Magnum Mania!

Tran Quoc Jones

Episode ID: 93
Episode Number: 5.9
Air Date: 11/29/1984
Writer: Chris Abbott
Director: Russ Mayberry
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Jeff MacKay (Jim "Mac" Bonnick), Kwan Hi Lim (Lt. Tanaka), Deborah Pratt (Gloria), Carmella Barut (Carmella)

Guest Stars

Roland Harrah III (Tran Quoc Jones), Rick Lenz (Dick Hasley), Terry Kiser (Dennis Redfield), Robert Tessier (Murderer)

Plot Outline

Magnum finds himself surprisingly attached to his young client, a small Vietnamese boy who lost his mother and whose only hope in the world is to find his missing G.I. father.

Rating

8.0 (8 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This is the sixth "T.C.-centric" episode of the series.

2 The Kahala Hilton is used as a filming location for the King Kamehameha Club for the third time. It was previously used in "Echoes of the Mind" (5.1 & 5.2) and "Mac's Back" (5.3).

3 This is Roland Harrah III's (Tran Quoc Jones) first credited screen role. Tragically, he committed suicide in 1995 at the age of 22.

4 In the opening scenes there is a man wearing a baseball cap that says "VT-21". VT-21 is a U.S. Navy training squadron nicknamed the "Red Hawks", based at NAS Kingsville, Texas. V stands for fixed wing, T stands for training. (Noted by N1095A)

5 On Magnum's hat rack, the rarely seen red Detroit Tigers "away cap" (worn only once in "Squeeze Play") and the red University of Southern California cap (also worn only once in "Squeeze Play") can be spotted. The USC cap will also be seen on the hat rack in the next episode "Luther Gillis: File #001" (5.10). (Noted by N1095A)

6 The hat that "Mac" is wearing at the pinapple stand appears to be the same one Higgins made during their stay on Frenchman's Island in "Operation: Silent Night" (4.10). (Noted by N1095A)

7 T.C. wears a couple of new baseball caps - An L.A. Raiders one and a San Francisco 49'ers one. (Noted by Mike Barnes)

8 Higgins entered military school at the age of 7 on the "rainy, windswept coast of...". Based on everything else we know about him, this has to be England.

9 The scene towards the end, with Magnum and T.C. swapping documents for Tran Quoc, was filmed at "Little Round Top", a scenic location on Round Top Drive in the hills above Honolulu. (Noted by IslandHopper)

10 T.C.'s girlfriend Gloria (Deborah Pratt) is seen for the fourth and final time.

Quotes

1
Higgins: This lad, this mere child, is your client?
Magnum: Well, in a manner of speaking, yes.
Higgins: How on earth do they find you?
Tran Quoc: The Yellow Pages.
Higgins: Of course, I should have guessed.

2
Magnum (To Politician Dick Hasley): Wait a minute, wait just a minute! You make this nice little speech, full of understanding, full of compassion, and then you go right back to where you started - People should have listened to me, I was right! Well, don't try to convince us that you're such a wonderful person, because you had the courage to stand up for what you believe in. Convince yourself, cuz in my book it can't compare to the kind of courage it took to go over there and get shot at!

Flubs

1 So, T.C., Magnum, Rick & Higgins just let Tran Quoc go back to the mean streets?! Are we supposed to believe they wouldn't try to find this kid after all they did to try to reunite him with his family?! Especially T.C. who, 1) Is about ready to kick some @ss for this kid, 2) Talks about searching for aunts and uncles, 3) Says to have TQ call him WHENEVER he needs him. I mean, lets look at his resources, 1) Higgins - who is in with charities for wayward boys and whatnot, 2) Rick - who has underworld connections and can keep an eye on the street, and 3) Magnum - who has experience in, A) Finding Delta Force operatives who have been missing for 10 years, B) Locating con artists in the witness protection program, C) Solving decades old murder cases using HIS FREAKING DREAMS! Tracking down Hungarian orintologists who haven't been seen since the 1940s, D) Knowing when emotionally unstable women are about to be attacked by dogs, E) Tracking down the murderer of his friend using psychic clues, F) Taking down a revolutionary army with his 3 friends. Um, Yeah, I have a little hunch that they could find this kid! (Noted by Doc Ibold)

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