Magnum Mania!

Lest We Forget

Episode ID: 10
Episode Number: 1.10
Air Date: 2/12/1981
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Producer: J. Rickley Dumm
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Remi Abellira (Moki)

Guest Stars

José Ferrer (Judge Robert Caine), June Lockhart (Diane Pauley), Miguel Ferrer (Ens. Robert Wickes), Anne Lockhart (Diane Westmore), Elizabeth Lindsey (Kiki), Sonny Ching (Maku), Scatman Crothers (Tickler)

Plot Outline

A Supreme Court nominee hires Magnum to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. At the time, he was a young Navy Ensign, she was a prostitute, and during the bombings they became separated. The Judge had presumed her dead - until recently, when he started receiving blackmail threats relating to an incident forty years ago.

Rating

8.5 (16 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 In an intriguing piece of casting, both June Lockhart (Diane Pauley) and José Ferrer (Judge Robert Caine), who were both stars of the black & white "golden age" of movies, play characters in the present day, and their actor offspring – June's daughter Anne Lockhart, and Jose's son Miguel Ferrer, play the same characters in 1941. A similar method is used in the episode "Let Me Hear the Music" (5.18), where Dennis Weaver and his son Rusty play the same character, present day and 45 years previously.

2 The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor is used as a filming location.

3 This episode is dated by a check that Judge Caine writes Magnum, dated January 29 1981 (about 2 weeks before this episode was originally broadcast).

4 Judge Caine mentions looking at Magnum's 201 File (Official Military Personnel File) and he states the follow facts - Magnum graduated from the Naval Academy in 1967. He served three tours in Vietnam and was thrice wounded.

5 Higgins has a sister living in Sussex, England who is raising "four monstrous children".

6 Elizabeth Lindsey (Kiki) was Miss Hawaii 1978.

7 The closing credits contain the following acknowledgment:

We gratefully acknowledge the U.S. Department of Interior for their cooperation during the filming of this episode.

8 John Hillerman appeared in a 1975 episode of Ellery Queen (1975-1976) with fellow guest star June Lockhart (Diane Pauley).

Quotes

1
Diane: Ok, Mr. Magnum. You know who I was, or rather what I was. So, just tell me how much you want and I'll decide whether to pay it! Although, it better not be more than fifty bucks, because since the Governor died, I could care less about what anybody knows about my past. But above all, don't toy with me, especially about Bobby! Or you won't even get your fifty bucks.
Magnum: Miss Pauley, he hired me to find you.
Diane: Well you're remarkably preserved for your age. Bobby was killed, forty years ago on the Arizona.

2
Arizona Memorial Announcer: Of the 1177 sailors and Marines killed in action on the Arizona, 1102 are still entombed in the hull beneath us. To the Navy, these men are considered to be buried at sea. At 07:55, on the seventh of December, 1941, the first wave of torpedo bombers came skimming over Pearl City. They fanned out across the harbor at forty feet and headed straight for battleship row.

3
Magnum: I'm sure I can learn bridge. I'm great at poker. What's wild?

Flubs

1 At the climax of the story, two of Rick's lines, "Now what's he trying to do" and "I thought I'm supposed to be the driver", are noticeably added in post-production. On the former, his mouth doesn't move in time with the dialog.

2 In the scene with Magnum driving along with Kiki, just before the hitman takes a shot at them, notice the background noise changing slightly between Kiki's dialog and Magnum's. The closeup shots were filmed seperately and edited together in post-production.

3 At the King Kamehameha Club indoor bar, in the scene with Magnum, Rick and Moki, Rick's Team Ring, gold bracelet and watch switch from his right hand/wrist to his left hand/wrist during one of the cutaways. (Noted by IslandHopper)

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