The BEST Episodes of Hawaii Five-O
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Feb 22, 2021
Network: CBS
The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
#1 - The Payoff
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired Dec 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.
10.00 
#2 - F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 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.
10.00 
#3 - Murder Is A Taxing Affair
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 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.
10.00 #4 - Woe To Wo Fat
Season 12 - Episode 20 - Aired Apr 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.
9.90 
#5 - Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 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.
9.35 
#6 - Deathwatch
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired Dec 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.
9.16 
#7 - Killer Bee
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 21, 1970
A psychiatric worker, George Loomis, is trying to drive a fellow Vietnam veteran Ted Frazer crazy in order to cover up the fact that he massacred his own platoon during an action. Loomis kidnaps boys and drugs Frazer to make it look like Frazer is mad and to blame for the tragedy. McGarrett and the team must unravel this web of lies and clear Frazer.
9.00 
#8 - Most Likely To Murder
Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired Feb 11, 1970
Lew Morgan and his wife are friends of Danno, but she is murdered, and Morgan sets out to find the culprit. However, his wife seems to be hiding secrets that may have caused her death.
9.00 
#9 - The Last Eden
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired Nov 18, 1970
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.
9.00 
#10 - The Grandstand Play (1)
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired Mar 3, 1971
A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
9.00 
#11 - The Grandstand Play (2)
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired Mar 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.
9.00 #12 - The Odd Lot Caper
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired Jan 30, 1973
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
9.00 #13 - Little Girl Blue
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired Feb 13, 1973
Two simple criminals kidnap a young girl, and hide out in a bunker at Diamond Head. McGarrett must unravel the reason why they are there and get the girl safely away from them.
9.00 #14 - A Lion In The Streets (2)
Season 12 - Episode 2 - Aired Oct 4, 1979
Labouring under a ban on cooperation by native Hawaiians because of a Kahuna, McGarrett must try to prevent war on the streets...
9.00 #15 - For Old Times Sake
Season 12 - Episode 14 - Aired Jan 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.
9.00 #16 - The Golden Noose
Season 12 - Episode 15 - Aired Jan 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.
9.00 
#17 - King of the Hill
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired Jan 8, 1969
Danno is taken hostage by a Vietnam veteran who is suffering delusional flashbacks and sees everyone as forces sent to kill him.
8.81 
#18 - F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired Feb 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.
8.80 #19 - The Waterfront Steal
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired Nov 21, 1975
When Five-O fail to prevent a series of thefts at dockside warehouses, an influential owner creates trouble for McGarrett.
8.67 
#20 - Sweet Terror
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Nov 5, 1969
McGarrett must counter a threat by international terrorist Erich Stoss to use a fungus to wipe out Hawaii's sugar cane, half of the world's supply.
8.50 
#21 - For A Million - Why Not?
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired Nov 2, 1971
Five seemingly good citizens with different motives band together to steal $6,000,000 while McGarrett is away on Maui at a trial.
8.50 #22 - Murder - Eyes Only (2)
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 12, 1975
McGarrett must try his utmost to foil Wo Fat's plans which include hostages and brainwashing.
8.50 #23 - The Descent Of The Torches
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 20, 1977
Five-O must find out whether the death of an archaeologist is linked to his supposed desecration of tomb of King Kamehameha.
8.43 
#24 - Six Kilos
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired Mar 12, 1969
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.
8.35 #25 - The Cop On The Cover
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 29, 1977
McGarrett must solve both a mysterious kidnapping and the problem of having a nosy reporter analysing his every move.
8.33