Magnum Mania!

All For One (1)

Episode ID: 99
Episode Number: 5.15
Air Date: 1/31/1985
Writer: Reuben Leder
Director: Mike Vejar
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Robert Forster (Tyler McKinney), Dustin Nguyen (Joe Hanamut), Seth Sakai (Maj. Thieu), Clyde Kusatsu (Dr. Lon Teng), Michael Hasegawa (Capt. Thanat)

Plot Outline

In this thrilling two-part episode, Magnum, T.C., Rick and Higgins find themselves on dangerous foreign territory when they agree to help find an old Vietnam war buddy who is being held hostage in Cambodia.

Rating

8.0 (12 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This is one of only two "two-part" episodes of the series, where the episodes originally aired as two one-hour episodes one week apart. The other episode was "Echoes of the Mind" (5.1 & 5.2). All of the other two-part episodes (5) were originally aired as a two-hour TV movie in one night, and were subsequently split into two parts for syndication packages.

2 The episode title appears bottom-center of the screen, not the usual bottom-left.

3 Early in the episode, Higgins, Magnum, Rick and T.C. are seen "recreating" the Battle of Salamanca on the estate grounds. Higgins, of course, plays the side of Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley and is seen firing his cannon!

4 In the Cambodian bar scene, stock cover versions of "Purple Haze" (Jim Hendrix) and "Proud Mary" (John Fogerty) can be heard as background music.

5 This is the only episode of the series where the word "SEAL" (in the Navy sense) is mentioned in reference to Magnum [see quote below].

6 Higgins was in the Congo with a U.N. peacekeeping force for most of 1961.

7 Early in 1953, Higgins was in Vietnam with French forces and was chief consultant for Rand McNally when they updated the map. He stayed at the Hotel Royale.

8 In 1951, Higgins was in Korea and had to transfuse blood for a Turk hit by a sniper while penned down for two days in a frozen rice paddy; he used a stalk of bamboo. The sniper killed the Turk two days later.

9 Higgins is fluent in the Khmer language.

Quotes

1
Magnum: We're not "letting the action pass us by". We're facing up to reality, putting those times to rest.
Tyler: Then what are you wearing that SEAL cap and that MIA bracelet on your wrist for?

2
Magnum: Where you been, Tyler?
Tyler: Been to an execution.
Rick: Anybody we know?
Tyler: Mine.
T.C.: Well, I guess somebody messed up then.

3
Tyler: Got anything to drink?
Higgins: Certainly not. And I demand an explanation.
Tyler: Okay, General, just don't slug me, too.
Rick: Go ahead, Higgins, belt him if you want.

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