The Five-O Explosion List

Originally posted by Inglewolf in a Five-O mailing list over 20 years ago:

Besides falling off a cliff or building, getting blasted explosion style is another common Five-0 "violent way to die" cause of death. There were plenty of ka-boom moments, some with casualties, others without, and others where the threat of a big-kaboom amounted to a dud.

Deadly explosions
Strangers in Our Own Land (taxicab,bulldozer)
Samurai (grenade)
Deathwatch (car)
Force of Waves (boat)
The Reunion (package)
The Last Eden (sewage plant)
*Highest Castle, Deepest Grave (car)
Death is a Company Policy (helicopter)
V for Vashon, The Father (McGarrett's booby-trapped car)
I'm a Family Crook Don't Shoot (race car)
Engaged to Be Buried (car)
Why Wait Until Uncle Kevin Dies (boat, helicopter)
Death With Father (drug factory)
The Young Assassins (car)
*Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb? (two cars)
A Gun For McGarrett (booby-trapped plaque)
Hit Gun For Sale (car)
Death's Name is SAM (helicopter)
Murder, Eyes Only (envelope)
*Nine Dragons (car)
**Double Exposure (car)
Up the Rebels (shack)
Shake Hands With the Man on the Moon (bar pay-phone)
When Does a War End (cannery)
Deadly Courier (attache case)
Number One With a Bullet, Part 1 (car)
Stringer (car)
Labyrinth (boat)
*(famous car goes off road, down hill and explodes seen)
**(car goes off road and explodes, but is different shot)
Near Deadly Explosions
Blind Tiger (McGarrett's car, McGarrett is blinded)
The $100,000 Nickel (car)
Murder, Eyes Only (envelope)
Oldest Profession--Latest Price (package, the hooker is critically injured but lives)
Blood Money is Hard to Wash (statue, maims the Five-0 team but doesn't kill)
Harmless Explosions
The Gunrunner (grenade)
The Reunion (car)
For A Million Why Not (nitro)
Air Cargo, Dial For Murder (jade shipment)
Anybody Can Build a Bomb (Kapialoni Park restroom)
Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb (bomb dropped at sea)
Loose Ends Get Hit (car)
Non-explosions, no boom
To Hell With Babe Ruth
The Bomber and Mrs. Maroney
V for Vashon, The Father (first one in McGarrett's car)
The Clock Struck Twelve (two diffused)
Why Wait Until Uncle Kevin Dies? (Foster's propane tanks)
Anybody Can Build a Bomb (Mercury's big bomb)
A Hawaiian Nightmare (the volcano bomb)
Bomb, Bomb, Who's Got the Bomb (the second bomb is diffused)
A Capitol Crime

Danno diffused three bombs, McGarrett one--well two if you count pressing the garage door opener in "A Hawaiian Nightmare".

I left out the bogus bomb blast in "Welcome to Our Branch Office" and the lame-o looking runway blast in "Death's Name is SAM".

As always I may have left some titles out, most likely the last two and a half seasons that I find to unmemorable to memorize. Feel free to correct me and add to the list.

I'm A Family Crook -- Don't Shoot! is the over the top limo explosion that I crack up every time I see it.

Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain is the race car.

When does a car explode in "The Young Assassins"? I thought they just shot people.

There's also 6,000 Deadly Tickets - the travel agency gets blown up in a spectacular manner, killing the owner. :(

Regarding The Young Assassins:

Ben has been canvassing gas stations after some prints were found on the the gas tank of the PAG's car which was impounded after the incident outside the mall. He gets lucky at one station where the attendant, "Jolly George" (Yankee Chang, uncredited) recognizes a photo of the car, which belonged to Vera, and remembers the woman driving it: "One good-Iooking haole wahine. Extra cutie." Ben does surveillance at the station, hoping she will appear, and Vera soon shows up for a dollar's worth of gas.

Ben alerts HPD cop Nick, who is nearby and who tails Vera. She stops and telephones Stanwood from a phone next to the Dillingham Fountain, saying she has "negative vibrations" because George was acting kind of squirrelly. Stanwood tells her, "You go for a ride. If he follows you, take him for a tour." After Vera continues driving, Nick tries to pull her over, showing his badge, but she takes a shot at him and speeds away, and the chase ends when she runs into a truck's trailer containing a bulldozer near the under-construction Aloha Stadium. Her car blows up violently and she is barbecued.

For whatever reason, I spaced that explosion when I read over the list. :)

Deadly Courier has a second one where Hakima's store is blown up, killing the owner/bomber.

For A Million Why Not also has the truck exploding at the end but I think the driver/brains behind the operation was killed by gunfire. This is after he threw out the nitro which is on the list.

Non Lethal bomb:

Dynamite explodes on the boat in Journey Out Of Limbo but it does throw everyone, especially McGarrett and Danno, all over the deck of the larger boat that was the target. And Danno already suffered a concussion earlier in the episode! He'll be feeling some pain for awhile. I watched that one last night since it aired on Halloween 1972. :p