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The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company

Episode ID: 158
Episode Number: 8.9
Air Date: 1/27/1988
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Director: Ray Danton
Producer: Rick Weaver
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Shavar Ross (Bryant Calvin), Phyllis Davis (Cleo Mitchell), Elissa Dulce Hoopai (Rosine)

Guest Stars

Shanna Reed (Sarah Amlin), Danny Nucci (Budge), Dennis Chun (William Chun)

Plot Outline

Magnum's idea for a lucrative business must be put on hold when T.C.'s troubled son lands in jail.

Rating

7.5 (7 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Magnum is back to his normal, easy-going self after the traumatic "Quang Ki events" of the previous episode "Unfinished Business" (8.8). Magnum makes no mention of the deaths of Michelle and Lily.

2 T.C.'s son Bryant (Shavar Ross) returns. He has moved away from his mom's house in L.A. and is now living with T.C. in Oahu. T.C. and Bryant receives a considerable amount of screen time in this episode.

3 Call girl Cleo Mitchell (Phyllis Davis) returns for the third time, following "The Hotel Dick" (6.5) and "Straight and Narrow" (7.4). She has been dating Rick for the past several weeks.

4 T.C.'s house (indoor set only) is seen for the fourth time, following "Did You See the Sunrise?" (3.1 & 3.2), "Paradise Blues" (4.15) and "Missing Melody" (7.11). The indoor set is a different design from what was seen previously.

5 Magnum mentions a great grandfather named "Patrick".

6 The KKC "Anuenue Room" (or "Rainbow Room") set is used for a scene. This rarely used "party room" was previously seen in "I Witness" (4.21), "The Kona Winds" (6.4), "A Little Bit of Luck, A Little Bit of Grief" (6.20), and "Death of the Flowers" (7.12).

7 A close-up of a page from Higgins' memoirs shows that he participated in the rebuilding of the Burma Road with a U.S. Army engineer, Colonel Len Carlson - "Carlson. Even now the name has the power to evoke the most powerful emotions. Sometimes I wake in the middle of the night with a start, imagining that he is there in the room with me, dominating everything, all power coalesced, somehow, in that one man's indomitable spirit."

8 The end credits feature a brief Tom Selleck outtake from the opening "Great Hawaiian Adventure Company" pitch at the KKC beach bar. Selleck is seen shaking his rubber tip pointer while laughing and briefly looking at the camera.

Quotes

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(To Rick, T.C. and Higgins)
Magnum: Gentlemen, this could be the turning point in our lives. A venture that will not only give us all a little financial security, but a new challenge in life. A reason for getting up in the morning and starting the new day. "The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company"! Or, "Great Hawaiian Expeditions". You know, I'm not really sure which one I like better, but that's not important now. We'll figure out the details later. At any rate, this company, founded by us, and run by us, and owned by us, will begin to return our financial, as well as our time, investment almost immediately.
(T.C. gets up to leave)
Magnum: No wait, T.C.! You havn't heard my margin return yet.
T.C.: I heard "investment". That's enough for me.

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