As of July 2026, Hawaii Five-O Season 3 aired in 1970 with 24 episodes — streaming now on Paramount Plus Premium. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Hawaii Five-O Season 3

1970 24 Episodes Action & Adventure · Drama ⭐ 7/10

Hawaii Five-O Season 3 has built a real following on and among viewers who want their action grounded in something real. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. James MacArthur is the obvious draw, but the supporting cast gives the action its context. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Hawaii Five-O Season 3 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Hawaii Five-O Season 3 understands that stakes only matter if you care who is at risk. The third season of Hawaii Five-O, an American television series, began September 16, 1970, and ended on March 10, 1971. It aired on CBS. The region 1 DVD was released on January 22, 2008. James MacArthur and Jack Lord lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1970. The geography of every set piece in Hawaii Five-O Season 3 is legible, which is rarer in the genre than it should be. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

Action fans who want craft and story alongside the spectacle will find exactly that in Hawaii Five-O Season 3. It has built its own audience without needing a direct comparison. Short enough to finish in a weekend, substantial enough to feel satisfying. James MacArthur's performance is the throughline that holds the bigger action elements together. Give it twenty minutes and decide — most viewers do not stop there.

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🎬 Hawaii Five-O Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
... And A Time To Die
1970-09-16
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.
E2
Trouble In Mind
1970-09-23
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.
E3
The Second Shot
1970-09-30
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.
E4
Time And Memories
1970-10-07
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.
E5
The Guarnerius Caper
1970-10-14
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.
E6
The Ransom
1970-10-21
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.
E7
Force Of Waves
1970-10-28
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.
E8
The Reunion
1970-11-04
A Japanese computer research company executive is recognised by a veteran as his former captor in a Phillippine prison camp in World War II.
E9
The Late John Louisiana
1970-11-11
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.
E10
The Last Eden
1970-11-18
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.
E11
Over Fifty? Steal!
1970-11-25
McGarrett and company must pit their wits against a veteran thief and robber who leaves Monopoly money at the scene of his crimes.
E12
Beautiful Screamer
1970-12-02
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.
E13
The Payoff
1970-12-09
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.
E14
The Double Wall
1970-12-16
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.
E15
Paniolo
1970-12-30
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.
E16
Ten Thousand Diamonds And A Heart
1971-01-06
An electronics genius is busted out of prison so he can mastermind a massive robbery of diamonds from the Honolulu Diamond Exchange.
E17
To Kill Or Be Killed
1971-01-13
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.
E18
F.O.B. Honolulu (1)
1971-01-27
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.
E19
F.O.B. Honolulu (2)
1971-02-03
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.
E20
The Gunrunner
1971-02-10
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…

🎭 Cast of Hawaii Five-O Season 3

James MacArthur
James MacArthur
Danny Williams
Jack Lord
Jack Lord
Det. Steve McGarrett
Kam Fong
Kam Fong
Chin Ho
Zulu
Zulu
Kono
Al Harrington
Al Harrington
Ben
Harry Endo
Harry Endo
Che Fong

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