Gandy, a helicopter pilot bilks Keke, Barrett's niece, out of a big sum of dollars to pay a greedy banker. Keke Fears refuses to allow a potentially ruinous sugar cane blight to spoil her 18th. birthday luau, particularly when it brings a handsome crop duster helicopter pilot into her life.
When typhoid fever threatens to spread, a neighboring rancher (John Larch) blames a hippie commune squatting on Paradise Ranch.
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, 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
A power failure plunges the island into darkness and Mitch Fears is deputized to help cope with what is expected to be widespread looting. It's graduation eve for high school students.
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.
Fears is coaxed info a Hawaii rodeo competition by a visiting champion, he is puzzled by the pro's decreased ability which also causes the rodeo clown to scheme for a guaranteed win for the champ.
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.
A bigoted tourist helps stir tensions that lead to an identity crisis for Oscar Kalahai when his nephew Kimo angrily challenges his place in the family.
When Mitch Fears rejects advances by a teenage country girl, she retaliates by accusing him of rape.
A blinded, crazed architect, who designed the Fears Ranch house, returns to seek revenge against Barrett Fears for taking away his woman.