... is the lady working at the art gallery the same actress who played Cora, the assistant to the son/insurance salesman in ... Mr. White Death? .... You must have a photographic memory, Milton! Yes, according to Internet Move Database, that's Linda Ryan in both episodes. She was also in "Jororo Fa...

... TS was the exec producer on this episode as well as Sea Change.... My understanding is that the Executive Producer of a television series deals mostly with the overall aspects of the show, and generally has very little to do with the details. However, I would suspect that also being the Executi...

... did anyone notice the link between this episode, how Higgins was reading to Magnum about a man in a coma and waking up asking for "pint of stout", and in Jesse Stone Sea Change, Jesse is reading to Luther "Suitcase" Simpson while he is in a coma about a man in Melbourne Australia waking up from...

Nice catch, Suzie! That could have been a coincidence, I suppose, but it does sound suspiciously like an in-joke. I wonder whether TS suggested it, or if maybe the two episodes were written by the same person?

Anyhow, welcome to the forum! We'll be looking forward to more posts from you!

The comedy act was embarrassing to watch, but that's pretty standard fare for this scenario, it was just a short sequence to establish that she's a comedienne. While the jokes are horrible, the way they intersperse the scenes from her act to the boys being killed in Hawaii is kind of brilliant. I n...

... a segment of the show was about engine parts that may or may not have come from the Japanese plane that crash landed on Niihau. The Niihau Incident was mentioned on the first page of this Kapu thread. Thanks for that link RC. When we finally get a high-speed internet hook-up, I'll be very inter...

The show seems to like this idea of recurrence or reincarnation doesn't it? Like you have to do things until you get them right kind of thing. Now that you mention it, that does seem to be a recurring (!) theme. Off the top of my head, there's also 1. the 30's-type mystery (title?) where the regula...

I had hoped a tv mini series tele movie with the original cast as a hand over/entree to the new movie to hand over to the 21st century cast. If I understand what you're saying, that idea had not occurred to me. I have been thinking it had to be an either/or. But come to think of it, Magnum could ea...

It would depend greatly on the screenwriter's imagination. Worst cases, a) they could hang the entire story on the inevitable younger stars (Lily, et al.), leaving Our Guys to play cards, or alternatively, b) they could simply write a normal Magnum episode, making no allowance for the passage of tim...

Also one or more episodes (IMDb is noncommittal) of Port Charles a few years later. I just watched a Matlock episode ( "The Lovelorn" ) that guest-starred Jean Bruce Scott as an Atlanta television reporter. Even though I had seen her listed at the beginning of the episode, and was watching for her, ...

Seaver41 wrote:... Selleck is ... a tv guy.....

... or at least Magnum is a natural tv property. If people (including TS) could simply agree on this, I think a perfectly wonderful tv movie could be done with the original cast. But they'd better hurry!

nha trang wrote:....you know my theory, [your] favorite Magnum episode is the one you dream yourself...

Ditto your favorite Magnum movie!

... all 719 of us. :? I suspect there is a way to make a Magnum theatrical/TV movie that would satisfy us diehard old fans as well as the general movie-going / television-watching public -- but I do not think a prequel is it, not at this point. (If Magnum ever gets off the ground again, a prequel mi...

That sounds about right. At any rate, it was something pretty grim-sounding, comparable to the series' Viet-Nam flashback episodes. I much prefer the stories with a judicious balance of light and dark.

Pahonu wrote:Selleck wanted Tom Clancy to do the script, and he was apparently willing to do so.

Yes, I do believe that's what I read. (Maybe that's why I had it in the back of my head that Ireland was involved somehow.)