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The Best Episodes of Hawaii Five-O Season 3

Every episode of Hawaii Five-O Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Hawaii Five-O Season 3!

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12...
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Season 3 Ratings Summary

"... And A Time To Die" is the best rated episode of "Hawaii Five-O" season 3. It scored 8/10 based on 164 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/16/1970. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Trouble In Mind".

  • ... And A Time To Die
    8.0/10164 votes

    #1 - ... And A Time To Die

    Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Trouble In Mind
    8.1/10185 votes

    #2 - Trouble In Mind

    Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Second Shot
    7.4/10146 votes

    #3 - The Second Shot

    Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1970

    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: N/A

  • Time And Memories
    7.3/10151 votes

    #4 - Time And Memories

    Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Guarnerius Caper
    7.2/10152 votes

    #5 - The Guarnerius Caper

    Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Ransom
    7.9/10149 votes

    #6 - The Ransom

    Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1970

    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: N/A

  • Force Of Waves
    7.1/10140 votes

    #7 - Force Of Waves

    Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 10/28/1970

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Reunion
    8.2/10168 votes

    #8 - The Reunion

    Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/4/1970

    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

  • The Late John Louisiana
    7.7/10152 votes

    #9 - The Late John Louisiana

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/11/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Last Eden
    7.2/10134 votes

    #10 - The Last Eden

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/18/1970

    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: N/A

  • Over Fifty? Steal!
    8.9/10298 votes

    #11 - Over Fifty? Steal!

    Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/25/1970

    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: N/A

  • Beautiful Screamer
    7.4/10154 votes

    #12 - Beautiful Screamer

    Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Payoff
    7.4/10137 votes

    #13 - The Payoff

    Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 12/9/1970

    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: N/A

  • The Double Wall
    7.7/10133 votes

    #14 - The Double Wall

    Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 12/16/1970

    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: N/A

  • Paniolo
    6.8/10133 votes

    #15 - Paniolo

    Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 12/30/1970

    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

  • Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
    8.1/10146 votes

    #16 - Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1971

    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: N/A

  • To Kill Or Be Killed
    7.5/10154 votes

    #17 - To Kill Or Be Killed

    Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 1/13/1971

    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

  • F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
    8.0/10137 votes

    #18 - F.O.B. Honolulu (1)

    Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1971

    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: N/A

  • F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
    8.1/10133 votes

    #19 - F.O.B. Honolulu (2)

    Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1971

    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: N/A

  • The Gunrunner
    7.1/10135 votes

    #20 - The Gunrunner

    Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1971

    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

  • Dear Enemy
    6.7/10127 votes

    #21 - Dear Enemy

    Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1971

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney
    7.9/10147 votes

    #22 - The Bomber And Mrs. Moroney

    Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1971

    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: N/A

  • The Grandstand Play (1)
    7.0/10146 votes

    #23 - The Grandstand Play (1)

    Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1971

    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

  • The Grandstand Play (2)
    7.0/10126 votes

    #24 - The Grandstand Play (2)

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1971

    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: N/A