Hawaii (2004)
Hawaii is a United States television series produced and distributed by NBC Universal Television for the NBC television network. Originally titled Pearl City, this police drama was produced with the series Hawaii Five-O in mind, and debuted on August 31, 2004. Written by Executive Producer Jeff Eastin, the series revolves around a fictional elite crime unit of the Honolulu Police Department headed by veteran detective and local legend Sean Harrison and John Declan, a former Chicago Police Department detective transferred to the state of Hawaii for his talents. The series was written by Jeff Eastin, Chris Black, Reid Steiner, Wendy West, Eric Haywood, and Travis Romero. The series is considered one of the most ambitious projects in the history of the Hawaii State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism's Hawaii Film Office, desperate to repeat the economic prosperity once gained and driven by the CBS television series such as Hawaii Five-O and Magnum, P.I. for the state's tourism industry. The series was canceled in October 2004. Although eight episodes were filmed, only seven actually aired.
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Episode 1 - Hawaiian Justice (aka. Pilot)
Release Date: 2004-09-01A freakish series of decapitations has police officers and detectives brushing the island to bring the killer to justice.
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Episode 2 - Underground
Release Date: 2004-09-06After a cache of C-4 explosives is found, Gains goes under cover as a demolitions expert infiltrating a gang planning a bank heist.
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Episode 3 - Cops 'n' Robbers
Release Date: 2004-09-08Harrison and Declan track down a serial killer who targets streetwalkers; Declan offends a Hawaiian goddess when he sends his mother some holy lava rocks; Gains and Edwards search for violent carjackers who prey on tourists.
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Episode 4 - Psych Out
Release Date: 2004-09-15When a judge is murdered in a public park, Harrison and Declan have 72 hours to build their case or see the lead suspect leave for Samoa; Gains and Edwards must improvise a search for big-time drug dealers
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Episode 5 - Lost and Found
Release Date: 2004-09-22A teenager is kidnapped by a sex-slave ring. Declan recruits Internet specialists to help track down a pedophile who might be able to help them catch the ringleaders.
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Episode 6 - No Man Is an Island
Release Date: 2004-09-29Gains and Edwards see a track a drug dealer's source to a mysterious local island. And its residents claim it is an independent nation growing its own cash crop -marijuana.
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Episode 7 - Out of Time
Release Date: 2004-10-06A Hawaiian family feud ends up in murder. So the dectectives are on it. And when they research on it, they go back 200 years of family history.
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Episode 8 - Almost Paradise
Release Date:A new bride from the midwest disappears from her honeymoon suite. Dectectives suspect that it was her husband, the case goes into a media frenzy. Hawaii's police to protect the image of the tourist economy.