The BEST episodes of Hawaii Five-O season 3
Every episode of Hawaii Five-O season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Hawaii Five-O season 3!
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 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - The Ransom
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1970
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.
#6 - The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1971
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.
#7 - The Guarnerius Caper
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1970
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.
#8 - The Reunion
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1970
A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.
#9 - The Second Shot
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1970
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.
#10 - Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1971
An electronics genius is busted out of prison so he can mastermind a massive robbery of diamonds from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
#11 - And A Time To Die...
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1970
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.
#12 - Trouble In Mind
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1970
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.
#13 - The Double Wall
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1970
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.
#14 - Force Of Waves
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1970
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.
#15 - Time And Memories
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1970
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.
#16 - To Kill Or Be Killed
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1971
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.
#17 - Dear Enemy
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1971
The wife of a convicted man fakes evidence in a new crime so that McGarrett will have to re-open her husband's case.
#18 - The Grandstand Play (1)
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1971
A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.
#19 - The Late John Louisiana
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1970
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.
#20 - Over Fifty? Steal!
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1970
McGarrett and company must pit their wits against a veteran thief and robber who leaves Monopoly money at the scene of his crimes.
#21 - The Gunrunner
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1971
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…
#22 - The Last Eden
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1970
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.
#23 - Beautiful Screamer
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1970
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.
#24 - Paniolo
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1970
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.