An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers. McGarrett's probe uncovers similarities between this kidnapping and another in the past, and he traces the operation to a "legitimate" attorney
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who is operating a child-stealing racket from the Mainland.
Starring: Jack Lord, James MacArthur
Directed by: Corey Allen
Runtime: 51 minutes
Original air date: January 02, 1973
Network: CBS
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1. Death Is a Company Policy
September 12, 1972
McGarrett is puzzled when a computer programmed to help solve the slaying of anunderworld figure's "business associate" indicates that the culprit is one of McGarrett's own people
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2. Death Wish on Tantalus Mountain
September 19, 1972
Ricardo Montalban plays Alex Pareno, a wealthy auto-racing enthusiast whose mechanic is slain on the eve of Hawaii's most important road race. Following the death of another mechanic on the dangerous Tantalus Mountain race course,McGarrett becomes suspicious of Angela, Pareno's glamorous fiancee.
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3. You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich - But It Helps
September 26, 1972
A series of deaths of well-to-do businessmen puts the Hawaii Five-O unit into the investigation of a lucrative blackmail operation. William Shatner plays an enterprising mainland private detective who finds the key to the blackmailing operation and orders the execution of its chief. But Ben Kokua short-circuits the ploy when he shows up as the "assassin."
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4. Pig in a Blanket
October 3, 1972
Danny Williams is involved in the shooting of a teenager following the death of a fellow police officer, and a cry goes up to sacrifice the lawman to public opinion.
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5. The Jinn Who Clears the Way
October 10, 1972
Khigh Dhiegh returns as the sinister criminal genius Wo Fat to match wits with McGarrett. This time, a petty criminal is slain during the theft of a secret ballistic missile device, and McGarrett suspects that his arch nemesis, Wo Fat, is behind the theft.
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6. Fools Die Twice
October 17, 1972
Army officer Jack Gulley, played by Clu Gulager, devises a bizarre scheme to kidnap a top government scientist and collect a ransom of one million dollars in diamonds. The officer's plan proceeds flawlessly until he commits the mistake of double-crossing his fellow conspirators.
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7. Chain of Events
October 24, 1972
The slaying of a public health official while conducting an investigation into venereal disease leads McGarrett into the world of politics and intrigue. Starting with an appointment list of the slain official, McGarrett works his way up to a meeting with a highly respected candidate for public office.
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8. Journey Out of Limbo
October 31, 1972
Keenan Wynn guest stars as the trusted friend of a Chinese diplomat who is the object of an assassination plan which Danny Williams stumbles upon, but whose details he cannot remember when he is injured.
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9. V for Vashon: The Son - Part I
November 14, 1972
McGarrett's investigation into a new crime outbreak leads to a band of youths led by Chris Vashon, a third generation member of a crime family headed by his grandfather, Dominick. McGarrett succeeds in bringing young Vashon to trial, but, after the boy is freed, a new outbreak of terror begins.
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10. V for Vashon: The Father - Part II
November 21, 1972
The Vashon family buries young Chris Vashon and launches a vendetta against Five- O's chief investigator, whom they hold responsible for the boy's death. With Chris dead, his father, Honore, swears vengeance against McGarrett and imports an assassin to rid the Vashon family of its arch nemesis.
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11. V for Vashon: The Patriarch -Part III
November 28, 1972
With his son in prison and his grandson dead -- both as a result of McGarrett's actions, the patriarch of the Vashon crime syndicate, old Dominick, devises a cunning scheme to frame the chief of Five-O and send him to prison in disgrace.
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12. The Clock Struck Twelve
December 5, 1972
A series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes, and McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial. But McGarrett discovers that vigilante sympathizers have penetrated security and planted explosives in the courthouse. With just hours remaining before the trial starts, Danny begins the delicate job of disarming the bombs.
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13. I'm a Family Crook - Don't Shoot!
December 19, 1972
Andy Griffith and Joyce Van Patten pay a husband and-wife team of confidence operators who get caught between two of the islands' most powerful mobs, almost touching off a war among competing underworld factions.
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14. The Child Stealers
January 2, 1973
An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers. McGarrett's probe uncovers similarities between this kidnapping and another in the past, and he traces the operation to a "legitimate" attorney who is operating a child-stealing racket from the Mainland.
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15. Thanks for the Honeymoon
January 9, 1972
Patty Duke and Carol Lawrence are the guest stars as McGarrett goes after the untouchable king-pin of narcotics traffic in the islands. Toni (Patty Duke), an underworld fringe character, agrees to turn state's evidence against the mobster on one condition -- that McGarrett must release her from prison and arrange her wedding to the father of her unborn child.
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16. The Listener
January 16, 1973
Dr. Eric Fowler, a psychiatrist, becomes the victim of an extortion effort by a clever paranoiac found too disturbed to treat. The person, an unseen but apparently omnipresent electronics wizard calling himself Cerberus, the Hound of Hell," threatens Dr. Fowler and his patients through a series of ingenious electronic plants.
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17. Here Today, Gone Tonight
January 23, 1973
McGarrett and Danny Williams must solve the riddle of how a suspected killer can appear to be in two places at one time. The investigators appear to be at an impasse -- until faint clues are developed to throw the light of reality on the crime.
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18. The Odd Lot Caper
January 30, 1973
Richard Basehart plays the mastermind behind a 40 million-dollar conspiracy to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Basehart, as Murdock, senior partner in a stock exchange firm, conceives a daring and seemingly foolproof plan to rob the exchange. But a succession of murders which were not in Murdock's plan puts McGarrett on the trail of the conspiracy.
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19. Will the Real Mr. Winkler Please Die?
February 6, 1973
Nehemiah Persoff plays an obscure shopkeeper who calls himself Peter Winkler and becomes the catalyst in a plot to assassinate a high level Iron Curtain defector. McGarrett becomes interested in Winkler when the shopkeeper is involved in a minor incident and no proof can be found that a "Peter Winkler" does, indeed, exist.
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20. Little Girl Blue
February 13, 1973
Nina Foch plays a grandmother whose only grandchild is kidnapped by two ineffectual crooks. As McGarrett and his Five-O forces attempt to move up the mountain where the child is being held, the kidnappers lay down a withering fuselage of rifle fire.
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21. Percentage
February 20, 1973
A travel agent operating gambling junkets is slain as a warning to his partner to stop competing for the gambling business. The surviving agent, a former bookie, attempts to carry on the business but finds matters complicated when one of the clients is killed and McGarrett and his Five-O unit start getting closer to the truth.
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22. Engaged to Be Buried
February 27, 1973
McGarrett attempts to crack an extortion ring preying on small businessmen. The detective's investigation seems to run into a roadblock when it is learned that one of the gang members is courting the daughter of Chin Ho, one of McGarrett's trusted deputies, and that they appear headed for a wedding.
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23. The Diamond That Nobody Stole
March 6, 1973
A cat burglar strikes at the home of a socially prominent island family, setting off a fast-moving series of events that lead to a death. McGarrett's search for clues takes him to a rundown neighborhood where an unseen assailant starts taking shots at him.
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24. Jury Of One
March 13, 1973
A police informer tells McGarrett that one of the jurors in the murder trial of an island strong-arm has been bribed in an effort to produce a hung jury.
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Synopsis: An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers. McGarrett's probe uncovers similarities between this kidnapping and another in the past, and he traces the operation to a "legitimate" attorney who is operating a child-stealing racket from the Mainland.
Synopsis: Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii, the show followed Jack Lord as he played Steve McGarrett, head of an elite state police unit investigating "organized crime, murder, assassination attempts, foreign agents, felonies of every type."
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