Magnum Mania!

Find Me a Rainbow

Episode ID: 124
Episode Number: 6.18
Air Date: 3/13/1986
Writer: Jill Donner
Director: Rick Weaver
Producer: Chris Abbott
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Elissa Dulce Hoopai (Rosine)

Guest Stars

Julia Montgomery (Lydia McCarthy), Jennifer Salt (Susan Brandis), Kip Gilman (Donald Burns), Stella Stevens (Loretta van der Post), Denise Galik-Furey (Georgia), Jim Hutchison (Det. Howell), Robert Witthans (Joe McKenna, P.I.), Fred Ball (Cab Driver), Lourdes Estores (Lady on the Beach)

Plot Outline

It's anything but child's play when Magnum searches for a missing boy and uncovers a black market baby business.

Rating

8.0 (16 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Joe McKenna's P.I. office at the beginning will be used again in "A.A.P.I." (7.5) and "Murder by Night" (7.14).

2 The King Kamehameha Club "Beach Bar" setting is used for only the second time in Season Six and it appears to be filmed at a different location than the regular Waialae Beach Park setting. The waitress Rosine (Elissa Dulce Hoopai) is seen for the fourth time in the show and she has more dialog than any other time before.

3 We get a rare view from Higgins' study, a view that looks out the window from his desk. He sees T.C. and the boys playing football, but which direction was he looking? Past episodes imply that he should be looking towards the ocean, but here he is looking towards the main lawn. (Noted by Mike Barnes)

4 This episode features not one, but two former Playboy "Playmates of the Month" - Stella Stevens (January 1960) and Lourdes Estores (June 1982). Lourdes is the lady on the beach that Magnum is talking with about rainbows. Stella Stevens will later appear with Larry Manetti in the 1995 stinker Body Chemistry 4: Full Exposure.

5 The palm frawn hat that Higgins crafts with the kids is very similar to the one he made in Season Four's "Operation: Silent Night" (4.10).

6 Fred Ball (Cab Driver) is famous in Hawaii for his role as "Professor Fun" in the long-running KGMB children's show The Checkers & Pogo Show (1967-1979). Fred previously appeared in the Pilot Movie and Season Five's "Mac's Back" (5.3).

Quotes

1
Magnum: I must've seen a hundred rainbows since I've been in the islands, but each one just seems to take my breath away, despite the best efforts of Mr. Corkell, my high school science teacher. He used to lecture our class on light reflections and refraction, polarization and prisms, but I knew, I knew that that really wasn't what rainbows were all about. So when I got a "C" on my midterm, Mr. Corkell told me that he was really worried that I would go through life not understanding the importance of geometric optics. But to tell you the truth, I was a lot more worried Mr. Corkell might go through life not understanding the importance of a rainbow.

2
Lydia McCarthy: One day after a summer storm there was a giant rainbow. Jesse said he had to have one just like for his very own. He kept saying, "Mommy, find me a rainbow, find me a rainbow". So, I went out and bought him one.
Magnum: Yeah, I kind of like rainbow's, too.

Flubs

1 In the first scene with Donald Burns, in the parking garage, when he is speaking, there is a very noticable (and bad) audio overdub during a quick cutaway. It doesn't sound anything close to resembling actor Kip Gilman's voice.

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