Tiger by the Tail

Tiger by the Tail. Episode 3, Season One. Originally aired October 10, 1968. Sal Mineo stars as a Frank Sinatra Jr. type, belting out that kind of 60s discotheque music in the "Swingers Club" when he puts together a kidnapping hoax to bilk money out of his father--an Aristotle Onassis type. Except, in the course of the hoax, it becomes real for Mineo's hippie friends and while his father makes life difficult for Steve and Five-o, his life is in danger. The very first rumblings of McGarrett's hostility to psychiatry?

Highlight: McGarrett's questioning of Mineo's groupies.