Tonight 50 years ago, CBS aired S05E22 "Engaged To Be Buried".
One of Chin Ho's kids, Alia (Irene Tsu) has gotten herself entangled with punk Rono Vidalgo (Erik Estrada). Rono is the leader of a three pack to force legitimate business people to buy into the crooked Star Island Company run by Rono's oily father, Shako (Simon Oakland), who is also confined to a wheelchair after a shoot-out with police. Rono's brother Koa (Richard Yniguez) and their friend Bertie (Donald Roessler) are pretty brutal with the businesses blowing up cars to scare the crap out of everyone.
One target isn't playing. Stan Carson (Charles Quinlivan) is a retired cop from Chicago and a new owner of a bowling alley. Carson immediately calls Five-O because he refuses to be part of a shakedown. He does, however, hire Alia's best friend Pamela (Cris Callow) at the bowling alley. Things don't end well when Bertie sets up another bomb and it runs into Pam's car!
Rono and Alia fly to Kauai in Rono's plane to meet Father Jack (Bob Turnbull). The couple wants to get married but other first visit, Jack refuses them. Mostly because Rono refuses to stop the criminal activity with his father. However, after the bombing at the bowling alley, things turn. Alia walks out of the hospital in shock and Rono convinces her to go to Kauai to get married. It happens on the second trip.
Five-O closes in and the honeymoon is literally short-lived when Duke (Herman Wedemeyer) snipes Rono, even though Rono has used Alia as a shield! Jerk!
Mr. Mike has a fantastic review here: https://www.fiveohomepage.com/5-0log5.htm#118
Mr. Mike rates this as a 4-star episode and he's right! This is one of my favorite episodes because we get more insight into Chin Ho's family life. As well, we see more team dynamics within Five-O. There is a particularly excellent scene when Alia is picked up by HPD after Chin discovers she's been hanging out with Rono rather than studying with Pamela! Alia knows Danno (no surprise) and he's the one who explains to her who she's really mixed up with including graphic photos of the prior damage.
There are times Chin is barely hanging on by a thread. He threatens to beat the crap out of Bertie in one instance and McGarrett threatens to take Chin off the case! It's pretty fun to watch.
This episode also has an interesting connection to S07E01, "The Young Assassins". Erik Estrada guests in this one and his future "CHiPs" partner, Larry Wilcox, is one of the mercenaries in Assassins. They're both pretty young in their guest roles.
Happy 50th, "Engaged To Be Buried"!!!