The BEST episodes of Hawaii Five-O
Every episode of Hawaii Five-O ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hawaii Five-O!
The investigations of Hawaii Five-O, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
#1 - Woe To Wo Fat
Season 12 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/5/1980
The series concludes with the final showdown between McGarrett and Wo Fat. Three scientists have gone missing. They have one thing in common: they all attended a symposium that discussed a possible space-based, laser defense system. McGarrett impersonates a fourth scientist, Dr. Elton Raintree, who attended the same gathering and is soon abducted. Wo Fat is behind it all and wants the scientists to complete their work and produce such a device.
#2 - Deathwatch
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/25/1968
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.
#3 - Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/1/1969
When a young female student is found murdered on campus, suspicions fall on her boyfriend but McGarrett senses that something is not right.
#4 - Deadly Persuasion
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/18/1975
A disturbed young man steals nerve gas to use against a visiting royal family as revenge for the death of his father.
#5 - A Lion In The Streets (2)
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/4/1979
Labouring under a ban on cooperation by native Hawaiians because of a Kahuna, McGarrett must try to prevent war on the streets...
#6 - Number One With A Bullet (2)
Season 11 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/4/1979
The rival gangs are on the brink of all out war, and Five-O must struggle to stop them.
#7 - The Miracle Man
Season 11 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/21/1978
When a preacher is attacked by a man convinced that he is responsible for his wife's death, Five-O investigate more closely and discover some less than godly motives.
#8 - A Distant Thunder
Season 11 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/1978
Five-O must deal with the plans of a Neo Nazi organisation to kill Bobby Tamara, the "Hawaiian Kennedy".
#9 - The Waterfront Steal
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/21/1975
When Five-O fail to prevent a series of thefts at dockside warehouses, an influential owner creates trouble for McGarrett.
#10 - How To Steal A Submarine
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/14/1975
A vice-principal enlists the help of his students and a submarine to smuggle drugs.
#11 - The Banzai Pipeline
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/1/1974
An exciting surf beach is the location for a filming session, where a man catches a killer on camera.
#12 - The Finishing Touch
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/20/1973
McGarrett brings in a document expert to help him crack a case involving forged government securities, but he soon becomes suspicious of the expert as well...
#13 - Murder Is A Taxing Affair
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/1973
A corrupt federal agent who is tracking a man under indictment for tax evasion kills him for the $600,000 he is carrying, and then loses the money.
#14 - Charter For Death
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1973
When a large amount of diseased rats are found on a boat with all the crew dead, Five-O must contend with an outbreak of bubonic plague.
#15 - The Odd Lot Caper
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/30/1973
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
#16 - F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1971
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.
#17 - F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1971
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.
#18 - The Payoff
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1970
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.
#19 - King of the Hill
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/8/1969
Danno is taken hostage by a Vietnam veteran who is suffering delusional flashbacks and sees everyone as forces sent to kill him.
#20 - The Grandstand Play (2)
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1971
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.
#21 - Flash Of Color, Flash Of Death
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1973
A glamorous woman sets up an opal smuggler so her accomplices can rob both the smuggler and a jewellery store at the same time.
#22 - The Golden Noose
Season 12 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1980
McGarrett is suspicious of an aide who arrives in Hawaii to retrieve millions of dollars held in trust for a Southern Asian state and he must prevent a daring gold robbery.
#23 - The Spirit Is Willie
Season 11 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1979
Millicent Shand returns and claims that her niece's husband has faked his own death in order to get his hands on $500,000.
#24 - For Old Times Sake
Season 12 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1980
A aging crook decides to use dollar bill printing plates he made to raise cash for a charity, but he fails to realise the trouble that this will cause.
#25 - The Meighan Conspiracy
Season 11 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1979
When a robbed bank vault shows no signs of break-in, an inside job seems the likely solution. McGarrett's trail of clues leads him back to the builder of the vault and his wife...