Nice article BUT: 1 ► The top picture was poorly chosen: TM appears a bit uncouth. There are at least a thousand pics of him in action that do our hero the justice he deserves. 2 ► The other photos show how lazy the editors of this pub are: They couldn't dip the photos in photoshop to spruce them up...

I would like to speculate that during the first season and maybe the second the actors were adjusting to stage names vs real names. It happens all the time, actors mix up each others names and even their own. Tom Selleck goes by Tom and I'm sure on set it was a hard habit to break. I'm sure there a...

Let me assure you that there is no need to take anything personally--at least so far :D--in our discussion. I'm solely interested in the facts. To that extent it is more productive to deal with the issue at hand. You have yet to provide an alternative to the fact--and a fact--that TM goes by two dif...

Thank you for the edification about the "industry." However it doesn't matter whether characterization differed anywhere else but in the TV series known as MPI. Does anywhere in the TV show have a message like, "Viewers please note: For characterizations consult related novelettes, newsletters, moti...

Please read my explanations in the related Name thread. That will answer most of your questions. Surely you know that TM is referred to/called by both "Thomas" and "Tom" in the series. At least once he identifies himself as "Tom Magnum." It's been my interest to try to show these are not random with...

Our use of names shows our intimacy--whether close or distant. So TM's best friend at the Academy called him "Tom" but Rick & TC don't. However, as I pointed out in the thread dealing with this issue, TM grew up in a household with several having the same name. So for him, "Thomas" can still signify...

My friend, what an amazing memory you must have. The issue must have bothered you as well to make a mental note of it. How else could you have retrieved that episode? I'd like to watch it but I'm watching in sequence or I try too. I'm somewhere in season two. I haven't watched since the Anniversary...

@Pahonu, rationalize it all you wish but you cannot overcome these facts: 1 ► As charybdis1966 points out in a later episode of MPI, a character points out TM depends so much on Rick and TC to be a PI with implication TM couldn't be a PI without that help. 2 ► From what I have seen--and granted I ha...

Neither, my friend, neither. I had to approach the subject as a ghost writer to maintain my objectivity. :wink: Actually I was much bothered by the issue I raised. So I started this thread for help but the solution came suddenly by the next day. I'm now at peace. (BTW, I thought of you when I used ...

GOT IT! 8) Dilemma solved! But no thanks to the MPI script writers! Here it is--the missing scenario that fell off the Director's desk: DIRECTOR'S COPY CBS PILOT #485-2046: Magnum PI : Episode 1 Rick & TC sworn buds relocate together in Hawaii. TM is still in the Navy stationed there. By the time h...

Gotta Capstone! Real pleased with the "discovery" of the missing script for Episode 1: TM is so a man of the highest character that he wouldn't use people the way the original series is presented. Donald Bellisario and his staff simply overlooked this element. But to put the final capstone on it, w...

GOT IT! 8) Dilemma solved! But no thanks to the MPI script writers! Here it is--the missing scenario that fell off the Director's desk: DIRECTOR'S COPY CBS PILOT #485-2046: Magnum PI : Episode 1 Rick & TC sworn buds relocate together in Hawaii. TM is still in the Navy stationed there. By the time h...

At risk of unpopularity, I want to share a dilemma I felt about TM in hope of maybe solving it. Sometime ago I pointed out In "The Taking of Dick McWilliams" (S2.10 ) we hear a good friend of TM's refer to him as "Tom." TM met him ten years prior in Oahu. They are rather good friends how TM talks ab...

Chinatown,Smiths's Union Bar, USS Arizona and Lauren Bruner... Not MPI related but interesting.. https://youtu.be/DEI2Yzb3QOY https://youtu.be/Wt3D6vACM2M https://youtu.be/Ko0QBUqs1BE More on Chinatown.. https://youtu.be/CpphYRbp1UM Final Lauren Bruner story.. https://youtu.be/xTsbWMO_nR8 Sam, So c...

Going through a series re-watch and two episodes he introduces him self as "Tom "Magnum". "Lest we forget" and "Curse of the King Kam Club". Thanks for the heads-up note, esp. as it proves the point of this thread. Did you notice right before those instances, he self-introduces himself as "Thomas M...