Magnum Mania!

Let Me Hear the Music

Episode ID: 102
Episode Number: 5.18
Air Date: 2/21/1985
Writer: Jay Huguely
Director: David Hemmings
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Kwan Hi Lim (Lt. Tanaka)

Guest Stars

Dennis Weaver (Lacy Fletcher), Susan Oliver (Laurie Crane), Robert Sampson (Desmond Crane), Red West (Billy Cockrell), Robby Weaver (George Lee Jessup), Rusty Weaver (Lacy Fletcher, 1954), Michael Cowell (Billy Cockrell, 1954), Amanda McBroom (Country Singer)

Plot Outline

Something is distinctly out of tune when a woman hires Magnum to track down five missing love songs that legendary country singer George Lee Jessup composed shortly before his tragic airplane crash.

Rating

7.5 (8 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Rusty Weaver (Young Lacy Fletcher) and Robby Weaver (George Lee Jessup) are Dennis Weaver's sons, as is Rick Weaver, a longtime MPI producer.

2 Dennis Weaver (Lacy Fletcher) does his own singing and instrumentation, and he wrote two of the three George Lee Jessup songs heard in this episode - "Cheatin' Kisses" and "I Just Want To Hold You" [see lyrics below]. The third song, "Last Word Woman" (sung by George Lee Jessup in the opening scene) was written by MPI producer Reuben Leder (Music) and MPI writer Jay Huguely (Lyrics).

3 The scenes featuring Lacy and Magnum at the large Banyan tree were filmed at a spot just southeast of Windward Community College in Kaneohe [map]. (Noted by rubber chicken)

4 This is Red West's second appearance on the show. He previously appeared in "All Roads Lead to Floyd" (1.13) as a hitman.

5 The female country singer at the Ranch House restaurant (Amanda McBroom) sings two well-known songs - "Texas (When I Die)" by Tanya Tucker and the Linda Ronstadt version of "When Will I Be Loved".

6 Roger E. Mosley had a small role in a 1975 episode of McCloud (Dennis Weaver), "Return of the Alamo".

7 Magnum mentions the minor recurring character Ms. Jones again - He spent all day with her at the "Hall of Records". The next episode, "Ms. Jones" (5.19), will feature her heavily.

Quotes

1
Rick: You're into this hillbilly yuck?
Higgins: This "hillbilly yuck" happens to trace its roots back to the Saxon folk ballads.

2
Lacy Fletcher: I know this isn't exactly the place for country, but ah ... I ah got another little premiere here if you don't mind. This is one of the five songs that ... well they're all gonna be classics, because they were all written by the great George Lee Jessup and I had the wonderful privilege of write-in down the notes for him.

(vocals and guitar)

* I'm a thousand miles from nowhere
beneath the flashing, neon lights
And I'll try to get through
one more lonely night

People keep on a-movin'
just fillin' up the space
All I keep on a-see'in
is the memory of your face

I just wanna hold you
and listen deep within
Listen to the music
that'll let me live again

Let me hear the music
that keeps my world in time
Let me hear the music
and let me hear the rhyme
[audio]

* "I Just Want to Hold You" - written and performed by Dennis Weaver

Flubs

1 It's revealed that George Lee Jessup's songs were written using the Nashville Number System. This is a flub, because the NNS debuted in the late '50s. George Lee Jessup died in November of 1954!

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