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- The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island.
- At a Los Angeles beach, a team of lifeguards led by Lieutenant Mitch Buchannon save lives, deal with personal dramas, fight crime and participate in over the top adventures on a daily basis.
- Henry Roth is a man afraid of commitment until he meets the beautiful Lucy. They hit it off and Henry think he's finally found the girl of his dreams until discovering she has short-term memory loss and forgets him the next day.
- The adventures of a Hawaii-based private investigator.
- The investigations of Hawaii Five-0, an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police answerable only to the governor and headed by stalwart Steve McGarrett.
- A Special-Ops commander leads his team into the Nigerian jungle in order to rescue a doctor who will only join them if they agree to save 70 refugees too.
- A tough aspiring chef is hired to bring home a mobster's son from the Amazon but becomes involved in the fight against an oppressive town operator and the search for a legendary treasure.
- Live-action remake of Disney's animated classic 'Lilo and Stitch'.
- As a hard-core surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she finds herself falling for a football player.
- Veteran district attorney "Fatman" McCabe solves cases with the help of his easygoing private investigator partner Jake Styles.
- After learning how to surf by using the local wave tanks, Arizona resident Rick uses his winnings from a recent contest to fly to Hawaii and try to make a living for himself as a professional wave rider.
- "Holli" Holliday, respected medical examiner, relocates to Hawaii after her boyfriend's murder. She is frequently at odds with new co-worker arrogant detective Mack Wolfe. They both report to Captain Herzog and Nui is Holli's assistant.
- The adventures of Jonathan Raven, a ninja and ex-Special Forces soldier.
- Sam Byrd, a teacher and his family take up residence in Hawaii after his wife dies. Harry, Zeke and Franny each have their own problems accepting the new arrangement and coming to terms with the loss of their mother.
- A behind the scenes look at the creation of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001)
- Al Harrington's first episode as Ben also introduces Duke Lukela and John Manicote as semi-regulars. Manicote launches an investigation of Five-O when Duke, an HPD sergeant who sometimes joins Five-O on investigations, is accused of being on the take. McGarrett does what would be now called an intensive database search, with numerous records on all Five-O team members transferred to projection slides and put up on the screen (if you can freeze-frame or slow your player to catch all of them, there is a wealth of information on the characters -- including McGarrett's birthday, which is in the wrong month!). Convinced that Duke was set up by someone, McGarrett repeats the process with members of Manicote's office and finds that one of the Assistant District Attorneys is a mole planted long before by the mob to discredit the office. Guest star Michael Ansara, playing the mob boss, forsakes his toupee (he's shown swimming) and is very bald.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.4 (253)TV EpisodeDanny Williams is indicted and jailed after an off-duty pursuit leads to a suspect's death.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated8.2 (165)TV EpisodeA cagey professor and the syndicate team up on a deadly caper. About $750,000 in traveler checks are stolen in Denver. A planeload of criminals posing as academics board a charter flight to Honolulu, with each given $7,500 in traveler checks to spend. A hit man ensures a woman employee of the Honolulu office of the traveler check company can't get the serial numbers of the hot checks circulated. McGarrett calls the caper a "jigsaw puzzle." The question is whether he can solve it in time.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.6 (162)TV EpisodeA mentally disturbed former soldier buys a new rifle and ammunition after a sales clerk fails to check him out. The soldier even signs his name as "George C. Patton." He then holes up in a spot on Diamond Head and shoots out the tires of a motorist's car and proceeds to shoot two police officers, one fatally. McGarrett coordinates the police response. The more McGarrett finds out, the worse it gets. It turns out the sniper has a weird relationship with his mother. The mother, in turn, denies the former soldier is her son. Time is running out and Five-O must prepare to lead a police assault on the sniper.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated7.0 (143)TV EpisodeChampion race car driver Alex Pareno arrives in Hawaii to attempt to break the record for driving up Tantalus Mountain. However, his chief mechanic is bludgeoned to death after catching someone tampering with Pareno's car. Later, a second mechanic is killed while test driving the car. McGarrett eventually discovers plenty of suspects ranging from Pareno's fiancée Angela, who was being blackmailed by an ex-lover, to Pareno himself. However, it is eventually discovered that the killer is someone very close to Pareno.
- Three seemingly ordinary people are recruited to make a hit on a mob boss from Chicago visiting Hawaii. The hit is done with precision. The killers are equipped with firearms with plastic coverings that prevent shell casings from being left for evidence, for example. Also, the three participants, in effect, provide alibis for each other. Five-O initially thinks this is a professional hit until its probe begins to uncover the truth. McGarrett & Co. must figure out why these three people were so desperate they could be blackmailed into performing a murder. Second, Five-O must figure out what the ultimate goal of the caper is.
- To the horror of workers at a construction site, the truck of sand they are unloading contains Danny Williams in the back, unconscious and just moments away from having smothered to death. Danny awakens, but can't remember anything about how he got there. McGarrett grills the sand-truck driver, but eventually abandons him as a dead end. The only other way Danny could have gotten into the dump truck was to jump in from a height as the truck passed below him. Danny remembers he was going horseback riding on his day off, so the Five-O team heads out to a ranch that rents horses for pleasure rides. Eventually they find the body of the horse he was riding, shot multiple times and leaving a long trail of blood. That means Danny was fleeing from gunmen and made his leap as a last resort. But what did he see that made the gunmen chase him. The answer turns out to be a literal suicide bomber, the ranch owner, who is getting revenge on a Chinese visitor by having a bomb-laden boat (with mannequins at the helm, which is what Danny saw being loaded into a truck headed for the harbor) "steering" it by remote control straight into the man's yacht with the dignitaries aboard. (Presumably the thugs got paid in advance). McGarrett and the Five-O crew must race the clock to destroy the bombers' boat before it can complete the madman's mission.
- A vicious law-and-order zealot becomes inflamed by various thugs getting off the hook in court on technicalities. So, using an alias, the man sends a letter to McGarrett promising to blow away the next criminal who takes a walk -- naming a specific hood in particular. The criminal walks and is drilled right in front of the courthouse. As a public debate rages on vigilante "justice," the killer sends McGarrett another note, expanding his hate list to the judges who order charges quashed on technicalities. A judge (Frank Cady of Hooterville fame in a very rare serious role) does just that and is promptly kidnapped from the courthouse by the zealot. McGarrett must pretend to appease the zealot while tracking him down.
- Steve and the team are looking for the man who is sexually assaulting and killing women. He's killed four and there are no leads. His latest victim doesn't die but is unwilling to help. Steve knows that a couple of the victims were having problems with their cars so he places policewomen in position and to await him to make his move. But when a cop approaches one of them, she tells him that she's on a stakeout so he leaves. But when they realize the cop is the one they are looking for because the victims either went with him in his car or allowed him to enter their homes willingly. So he tries to find out who he is. He later suspects it could be a guy who failed to be accepted on the force.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated7.1 (116)TV EpisodeA Chinese Minister comes to Hawaii for a conference and Steve is placed in charge of security. Unbeknownest to him Wo Fat plans to assassinate the minister but because of Steve's precautions his attempts fail. But When minister's grandson wants to go to the circus that's in town, Steve needs to make sure the minister is secured but one of his people works for Wo Fat I and informs him of his plan and tries to use it. He learns two of the performers are from Cuba and used their relative's identities to escape. He coerces them to Help him assassinate the minister.
- A disturbed ex-GI who was dishonorably discharged and then tried to re-enlist under a false name takes revenge at the Military by murdering officer's wives who fly to Hawaii expecting to meet their husbands on R&R from Vietnam.
- McGarrett is called in to talk to Toni, a tough-talking young woman who has recently been busted along with her boyfriend. Toni is going to prison and can live with that, but she wants to get married (she's pregnant) before then in an elaborate ceremony. In return, she will testify against a mobster who has always beaten the rap -- "How about murder one? ... With his own two hands?" McGarrett counters that the mobster will use all of his many resources to knock off the couple, but Toni is adamant and McGarrett goes to work with the help of the reporter he's dating.
- A hippie couple kidnaps a baby from a drug store and smuggles the baby to the mainland to sell the child to an adoption agency in Los Angeles. McGarrett and the rest of the Five-O team are able to find that baby as well as another infant that was kidnapped a few months earlier. Now they must track down the young couple before they snatch another baby.
- A paranoid Korean War veteran, thinking a policeman is about to arrest him for a crime he didn't commit, grabs the officer's gun and shoots him. More cops appear, so the vet pulls the wounded officer's ammunition belt free and runs into an apartment occupied by a teenage girl, locking himself and the girl inside. McGarrett and HPD's SWAT team arrive at the same time, and the leader of the SWAT team wants to blast his way into the apartment and take down the gunman, who blazes away at targets all over the place. Because somehow the gunman hasn't killed anybody yet, and because McGarrett thinks the gunman might be better off in a mental hospital, McGarrett butts heads with the HPD officer and stalls to buy time to negotiate a peaceful surrender -- although the media circus surrounding the hostage situation immensely complicates the negotiation.
- Operatives working for Wo Fat steal a device from a U.S. military base in Hawaii. Wo Fat is also manipulating a young Maoist into helping him smuggle the device to China. McGarrett and Five-O race to keep the device from leaving the islands. They capture Wo Fat at the last minute. But McGarrett receives a shock courtesy of U.S. spymaster Jonathan Kaye.
- A psychiatrist is tormented by a man calling himself Cerberus. Cerberus claims he was rejected for treatment and is determined to take revenge by extorting the psychiatrist. Cerberus, to show he means business, begins harassing the psychiatrist's patients, including a young man dying of a brain tumor and a suicidal woman. McGarrett & the Five-O must deal with this cunning and ruthless adversary.
- 1968–198051mNot Rated7.9 (131)TV EpisodeMcGarrett is found in an upside-down car containing a dead crime lord and a briefcase with thousands of dollars. Each step of the frame is perfect and unbreakable. McGarrett figures only man can be responsible -- Wo Fat. Indeed, the Chinese intelligence operative has just arrived in Hawaii. It turns out Wo Fat arranged for a man to undergo many plastic surgery operations to look exactly like McGarrett. The man is caught and fatally wounded as he tries to withdraw money from a Swiss bank. Before he dies, the double says, "Wo Fat bought my soul for 90 seconds."
- A band of young radicals is killing ordinary people at random. Five-O consults an academic who is knowledgeable about such groups. The group then kidnaps Dan Williams and the academic, threatening to kill both men.
- Two hippies, panhandling for money, decide to approach a tourist. The first hippie, a young woman, is rebuffed. However, the tourist comes on to the male hippie who freaks out and bludgeons the tourist, taking the man's wallet in the process. The wallet contains a key to an airport locker which contains a briefcase full of money. It turns out the tourist was an embezzler whose bounty is being sought by persons unknown who will do whatever it takes to get the money back.
- A powerful cattle Baron has taken the law into his own hands when his son is killed outside a bar.
- 1968–198050mNot Rated7.5 (156)TV EpisodeA pair of con men sneak into Five-O' headquarters at night to photograph the layout of the offices. They then use these photos to duplicate the offices in an abandoned building, and also hire actors to impersonate McGarrett and the other members of Five-O, as part of an elaborate scheme to extort money from businessmen who may not be aware of the real location of Five-O, nor personally acquainted with its top operatives.
- Virginia Fowler is ghost writing the autobiography of the elusive, wealthy eccentric Harold Farber. She hires Magnum after her apartment is ransacked and her notes and tapes of the book are stolen.
- Magnum is in Los Angeles serving a writ when he meets a woman who is later murdered. Magnum sets out to find the killer and possibly finds his soulmate.
- Magnum and Higgins engage in an all out prank war leading to Magnum finally accusing Higgins of being Robin Masters.
- Dr. Dawn 'Holli' Holiday, a Los Angeles forensics expert, is vacationing in Hawaii with an old flame, when she discovers a body and investigates with a Honolulu cop.
- Hollie(Cheryl Ladd) and Detective Mack(Richard Burgi) track down a serial killer who murders models.
- Holli and Mack are prompted by personal requests to investigate two different deaths deemed natural as murders for insurance payouts.
- When a grand champion sumo wrestler is murdered in Waikiki, a biased suspicion falls upon an Hawaiian contender while Mack and Holli are forced to work alongside their impertinent and devious Japanese counterparts.
- Holli is confronted with murders having the same mode of operation of an LA serial killer inactive for six years and that was infatuated with her from when she was medical examiner in LA.
- Holli believes that the wife of a policeman who was convicted for the husband's murder before Holli was the medical examiner and who recently escaped from prison acts in a way which suggests the woman might be innocent.
- Holli has no memory of an under the influence of alcohol hit and run murder of a man of which she is accused and faces a prosecutor motivated to press the case hard for political ambitions.
- Dr. Holliday and Mac are enjoying a day off on the beach until they uncover a grave with human bones in it.
- Although it appears a woman with a terminal illness might have committed suicide with a very toxic gardening chemical, several persons could have profited financially or situationally by poisoning the woman.