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Magnum, P.I.
Title card (seasons 3-8)
Genre	Crime drama
Created by	Donald P. Bellisario Glen A. Larson
Written by	Donald P. Bellisario Glen A. Larson Chris Abbott
Directed by	Ray Austin Michael Vejar Ivan Dixon
Starring	Tom Selleck John Hillerman Roger E. Mosley Larry Manetti
Narrated by	Tom Selleck
Theme music composer	Mike Post Ian Freebairn-Smith (season 1)
Composer(s)	Pete Carpenter Mike Post Ian Freebairn-Smith (season 1)
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	162 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Donald P. Bellisario Glen A. Larson Tom Selleck
Producer(s)	Tom Greene
Location(s)	Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi
Running time	48 min. (excluding commercials)
Broadcast
Original channel	CBS
Picture format	480i (SDTV)
Audio format	Monaural
Original run	December 11, 1980 – February 24, 1988

Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network.

According to the Nielsen ratings, Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top twenty U.S. television programs during the first five years that the series was originally telecast in the United States.^[1] Originally appearing in a prime time American network timeslot of 8 p.m. Eastern on Thursdays, Magnum, P.I. was one of the highest-rated shows on U.S. television.

Contents 1 Premise 2 Cast 2.1 Recurring characters 2.2 Guest Stars 3 Vehicles 3.1 Cars 3.2 Aircraft 4 Development 5 List of episodes 6 DVD releases 7 Ratings 8 Awards 9 In popular culture 10 Film adaptation 11 Broadcasters 12 References 13 External links

Premise

Thomas Sullivan Magnum lives and resides in the 'guest house' of a posh, 200-acre (0.81 km²) beachfront estate, known as Robin's Nest, in Hawaii, at the invitation of its owner, Robin Masters, the celebrated-but-never-seen author of several dozen lurid novels. Ostensibly this is quid pro quo for Magnum's services based upon Magnum's claimed expertise in security; the pilot suggests Magnum also did Masters a favor of some kind.

In addition, Robin’s Nest is guarded by two highly trained Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo, and all other aspects of the estate are managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major with whom, often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must barter for use of estate amenities other than the guest house and the Ferrari 308 GTS (e.g., tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.). During early seasons of Magnum, P.I., the voice of Robin Masters, heard only a few times per season, was voiced by Orson Welles.

A recurrent theme throughout the last two seasons involves Magnum's suspicion that Higgins is actually Robin Masters. This possibility is contradictory to numerous references throughout the series' run that make it clear they are different people. In spite of this, Higgins' dual identity remains an open question until the final episode, where he first admits he is Robin Masters, but later suggests what he had said about Robin Masters was a lie.

Magnum seemingly lives a dream lifestyle: he comes and goes as he pleases, works only when he wants to, has the almost unlimited use of a Ferrari 308 GTS as well as many other of Robin Masters’ luxuries. He keeps a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of fictional Coops beer, wears his father's treasured Rolex GMT Master wristwatch,^[2] is seemingly surrounded by countless beautiful women (who are often his clients or victims in the cases he solves) and enjoys adventures with his buddies Rick and T.C., both former Marines he served with in the Vietnam War.^[3]

Interestingly, Magnum and Higgins often break the fourth wall by "locking eyes" with the audience; other characters do this, though less frequently.

At the end of the seventh season, Magnum was killed off, and this was intended to be the end of the series. However, there was outcry from fans, and an eighth, final season was produced, to bring Magnum 'back to life', and to round the series off.

Cast

• Tom Selleck as Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV: Growing up in Tidewater, Virginia, he's a Detroit-born third-generation naval officer, the son of a deceased naval aviator killed during the Korean War. He is also a 1967 graduate of the United States Naval Academy and Vietnam veteran, where he served as a Navy SEAL commando. Magnum's specialized training includes acquiring appropriate expertise as a counter-insurgency expert, and also demonstrating additional expertise in lock picking and safe-cracking. Magnum played the field position of quarterback for the United States Naval Academy football team. The Magnum character is depicted to have resigned his commission in the U.S. Navy in disillusionment after approximately eleven years of service, including three tours of service during the U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. Magnum takes his Private Investigator job quite seriously and does not appreciate abbreviations for his profession such as P.I. and private eye — whenever referred to in such a manner he corrects the person and remarks that he is a "private investigator." It is also not clear what his age or place of birth is. In the season-two episode "Try To Remember," Magnum reports his date of birth (to an examining doctor) as August 8, 1944, his place of birth as Virginia, and his mother's name as Martha. These answers seem to satisfy the doctor (who, of course, has access to Magnum's medical records), though Magnum had sustained an injury to the head following a car accident. In the scene, his head is bandaged, and he has difficulty remembering the accident. Yet both the date and the year conflict with information in several other episodes. Tom Selleck's mother's name is, in fact, Martha, but Magnum's is Katherine in later episodes.

• Roger E. Mosley as Theodore Calvin, a.k.a. "T.C.": a helicopter pilot who operates a tourist charter business called Island Hoppers, wherein he pilots a Hughes 500D helicopter, decked out with distinctive livery. A former Marine Corps helicopter pilot in Vietnam, T.C.'s combat-trained flight skills are often solicited and put to good use by Magnum during the course of an investigation. T.C. is also powerfully built, a trait which Magnum often benefits from when he expects to, and often does, run into physical trouble. With the exception of some early season 1 episodes, T.C. avoids alcohol, instead preferring milk, soda, or juice, but mostly coffee. Often called Higgins "Higgy Baby".

• Larry Manetti as Orville Wilbur Richard "Rick" Wright^[4]: a suave playboy who is manager of the King Kamehameha Club, an exclusive beachfront members-only club. In the pilot, Rick owned a disco themed Rick’s Cafe Americaine, a.k.a. "The Snow Palace". Rick also maintains a number of underworld contacts (one of whom is gangland figure Francis “Icepick” Hofstetler, q.v.) and is an expert in weaponry. He was T.C.’s door gunner during the war in Vietnam.

• John Hillerman as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: The Major Domo of "Robin's Nest" a mansion in Hawaii. Higgins has a storied military background in the British Army and loves order above all else. An inveterate "old war story" teller, Higgins received a Victoria Cross (which is hardly surprising if half of the tales he tells are true).

Recurring characters

• Lt. Yoshi Tanaka — Homicide-division police lieutenant with the Honolulu police department (played by Kwan Hi Lim), characterized by his casual dress and ironic sense of humor. Seasons 2–8
• Agatha Cholmondeley — Higgins' quintessentially English lady friend (played by Gillian Dobb). Seasons 1-8
• Colonel "Buck" Greene — Marine Corps intelligence officer (played by Lance LeGault), often Magnum's nemesis. Seasons 2–8
• Carol Baldwin — assistant district attorney (played in all but the first appearance by Kathleen Lloyd). Seasons 3–8 (Before playing Carol Baldwin, Lloyd guest starred in the episode "Almost Home" as Bridget Archer.)^[5]
• Lieutenant "Mac" MacReynolds — doughnut-munching Navy Intelligence lieutenant (played by Jeff MacKay), killed off in the series by Ivan, and later brought back as a ghost for one episode ("Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts") and then as a look-alike character (see below). Seasons 1–3 and 7–8
• Jim Bonick — con man (played by Jeff MacKay) who was MacReynolds' look-alike. In at least one episode ("Mac's Back") MacKay appeared in both roles. Seasons 5–8.
• Francis “Icepick” Hofstetler — loan-shark dabbling in the Hawaiian underworld—and Rick Wright’s father figure (played by veteran actor Elisha Cook, Jr
• Doc Ibold — minor character (played by Glenn Cannon) who appeared in many episodes whenever a physician was needed in the script. First referred to as "Script Writer #1", he was known for writing prescriptions for opiates for any and all ailments. Seasons 2–8.
• Michelle Hue — the love of Magnum’s life (played by Marta DuBois); they married in Vietnam but the marriage was erased legally and in Michelle's eyes when her presumed-dead husband, a North Vietnamese general, resurfaced); Magnum believed Michelle to have died during the 1975 evacuation of Saigon until her character was introduced in season 2's "Memories Are Forever." Seasons 2–8
• Lieutenant (later Lieutenant Commander) Maggie Poole — successor of the deceased MacReynolds (played by Jean Bruce Scott). Seasons 3–8
• Luther H. Gillis — mock-film noir private eye from St. Louis (played by Eugene Roche), and narrator of the five episodes in which he appeared. Seasons 4–8
• Moki - bartender of the King Kamehameha Club in Season 1. He was later replaced with Keoki. Seasons 1-?
• Keoki - bartender / server of the King Kamehameha Club starting in Season 2. Seasons 2-4
• Mike Scholl - nightclub manager often jealous of Magnum's mustache. Season 4

Guest Stars

Former Five-O cast members Kam Fong, Herman Wedemeyer, Harry Endo and Zulu have guest-starred on Magnum, P.I.

Vehicles

Cars

Robin Masters' cars

• ROBIN 1 -
  • Season 1: Ferrari 308GTS
  • Seasons 2-3: Ferrari 308GTSi
  • Seasons 4-6: Ferrari 308GTSQv
  • Seasons 7-8: Ferrari 308GTSiQv
• ROBIN 2
  • Audi 5000 C2 (1980)
  • Audi 5000 C3 (1985)^[6]
• ROBIN 3 -
  • GMC Jimmy
  • Jeep Wagoneer (XJ Model)

Others

• Island Hoppers (TC's) van - Volkswagen Type 2 (T3)^[6]
• Rick's convertible - Mercedes-Benz R107^[7]
• Higgins hires a Reliant Robin in Déjà Vu Part 2 (episode 107).

Aircraft

• Island Hoppers (TC's) helicopter - Hughes 500D^[8]

Development

Selleck's contract commitment to the Magnum, P.I. series famously cost him the role of Indiana Jones in the first Indiana Jones film, Raiders of the Lost Ark, which went to Harrison Ford.^[9] Selleck was unable to take the part of Indy as Magnum was due to start filming in March 1980. However, because of a writer's strike, the start of production on Magnum was delayed until December 1980, which would have allowed Selleck to play Indy. In Magnum, P.I.'s final season, the producers gave a nod to his sacrifice with the episode “Legend of the Lost Art”, which parodied the film.

List of episodes

DVD releases

Universal Studios Home Entertainment has released all eight seasons of Magnum P.I. on DVD in Region 1, 2 and 4.

DVD name	Ep #	Release dates
		Region 1	Region 2*	Region 4
The Complete First Season	18	September 7, 2004 [10][11]	September 13, 2004	December 1, 2004
The Complete Second Season	22	April 12, 2005	July 4, 2005	September 19, 2005
The Complete Third Season*	23	January 31, 2006	January 30, 2006	July 12, 2006
The Complete Fourth Season	21	April 4, 2006	June 26, 2006	September 20, 2006
The Complete Fifth Season	22	October 10, 2006	February 12, 2007	March 21, 2007
The Complete Sixth Season	21	February 27, 2007	May 7, 2007	July 4, 2007
The Complete Seventh Season**	22	October 30, 2007	March 31, 2008	June 4, 2008
The Complete Eighth Season***	13	March 4, 2008	May 19, 2008	September 3, 2008
Seasons One, Two, Three & Four	84	N/A	November 20, 2006	N/A

• Region 2 release dates refer to the United Kingdom market only.

* Includes the crossover Season 2 episode from Simon & Simon titled "Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend".
** Includes the crossover Season 3 episode from Murder She Wrote titled "Magnum On Ice".
*** Includes the bonus Season 5 episode from The Rockford Files titled "White on White and Nearly Perfect" featuring Tom Selleck.

Ratings

• Season 1 - #14, 16.77 million viewers^[12]
• Season 2 - #17, 17.03 million viewers^[12]
• Season 3 - #04, 18.80 million viewers^[12]
• Season 4 - #06, 18.77 million viewers^[12]

Awards

Selleck won an Emmy in 1984 for his portrayal of the title character; three years later costar John Hillerman also won an Emmy.^[13] In 1981, series creators and writers Glen A. Larson and Donald P. Bellisario received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Episode in a TV Series.^[13][14]

In popular culture

• In a episode of the The Rugrats Angelica watches a program called Cynthia P.I.
• In the movie The Big Chill (film), Sam Weber, played by Tom Berenger, is a Hollywood star in a television series similar to Magnum, P.I.. Berenger has a mustache and bears a close resemblance to Tom Selleck.
• In the movie National Lampoon's Vacation (film), Clark Griswold (played by Chevy Chase) uses a BB gun to take a theme park security guard (played by John Candy) hostage. When the guard points out that the brandished weapon is a fake, Clark replies, "Are you kidding? This is a Magnum P.I."
• In the series finale episode of Will & Grace, the recurring character Beverly Leslie (portrayed by Leslie Jordan) refers to putting on an episode of Magnum, P.I. to "get in the mood!"
• The Family Guy episode "Stuck Together Torn Apart" mocked Magnum, P.I., with Magnum repeatedly referring to Higgins as "Tattoo." When Higgins tries timidly to correct him repeatedly, he steps out of the Ferrari, slaps him to the ground, and asks his name. Higgins, even more timidly, says "Tattoo." In the episode "Da Boom", Peter watches the show while trying to feed Tom Selleck with a spoon by smearing food against the TV screen.
• In episode #149 (7.22) "Limbo," the song that plays off and on during the entire episode and as Magnum walks off is "Looking for Space" by John Denver. This episode, where Magnum was to be shot dead by mobsters, was to be the CBS series finale on 15 April 1987. When the show's fans heard this, there was a huge public outcry and the "shot dead" plotline was nixed by the producers. Magnum was indeed shot by mobsters in this episode, though he survived and returned for an unprecedented 8th season on CBS, filming 12 more episodes.
• In an episode of The Simpsons, Carl gives Homer a DVD player and the first season of Magnum, P.I. as a Christmas gift.
• The video Hard to Explain by The Strokes, begins with a scene from Magnum, P.I., where the Red Ferrari is accelerating from the dirt.
• In the television show NCIS, also produced by Belisario, the character Tony DiNozzo is a big fan of "Magnum, P.I." and references it frequently. For example, in one episode, Magnum, P.I. is referred to by DiNozzo after finding some "Magnum-style" Hawaiian shirts, and in the episode "Frame-Up", DiNozzo is interrogated and asked what he was doing the previous night, to which he responds that he was watching Magnum, P.I.
• One of the teaser movies for the game World in Conflict is a parody of Magnum, P.I.'s opening.
• Larry Manetti and Roger E. Mosley both appear in an episode of Las Vegas alongside Tom Selleck, playing characters named "Larry" and "Roger", respectively. Their characters are essentially older, multi-millionaire versions of their Magnum characters ("Larry" is a wealthy nightclub owner and "Roger" owns fleets of helicopters). It was stated there was a third "british" guy (possibly referring to Higgins) that was supposed to be there too.
• On My Name Is Earl, Earl dresses up as Magnum for Halloween.
• In 2008, a promo on the USA Network for the upcoming season of Monk parodies the show, with Adrian Monk starring in "Monk, P.I."
• The show was parodied in the 2009 Chick-fil-A calendar where the show in April was referred to as Angus, P.I..
• Haha the Moose, a side project of the band moe., regularly incorporate the theme song from Magnum, P.I. into their setlist.
• In the show "Still Standing," Bill tells his son's high school friends that he is a private detective who lives in Hawaii. Bill then goes on to describe Thomas Magnum. Then one of the kids, who had seen the show "Magnum P.I." calls Bill out on his fib.
• In The Sopranos Magnum P.I. can be seen on the tv in the Episode where Christopher Moltisanti murders a newly retired police officer in his home.

Film adaptation

In January 2006, it was announced that a feature film is again in the planning stages (after several false starts, most recently in 2005). Rawson Marshall Thurber, whose filmmaking credits notably include Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, will direct and write the screenplay.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2007, it was reported that Matthew McConaughey will play Magnum, with Steve Zahn as Rick, Tyrese Gibson as T.C., and William H. Macy as Higgins.^[15]

In November 2009 the producer Brian Grazer dismissed the rumor that Matthew McConaughey will play the lead in the upcoming Magnum P.I. movie adaptation, produced by his company, Imagine Entertainment. With a script and director Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball) already on board, casting has been the project's biggest problem. Grazer told MTV: "I think the idea for 'Magnum P.I.' is to find a counterpoint, to not try and find the new Tom Selleck but to find someone that is just so different that you go, oh my God! That guy is Magnum?!?"

Broadcasters

• Australia: Channel 10 (1980-1988 Saturday 7.30pm), TV1 (2007 Tuesdays - Thursdays), Channel Seven (2009 Sunday 11am), 7Two (2009 Weekdays 11am)
• Austria: ORF1, Puls4
• Bangladesh: BTV (Bangladesh Television) From mid 1985 to 1990
• Belgium: VTM,VT4
• Brazil: Globo, TNT, Rede 21, Sony, TCM
• Bulgaria: Diema
• Canada: First run was on CTV; currently in syndication on DejaView
• Croatia: RTL
• Colombia: Cadena Uno, (now Canal 1), Sony
• Estonia: TV3
• Finland: MTV3. Magnum, as it was known in Finland, was first heavily edited and then cancelled as "too violent" during its first season. It has never been broadcast after that in any of the main Finnish TV-channels.
• France: France 3 Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at 09:30 AM
• Germany: ARD, RTL, Super RTL, DAS VIERTE
• Hungary: Viasat 3, Magyar Televízió, Story televízió
• India: STAR World (2004–05)
• Indonesia: RCTI (1989–1993)
• Ireland: RTÉ One
• Israel: Channel 1
• Italy: Fox Retro
• Lithuania: TV3 Lithuania
• Netherlands: Veronica, SBS6, Net 5, 13th Street(UPC Digital TV)
• Mexico: Televisa Canal 5
• Nepal: Nepal Television
• New Zealand: (first run, 1980): TV2, (reruns, 1990s and onwards): TV3
• Norway: (first run, 1980s): NRK, (reruns, 1990s and onwards): TVNORGE
• Pakistan: NTM
• Poland: Telewizja Polska Program 2
• Russia: STS (Russian: СТС)
• Slovenia: POP TV
• South Africa: SABC
• Spain: (Galicia:) TVG
• Sweden: (First run, 1980s): SVT (reruns 2005 and onwards): Kanal 5
• Turkey: TRT 2, Star TV
• United Kingdom: ITV Regional (1981 - early 1990s, billed as simply 'Magnum'), Five (formerly Channel 5) (2002–2003), Men & Motors (2006- ) DMAX (2009-)
• United States (first run): CBS
• United States (Syndication): Retro Television Network Weeknights 9:00 PM ET, The CW Weeknights 11:30 PM ET
• Zimbabwe: ZTV1

References

External links

• Magnum, P.I. (series) at epguides.com
• Magnum, P.I. at the Internet Movie Database
• Magnum, P.I. at TV.com
• Magnum Mania

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From Wikiquote

Magnum, P.I. (1980 - 1988) was an American television show, airing on CBS, that followed the adventures of Thomas Magnum (played by Tom Selleck), a private investigator living in Hawaii.

Contents 1 Season 1 1.1 Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii [1.01] 1.2 Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (Part II) [1.02] 1.3 China Doll [1.03] 1.4 Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too [1.04] 1.5 No Need to Know [1.05] 1.6 Skin Deep [1.06] 1.7 Never Again... Never Again [1.07] 1.8 The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii [1.08] 1.9 Missing in Action [1.09] 1.10 Lest We Forget [1.10] 1.11 The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club [1.11] 1.12 Thicker than Blood [1.12] 1.13 All Roads Lead to Floyd [1.13] 1.14 Adelaide [1.14] 1.15 Don't Say Goodbye [1.15] 1.16 The Black Orchid [1.16] 1.17 J. "Digger" Doyle [1.17] 1.18 Beauty Knows No Pain [1.18] 2 Season 2 2.1 Billy Joe Bob [2.01] 2.2 Dead Man's Channel [2.02] 2.3 The Woman on the Beach [2.03] 2.4 From Moscow to Maui [2.04] 2.5 Memories Are Forever [2.05] 2.6 Memories Are Forever (Part II) [2.06] 2.7 Tropical Madness [2.07] 2.8 Wave Goodbye [2.08] 2.9 Mad Buck Gibson [2.09] 2.10 The Taking of Dick McWilliams [2.10] 2.11 The Sixth Position [2.11] 2.12 Ghost Writer [2.12] 2.13 The Jororo Kill [2.13] 2.14 Computer Date [2.14] 2.15 Try to Remember [2.15] 2.16 Italian Ice [2.16] 2.17 One More Summer [2.17] 2.18 Texas Lightning [2.18] 2.19 Double Jeopardy [2.19] 2.20 The Last Page [2.20] 2.21 The Elmo Ziller Story [2.21] 2.22 Three Minus Two [2.22] 3 Season 3 3.1 Did You See the Sunrise? [3.01] 3.2 Did You See the Sunrise? (Part II) [3.02] 3.3 Ki'is Don't Lie [3.03] 3.4 The Eighth Part of the Village [3.04] 3.5 Past Tense [3.05] 3.6 Black on White [3.06] 3.7 Flashback [3.07] 3.8 Foiled Again [3.08] 3.9 Mr. White Death [3.09] 3.10 Mixed Doubles [3.10] 3.11 Almost Home [3.11] 3.12 Heal Thyself [3.12] 3.13 Of Sound Mind [3.13] 3.14 The Arrow That is Not Aimed [3.14] 3.15 Basket Case [3.15] 3.16 Birdman of Budapest [3.16] 3.17 I Do? [3.17] 3.18 Forty Years From Sand Island [3.18] 3.19 Legacy From a Friend [3.19] 3.20 Two Birds of a Feather [3.20] 3.21 ...By Its Cover [3.21] 3.22 The Big Blow [3.22] 3.23 Faith and Begorrah [3.23] 4 Season 4 4.1 Home from the Sea [4.1] 4.2 Luther Gillis: File #521 [4.2] 4.3 Smaller than Life [4.3] 4.4 Distant Relative [4.4.] 4.5 Limited Engagement [4.5] 4.6 Letter to a Duchess [4.6] 4.7 Squeeze Play [4.7] 4.8 A Sense of Debt [4.8] 4.9 The Look [4.9] 4.10 Operation: Silent Night [4.10] 4.11 Jororo Farewell [4.11] 4.12 The Case of the Red Faced Thespian [4.12] 4.13 No More Mr. Nice Guy [4.13] 4.14 Rembrandt's Girl [4.14] 4.15 Paradise Blues [4.15] 4.16 The Return of Luther Gillis [4.16] 4.17 Let the Punishment Fit the Crime [4.17] 4.18 Holmes Is Where the Heart Is [4.18] 4.19 On Face Value [4.19] 4.20 Dream a Little Dream [4.20] 4.21 I Witness [4.21]] 5 Season 5 5.1 Echoes of the Mind [5.01] 5.2 Echoes of the Mind (Part II) [5.02] 5.3 Mac's Back [5.03] 5.4 The Legacy of Garwood Huddle [5.04] 5.5 Under World [5.05] 5.6 Fragments [5.06] 5.7 Blind Justice [5.07] 5.8 Murder 101 [5.08] 5.9 Tran Quoc Jones [5.09] 5.10 Luther Gillis: File #001 [5.10] 5.11 Kiss of the Sabre [5.11] 5.12 Little Games [5.12] 5.13 Professor Jonathan Higgins [5.13] 5.14 Compulsion [5.14] 5.15 All For One [5.15] 5.16 All For One Part II [5.16] 5.17 The Love-For-Sale Boat [5.17] 5.18 Let Me Hear the Music [5.18] 5.19 Ms. Jones [5.19] 5.20 The Man From Marseilles [5.20] 5.21 Torah, Torah, Torah [5.21] 5.22 A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken [5.22] 6 Season 6 6.1 The Kona Winds [6.04] 6.2 Round and Around [6.06] 6.3 Find Me a Rainbow [6.18] 6.4 Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me? [6.19] 7 External links

Season 1

Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii [1.01]

Higgins: Don't ruin my whiskey with ice! I'm not a bloody American!

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Magnum: Higgins, you yo-yo!

Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (Part II) [1.02]

[Alice asks Thomas about his days serving in the Navy]

Alice Cook: Why did you quit, Tom?

Magnum: It was nothing earth-shattering. One day I woke up age 33, and realized I'd never been 23.

China Doll [1.03]

Higgins: You have to get into the safe first, Magnum.

Magnum: [wiggles eyebrows] I know.

Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too [1.04]

Magnum: [Narrates] So far this case had cost me my right to the wine cellar, the last cash in my pocket, and nearly my life. If that clerk was lying to me, I was gonna come back down here and shove that Robin Masters paperback in his ear!

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Magnum: I'm not an intruder, I'm a guest!

Higgins: Guests eventually leave.

No Need to Know [1.05]

Skin Deep [1.06]

Karen Wolfe: [to Magnum] So, a woman can’t go out like a man, huh? She takes pills. Swims out to sea or slits her wrists, but she ain’t got the guts to blotto the old face, isn’t that what you said Tony, huh? Here’s one woman who’s going to take it right between the big blues, just to show you how smart you really are.

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J.J. Stein: I told him. I told that lousy writer that that scene was sick. I didn't even enjoy reading it. No. He insisted we keep it in. Damn writers.

Never Again... Never Again [1.07]

Higgins: Magnum, feed the lads, would you? There are steaks in the freezer. [Magnum makes an excited face] Very well, you can have one too.

The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii [1.08]

Magnum: There are times when one human being really shouldn't take advantage of another ... but this wasn't one of them.

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T.C.: [Pulls Magnum out of trouble and a bullet cracks the windshield] Some things never change.

Missing in Action [1.09]

T.C.: Whoa! What's with this Abbott and Costello routine, 'You owe me 50, I'll loan you 10'? Forget it!

Magnum: Oh, okay! Thanks, I owe you one! [speeds off in the Ferrari]

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T.C.:(Looks at the screen) Did it ever occur to you that boy can not count past one?

Lest We Forget [1.10]

[Higgins is being nice to Magnum, because he wants him to play bridge with him]

Higgins: Put Magnum's bill on my tab. [bartender looks very surprised, hands up in the air in defense]

Bartender: I always do.

[Higgins is trying not to get angry at Magnum]

Higgins: Tomorrow at three?

Magnum: I'll try.

The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club [1.11]

Thicker than Blood [1.12]

All Roads Lead to Floyd [1.13]

Magnum: I'm tying to tie up the loose ends, Floyd, you know, like those TV detectives.

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Magnum: [after Higgins' dogs each deliver a note to his door] First note was from Cindy. She said Higgins was going to the club, and she'd asked if she could tag along. She hoped I didn't mind. And then she thanked me again for helping her, and told me I was wonderful. The second note was from Higgins. I really can't repeat what he said. Let me put it this way –- he didn't think I was wonderful.

Adelaide [1.14]

Don't Say Goodbye [1.15]

The Black Orchid [1.16]

(Higgins is enchanted by the Rolls Royce)

Magnum:Higgins I'd like you to meet... Orchid.

J. "Digger" Doyle [1.17]

[A kid drops off Higgins' resignation and the car]

Magnum: Did he tip you?

Kid: $20.

Rick: That's not Higgins, Thomas.

Beauty Knows No Pain [1.18]

Magnum: [narrating] Hawaii's like every sensual woman I've ever known. She can have raging, violent bursts of temper, followed by incredible calm, and peacefulness. Today was one of those days of true serenity, when even the great tourist wave seems to recede. I mean, I couldn't believe the stillness.

Season 2

Billy Joe Bob [2.01]

Higgins: As you may have noticed, I've fired the groundskeeper. Until I can find a successor, I'd like you to assume some of the responsibilities.

Magnum: But Higgins, I don't know the first thing about gardening!

Higgins: I assure you, the kind of work I had in mind requires no intelligence what so ever.

Magnum: Like what?

Higgins: Like distributing 1500 lbs. of recycled vegetation that was delivered this morning.

Magnum: Recycled vegetation!? What do you mean 'recycled vegetation'? Recycled how?

Higgins: [smiles] Through a cow.

Dead Man's Channel [2.02]

Rick: You better be right, sweetheart.

Magnum: Come on, when have I ever been wrong?

Rick: I can't count that high.

---

Magnum: This was one of those days I wish I'd listened to my mother and studied to be an orthodontist. Looking into someone's mouth has gotta be better than staring death in the face.

The Woman on the Beach [2.03]

Higgins: After the war, the Cliffords suffered some sort of a disgrace. They were ostracized from society. I don't imagine you'd understand that sort of thing, would you, Magnum? On the other hand, perhaps you would.

---

Magnum: [narration] If I believed in ghosts, I'm sure I'd be frightened by now, but, since I didn't, the pounding in my chest must have been due to exertion.

From Moscow to Maui [2.04]

T.C.: Um, T.M., did you come up with this plan all by your lonesome?

Magnum: Yeah. What's the matter?

T.C.: I don't know. Well, I don't know yet. I just keep remembering the plan you had to get all the POW's out of Cambodia.

Magnum: T.C., there is no comparison between that plan and this one.

T.C.: I hope not. I don't need any more scars.

---

Magnum: [to Yuri] Remember I told you I didn't like getting egg on my face? Well, right now, I'm wearing a whole omelet.

Memories Are Forever [2.05]

Magnum: [narrates] Dreams are supposed to represent your subconscious wishes and conflicts. It's sort of a private movie you write, produce and direct. Only you can't hide your eyes in your dreams, even when they are scaring you to death.

Memories Are Forever (Part II) [2.06]

Tropical Madness [2.07]

Higgins: A formal complaint has been lodged with you in regarding both unbecoming behavior and flagrant violations of the club's dress code.

Magnum: Oh come on Higgins, I'm clean. I'm on the beach.

Higgins: It's interesting how the guilty party defends himself, even before he's been accused.

Rick: Oh, Thomas is usually accused before there's a complaint...That came out wrong, didn't it?

Wave Goodbye [2.08]

Magnum: [narrates] One of the clichés of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him some bills of various denominations; Bills that you can't afford, with pictures of unfamiliar presidents. And usually for information that isn't worth it. However, this was a special case and I wasn't in the mood for games.

---

Magnum: [narrates] Hawaii is one of those places that, keeps topping itself. Just when you think you'll never see another sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that only Gauguin could imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.

Mad Buck Gibson [2.09]

Magnum: [Narrates] You know, there's some quotations that would make good rules to live by, for instance "never drive behind an old man wearing a hat", or another, "it's always brightest just before the storm". If I'd have remembered that one, I'd have really been on my guard, because the afternoon it all started, was a truly beautiful day.

---

Magnum: [during the chase of Mad Buck, who is joy-riding in the Ferrari] I was looking at several very grim possibilities involving the destruction of Buck, the Ferrari, innocent by-standers, and any combination thereof.

The Taking of Dick McWilliams [2.10]

Magnum: [narrating] Rule one in kidnapping cases: always call the Police. Rule two in kidnapping cases: never call the Police. The truth is you flip a coin and take your chances...

---

Magnum: [about Rick's black eye] So who was it Rick?

Rick: D'you think it needs more wine?

Magnum: Rick, come on, who was it?

Rick: Catherine.

Magnum: ...Catherine who?

Rick: [desperately trying to change the subject] T.C., what about the peppers?

Magnum: Rick!

Rick: I don't know, they don't have a last name.

T.C.: Who doesn't have a last name?

Rick: [long pause]: Nuns.

[T.C. and Magnum burst out laughing]

Rick: W-well what's so funny?!

T.C.: You mean to tell me, a NUN gave you that shiner?

Rick: She thought I was trying to steal her car!

[T.C. and Magnum laugh even harder]

Rick: Hey, she was a big Nun!

The Sixth Position [2.11]

Magnum: If this had been a regular hire, I would have told "Ms." Chase where to stick her toe shoe, but, since it came through Robin, I had to take a deep breath, count to ten, and remember my blessings.

---

Rick: I just put you on a case, Sherlock.

Magnum: You can't do that. I'm already on a case.

Rick: Yeah, well now you're on two. And boy, are you gonna thank me.

Magnum: Boy, am I gonna kill you.

Ghost Writer [2.12]

Magnum: [narrating] I was running late; I'd taken too much time getting dressed; and that's a bad sign – instead of worrying about the job I was going to do for my client, my mind was taken up with picking exactly the right tie; as if it matters.

Virginia Fowler: I like that tie.

[Magnum turns and smiles to camera]

---

Rick: Alright, I'll do the favor; But let's get one thing straight – I'm not gonna put on ANY dumb disguise, I'm not playing garbage men, delivery men, sewer men, any other kind of men, is that… that's final now, right?

Magnum: Of course.

[Cut to next scene, where Rick is dressed as a bakery delivery man]

The Jororo Kill [2.13]

Magnum: Nuns don't work on Sunday.

Computer Date [2.14]

Magnum: Normally, the chance to make Higgins sweat would have seemed like a lot of fun. Today, it barely raised a smile.

---

Rick: [to Magnum] This is a private club. Unless you've got membership money pal, I suggest you leave, and leave now.

Try to Remember [2.15]

Higgins: He drove Robin's Ferrari over a cliff?

T.C.: Well, I'm sure he didn't do it on purpose!

Higgins: One can never be sure with Magnum. Well, he'd better survive if he knows what's good for him.

Italian Ice [2.16]

Margo: [on seeing T.C.'s helicopter fly past the Estate] Who's that?

Magnum: Oh, that is a buddy of mine, and he sometimes flies tourists over the Estate to see what famous person might be sun-bathing naked on the beach.

Margo: Well I'm not famous or naked.

Magnum: You will be. [pauses] famous.

One More Summer [2.17]

Magnum: [narrating] Even in the Hawaiian sunshine, football, to me, smelt like fall in New England. Some place there should be a prep band playing, pretty girls in short skirts, and I was 21 with an arm that could throw passes all afternoon.

---

Higgins: [after Magnum has moved out of the guest house] Isn't it glorious, lads. I find the silence and serenity sublime. ...No screeching of tires past my window in the early morning hours ...No strange sounds emanating from the guest house ...No more sordid and tawdry guests ...No more abuse of private property ...No more Magnum.

Texas Lightning [2.18]

Magnum: [narrating] Life on the islands has an irresistible rhythm; Days merging together like waves on the beach, that's why I never understood why people get excited over artificial events. For example, a birthday should be a private time, with maybe a run on the beach to celebrate, not the big, embarrassing fuss a person's friends always make over it. I should know because it was my birthday, and I knew Rick and T.C. would be planning something special. What I didn't know was that the day would be one of the biggest disasters of my life.

Double Jeopardy [2.19]

Magnum: [narrating] Even on the red-eye it's wonderful flying into Honolulu for a vacation in paradise. But, it's not nearly so wonderful when you're a Private Investigator who's just spent two weeks in Bakersfield on a case and been stiffed by your client. And it's even worse when you're ride from the airport didn't show up, and the cab driver's listening to the Orange Blossom Special.

---

Mert: Higgins, the dogs are supposed to attack the Sushi Brothers, not Magnum.

Higgins: Sorry, force of habit. It won't happen again.

The Last Page [2.20]

The Elmo Ziller Story [2.21]

Magnum: [narrating] Every day in the topics is part illusion; Rain clouds are actually rainbows ... the perfect wave breaks into a riptide ... conviction of immortality grows out of the endless summer. What I should have remembered is that illusion is always dangerous. But, on a perfect morning on the beach, who could remember fate?

---

Magnum: Howdy, partner. You just ride into town?

Elmo Ziller: Somebody told me you was a pretty good detective.

Magnum: Terrific. I ain't had a rustlin' case all year.

Three Minus Two [2.22]

T.C.: [to Magnum] I knew this investigative business was easy, else you wouldn't be in it.

Season 3

Did You See the Sunrise? [3.01]

Higgins: [to Magnum] There’s some tea on the table, and some scones. You might try the strawberry jam too, it’s really quite good. An old comrade from the Burma campaign sent it to me -- Tanky Moran. Got his name when he single-handedly took on a Japanese tank and knocked it out [pause] now he’s selling jam in Devonshire.

---

Mac: Look, why don’t we just tell him?

Col. Greene: He’s a civilian, this is a military operation. Besides, I learned a long time ago that if you tell Magnum what’s going on, you’re liable to end up with egg foo yung on your face ... and you know how I hate Chinese food.

Did You See the Sunrise? (Part II) [3.02]

Magnum: Did T.C. show up?

Higgins: No. But Rick called. I do wish you'd get an answering service.

Magnum: I have one.

Higgins: My point exactly.

---

Ivan: I have plane to catch. If you are going to shoot me, do it now.

[Magnum stands emotionally torn]:

Ivan: [smiling] You won't. You can't. I know you Thomas, I had you for three months at Duc Hua. I know you better than your mother. Your sense of... honor and fair play. Oh, you could shoot me. If I was armed and coming after you. But like this? Thomas... never. Goodbye Thomas. Dasvidanya.

[Ivan walks past an unmoving Magnum]:

Magnum: Ivan?

Ivan: [turning back] Yes?

Magnum: Did you see the sunrise this morning?

Ivan: Yes, why?

[Magnum calmly turns and shoots]

Ki'is Don't Lie [3.03]

Higgins: Sometimes you amaze me, Magnum, truly. Your intuitive grasp of human nature is so...so...

Magnum: Perceptive?

Higgins: Pre-adolescent.

The Eighth Part of the Village [3.04]

Magnum: [narrating] Fate has a nasty way of popping up and waving it's long, bony finger under your nose. Sometimes it's a squeaker at 70 miles an hour; Sometimes it's a plane you missed that never makes it back from the Bermuda Triangle; But whatever it is, you always get the message: it's time to stop taking your good luck for granted.

---

Magnum: Make me a list of the favors I owe you and I'll take care of them.

Higgins: I already have a list. What I don't have is a reason to believe you.

Past Tense [3.05]

Magnum: [narrating] This morning in paradise was not much better than the one yesterday. In other words – it was perfect. And morning in paradise is the perfect time of day. A quiet run, then a swim; it's a time your truly alone; a time when you're allowed to fully appreciate the rhythms of living. Besides, Higgins was going to be gone all day, and that made me appreciate the rhythms of living, even more.

Black on White [3.06]

Magnum: [narrating] Living alone has some terrific advantages, you can eat, sleep, go in and out, and burp whenever you want. It also has one terrific disadvantage – when you lose something, you've got no one to blame but yourself.

Flashback [3.07]

Magnum: I'm a peach of a detective.

T.C.: [To Rick]I can't believe you bought that. He ain't that good.

Foiled Again [3.08]

Magnum: [referring to Higgins' school day beanie] Higgins, you wore this?

Higgins: With pride.

Magnum: Put it on.

Higgins: What?

Magnum: I know your dying to see how it looks.

Higgins: No.

Magnum: OK. I need help with my tie.

Higgins: Magnum, you borrowed my tie?

Magnum: I thought it went with my outfit.

Higgins: None of my things go with yours. And for Pete's sake, a grown man who can't tie his own tie?

Magnum: I want a Double Windsor.

Higgins: Alright. Go over, and over again, and over again.

Magnum: [runs out the door] Thanks Higgins.

[Higgins puts on the beanie]

Magnum: [Sticks head in the doorway and laughs]

Mr. White Death [3.09]

Magnum: [narrating] I remember when I was five years old, I found this little puppy in the street. It had been hit by a car and was in pretty bad shape, so, I brought it home and my dad and I took it to the vet. One hundred twenty bucks. The little puppy grew into a big Saint Bernard; it ate a five hundred dollar couch and my dad's favorite arm-chair. The next day, my dad put it in the back yard, where it dug under the fence and ran away. Ever since then, I've been wary about taking in big, adorable pups, one of life's lessons you just have to keep learning over, and over again.

---

Magnum:(Discovering Higgins' old war nickname) Punky?!

Mixed Doubles [3.10]

Magnum: [after failing to hit serve over the net] I'm sorry Rick. I'm a little rusty on the serve. I just gotta get it up a little more, but when I do, it'll be a monster.

T.C.: Not with that follow through.

Magnum: What's wrong with it?

T.C.: You need more extension.

Magnum: I do?

T.C.: Mmm-Hmm

Rick: Try and keep this one on the court will you. We're running out of balls!

Magnum: Ok, this one will be in Rick, I promise. I will be just perfect. [starts his serve]

Higgins: Magnum! [Magnum send ball straight over the fence]

---

Magnum: [angry at being paired with Carrie Reardon] I knew it! That's why you paired me with her! To be her babysitter!

Higgins: Call it what you may, I didn't do it, Mr Masters did. Free Rent. Red Ferrari. [Magnum goes quiet] I'd thought that'd silence you.

Almost Home [3.11]

Magnum: You had breakfast?

Bridget: Are you kidding? I haven't eaten anything decent since Cleveland. Except maybe a moldy bear claw.

Magnum: I think I can do better than that.

Higgins: Don't bet on it.

---

Rick: [after being dazzled by Bridget's skills with gambling odds] I think I'm in love.

T.C.: [checks watch] Ten minutes to ten, I wondered how long it'd take you to fall in love today.

Heal Thyself [3.12]

Higgins: Dr. Harmon, any of us who have experienced the horrors of war have them indelibly printed on our minds. But that's the only place they exist. The war is over.

Dr. Harmon: Maybe it's never over. Maybe we always carry the war around inside of us. Like a time bomb, ticking away, waiting to go off.

Of Sound Mind [3.13]

[Magnum is "playing" the saxophone]

Higgins: Magnum....Magnum!.....Magnum!!

Magnum: Hi, Higgins!

Higgins: How fiendishly deceptive of you Magnum. I could have sworn I was hearing the emasculation of a large rodent. To my great surprise, I see the sounds are emanating from what I thought was a harmless musical instrument.

Magnum: Cute Higgins, real cute. [Magnum resumes playing saxophone badly]

Higgins: Why Magnum? Why do this terrible thing?

Magnum: Higgins, I'll have you know I used to be very good. I was the second best sax player in my High School band.

Higgins: Well how many sax players were there?!

Magnum: ...Anyway, I just saw this in a pawn shop window and thought I'd like to try and get my chops back.

Higgins: May I suggest that your "chops" are irretrievable.

---

Rick: I saw in this movie once where they bumped off this guy for his money. They took a lawn mower, an electric lawn mower, and threw it right in the bathtub. Bzzzzzzzzzz! It fried him just like that! You better take showers.

Magnum: Guys!

T.C.: Come to think of it, you better stay out of the kitchen too, all sorts of things can happen in there - Gas, poisoning, garbage disposals.

Magnum: Garbage disposals??

The Arrow That is Not Aimed [3.14]

Magnum: [as Higgins draws his sword] You know what they say about Samurai swords - you unsheath them, you gotta draw blood.

Higgins: I know!

---

Higgins: Magnum, you never cease to amaze me. I must know how you arrived at this remarkably astute conclusion with your limited knowledge of art.

Magnum: Would you believe me if I told you it came to me in a dream?

Higgins: Yes, because your conscious mind certainly isn't capable of such superior detective work.

Basket Case [3.15]

Birdman of Budapest [3.16]

Higgins: I've taken all the verbal insults I intend to from you.

Elizabeth Barrett: You're right. It's time I got physical.

Magnum: Wait a minute. Let's not get carried away here.

Elizabeth Barrett: I won't, but he will.

---

Higgins: Why are you here scrambling eggs...

Magnum: They're not scrambled, they're over easy.

Higgins: ...instead of out looking for Tessa.

Magnum: I found him.

Higgins: You found him?

Magnum: Yes, I found him.

Higgins: You must take Elizabeth there at once.

Magnum: Higgins, he threatened to kill me.

Higgins: To make an omelet, one must crack a few eggs.

I Do? [3.17]

Forty Years From Sand Island [3.18]

Legacy From a Friend [3.19]

Magnum: [narrates] When I write my book on how to be a world class private investigator, I'm going to include a chapter on listening to your little voice. Everybody has one, and mine was saying to stop Marcus and find out the real story behind his new car. Of course I didn't, which is another chapter, things I should have done, but didn't...

---

Magnum: Higgins, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that you can tell Robin that he doesn't already know - that we havn't laughed about together.

Higgins: The potato chip heiress from Buffalo who filled the tidal pool with...

Magnum: A little misunderstanding, Higgins. After it was drained...

Higgins: And then there is the Romanian mime troop who...

Magnum: You...You're not going to bring that up. I mean, you were there when the paramedics arrived! You know!

Higgins: I will take note of the panic in your voice and those guilt-crazed eyes as a scent to my favor, albeit with the slightest reluctance.

Magnum: Wait a minute! This isn't a favor, this is extortion and blackmail!

Two Birds of a Feather [3.20]

...By Its Cover [3.21]

The Big Blow [3.22]

Faith and Begorrah [3.23]

Season 4

Home from the Sea [4.1]

[Magnum warily watches as a shark circles him]

Magnum: [narrating] I once had one follow me on my surf ski. He just hung a few meters off my rudder. I know I set a personal speed record getting back to shore that day.

Luther Gillis: File #521 [4.2]

Smaller than Life [4.3]

Distant Relative [4.4.]

Limited Engagement [4.5]

Letter to a Duchess [4.6]

Higgins: For a moment, I failed to remember that the ways of a gentleman are patently foreign to you. I revere words like honor, integrity, chivalry -- words that are clearly not in your vocabulary.

Magnum: Higgins, enough! Knocking my rubber chicken or my sloppy habits is within the rules, but you're attacking my character. I would like to think you don't mean that.

Higgins: Yes, I'm sorry. It's just that you can't know what it's like to care deeply for someone and have your hope taken.

Magnum: Yes, I can.

Squeeze Play [4.7]

Higgins: You know lads, I sometimes view myself as a later-day Job, constantly being tested by our Creator. How else could I possibly justify four major wars, dozens of minor conflicts, seven natural disasters, and...

Magnum: Aha! Double play Tigers!

Higgins: ...Him.

---

[Higgins finds camera lens cap... without camera or lens]

Higgins: Oh my god. Where is it?

Magnum: [acting innocent] Where's what?

Higgins: The 110mm lens this cap should be covering.

Magnum: Higgins, I can explain.

Higgins: I am utterly sick and tried of those four pathetic words "Higgins I can explain".

A Sense of Debt [4.8]

Magnum: [narrates] When you spend your every working day basking in the balmy breezes of paradise, when you play year round on the beautiful sunny beaches of the Pacific, where do you dream of going on a vacation? The answer is obvious: Detroit. Reason one: Detroit's a fun city. Reason two: There's a superior group of athletes there known as the Tigers! Reason three:

T.C.: A free trip? You think you're going to get a free trip to Detroit on my tab Thomas?

Magnum: T.C., I'm doing you a favor.

---

T.C.: And Robin Master's little red wagon for the whole entire time that you're gone. Sorry Thomas, but I need wheels and I'm having problems with the van.

Magnum: What's wrong with it?

T.C.: It's not a Ferrari.

The Look [4.9]

Operation: Silent Night [4.10]

Higgins: I, of course, have spent many a Christmas away from home and family. More times than I care to remember, in more places than I care to remember; Forgotten battlefields, and sometimes even forgotten wars. I think being at war, makes Christmas all the more bittersweet - peace on earth, and goodwill to all men, and all that.

---

Magnum:Rick, there's a bug in your hair.

Rick:Yeah, right.

T.C.:No, really, Rick, there's a praying mantis.

Rick:(mimicks)"Rick, there's a bug in your pocket," "Rick, there's a centipede," "Rick, there's a lizard." Well, I'm not buyin' it! (Rick walks off)

Rick: (screams)

Jororo Farewell [4.11]

The Case of the Red Faced Thespian [4.12]

[Magnum is at a fancy dress party in his normal trademark look]

Marge: Great costume!

Magnum: Oh, this isn't a costume.

Nolan: Really?! You wear that shirt in public?

No More Mr. Nice Guy [4.13]

Higgins: Magnum, stop living in the past.

Magnum: Me? Me?! Higgins, you've enshrined yours. You quote every boring war story like it was carved in stone.

Higgins: Boring?

Rick: Don't worry, Higgins, I like your stories.

T.C.: Yeah, me too.

Higgins: I do think I tell them with a certain panache.

Rembrandt's Girl [4.14]

Paradise Blues [4.15]

Magnum: [narrates] Ms. Wagner, my 11th grade English teacher, created a scandal in my hometown when she put All the King's Men on our mandatory reading list. She said she wanted us to understand the fatal attraction some men have for the very thing that will destroy them. Her love for the book got her fired and I never quite understood the attraction she was talking about, until the first day I saw Alex Carter and the way T.C. was looking at her.

The Return of Luther Gillis [4.16]

Magnum: Higgins, I can explain.

Higgins: I knew I could count on hearing that pathetic phrase once again, it is as regular as the rising and setting of the-

Magnum: Do you wanna know why or not?

Higgins: Not.

---

Luther: [narrating] I was beginning to get the feeling that I was stuck with the big guy for the duration. The only thing more depressing than that was this case, because we'd run out of leads. You try being a detective with no leads. It's like a tailor without a needle, or Godzilla without Tokyo, or...

Magnum: [narrating] A bad guy without a motive.

Luther: Did you say something?

Magnum: What?...Nope.

Let the Punishment Fit the Crime [4.17]

Holmes Is Where the Heart Is [4.18]

On Face Value [4.19]

Magnum: [narrates] When I write my book on being a first class private investigator, Rule Number 168 is going to be: "If you're getting chased, you should be in a fast car". [Pursuing car begins to gain] Postscript to Rule 168: "No matter how fast your car is, there can always be one that's faster.

Dream a Little Dream [4.20]

I Witness [4.21]]

Magnum: [narrates] Hawaiian sunsets are among the most breathtakingly beautiful in the world. Grandly vibrant, uniquely different every day, they paint a palette with boundaries that stop only at the horizons of one's imagination. However, when the sun goes down, it looks the same all over the world. Whether you're in Milwaukee or Maui, it's dark.

Season 5

Echoes of the Mind [5.01]

Higgins: Lady Ashley, you look positively smashing, especially for a woman your age.

Echoes of the Mind (Part II) [5.02]

Mac's Back [5.03]

Magnum: After three days of surveillance, I was familiar with the rhythm of the street. At nine in the morning, those about to be sacrificed to the Hawaiian gods of sun, sea, and sand were making their ritualistic trek to the beach. I knew from experience that very few would return with their skin. At noon, the late risers and the serious souvenir hunters were prowling about, snatching up bargain buys on plastic hula skirts and cheap coral beads. At three-fifteen I got my afternoon treat. I called her Olga, for obvious reasons. The cops are pretty good about keeping hookers off the street during the day, but, I guess when you're as big as Olga, you can work any time you want. By sunset the last of the lobsters were returning from the beach, which meant my day was nearly over and all I had to show for it was a sore butt, and a case of heartburn.

---

Higgins: If you're going to drink yourself into a stupor, wouldn't whiskey be more effective?

Magnum: Too hard to keep an even buzz on with whiskey.

The Legacy of Garwood Huddle [5.04]

Under World [5.05]

Fragments [5.06]

Magnum: Higgins, we are talking about saving my life.

Higgins: What is that, compared to saving an entire species?

Magnum: Of worms?!

Higgins: I rest my case.

Blind Justice [5.07]

Higgins: This morning I came to a startling and horrifying realization. Since your arrival at Robin's Nest, you have insidiously eroded away my sense of diligence. Security has fallen completely apart. The grounds are in a terrible state of neglect. This guest house should be condemned.

Magnum: It doesn't look so bad.

Higgins: The estate is completely overrun with your good-for-nothing friends, sleazy clients and unexpected guests.

Magnum: That is not true!

[Carol enters guest house]

Carol: Hi Thomas. The gate was open, so I just came on in.

[Magnum hangs head]

Murder 101 [5.08]

[T.C. and Rick are roped in to pad out the numbers of Magnum's class on how to be private investigator]

T.C.: I've heard that some private investigators don't even do any of that bone-numbing research and that they actually con other people to do it for them.

Rick: Yes, I've heard that also, but surely that can't be true.

Tran Quoc Jones [5.09]

Luther Gillis: File #001 [5.10]

Kiss of the Sabre [5.11]

Little Games [5.12]

Professor Jonathan Higgins [5.13]

Compulsion [5.14]

All For One [5.15]

Magnum: Where you been, Tyler?

Tyler: Been to an execution.

Rick: Anybody we know?

Tyler: Mine.

T.C.: Well, I guess somebody messed up then.

---

Tyler: Got anything to drink?

Higgins: Certainly not. And I demand an explanation.

Tyler: Okay, General, just don't slug me, too.

Rick: Go ahead, Higgins, belt him if you want.

All For One Part II [5.16]

The Love-For-Sale Boat [5.17]

Magnum: A few vital statistics that explain why paradise is called paradise: there are three-hundred and twenty-six days of sunshine each year, an annual average temperature of eighty-six degrees, billions and billions of gallons of blue Pacific, and one Orville 'Rick' Wright, who will bet on anything.

Let Me Hear the Music [5.18]

Ms. Jones [5.19]

Magnum: Here in paradise, there are at least three different ways of looking at time; There's the traditional mainland kind of time – people say "let's meet at eight o'clock", and that's more or less what they mean. Then there's Hawaiian time, which is a lot more... flexible – eight o'clock may mean seven… or nine... or not at all... depending on an infinite variety of factors. However, even in paradise, there's also a time-frame which seems to operate on a mysterious circadian rhythm all it's own – bureaucratic time; Roughly, that translates into "stand in line until we're ready for you, and then do it our way, or not at all.

The Man From Marseilles [5.20]

Torah, Torah, Torah [5.21]

Rick: [tracing a vehicle for Magnum] You know, do me a favor – next time when you give me the details, at least give me a little bit more than 'the big van was painted the same color as the boy's locker room in junior high', will ya?

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[T.C. is brewing chili in Magnum's kitchen]

Higgins: My God, what is that odor?

T.C.: Higgie-baby, you're talking about my Aunt Rola's original, Creole flaming, bayou blasting chilli. Wanna try a little taste?

Higgins: Not without a paramedic in attendance.

A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken [5.22]

[Magnum is planning to go undercover in prison]

Jack Damon: I don't understand you, you think you're going to a summer camp?

Magnum: I think I got it in the right perspective, it's just a farm – I'm gonna do a little manual labor, and watch a lot of TV.

Higgins: Well at least you have experience in one of the two. [pauses] Be careful.

Season 6

The Kona Winds [6.04]

Magnum: This isn't a war you know. I mean, once nature sets it's course, you can't do anything to stop it.

Higgins: You can if you're British!

Round and Around [6.06]

Magnum: [narrates] I'm not really sure which kind of private investigator I am. The Holmesian-type with the constant deductive mind, or one with a Marlowe-type intuitive sense of the darker side of human nature? Hopefully a combination of both. At any rate, it doesn't matter. Not when you have a "little voice". I don't know, maybe a gently nagging "little voice" is just another way of adding what you know, to what you feel, but right now mine wasn't "gently nagging". It was screaming.

Find Me a Rainbow [6.18]

Magnum: [narrates] I must've seen a hundred rainbows since I've been in the islands, but each one just seems to take my breath away, despite the best efforts of Mr. Corkall, my high school science teacher. He used to lecture our class on light reflections and refraction, polarization and prisms, but I knew, I knew that that really wasn't what rainbows were all about. So when I got a "C" on my midterm, Mr. Corkall told me that he was really worried that I would go through life not understanding the importance of geometric optics. But to tell you the truth, I was a lot more worried Mr. Corkall might go through life not understanding the importance of a rainbow.

Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me? [6.19]

[Magnum is unsure if he's talking to Higgins or his half-brother]

Magnum: Tell me a story. The "Gunga Din Story"!

Higgins: For god sake Magnum, this is hardly the time!...

Magnum: If you're Higgins, anytime is the time! The "Gunga Din Story" now!

Higgins: Malaysia, 1943. Our regiment was hopelessly outnumbered and faced certain death. In our ranks was a young Lt. Ian Bowerly and during a lull in the battle he recited Gunga Din. I suppose to keep up our courage in face of the inevitable. His eloquent recitation grew increasingly louder until it thundered through the jungle. To our amazement, the Japanese troops walked forward. Although they spoke no English they were entranced by the poem. They allowed us all to leave the area unharmed except for poor Mr. Bowerly. As we made our escape we could hear him reciting other Kipling favorites, literally for miles. To this day, his fate remains unknown.

Magnum: Thank you. I believe your half brother is going to assassinate the president of Costa De Rosa.

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