Rewatched this one just a little bit ago and something struck me as odd. Why would Tanaka be on his own for this investigation? Why not involve the department if he was on to something that would have proved there was a criminally insane man running a drug operation? If the IA was involved somehow ...

Why does Icepick seem so indeifferent to Thomas is this episode? Just a few episodes earlier he was giving it the big pal act in the hospital after Thomas was shot I always thought that the "big pal act" was what was out of character. They normally played Magnum being a little leery of Icepick. It'...

When I think of incredible show finales I always think of Newhart. That one was probably the most clever thing I have ever seen. I saw Bob Newhart speak in 2009 and he said his wife came up with the ending as a joke and I guess everyone loved it. I also loved Magnum (always cry) and I really love t...

I enjoyed the show, but I started re-watching it via DVDs from the library and I find myself enjoying it more now. I hadn't realized how many serious episodes there were of the series. The episode "In Concert" may have been Gordon Jump's best acting work. He was fantastic in that. It's definitely da...

The main thing that always puzzled me about Magnum was that he seemed to, fairly often, goof off when being serious was in order and vice versa. He'd be using full scale Navy Intelligence day skills and be extremely serious when he was trying to solve a non paying case. If someone gave him a paying ...

This may be a sensitive topic, but I have often wondered about this. Throughout the series Magnum was often shown drinking or hungover. In "Mac's Back" he had kept himself in a drunken stupor for weeks on end. He was always raiding the wine cellar or putting drinks on Robin's tab at the club. When ...

I've just been reading on a german blog, that Orson Welles was supposed to appear as Robin in the final episode, but did not make it until then. So they changed the script and came up with the less satisfying resolution. Is there any truth in this or pure speculation? Edit: Welles died October 1985...

So, factoring out Mac's Back, the general feeling is he was a moderate drinker that would occassionaly over imbibe?

This may be a sensitive topic, but I have often wondered about this. Throughout the series Magnum was often shown drinking or hungover. In "Mac's Back" he had kept himself in a drunken stupor for weeks on end. He was always raiding the wine cellar or putting drinks on Robin's tab at the club. When h...

Some people I'd have like to have seen on the show:
~William Shattner
~Catherine Bach
~Sparky Anderson
~Tim Reid
~Alan Alda
~Harry Morgan
~Hulk Hogan
~Gary Shandling

Amy Yasbeck debuted as a minor recurring character in the last season. When she's first seen they make it seem as if she and Magnum had a long history. It was never really explained what the history or back story was. She seemed to me like a female version of Mac in that Magnum could go to her for i...

This was a fun way to get back into the flow of things following the near death and recovery of Magnum. It was comedic enough to not be as heavy the cliffhanger, but serious enough to not be back to back comedic episodes. This was Magnum's first case since the previous season and it morphed into som...

Rewatched this one just a little bit ago and something struck me as odd. Why would Tanaka be on his own for this investigation? Why not involve the department if he was on to something that would have proved there was a criminally insane man running a drug operation? If the IA was involved somehow w...

I was not a huge fan of this one, but I found it to be alright. I actually really liked the comedy in this one. Higgins acting as if the newspaper printing Magnum's picture instead of his own when advertising his benefit to save the worms was classic. The parade of low level entertainers and novelty...

This was a really mixed bag for me. There were parts that I felt were very strong and parts that I just did not like much at all. I think the potential of the episode was extremely high, but I don't think it reached that potential to be a really all time great episode. My main gripe here is that the...