Hawaii Five-O: Season 1

1969 · 25 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 1 of Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-0 kicks off with Steve McGarrett, a former Navy officer and detective captain whom Governor Paul Jameson has put in charge of an elite state task force based in Oahu. Alongside Danny Williams, Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua, McGarrett pursues crimes that take him from the city to the rest of the island chain. The cases mix espionage, such as the case of Chinese agent Wo Fat, with scams, drug trafficking and organized crime. This first season airs on CBS and is filmed in Honolulu and other Hawaiian islands.

25episodes

Jun 4, 1969released

Jun 11, 1969latest episode

21.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Cocoon (1)
Jun 4, 1969 · 51 min
Red Chinese agent Wo Fat uses a sensory deprivation chamber to procure information from U.S. agents. Steve McGarrett, head of Hawaii Five-O, investigates the death of a close friend who appears to have drowned. Steve's knowledge about his friend and a mysterious white substance lead him into a high-level intelligence matter involving a foreign agent. McGarrett, head of Hawaii's state police force, poses as "control," possessor of the names of other agents. He allows himself to be captured and placed in the chamber; will he be able to withstand the torture?
Directing: Paul Wendkos · Writing: Leonard Freeman · Starring: Philip Ahn, Leslie Nielsen, Mitzi Hoag, Tim O'Kelly
1x02 Cocoon (2)
Jun 11, 1969 · 51 min
McGarrett is caught and cocooned, and must escape this torture and shut down Wo Fat's operation.
Directing: Paul Wendkos · Writing: Leonard Freeman · Starring: Lew Ayres, Noah Keen, James Gregory, Tim O'Kelly
1x03 Full Fathom Five
Sep 26, 1968 · 51 min
Victor Reese and his wife Nora are conning rich widows out of their savings, and then poisoning them and dumping them in the ocean. McGarrett and company hatch a plan to use a female officer to trap the duo.
Directed by: Richard Benedict · Starring: Maggi Parker, Richard Denning, Kevin McCarthy, Phillip Pine
1x04 Strangers In Our Own Land
Oct 3, 1968 · 51 min
Five-O probes into the death of an official who was instrumental in the development of the islands, and discovers a tangled web of lies and deception.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Writer: Herman Groves · Starring: Maggi Parker, Richard Denning, Jeanne Bates, Milton Selzer
1x05 Tiger By The Tail
Oct 10, 1968 · 51 min
A young singer, Bobby George, plans his own kidnapping as a stunt, but when his father offers $500,000 for his release, his co-conspirators decide to double-cross him and take the money.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Starring: Sal Mineo, Sam Melville, Carole Kai, Harold J. Stone
1x06 Samurai
Oct 17, 1968 · 51 min
McGarrett and the gang must simultaneously protect a gangster from Japanese assassins and also try to convict him for his underworld activities.
Starring: Maggi Parker, Richard Denning, Ricardo Montalban, Caroline Kido
1x07 ... And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin
Nov 7, 1968 · 51 min
Danny Williams is accused of shooting an apparently unarmed young boy. Meanwhile, in his investigation, McGarrett comes up against Big Chicken, a nasty dope dealer.
Starring: Maggi Parker, Luana Anders, Charlotte Stewart, Morgan White
1x08 Twenty-Four Karat Kill
Nov 14, 1968 · 51 min
A woman buys fish from a monger, and is followed home and murdered. McGarrett and the team must discover who killed her and stop smugglers from completing their operation.
Starring: Maggi Parker, Marj Dusay, Richard Loo, Paul Richards
1x09 The Ways Of Love
Nov 21, 1968 · 51 min
After a girl dies during a high speed chase, a trail of clues leads McGarrett to a Los Angeles prison, where he must act the part of convict Steve Crowley to gain the trust of his cellmate for a break-out, which will help reveal the plans of the crime.
Directing: Charles S. Dubin · Writing: Laurence Heath · Starring: Don Knight, James Patterson, Ysabel MacCloskey, Eddie Dew
1x10 No Blue Skies
Dec 5, 1968 · 51 min
When a singer, Joey Rand, finds that his career doesn't pay well enough, he turns to cat burglary. However he doesn't reckon on Hawaii Five-O.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Herman Groves · Starring: Tommy Sands, Robert Random, Sandra Smith, Clayton Naluai
1x11 By the Numbers
Dec 12, 1968 · 51 min
A winning lottery ticket drags an army private into a the murky world of mob politics and vice.
Directing: Seymour Robbie · Starring: Richard Denning, Richard Benedict, Anne Helm, Johnny Crawford
1x12 Yesterday Died And Tomorrow Won't Be Born
Dec 19, 1968 · 51 min
When McGarrett is shot and badly wounded on a beachside jog, Danno and the team must work feverishly to find the culprit and prevent him from committing any more murders.
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Starring: Maggi Parker, Richard Denning, Lani Kai, John Larch
1x13 Deathwatch
Dec 25, 1968 · 51 min
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 permanentlyâ€¦
Directed by: Herschel Daugherty · Starring: Maggi Parker, James Shigeta, Maura McGiveney, Nehemiah Persoff
1x14 Pray Love Remember, Pray Love Remember
Jan 1, 1969 · 51 min
When a young female student is found murdered on campus, suspicions fall on her boyfriend but McGarrett senses that something is not right.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Writing: John D.F. Black · Starring: Richard Denning, Denny Miller, Ron Feinberg, Marla Kyo
1x15 King Of The Hill
Jan 8, 1969 · 51 min
Danno is taken hostage by a Vietnam veteran who is suffering delusional flashbacks and sees everyone as forces sent to kill him.
Directing: Jack Shea · Writing: John D. F. Black · Starring: Yaphet Kotto, Jeff Corey, L.Q. Jones, Richard Bull
1x16 Up Tight
Jan 15, 1969 · 51 min
Young Eadie Hastings cannot be saved by Danno from jumping of a cliff, and Five-O think that she was high on speed. They track her source to a crank teacher, Professor David Stone, and Danno must pose as a surfer to investigate the drug pushers and users.
Directing: Seymour Robbie · Starring: Maggi Parker, Doreen Lang, Ed Flanders, Brenda Scott
1x17 Face Of The Dragon
Jan 22, 1969 · 51 min
A man is found dead after having been robbed by a motorcyclist with a gun, and McGarrett is shocked to discover that the man was suffering from bubonic plague. The islands are quarantined, and the team must follow a series of clues to discover the cause of the outbreak.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Writing: Robert C. Dennis · Starring: Maggi Parker, Richard Denning, Nancy Kovack, Jackie Coogan
1x18 The Box
Jan 29, 1969 · 51 min
Big Chicken returns in a tense prison hostage drama when McGarrett has to give himself over to the criminals as a bargaining chip and use psychology to take control of the situation.
Directed by: Seymour Robbie · Writer: John D. F. Black · Starring: Gerald S. O'Loughlin, R.G. Armstrong, Nephi Hannemann, Wayne Want
1x19 One For The Money
Feb 5, 1969 · 51 min
When a girl is found murdered and numbered 'one', McGarrett suspects a serial killer. However the killer seems to be very selective in targeting members of a particular company, and suspicion soon falls on two brothers who stand to inherit the firm from their aged aunt.
Directing: Paul Stanley · Starring: Maggi Parker, Farley Granger, Jeanette Nolan, John Stalker
1x20 Along Came Joey
Feb 12, 1969 · 51 min
When the boxing son of a policeman, Phil Kalama, is killed, he starts a personal vendetta, and McGarrett must both solve the crime and stop Kalama from committing another murder.
Directed by: Richard Benedict · Starring: Jean Hale, Jesse White, Frank De Kova, Peter Mark Richman
1x21 Once Upon A Time (1)
Feb 19, 1969 · 51 min
When the son of McGarrett's sister falls ill with cancer and she becomes involved in â€˜naturology', her husband calls in Steve to investigate and persuade her to stop paying for the useless treatments. However, the quack doctor sets up a court case to prevent McGarrett from closing her practice.
Writer: Leonard Freeman · Starring: Maggi Parker, Joanne Linville, David Sheiner, Queenie Smith
1x22 Once Upon A Time (2)
Feb 26, 1969 · 51 min
McGarrett must use all legal means possible to win the court case against Dr. C.L. Fremont, stopping her fake treatments and saving his sister from more anguish and pain.
Directing: Abner Biberman · Writing: Leonard Freeman · Starring: Joanne Linville, David Sheiner, Beah Richards, William Schallert
1x23 Not That Much Different
Mar 5, 1969 · 51 min
When a leader of a student peace movement is killed, McGarrett has to investigate the murder against a wall of silence and a distrust of the police by the activists.
Directing: Abner Biberman · Starring: Stewart Moss, Ann Prentiss, Danny Kamekona, Dennis Cooney
1x24 Six Kilos
Mar 12, 1969 · 51 min
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.
Directing: Seymour Robbie · Writing: Meyer Dolinsky · Starring: Richard Denning, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Antoinette Bower, Edward L. Dew
1x25 The Big Kahuna Season Finale
Mar 19, 1969 · 51 min
Sam Kalakua, a distant cousin of Kono, is being frightened into an early grave by an fake apparition of a Hawaiian god created by his nephew, who wants to sell the estate to a land merchant.
Directing: Herschel Daugherty · Writing: Gilbert Ralston, Norman Hudis · Starring: Richard Denning, John Marley, Peter Leeds, Robert Colbert