find the promo
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Five-O's efforts to rescue a young boy from kidnappers go wrong when Kono is captured and beaten. An angry McGarrett must work out a way to rescue Kono without further endangering him.
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S03E07 Force Of Waves
October 28 · 60min find the promo
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When a ruthless businessman is blown up in a boat explosion, Five-O has many suspects to choose from, and they use psychological methods to determine the guilty party.
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S03E08 The Reunion
November 4 · 60min find the promo
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A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.
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S03E09 The Late John Louisiana
November 11 · 60min find the promo
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The hitman sent to kill the witness to a two year old murder instead falls in love with her and McGarrett and the team must lead the search to find her before duty overtakes love.
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S03E10 The Last Eden
November 18 · 60min find the promo
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Five-O search for the criminals who have set up Hawaiian singer and ecologist Jimmy Nuanu as the fall guy for a sewage plant bombing.
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S03E11 Over Fifty? Steal!
November 25 · 60min find the promo
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McGarrett and company must pit their wits against a veteran thief and robber who leaves Monopoly money at the scene of his crimes.
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S03E12 Beautiful Screamer
December 2 · 60min find the promo
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Dan Williams's fiancee is murdered by a strangler who writes poetry in lipstick on his victims' legs. Danno resolves to catch the culprit who has other murderous plans to carry out.
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S03E13 The Payoff
December 9 · 60min find the promo
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McGarrett must apprehend two abductors who are on the run with the proceeds of their crime in order to protect the lives of their co-conspirators.
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S03E14 The Double Wall
December 16 · 60min find the promo
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When a convicted murderer, Harry Kellem, hears a dying man say he committed the crime that Kellem was jailed for, he takes a doctor hostage and McGarrett must negotiate his way out of the situation.
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S03E15 Paniolo
December 30 · 60min find the promo
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A cowboy fears the loss of his land to a crooked estate agent and accidentally kills him by hitting him. McGarrett and his team must track the cowboy into the mountains and persuade him to give himself up.
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S03E16 Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
January 6 · 60min find the promo
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An electronics genius is busted out of prison so he can mastermind a massive robbery of diamonds from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
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S03E17 To Kill Or Be Killed
January 13 · 60min find the promo
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Five-O investigates the death of Vietnam hero Jack Rigney, who fell from a balcony. His father is a World War II veteran, but his brother Michael is a peacenik, and Danno goes undercover as a draft dodger to help solve the mystery of Jack's death.
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S03E18 F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
January 27 · 60min find the promo
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Wo Fat and other top international agents converge on Hawaii to place bids on printing plates for twenty dollar bills, which are in the possession of a former friend of McGarrett.
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S03E19 F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
February 3 · 60min find the promo
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Five-O must deal with treason, murder and double-crosses in order to solve the case and prevent the U.S. from being flooded by fake currency.
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S03E20 The Gunrunner
February 10 · 60min find the promo
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The wife of an arms dealer is kidnapped by revolutionaries who want the guns diverted from their original destination, but the arms dealer himself is not as innocent as matters would indicate…
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S03E21 Dear Enemy
February 17 · 60min find the promo
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The wife of a convicted man fakes evidence in a new crime so that McGarrett will have to re-open her husband's case.
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S03E22 The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
February 24 · 60min find the promo
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Danno's past comes back to haunt him when the brother of a young boy he shot is released and wants revenge. The brother takes Chin Ho, Jenny and others hostage in McGarrett's office and threatens to blow them up, and Danno must resolve the tense situation.
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S03E23 The Grandstand Play (1)
March 3 · 60min find the promo
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A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
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S03E24 The Grandstand Play (2)
March 10 · 60min find the promo
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The son of the baseball player becomes the vital witness in a murder, but he is reluctant to tell either his father or Five-O of the crime.