Hawaii Five-O: Season 5

1972 · 24 episodes · ★ 6.3

What Season 5 of Hawaii Five-O

Season 5 kicks off with Steve McGarrett leading Hawaii's state unit, which reports to the governor. Soon the new officer Ben Kokua joins, while the team tries to clear Duke's name after he is framed in a corruption case orchestrated by a local criminal. Later, the Vashon crime family crosses McGarrett's path after a hotel heist, and the clan seeks revenge. The team also pursues Wo Fat, a suspect in the theft of a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile, and faces vigilante nationalists who plant bombs in the courthouse. Danno, Chin and Kono keep up the pace of investigations that jump from Honolulu to the rest of the island chain.

24episodes

Sep 11, 1972premiered

Mar 13, 1973Latest episode

24 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Death Is A Company Policy
Sep 12, 1972 · 60 min
A local thug, Piro Manoa, is trying to create the impression of corruption in the Five-O force, and Duke is implicated in a murder. McGarrett and the team, with new recruit Ben Kokua, must save Duke's position and work out the plot of the organisation behind the false accusations.
Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Richard Denning, George Chakiris, Michael Ansara
5x02 Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain
Sep 19, 1972 · 60 min
When two of a egotistical racing driver's support staff are murdered, suspicions of sabotage fall upon his attractive girlfriend.
Directing: Allen Reisner · Starring: Michael Margotta, Ricardo Montalban, Diana Muldaur, John Stalker
5x03 You Don't Have To Kill To Get Rich -- But It Helps.
Sep 26, 1972 · 60 min
A private investigator, Sam Tolliver, arrives from Texas to help an old friend who is being blackmailed and is at risk of being killed if he doesn't pay up, but he ends up wanting to become part of the blackmail operation.
Directing: Alf Kjellin · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, William Shatner, Bill Edwards, Ric Marlow
5x04 Pig In A Blanket
Oct 3, 1972 · 60 min
Danno shoots an apparently armed teenager but finds that he was mistaken, and public opinion and the teen's brother turn against him. McGarrett must act to defuse the potentially explosive situation.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky · Written by: Bill Stratton · Starring: John Rubinstein, Louise Latham, Dennis Redfield, James A. Simpson
5x05 The Jinn Who Clears The Way
Oct 10, 1972 · 60 min
Wo Fat is suspected of being behind the theft of a mobile ICBM device, and McGarrett with other top officials must stop him selling it off to the highest bidder.
Directed by: Harry Falk · Starring: Joseph Sirola, Soon-Tek Oh, Al Eben, Khigh Dhiegh
5x06 Fools Die Twice
Oct 17, 1972 · 60 min
Army computer technician Jack Gulley kidnaps a scientist and then uses a planned heist by three accomplices on a military base to divert Five-O's attention from his sale of the scientist to the highest bidder.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Starring: Michael Conrad, Sam Edwards, Clu Gulager, Bill Edwards
5x07 Chain Of Events
Oct 24, 1972 · 60 min
A doctor tracking venereal disease is murdered, and Five-O must track the series of encounters to find out who is a carrier. Their investigation is made doubly important by the murder of a young woman who is close to a upcoming politician. He seems a likely suspect but McGarrett suspects a deeper plot.
Directing: Ron Winston · Starring: Jay Stewart, Dirk Benedict, Mary Frann, Ray Buktenica
5x08 Journey Out Of Limbo
Oct 31, 1972 · 60 min
Danno is found in the back of a truck, dazed and confused, and McGarrett and the others must help him piece together how he came to be in that situation.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Richard Denning, Keenan Wynn, Philip Ahn
5x09 'V' For Vashon: The Son (1)
Nov 14, 1972 · 60 min
McGarrett becomes involved with the Vashon mafioso family after the youngest member, Chris, is implicated in a daring raid on a hotel.
Starring: Harold Gould, Luther Adler, Robert Drivas, John Stalker
5x10 'V' For Vashon: The Father (2)
Nov 21, 1972 · 60 min
McGarrett must contend with Honore Vashon, who wants revenge for his son's death.
Starring: Harold Gould, Luther Adler, Don Knight, Glenn Cannon
5x11 'V' For Vashon: The Patriarch (3)
Nov 28, 1972 · 60 min
Dominick Vashon, the patriarch of the clan, makes his attempt to bring down McGarrett and Five-O.
Starring: Harold Gould, Luther Adler, John Stalker, Glenn Cannon
5x12 The Clock Struck Twelve
Dec 5, 1972 · 60 min
When McGarrett arrests a group of vigilante nationalists, hidden bombs at the courthouse threaten to destabilise the islands.
Directing: Ron Winston · Writing: Anthony Lawrence · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Richard Denning, Patrick Adiarte, Manu Tupou
5x13 I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot!
Dec 19, 1972 · 60 min
A husband and wife team of scam merchants get caught between some of Hawaii's most powerful mobs.
Directing: Bob Sweeney · Writing: Jerome Coopersmith · Starring: Grady Sutton, Harold Sakata, Joyce Van Patten, George Herman
5x14 The Child Stealers
Jan 2, 1973 · 60 min
Two drifters, Gar and Nina, steal children and sell them on to a mainland adoption agency in order to raise the cash to buy a boat and go cruising.
Directing: Corey Allen · Writing: Larry Brody · Starring: Meg Foster, Jack Hogan, Richard Anderson, Richard Hatch
5x15 Thanks For The Honeymoon
Jan 9, 1973 · 60 min
McGarrett agrees to let Toni, a tough female convict, get married and have a honeymoon in protective custody as long as she will testify against a local hood.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Larry Kert, Carol Lawrence, Patty Duke
5x16 The Listener
Jan 16, 1973 · 60 min
A crazed electronics wizard threatens the lives of a psychiatrist and his patients by using electronic devices and gadgets.
Directing: Richard Benedict · Writing: Meyer Dolinsky · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Greg Mullavey, Radames Pera, Robert Foxworth
5x17 Here Today, Gone Tonight
Jan 23, 1973 · 60 min
Five-O has a suspect for a murder, but they have one problem. How can the suspect have been in two places at the same time?
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Starring: Richard Denning, Douglas Kennedy, Lawrence Montaigne, Sandra Smith
5x18 The Odd Lot Caper
Jan 30, 1973 · 60 min
A senior partner in a stock exchange firm comes up with a foolproof plan to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Meyer Dolinsky · Starring: Richard Basehart, Ron Hayes, Jack Hogan, Nephi Hannemann
5x19 Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?
Feb 6, 1973 · 60 min
McGarrett and company must break through a tissue of lies in order to protect a Russian defector from being killed.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Mark Lenard, Malachi Throne, Bill Edwards
5x20 Little Girl Blue
Feb 13, 1973 · 60 min
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.
Directed by: Bob Sweeney · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Tisha Sterling, Nina Foch, Jackie Coogan
5x21 Percentage
Feb 20, 1973 · 60 min
A travel agent who operates gambling trips is killed in order to send a warning to others that the syndicates will not tolerate competition.
Directing: Robert Butler · Writing: Norman Lessing · Starring: Leonard Stone, Milton Selzer, Douglas Kennedy, Kwan Hi Lim
5x22 Engaged To Be Buried
Feb 27, 1973 · 60 min
Chin Ho must face the fact that his daughter, Alia, is in love with the son of a local criminal under investigation, and that she plans to get married to him.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Bill Stratton, Ken Pettus · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Erik Estrada, Irene Tsu, Richard Yniguez
5x23 The Diamond That Nobody Stole
Mar 6, 1973 · 60 min
A burglary at the home of a well known island family sets off a series of events that ends in murder.
Starring: Beulah Quo, Herbert Jeffreys, Eric Braeden, John Stalker
5x24 Jury Of One Season Finale
Mar 13, 1973 · 60 min
A single person is holding out in a Five-O trial, and McGarrett and the team have to find out who is stalling and why they are doing it.
Directing: Alf Kjellin · Writing: Ken Pettus · Starring: Arthur Malet, Edward Binns, Douglas Kennedy, Ray Buktenica