Drama series about a powerful ranching family with Cliff Potts as Mitch Fears, a prodigal son who has returned. The storyline is about a wealthy old-line rancher and his liberal son. Shot in Hawaiian locations.If there is a prevailing theme in NBC TV's Big Hawaii, Wednesdays, (10-11 p.m.), it is "family spirit". It is about life on the massive Paradise Ranch owned by Barrett Fears (John Dehner). There are two families on the ranch — the Fears, played by Hollywood actors Dehner, Cliff Potts, and Lucia Stralser, and fhe Kalahanis, a true Hawaiian family played by Hawaiian citizens. Elizabeth Smith plays the matriarch of the Kalahanis, Lulu. Moe Keale plays her son, Garfield. And Remi Abellira plays her grandson, Kimo.
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 deputized, are confronted with pre-graduation teenage waywardness and a bride with a missing dress. A power failure plunges the island into darkness and Mitch is deputized to cope with expected looting.
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.
After Mitch Fears rejects the advances of a teenage country girl, she retaliates by falsely accusing him of rape.
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