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The Cop on the Cover

Action & Adventure

49

Sep 28, 1977

McGarrett reluctantly allows reporter Terri O'Brien to shadow Five-O for a story. She questions McGarrett's decisions in a kidnapping case, investigates it herself.

Full Episodes

Season 10, 18 episodes

An Irish Terrorist engineers a hijacking from a U.S. military facility of a load of exotic new explosives for the purpose of smuggling it to northern Ireland.

49m Sep 14, 1977

You Don't See Many Pirates These Days,

Italian actor Rossano Brazzi plays a wealthy shipping magnate who enlists the aid of Five-O Chief McGarrett and the Coast Guard when one of his freighters is hijacked on the high seas.

49m Sep 21, 1977

The Cop on the Cover,

McGarrett reluctantly allows reporter Terri O'Brien to shadow Five-O for a story. She questions McGarrett's decisions in a kidnapping case, investigates it herself.

49m Sep 28, 1977

The Friends of Joey Kalima,

Officer Joey Kalima faces Internal Affairs board over ignored illegal bookmaking case. Steve McGarrett takes on the case, but must go up against Lieutenant Bernie Fryer. Steve must prove Joey's innocence and uncover the truth in a corrupt system.

49m Oct 12, 1977

Descent of the Torches,

McGarrett and his Five-O crew seek the killer of an archeologist who may have died because of the rumor that he was trying to find and excavate the lost grave of the Hawaiian king, Kamehameha, thereby violating an ancient taboo.

49m Oct 19, 1977

The Ninth Step,

Steve hunts for 2 law-evading fugitives linked to an armored truck robbery. A former cop complicates the search. The ex-officer's drunk behavior enabled the robbery.

49m Oct 26, 1977

Shake Hands with the Man in the Moon,

Steve McGarrett tries to find a way to crack through the commercialized facade of a U.S. astronaut turned real estate huckster, in an effort to solve the murder of a crusading investigative reporter.

49m Nov 9, 1977

Deadly Doubles,

Tennis star defects to US during a Hawaiian tourney. In love with American Brent Saunders, she's taken from her Communist team. Plans upset when team member Peter Valchek murders coach, putting Steve McGarrett in dangerous international situation.

49m Nov 16, 1977

The murder of a U.S. Navy submarine officer on a Hawaiian beach at about the same time that a nearby mystery submarine is detected, causes McGarrett to suspect that he may be investigating more than just a run-of-the-mill killing.

49m Dec 7, 1977

Tread the King's Shadow,

McGarrett becomes the unofficial watchdog of a love triangle consisting of 18-year-old David Kaluna, David's sweetheart 16-year-old Debbie Cameron, and George Cameron, Debbie's wealthy and influential father who detests David for his lowborn origin.

49m Jan 4, 1978

Brilliant Uni students dupe entire Honolulu with false tidal wave alert, stealing millions in jewelry. Even McGarrett is fooled in Five-O.

49m Dec 21, 1977

East Wind, Ill Wind,

Dr. Sandanarik, exiled from tyranny, dies in watery tragedy. Widows claims murder, McGarrett investigates. Key to puzzle may be missing student Kati Parisa, a potential witness.

49m Dec 28, 1977

Eleanor Parker guest stars as Constance Kincaid, the aristocratic matriarch of a wealthy, old-line Islands family that figures in a murder case being investigated by Steve McGarrett and his staff.

49m Jan 11, 1978

When Does a War End?,

"Why are firms owned by virtuous Japanese-American Yuhio Muromoto being bombed by a WW2 memorabilia collector? McGarrett tries to uncover the truth.

49m Mar 15, 1978

Undercover cop murdered, McGarrett sends Officer Barnes to infiltrate drug-smuggling group led by Thomas Lynch. McGarrett has doubt but moves forward.

49m Mar 8, 1978

As Short Walk on the Long Shore,

With the help of a makeup expert, McGarrett, for the first time in his career, goes undercover in the disguise of a merchant seaman to find the killer of a labor-union reformer to forestall a costly waterfront strike.

49m Feb 1, 1978

David Birney guest stars as a glamorous young politician who is considered prime-presidential material in many quarters and who is being blackmailed in an effort to force him to smother an explosive congressional investigation that he is directing.

49m Feb 8, 1978

In an strange turn of events, Steve McGarrett, in pursuing a bigtime drug dealer whom he suspects of having killed a Honolulu police officer, finds himself in bitter conflict with a federal agent.

49m Feb 15, 1978