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The Best Episodes of Hawaii Five-O Season 3

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 11 - Over Fifty? Steal!
    8.9/10(356 votes)

    S3:E11

    McGarrett and company must pit their wits against a veteran thief and robber who leaves Monopoly money at the scene of his crimes.

    Director:Bob Sweeney
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 8 - The Reunion
    8.4/10(220 votes)

    S3:E8

    A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Paul Playdon

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  3. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 16 - Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
    8.3/10(192 votes)

    S3:E16

    An electronics genius is busted out of prison so he can mastermind a massive robbery of diamonds from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 19 - F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
    8.3/10(175 votes)

    S3:E19

    Five-O must deal with treason, murder and double-crosses in order to solve the case and prevent the U.S. from being flooded by fake currency.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 2 - Trouble In Mind
    8.2/10(231 votes)

    S3:E2

    Singer Eadie Jordan has not only a comeback concert to perform, but also a serious heroin addiction. Poisoned heroin is being peddled on the islands, and McGarrett must try to save Eadie from scoring for the last time.

    Director:Danny Arnold
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 18 - F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
    8.2/10(185 votes)

    S3:E18

    Wo Fat and other top international agents converge on Hawaii to place bids on printing plates for twenty dollar bills, which are in the possession of a former friend of McGarrett.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 1 - ... And A Time To Die
    8.1/10(206 votes)

    S3:E1

    Five-O must act swiftly when the daughter of a top neurosurgeon is kidnapped by Wo Fat in order to make the surgeon operate on a wounded U.S. undercover agent who is carrying secret inforrmation of use to the Chinese.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 22 - The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
    8.1/10(190 votes)

    S3:E22

    Danno's past comes back to haunt him when the brother of a young boy he shot is released and wants revenge. The brother takes Chin Ho, Jenny and others hostage in McGarrett's office and threatens to blow them up, and Danno must resolve the tense situation.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 6 - The Ransom
    8.0/10(191 votes)

    S3:E6

    Five-O's efforts to rescue a young boy from kidnappers go wrong when Kono is captured and beaten. An angry McGarrett must work out a way to rescue Kono without further endangering him.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 17 - To Kill Or Be Killed
    7.9/10(197 votes)

    S3:E17

    Five-O investigates the death of Vietnam hero Jack Rigney, who fell from a balcony. His father is a World War II veteran, but his brother Michael is a peacenik, and Danno goes undercover as a draft dodger to help solve the mystery of Jack's death.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Anthony Lawrence

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  11. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 9 - The Late John Louisiana
    7.8/10(198 votes)

    S3:E9

    The hitman sent to kill the witness to a two year old murder instead falls in love with her and McGarrett and the team must lead the search to find her before duty overtakes love.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 14 - The Double Wall
    7.8/10(170 votes)

    S3:E14

    When a convicted murderer, Harry Kellem, hears a dying man say he committed the crime that Kellem was jailed for, he takes a doctor hostage and McGarrett must negotiate his way out of the situation.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 13 - The Payoff
    7.7/10(178 votes)

    S3:E13

    McGarrett must apprehend two abductors who are on the run with the proceeds of their crime in order to protect the lives of their co-conspirators.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 3 - The Second Shot
    7.6/10(187 votes)

    S3:E3

    Dr. Lemira, an opposition leader for Greece, is living in exile in Hawaii, but Klaus Marberg is sent to assassinate him. His plan is to get himself shot and work his way into Dr. Lemira's confidence so he can kill him easily. McGarrett must work out this plot and save the day before it is too late.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 12 - Beautiful Screamer
    7.6/10(195 votes)

    S3:E12

    Dan Williams's fiancee is murdered by a strangler who writes poetry in lipstick on his victims' legs. Danno resolves to catch the culprit who has other murderous plans to carry out.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 4 - Time And Memories
    7.4/10(199 votes)

    S3:E4

    When a lawyer is murdered, his wife becomes the top suspect and McGarrett investigates. However, matters are complicated by the fact that the woman had a relationship with McGarrett, and he jeopardises his job because of this.

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 5 - The Guarnerius Caper
    7.4/10(195 votes)

    S3:E5

    Shortly after giving a recital, the violin of a visiting Russian virtuoso is stolen, and McGarrett must retrieve it before the theft turns into an international incident.

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 7 - Force Of Waves
    7.3/10(181 votes)

    S3:E7

    When a ruthless businessman is blown up in a boat explosion, Five-O has many suspects to choose from, and they use psychological methods to determine the guilty party.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 10 - The Last Eden
    7.3/10(169 votes)

    S3:E10

    Five-O search for the criminals who have set up Hawaiian singer and ecologist Jimmy Nuanu as the fall guy for a sewage plant bombing.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 20 - The Gunrunner
    7.3/10(173 votes)

    S3:E20

    The wife of an arms dealer is kidnapped by revolutionaries who want the guns diverted from their original destination, but the arms dealer himself is not as innocent as matters would indicate…

    Director:Anton Leader
    Writer:James D. Buchanan

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  21. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 23 - The Grandstand Play (1)
    7.3/10(186 votes)

    S3:E23

    A baseball player, Lon Phillips, brings his backward son to Hawaii to escape threats on his life on the mainland.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Adrian Spies

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  22. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 24 - The Grandstand Play (2)
    7.2/10(158 votes)

    S3:E24

    The son of the baseball player becomes the vital witness in a murder, but he is reluctant to tell either his father or Five-O of the crime.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 15 - Paniolo
    6.9/10(171 votes)

    S3:E15

    A cowboy fears the loss of his land to a crooked estate agent and accidentally kills him by hitting him. McGarrett and his team must track the cowboy into the mountains and persuade him to give himself up.

    Director:Michael O'Herlihy
    Writer:Ed Adamson

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  24. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 Episode 21 - Dear Enemy
    6.9/10(164 votes)

    S3:E21

    The wife of a convicted man fakes evidence in a new crime so that McGarrett will have to re-open her husband's case.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"Over Fifty? Steal!" is the best rated episode of "Hawaii Five-O" season 3. It scored 8.9/10 based on 356 votes. Directed by Bob Sweeney and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/25/1970. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "The Reunion".