3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu

3,000 Crooked Miles to Honolulu. Episode 76, season 4. Original air date: 10/5/71. They may have filmed the opening scene in Hawaii even though it's supposed to be happening outside of Denver. At any rate, when those guys blow up the armored vehicle with a bazooka, it doesn't quite look like Colorado. The complex travelers-checks scheme is launched by Buddy Ebsen, a bow-tied professor leading a group of seasoned criminals. It's fun to bob along to the crazy over-emplained details of the case. But, come on, how can I accept Uncle Jed and Barnaby Jones as a villain (albeit a less bloodthirsty villain than some of his cohorts)? That's awful. It all boils down to where McGarrett traps them all aboard the plane and he gets on the pilot's mic and says the immortal words "Aloha, suckers!" How could that not be the name of the episode? The name of a spin-off? Highlight: Russ Meyersesque montage sequence about the passing of the checks, including a frame of the "Grog N Sirloin" restaurant.