Hawaii Five-O Best Episode of Each Season (as voted by IMDB users)
A list of the best episode of each season as chosen by users of the Hawaii Five-O forum on IMDB.
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- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.8 (220)TV EpisodeDirectorHerschel DaughertyStarsJack LordJames MacArthurZuluMcGarrett is gunned down during his morning run on the beach. While the lawman is in critical condition, Dan Williams leads the investigation. Shortly thereafter, another man is killed and Five-O probes whether the two incidents are related. It turns out they are -- and the state Attorney General may become the next victim.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.6 (207)TV EpisodeDirectorNicholas ColasantoStarsJack LordJames MacArthurZuluIn a show with several similarities to the previous season opener, a series of swindlings are covers for serial murder. An Army sergeant who lost his brother in Vietnam because of the latter's infatuation with a bar girl, uses Honolulu bar girls as patsies to "marry" dead soldiers and collect on their $10,000 apiece insurance policies -- then murders them and keeps the money. The sergeant is absolutely coldblooded and utters the episode's title when his partner (who has been forging the marriage certificates and the insurance papers) has a heart attack and can't get to his nitro tablets. An unusually violent ending. From this point, all series closing credits are played over shots of men paddling an outrigger canoe through the ocean (replacing the first-season end title of a flashing police light on a car driving through Honolulu); the color and size of the credit cards is also altered.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsJack LordJames MacArthurZuluTwo women are strangled and portions of a poem are written, in lipstick, on their legs. The second is the girlfriend of Dan Williams. He is on edge, wanting to work on the case "or else it's going to work on me." Danno, however, beats up a person who knew his girlfriend before Kono and Chin Ho can stop him. It turns out the real killer is Walter Gregson, who really wants to kill his wife (a friend of the two dead women) and make it appear all the deaths were committed by a psychopath.
- DirectorPaul StanleyStarsJack LordJames MacArthurZuluMcGarrett receives a telephone call when he arrives at his office. The caller says that he intends to kill someone. The caller has also sent the lawman a key that will identity the intended victim. The other Five-0 detectives have received taunts and clues from the caller, including a photograph of Chin Ho's garage, and a note in the trunk of Danno's car. The caller continues to taunt McGarrett, who is desperate to learn the identity of the caller, and the identity of the intended victim.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsJack LordJames MacArthurAl HarringtonThe Vashons are planning to go after Steve for killing Chris Vashon. His grandfather wants to send Steve a message that he's going to die. Honore, Chris' father, objects, unsuccessfully. Steve gets the message and goes to see Honore Vashon, who denies having anything to do with it. Chris's grandfather then hires someone to kill Steve but the attempt fails. Steve then has Honore placed under surveillance which the latter discovers and becomes very careful. He stops using his phone. Eventually he arranges a secluded meeting with his father who tells Honore they need to find someone outside the islands to take care of Steve. Eventually Honore evades the surveillance long enough to meet with the assassin. Steve knows there's someone out there with orders to kill him so he needs to find the assassin first rather than vice versa.
- DirectorAllen ReisnerStarsJack LordJames MacArthurAl HarringtonAn off-duty police officer is shot and killed by a sniper while moonlighting as a funeral escort. The next day, another officer is shot and killed during a police standoff, but the bullets taken from his body and the body of the other murdered officer don't match the gun the suspect used. Another link between the two murders is a metallic plate with both officers' names engraved on it. A few days later someone takes a shot at McGarrett and during a high speed chase the suspect's car crashes into the harbor and he manages to escape and leaves behind a prosthetic hook. McGarrett soon realizes that the suspect in both murders as well as the attempt on his life is Curt Stoner, a bank robber who blamed them for the loss of his arms in a failed bank robbery attempt several years earlier. McGarrett then tries to warn another officer before he is killed but is too late. Now it is a race against time to find the killer before he completes his vendetta and kills McGarrett.
- DirectorCharles S. DubinStarsJack LordJames MacArthurAl HarringtonA nerdy bookstore clerk with an obsession for McGarrett turns deadly as he re-creates some of Five-O's most famous cases that were covered in a series of magazine articles. He is so brazen that he even calls McGarrett to brag about his crimes and sends him notes. Now McGarrett and the rest of the Five-O team must find the killer before he strikes again.Voted best episode of the series!
- DirectorBruce BilsonStarsJack LordJames MacArthurKam FongAlex Kelsey, a lawyer involved with mobster Din Lee, kills a dying Japanese man. The dead man had been a Japanese operative at the time of Pearl Harbor. Kelsey believes the dead man had a secret stash of gold. Kazuo Tahashi, the dead man's son, arrives from San Francisco. But Tahashi isn't all what he appears to be, either. Meanwhile, in the background is retired U.S. Navy Commander Reginald Blackwell, who had been an operative in Naval intelligence. McGarrett & Co. must try to put the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle together.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsJack LordJames MacArthurKam FongA sniper targets police officers.
- DirectorHarvey S. LaidmanStarsJack LordJames MacArthurKam FongSome kids steal an ambulance, one of the attendants tries to stop them but is struck. One of the kids wants to go back and help the man but they keep on going. When they reach their destination the one who wanted to go back is upset, saying that no one was suppose to get hurt. That's when he walks off and a couple of them follow him. He goes to the Iolani Palace and one of them tries to talk him out what he is thinking but his mind is made that's when he is shot. Steve is upset. Later they put their plan in motion, wherein two of them go to a weather monitoring station and make the one there announce a Tsunami is coming. And that's when the island is in an uproar. That's when the rest rob a jewelry store. Steve upon learning the whole thing's a hoax and help but wonder if it and the dead young man are connected.
- DirectorBeau Vanden EckerStarsJack LordJames MacArthurHerman WedemeyerA serial killer brazenly tries to sell the rights to his story to a greedy book publisher, and then targets the publisher's daughter as his next victim after being turned down. The killer is the last person Danno books.
- DirectorDon WeisStarsJack LordWilliam SmithHerman WedemeyerUsing radio-controlled model airplanes, three college students engineer the theft of the Hawaiian crown jewels.