Magnum Mania!

Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too

Episode ID: 4
Episode Number: 1.4
Air Date: 12/25/1980
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Producer: J. Rickley Dumm
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Katherine Cannon (Linda Booton), Lauri Hendler (Nancy), Shannon Brady (Carolyn), George Fisher (The Boxer), Al Harrington (Mano), Jim Demarest (The Kidnapper), Elizabeth Hoy (Lesli)

Plot Outline

It's Christmas and five young schoolgirls hire Magnum to find their missing teacher. When Magnum convinces Higgins to let the girls stay on the Masters Estate, he is unwittingly deceived in a scam to steal a valuable painting recently purchased by Robin Masters.

Rating

7.0 (13 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This is the first of two episodes in the series that take place during Christmas, the other being "Operation: Silent Night" (4.10).

2 Instead of the usual theme song, the closing credits are accompanied by an orchestral version of "The Twelve Days Of Christmas".

3 The Gauguin painting seen in this episode is "Three Tahitians" (1899).

4 A hotel desk clerk is seen reading a Robin Master's paperback, Fruit of Passion.

5 The estate's wine cellar is seen for the first time. It will only be seen in a half-dozen or so episodes.

6 The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, Hawaii State Capital Building, Honolulu International Airport and the Hotel Street vice district are all used as filming locations.

7 Rick's red Nissan 280ZX is seen for the first time.

Quotes

1
Magnum: 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! (Narration)

2
Little Girl: You shouldn't be punished for your passion.

3
(To Magnum, with both arms straight down, after being locked out on a hotel balcony)
Higgins: This is outrageous! OUT-RAGEOUS!!
[WAV]

Flubs

1 Toward the end of the episode, when Magnum has dropped off the tube with the painting, we see that Rick is in the pool. When Rick gets out to follow the kidnapper, the deck of the pool already has wet footprints (probably from the previous take).

2 After picking up the painting, when the kidnapper pulls away in his car, you can clearly see a crew member reflected in the side back window and the paint of the car. He doesn't appear to be the cameraman as only the crewman can be seen, with no equipment.

3 As the villian is in line with Rick waiting to go through the metal detector, you can see him sweating "like a fiend". However, after he goes through the detector, and picks-up the fake tube/container and walks away, his shirt is no longer sweaty. (Noted by IslandHopper)

4 At the end of the show there is another mistake. When Rick holds up the kidnapper at the metal detectors, Rick puts his camera on the x-ray conveyer. After the switch of the tubes on the conveyer by Magnum, we would expect the camera to come out of the machine next. Rick passes the metal detector to meet Magnum and has the camera with him without claiming it from the conveyor.

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