This episode is so stupid it insults your intelligence. What is happening to season five? I am such a huge fan but can hardly endure these stupid not worthy episodes (Tran Quac- disaster! Sabre- trainwreck!) Shelley is not only annoying but is downright terrible! What was going through anyones mind...

He did sing it again in "Solo Flight," when he's trapped under the plane, and did a better job a cappella, but still not a Grammy performance. I think personally that Selleck was trying to redeem himself.

I have shared this with JJ already, but here, for your reading pleasure, is the Wikipedia entry for the song "Misty," complete with my contribution to it. See if you can guess what I added.

After watching the episode of "Pawn Stars" so kindly pointed out by JJ, I have spotted a flub in this episode. While reenacting the Battle of Salamanca, Higgins is seen holding and using a ramrod/bore swab, implying that the cannon is a muzzle loader, while "Pawn Stars" clearly shows that it is a br...

I liked this one a great deal, for numerous reasons: Big Holmes fan, big Patrick Macnee fan, big Higgins fan, big Jaguar fan, and, of course, big Tom-Selleck-shamelessly-mugging-in-glee-when-he-sets-up-the-hammer-in-the-wine-cellar-then-shamelessly-mugging-in-dismay-when-his-plan-fails fan.

The dancer does pull her top down, but covers her... what's a good word, "sweater puppy?" Anyhow, she covers it strategically with her hand as she slips the top down. Still pretty racy for 1987. Not to mention that T-back bottom she was wearing. Anybody recall seeing a T-back on prime-time before th...

When one fires a high-powered rifle without enough eye relief (the distance from the eye to the eyepiece of the scope), the recoil will cause the eyepiece to strike the pars orbitalis , or the upper part of the ocular orbit, leaving a crescent-shaped mark which serves as the badge of membership in ...

Now a little niggle I had with this episode: How is it that Rick brought his Detonics with him, but Magnum left his 1911 at home? Surely if Rick could get his piece in-country, Magnum should have been able to. It's not important, but it bothered me. Just a little show-quirk you're just supposed to ...

When one fires a high-powered rifle without enough eye relief (the distance from the eye to the eyepiece of the scope), the recoil will cause the eyepiece to strike the pars orbitalis , or the upper part of the ocular orbit, leaving a crescent-shaped mark which serves as the badge of membership in t...

Some notes: Geoffrey St. Clair's sniper rifle in the flashback to Vietnam is an Enfield Enforcer, a police version of the venerable .303 Lee-Enfield but chambered in 7.62 NATO. The producers probably meant for it to stand in for the Lee-Enfield L42, the military version of the same weapon. Incidenta...

Some notes: The city of Shanghai, where the Torah was buried, was the only city in the world, other than Franco's Spain (whose grandmother was Jewish), unconditionally open to Jewish immigration in the years leading up to WWII. After Japanese occupation, the Nazis pressured the Japanese to extermina...

Technical notes: The plane model that Buck Greene toys with while expositing the plot to Magnum and Ms. Jones is an F8F Bearcat in Marine (naturally) livery. The takedown sniper rifle is based on a large-ring Mauser 98 action. It does not appear to be a commercial weapon, though I could be wrong on ...

A technical note or two: The truck Higgins (cigar clenched firmly in teeth) picks up Magnum and the others in is a Kaiser Jeep M715, made from 1967 to 1969. The jeep Joe picks up TC in is an M151 MUTT (Military Utility Tactical Truck). They were renowned for their tendency to roll over during quick ...

Some technical notes: McKinney hands Magnum a large rotary weapon on the boat and correctly says it holds 18 rounds, but then says those rounds are "armor-piercing." What he hands him is a Manville Projectile Launcher (familiar to anyone who has seen Dogs of War with Christopher Walken), originally ...

A couple of technical notes: Sabre's plane is a Lockheed Jetstar (the same kind of plane used by Auric Goldfinger in the Bond film of the same name). This makes Betty calling it a Lear a flub. The pistols Sabre, Winston, and Boris use to cooly dispatch their strangely enthusiastic assailants at the ...