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Child Stealers

Drama

50

Jan 1, 1973

An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers.

Full Episodes

Season 5, 24 episodes

Death Is A Company Policy,

McGarrett is puzzled when a computer programmed to help solve the slaying of an underworld figure's business associate indicates that the culprit is one of McGarrett's own people — Duke.

50m Sep 11, 1972

Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain,

Ricardo Montalban plays Alex Pareno, a wealthy auto-racing enthusiast whose mechanic is slain on the eve of Hawaii's most important road race.

50m Sep 18, 1972

You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich,

A series of deaths of well-to-do businessmen puts the Hawaii Five-O unit into the investigation of a lucrative blackmail operation.

50m Sep 25, 1972

Pig in a Blanket,

Danny is involved in the shooting of a teenager following a fellow police officer's death; guests John Rubinstein, Louise Latham.

50m Dec 4, 1971

The Jinn Who Clears The Way,

Khigh Dhiegh returns as the sinister criminal genius Wo Fat to match wits with McGarrett. A petty criminal is slain during the theft of a secret ballistic missile device, and McGarrett suspects that his arch nemesis, Wo Fat, is behind the theft.

50m Oct 9, 1972

Fools Die Twice,

Army officer Jack Gulley, played by Clu Gulager, devises a bizarre scheme to kidnap a top government scientist and collect a ransom of one million dollars in diamonds.

50m Oct 16, 1972

Chain of Events,

The slaying of a public health official while conducting an investigation into venereal disease leads McGarrett into the world of politics and intrigue. Jay Stewart and Mary Frann guest star.

49m Nov 13, 1972

Journey Out Of Limbo,

Keenan Wynn guest stars as the trusted friend of a Chinese diplomat who is the object of an assassination plan which Danny Williams stumbles upon, but whose details he cannot remember when he is injured.

49m Oct 30, 1972

V For Vashon: The Son (Part 1),

A family-dominated crime syndicate comes to the surface again after a long period of dormancy.

50m Nov 13, 1972

V For Vashon: The Father (Part 2),

The Vashon family launches a vendetta against McGarrett in this second installment of a trilogy dealing with an underworld dynasty in Hawaii.

50m Nov 20, 1972

V For Vashon: The Patriarch (Part 3),

With his son in prison and his grandson dead — both as a result of McGarrett's actions, the patriarch of the Vashon crime syndicate, old Dominick, devises a cunning scheme to frame the chief of Five-O and send him to prison in disgrace.

50m Nov 27, 1972

The Clock Stuck Twelve,

A series of bomb threats follows the arrest of a band of Hawaiian vigilantes, and McGarrett is assigned to preserve security and ensure an orderly trial.

50m Dec 4, 1972

I'm A Family Crook--Don't Shoot,

Andy Griffith and Joyce Van Patten pay a husband-and-wife team of confidence operators who get caught between two of the islands' most powerful mobs, almost touching off a war among competing underworld factions.

50m Dec 18, 1972

Child Stealers,

An infant is taken from his stroller on a Honolulu street as McGarrett and his Five-O forces wait unsuccessfully for a ransom demand in order to trap the kidnappers.

50m Jan 1, 1973

Thanks For The Honeymoon,

Patty Duke and Carol Lawrence are the guest stars as McGarrett goes after the untouchable king-pin of narcotics traffic in the islands.

50m Jan 8, 1973

Dr. Eric Fowler, a psychiatrist, becomes the victim of an extortion effort by a clever paranoiac found too disturbed to treat.

50m Jan 15, 1973

Hear Today, Gone Tonight,

McGarrett and Danny Williams must solve the riddle of how a suspected killer can appear to be in two places at one time. The investigators appear to be at an impasse — until faint clues are developed to throw the light of reality on the crime.

50m Jan 22, 1973

The Odd Lot Caper,

Richard Basehart plays the mastermind behind a 40-million-dollar conspiracy to rob the Honolulu Stock Exchange. Basehart, as Murdock, senior partner in a stock exchange firm, conceives a daring and seemingly foolproof plan to rob the exchange.

50m Jan 29, 1973

Will The Real Mr. Winkler Please Die,

Nehemiah Persoff plays an obscure shopkeeper who calls himself Peter Winkler and becomes the catalyst in a plot to assassinate a high-level Iron Curtain defector.

50m Feb 5, 1973

Little Girl Blue,

Nina Foch plays a grandmother whose only grandchild is kidnapped by two ineffectual crooks. As McGarrett and his Five-O forces attempt to move up the mountain where the child is being held, the kidnappers lay down a withering fuselage of rifle fire.

50m Feb 12, 1973

A travel agent operating gambling junkets is slain as a warning to his partner to stop competing for the gambling business.

50m Feb 19, 1973

Engaged To Be Buried,

McGarrett attempts to crack an extortion ring preying on small businessmen. The detective's investigation seems to run into a roadblock when it is learned that one of the gang members is courting the daughter of Chin Ho.

50m Feb 26, 1973

The Diamond That Nobody Stole,

A cat burglar strikes at the home of a socially prominent island family, setting off a fast-moving series of events that lead to a death. McGarrett's search for clues takes him to a rundown neighborhood.

50m Mar 5, 1973

A police informer tells McGarrett that one of the jurors in the murder trial of island strong-arm has been bribed in an effort to produce a hung jury.

50m Mar 12, 1973