Just finished watching the entire run of the show on DVD. Thanks Netflix! A top ten list took some effort, had to leave off some real favorites: Texas Lightning (best final line of the series) Flashback Of Sound Mind (still makes me laugh out loud) Home From The Sea Limited Engagement Squeeze Play C...

1. Aha! Finally, in the second-to-last episode, we have explicit confirmation of what's been hinted at through the course of the series: Magnum has a clinical case of post-traumatic stress disorder, for which he is refusing to get treatment. 2. It sure would be nice if someone could find and post th...

Higgins made the mistake of cooking fish for his host, Abdul ben Bashi. Bashi, raised in the desert, didn't recognize the fish and thought Higgins had cooked his pet iguanas. He ordered Higgins to be stripped and staked out in the sun to bake until dead. In the face of this punishment Higgins had th...

Did I doze off while watching, or did they forget to explain exactly who killed Judge Kearns, and why?

I just watched this episode for the first time. Before I saw it, I had a theory that there was more to the reason Magnum quit the Navy than the stated "I woke up at 33 and realized I'd never been 23" jive. My theory was that after keeping the lid on for ten years, Magnum's post-traumatic stress fina...

When Magnum asks Higgins for advice on treating his sprained ankle, Higgins recalls a time on Lizard Island (off the coast of Australia) when a young Kanaka (Polynesian) boy fell down a river embankment straight into the mouth of a waiting crocodile. After killing the croc with a single well-placed ...

Magnum's success as an investigator was unattainable without the assistance of Rick (and via him, Icepick's sources) and TC and TC's helicopter. That's the one thing that has ALWAYS rather irritated me about TSMiv -- he took all the credit, short-changed his buddies (can you say "user"?), and, even...

This episode aired on November 3, 1983, which would mean Higgins finished his upper second at Sandhurst in July, 1946. This contradicts what is already in Higgins’ history. In 1946, Higgins was in Egypt; Nuremberg, Germany; and Vienna. Higgins was supposedly at Sandhurst from 1934 through 1937 I've...

John Wayne recited the above poem as a eulogy for a fellow sailor in the great WWII film They Were Expendable.

Home is the sailor, home from sea: Her far-borne canvas furled The ship pours shining on the quay The plunder of the world. Home is the hunter from the hill: Fast in the boundless snare All flesh lies taken at his will And every fowl of air. 'Tis evening on the moorland free, The starlit wave is sti...