Magnum Mania!

From Moscow to Maui

Episode ID: 22
Episode Number: 2.4
Air Date: 10/29/1981
Writer: Andrew Schneider
Director: Mike Vejar
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Jeff Pomerantz (Yuri Dolgof), Susan Heldfond (Nina Marcova), Allan Rich (Coluga), Jeff Albert (Mikhail Fillipovitch)

Plot Outline

A fighter pilot who defected from the Soviet Union wants Magnum to help his girlfriend, a Soviet athlete visiting the island for a track meet, defect as well. But, since she is under close scrutiny by the KGB, Magnum, T.C., Rick, and Higgins must organize a precision-like plan to free her.

Rating

7.5 (14 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This episode is the first to indicate that Magnum was a U.S. Navy SEAL. At the time that this episode was made and broadcast (1981), Navy SEALs were virtually unknown to the general public. Magnum was the first ex-Seal portrayed on television or movies.

2 Magnum's "little voice" returns for the second time after being introduced in "Adelaide" (1.14) in Season One. It won't make "regular" appearances until midway through Season Three, however. (Noted by Mike Barnes)

3 Hickham Air Force Base in Honolulu is used as a filming location.

4 The dock where the climax occurs will later be used as the home of Island Hoppers, T.C.'s helicopter charter company.

5 Yuri's "MiG" is actually a U.S. F4-E Phantom, as were the other two U.S. planes that were escorting the "MiG".

6 The "compound" where the Soviets lodged was filmed at Turtle Bay Resort (then known as The Kuilima) on Oahu's North Shore.

7 The scenes involving the Soviet athletes at the track were filmed at Kaiser High School in Hawaii Kai. The track will later be used in Season Seven's "Straight and Narrow".

8 After the war (WWII), Higgins was liason to the Soviet Army of Occupation in Vienna. The Soviets tried to recruit him as an agent, but they failed, of course.

9 The closing credits contain the following acknowledgement:

We gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the HAWAII AIR NATIONAL GUARD during the filming of this epsode

Quotes

1
(Pow! Magnum knocks out "The Turk" with one punch!)
Nina: Is he going to be alright?
Magnum: Yeah, he just won't be eating any solid foods for a while. Come on, let's go!

2
Magnum: Gee, can I play too?
Higgins: This is hardly a game Magnum.
Magnum: Well, you could have fooled me. Toy soldiers, toy horses, toy carnage.
Higgins: This is a faithful reproduction of the Battle of Austerlitz. I'm lecturing on it at the Hawaiian Napoleonic Society.
Magnum: Oh, of course, that's every other Weds. isn't it?
Higgins: It's the first Tues. of every month.
Magnum: Oh, ooh, is this the little General himself? (laughs)
Higgins: That's General Kutuzov and I wish you'd put him down.
Magnum: Quite a student of tactics arn't ya?
Higgins: Strategy and tactics, yes. What do you want Magnum?
Magnum: Oh, I need you to help with a case.
Higgins: Me? (laughs) Magnum, you know how I feel about your work.
Magnum: Yeah, I need you to talk to a guy in a hotel.
Higgins: Why me?
Magnum: Oh, I need a special kind of conversationalist, a scholar, and you're the only guy I can think of.
Higgins: Does this business fall anywhere within the parameters of the law?
Magnum: Absolutely.
Higgins: Then you will be willing to negotiate for my participation?
Magnum: Not in the least.
Higgins: Good, we'll start with your use of the hot tub...What did you say?
Magnum: "Not in the least".
Higgins: Good night, Magnum.
Magnum: Of course. Oh, Higgins, you served in Vienna after the war didn't you?
Higgins: I was liason to the Soviet Army of Occupation, yes. You know of that?
Magnum: Yeah. They kind of pushed you around a little, didn't they? The Russians. Made you hand over defectors, POW's. Hate to think of what happened to those poor people.
Higgins: The Soviets were our allies then. We were carrying out national policy.
Magnum: Yeah, I know. How did you feel about it?
Higgins: Magnum, a soldier often has to do things that are disagreeable.
Magnum: Yeah, there is disagreeable, and then there's 'disagreeable'.
Higgins: It was loathsome and I shall never forgive them. Are you satisfied?
Magnum: How would you like to get even?

Flubs

1 An air traffic controller identifies Yuri's MiG as a "MiG-30". There is no such thing as MiG-30. There's a MiG-29 (Fulcrum) and a MiG-31 (Foxhound), but no MiG-30. In fact, all MiG's use odd numbers, never even numbers. (Noted by IslandHopper)

2 As Yuri opens the canopy and starts to take off his shoulder harness, you can just see a watch on his left wrist, under the left sleeve of his flight suit. However, after he descends down the ladder you can see he has a watch on his right wrist and nothing on his left wrist. (Noted by IslandHopper)

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