Big Hawaii - Season 1

Gandy, a buddy from Mitch's rollicking past turns up as a crop duster. A real charmer. Gandy manages to con Mitch's 18-year-old cousin, Keke, out of $2,500 she had earmarked for a beautiful horse.

An epidemic of typhoid fever hits the Paradise Ranch and Barrett and Mitch Fears try to stop the spreading fever and the animosity of their neighbors toward a hippie commune that is suspected of causing the fever.

Mitch must come to the rescue of a divorcee with whom he is romantically involved when Max, her brutal ex-husband, threatens to beat her, and at the same time he's busy supervising a water pipeline construction.

Mitch (Cliff Potts) has just got his pilot's license, and asks his father to join him for a ride. The plane is circling the Mauna Loa Volcano when it develops engine trouble and Mitch has to crash land the plane. Just at that moment, the volcano provides a little trouble of its own

Mitch Fears and ranch foreman Oscar Kalahani, temporarily deputised, are confronted with pre-graduation teenage waywardness and a bride with a missing dress.

Mitch is keen on Sarah, who is in charge of the rehabilitation centre for female ex-cons. Teri, a trouble-maker at the centre, escapes one night and is not heard of and seen for some time. In the sub-plot, divorcee Renee (who is also Mitch'a friend) goes home to collect her child from ex-husband Brett and runs into an argument with him over the matter. Then Brett is found killed, and Renee is the prime suspect.

In high hopes of making a bundle, Derby O'Brian, the devious sidekick of Cal Seward, an ailing rodeo champion, persuades Mitch Fears to enter the competition facing the champ-then bets heavily against Mitch.

When Mitch yearns to go to the Surfing Finals with pro-surfers Terry Manhoff and Kay Stratton, Barrett, his father, advises him that living in the past is just another way of dying.

A casual flirtation between Mitch Fears and a pretty sunbather leads to a half million dollar lawsuit that hampers his father obtaining a needed bank loan for the ranch.

Kimo's friend, Akoni, is charged with the slaying of a former employer who tired him without paying back wages, attorney Seth Bradley bows to local pressure and refuses to defend Akoni because he's a Hawaiian.

When Mitch Fears rejects advances by a teenage country girl, she retaliates by accusing him of rape.