Magnum Mania!

Ki'i's Don't Lie

Episode ID: 43
Episode Number: 3.3
Air Date: 10/7/1982
Writers: Philip DeGuere, Bob Shayne
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Producer: Douglas Green
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Jameson Parker (A.J. Simon), Gerald McRaney (Rick Simon), Morgan Fairchild (Catherine Hailey), Liam Sullivan (Harold Sands), Branscombe Richmond (Gerald Akoa), Gillian Dobb (Mabel), Ron Wood (Attendant)

Plot Outline

Magnum mingles with high society when he provides security at a charity auction of valuable antiques. Meanwhile, mainland P.I. brothers Rick and A.J. Simon are hired to track down a stolen - and supposedly cursed - Hawaiian artifact.

Rating

8.0 (19 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This episode is the first part of a crossover story with the Simon and Simon (1981-1988) episode "Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend". The episodes originally aired back-to-back on the same night. There are actually two different versions of this episode. The original broadcast version and the syndication version. The syndicated version is a stand-alone episode with a different ending (Catherine Hailey is caught before she flees to South America). The syndicated version allows this episode to be shown in syndication without having to view the Simon & Simon episode.

2 The opening scene at Harold Sands' antique store (with Gerald Akoa) was shot on location at the Century Plaza Towers in Century City, Los Angeles [map]. (Noted by rubber chicken)

3 Gillian Dobb has a small role in this episode as Mabel. In a very short time, Gillian will begin her role as the recurring character Agatha Chumley, starting with "Black on White" (3.6).

4 Gerald McRaney (Rick Simon) will appear with Tom Selleck in the critically acclaimed 2004 TV movie Ike: Countdown to D-Day.

5 Morgan Fairchild (Catherine Hailey) appeared with Tom Selleck in the 1979 TV movie The Concrete Cowboys.

6 For many years, the IMDB (and other sources) incorrectly credited the Rolling Stones' Ron Wood as appearing in this episode (as Attendant), as well as three other MPI episodes. After numerous attempts, the correct Ron Wood was finally added to the IMDB in 2007.

Quotes

1
T.C.: Mention what? What did Orville do?
Magnum: Oh, it's something that happened in Saigon, but I promised Rick I would never mention it again....What was that snake lady's name again?
Rick: That's not fair Thomas! That's really not fair!
T.C.: What's not fair?
Rick: It's personal.
Magnum: It's funny, you know. It's kinda like what happened to you [T.C.] that time in Madame Woo's...With that sword-swallower from the Lotus festival?!
T.C.: Ahh...(startled look)

2
Higgins: Magnum! The look on your face is even more vacuous than usual. You've failed havn't you?

Flubs

1 At the end of the episode, when Magnum and T.C. are in the chopper, the cursed Ki'i doll falls out of the box and the chopper's engine starts to fail. T.C. says the fuel mixture was "too rich". This would apply to a piston aircraft, but not one with a turbine engine like T.C.'s!
(Noted by mc25a)

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