Magnum Mania!

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Episode ID: 76
Episode Number: 4.13
Air Date: 1/26/1984
Writer: Nick Thiel
Story: Rob Gilmer
Director: Mike Vejar
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Kathleen Lloyd (Carol Baldwin)

Guest Stars

James Emery (John Fenady), Norm Compton (Officer Kawana), Sal Viscuso (Herbie), Jerry Harpin (Clinton), Peter Kalua (Kono)

Plot Outline

The con is on when Higgins and Magnum's friend, Carol, tricks them into helping her with an undercover sting operation on a drug distributor. When Carol is mysteriously kidnapped, Magnum and the group must decide whether to put aside their suspicions that they're being used in order to save her.

Rating

8.0 (8 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This is the first "Carol-centric" episode of the series.

2 When Magnum and T.C. are driving to the drug sting, the first fleeting external shot of the Ferrari is taken from the first season episode "All Roads Lead to Floyd" (1.13). T.C. is wearing a sweatband on his head, as he was in the earlier episode, and the car they overtake is Floyd's beat-up Mini from that episode.

3 The U.S. Navy SEALs are mentioned for the first time in network TV history, but Magnum's involvement in the Seals is not mentioned. Verbal verification of Magnum's involvement with the Seals will not be made until the Season Six episode "Rapture" (6.11).

4 Look closely when Magnum and Carol jump off the office building roof into the garbage truck. Kathleen Lloyd's stunt double jumps a little too far out from the edge of the roof. Her left heal hits the back edge of the garbage truck bed and her shoe is launched, like a rocket, up and out of the shot! [video]

5 The fictional beer "Old Dusseldorf" is seen for the first time. This is Magnum's favorite beer and will be seen in several more episodes. Magnum describes it as "...an old German beer brewed in Maryland" that is hard to find on the islands.

6 Carol's oceanfront house is seen for the first time [pic]. Her full name is mentioned by Magnum - as "Carol Douglas". Her last name will change to "Baldwin" for all future episodes. We also learn that Carol took a year off between college and law school to attend a culinary school in Paris.

7 Magnum's (partial) QB stats for the '67 Army-Navy game: 21-30, 3 TD (2 Pass, 1 Run), 1 INT - Awarded the game ball by the Secretary of the Navy. This was his last football game before graduation. We also learn that his backup quarterback (for all four years) was a cat named Kenneth Reese. Dorsey Bramlett, from "One More Summer" (2.17), who was three years behind Magnum, was also a backup quarterback during his senior year.

8 A small snippet from this episode can be seen in The Sopranos episode "For All Debts Public and Private", the first episode of Season Four. Christopher Moltisanti is watching it.

9 The Army-Navy Game that Magnum starts to watch at the very end includes real audio from the actual game (including the announcers calling out the correct final score, Navy 42-13), which took place only a couple of weeks before this episode aired. The 1983 game was played at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, the only time its ever been played there.

Quotes

1
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.

2
Magnum: Now that the great escabeche of young partridge mystery has been solved...

3
Magnum: In that Army-Navy game, where I went 21-30, one of the passes I missed was intercepted. The fastest man on the Army team caught it and he got past everybody, until I was the only guy left who had a chance to catch him. The guy was faster than me and I knew it, but I wasn't going to get beat by my own mistake. (Narration)
(Magnum dives and tackles Fenady)

Flubs

1 When Magnum and Carol are being chased by the two bad guys in the office building, they enter a stairwell and descend one flight of stairs. They then exit the stairwell and find themselves on the roof of the building! Is there an invisible floor above the roof?

2 Near the end of the episode, when Fenady and Carol are in the car and T.C. and Magnum are chasing them in T.C.'s minivan, there is a "street shot" with one car parked along the curb. The scene changes to a close-up of Fenady and Carol then quickly goes back to the street. You now see two cars parked along side the curb. (Noted by Wally)

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