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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 (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 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.

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.

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.