Hawaii Five-O Best Episode of Each Season (as voted by IMDB users)

by kelzan | created - 12 Dec 2011 | updated - 12 Feb 2012 | Public

A list of the best episode of each season as chosen by users of the Hawaii Five-O forum on IMDB.

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1. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Yesterday Died and Tomorrow Won't Be Born (1968)

Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

McGarrett is gunned down during his morning run on the beach. While the lawman is in critical condition, Dan Williams leads the investigation. Shortly thereafter, another man is killed and ... See full summary »

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong

Votes: 218

2. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: A Thousand Pardons - You're Dead! (1969)

Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In a show with several similarities to the previous season opener, a series of swindlings are covers for serial murder. An Army sergeant who lost his brother in Vietnam because of the ... See full summary »

Director: Nicholas Colasanto | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong

Votes: 205

3. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Beautiful Screamer (1970)

Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Two women are strangled and portions of a poem are written, in lipstick, on their legs. The second is the girlfriend of Dan Williams. He is on edge, wanting to work on the case "or else ... See full summary »

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong

Votes: 147

4. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Rest in Peace, Somebody (1971)

Not Rated | 51 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

McGarrett receives a telephone call when he arrives at his office. The caller says that he intends to kill someone. The caller has also sent the lawman a key that will identity the intended... See full summary »

Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Zulu, Kam Fong

Votes: 158

5. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: 'V' for Vashon: The Father (1972)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The Vashons are planning to go after Steve for killing Chris Vashon. His grandfather wants to send Steve a message that he's going to die. Honore, Chris' father, objects, unsuccessfully. ... See full summary »

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Al Harrington, Kam Fong

Votes: 200

6. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Hookman (1973)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An off-duty police officer is shot and killed by a sniper while moonlighting as a funeral escort. The next day, another officer is shot and killed during a police standoff, but the bullets ... See full summary »

Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Al Harrington, Kam Fong

Votes: 209

7. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: I'll Kill 'Em Again (1974)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A nerdy bookstore clerk with an obsession for McGarrett turns deadly as he re-creates some of Five-O's most famous cases that were covered in a series of magazine articles. He is so brazen ... See full summary »

Director: Charles S. Dubin | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Al Harrington, Kam Fong

Votes: 139

Voted best episode of the series!

8. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Legacy of Terror (1976)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Alex Kelsey, a lawyer involved with mobster Din Lee, kills a dying Japanese man. The dead man had been a Japanese operative at the time of Pearl Harbor. Kelsey believes the dead man had a ... See full summary »

Director: Bruce Bilson | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Lew Ayres

Votes: 93

9. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Target - A Cop (1976)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A sniper targets police officers.

Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Herman Wedemeyer

Votes: 84

10. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: Tsunami (1977)

Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Some kids steal an ambulance, one of the attendants tries to stop them but is struck. One of the kids wants to go back and help the man but they keep on going. When they reach their ... See full summary »

Director: Harvey S. Laidman | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Herman Wedemeyer

Votes: 76

11. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: The Skyline Killer (1979)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A serial killer brazenly tries to sell the rights to his story to a greedy book publisher, and then targets the publisher's daughter as his next victim after being turned down. The killer is the last person Danno books.

Director: Beau Vanden Ecker | Stars: Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Herman Wedemeyer, Charles Cioffi

Votes: 89

12. Hawaii Five-O (1968–1980)
Episode: The Flight of the Jewels (1980)

TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Using radio-controlled model airplanes, three college students engineer the theft of the Hawaiian crown jewels.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Jack Lord, William Smith, Herman Wedemeyer, Moe Keale

Votes: 67



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