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Season 12 - Episode Guide

Episodes

A Lion in the Streets (1)

Episode: 12x01 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1979

A Lion in the Streets (1)

The Hawaiian kumu mob attempts to take over a resort-workers union, to the fury of native Hawaiians who vengefully infiltrate and smash underground activities in lawless fashion. Meanwhile, Boston ex-cop James Carew trails a mainland gangster - who is providing aid and comfort to the kumu - to Hawaii in order to get information on the murders of his wife and child.

A Lion in the Streets (2)

Episode: 12x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1979

A Lion in the Streets (2)

The Hawaiian kumu mob attempts to take over a resort-workers union, to the fury of native Hawaiians who vengefully infiltrate and smash underground activities in lawless fashion. Meanwhile, Boston ex-cop James Carew trails a mainland gangster - who is providing aid and comfort to the kumu - to Hawaii in order to get information on the murders of his wife and child.

Who Says Cops Don't Cry?

Episode: 12x03 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1979

Who Says Cops Don't Cry?

When the husband of a policewoman is gunned down by opportunist robbers, she resolves to catch them any way she can.

Though the Heavens Fall

Episode: 12x04 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1979

Though the Heavens Fall

A group of high society men set out to see that justice is done - the catch being that it is justice on their terms only...

Sign of the Ram

Episode: 12x05 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1979

Sign of the Ram

Jessica Humboldt, an astrologer and friend of Agnes DuBois, comes to McGarrett with news that a forthcoming match will be disastrous for a boxer. McGarrett must overcome his suspicions and crack the case.

Good Help is Hard to Find

Episode: 12x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1979

Good Help is Hard to Find

Tony Alika and Guido Marioni, killer of Kimo's family, together hatch a plot to frame and embarrass the Five-O team by making them look stupid or corrupt.

Image of Fear

Episode: 12x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1979

Image of Fear

When a woman is stalked by a strange figure, she seems to be seeing things and her friends are worried as to her mental health. However, events prove her case and an accomplice is revealed...

Use a Gun, Go to Hell

Episode: 12x08 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1979

Use a Gun, Go to Hell

When two surfer bums use a gun to rob a shop, it starts off a trail of death and misery involving children, politics and blackmail.

Voice of Terror

Episode: 12x09 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1979

Voice of Terror

A group of terrorists capture a female officer and use her to further their aims, and McGarrett and the team must find a way to take them out without endangering the life of Officer Dean.

A Shallow Grave

Episode: 12x10 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1979

A Shallow Grave

A young man on vacation has strange visions that lead him to the site of an old murder and help him discover a lost family.

The Kahuna

Episode: 12x11 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1979

The Kahuna

When two healthy young people die mysteriously, local traditions prevent post mortems, and a strange conspiracy is gradually uncovered when Truck seems to fall under the power of a Kahuna...

Labyrinth

Episode: 12x12 | Airdate: Dec 25, 1979

Labyrinth

When a rich socialite is kidnapped, her husband insists that Five-O stay out of the case. However, his reasons may not all be on the level as events take a series of twists and turns...

School for Assassins

Episode: 12x13 | Airdate: Jan 1, 1980

School for Assassins

McGarrett and Kimo must stop a gang of trained assassins from disrupting a meeting of energy ministers.

For Old Times Sake

Episode: 12x14 | Airdate: Jan 8, 1980

For Old Times Sake

A school for wayward girls, run by a friend of Steve McGarrett's, needs $15,000 for overdue taxes or the school will be closed. Former counterfeiter Willie McFee, a flower breeder who also is a general handyman and gardener for the school, decides to make one last print run with a set of near-perfect $20 plates he once crafted - but a mainland crime boss gets word that Willie's plates have surfaced, meaning that he can try to steal them for himself.

The Golden Noose

Episode: 12x15 | Airdate: Jan 15, 1980

The Golden Noose

The next-to-last show to be filmed features an escaped convict posing as a diplomat from a Far Eastern country in order to get at the country's store of gold bullion in a Honolulu bank. He hires experts with lasers to penetrate the light-beam screen surrounding the bank vault, burn a hole in the vault's floor, heat the gold until it liquefies and drain it through ceramic tubing. McGarrett gets a clue to what's happening when the bank's thermometer (located near the vault) starts to freak out, but he still has to find the thugs' hideout before they solidify the gold and escape.

The Flight of the Jewels

Episode: 12x16 | Airdate: Mar 1, 1980

The Flight of the Jewels

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

Clash of Shadows

Episode: 12x17 | Airdate: Mar 8, 1980

Clash of Shadows

Israel's celebrated Nazi-hunter Yuri Bloch has apparently been killed in Honolulu while trying to gather information about a war criminal named Emil Klaus. Knowing the Bloch would only have come to Hawaii if a former Nazi were hiding there, McGarrett and Five-O conduct their own search for Klaus -- while Bloch's partner lies badly wounded in a safe house, and the woman caring for him does what she can to assist while undercover.

A Bird in Hand...

Episode: 12x18 | Airdate: Mar 22, 1980

A Bird in Hand...

During a stop off on a bird-watching expedition, tourists photograph an old sugar mill. They don't know that the mill is a front for a gold-smuggling operation and that one of their photographs has caught the leader through a window. The leader sends a pack of goons to kill everyone in the tourist party and steal their film. McGarrett and a newspaper journalist, who got hold of the pictures, must try to identify the man in the picture and take down his operation before he gets them.

The Moroville Covenant

Episode: 12x19 | Airdate: Mar 29, 1980

The Moroville Covenant

Paul Burke guest stars as attorney David Lawrence, a political candidate whose promising bid for the U.S. Senate is endangered by the murder of a man who tried to blackmail him. Although Lawrence swears he knows nothing about the murder, he admits that the dead would-be extortionist did have knowledge about him that could have destroyed his political future.

Woe to Wo Fat

Episode: 12x20 | Airdate: Apr 5, 1980

Woe to Wo Fat

The series concludes with the final showdown between McGarrett and Wo Fat. Three scientists who have disappeared have one thing in common, they all attended a symposium on possible space-based, laser defense systems. McGarrett impersonates a fourth scientist, Dr. Elton Raintree, who attended the same gathering and is soon abducted. Wo Fat is behind it all and wants the scientists to complete their work and produce such a device.

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