(bonus points to those who can identify the custom pieces...): Let's see.... the rubber chicken, Higgins' red phone, Higgins' typewriter? This didn't take much work, but I thought it would be funny to add to this project.... The charity masquerade ball! :) http://magnum-mania.com/images/lego_minifi...

This was Michael's idea, I can't take the credit. He originally just wanted to make a Higgins figure (my bias is pretty clear to my nearest and dearest), but when we found a perfect Magnum head, he decided to expand his vision and make all four main characters. And then we just kept finding cool stu...

I thought I'd start a thread, in case any fellow Lego fans wanted to find out more about my son's Lego Magnum sets...J.J. put a link to my Facebook album, but if you have issues with Facebook, he put a few here where I can link to them. I don't want to be tooting my own (or my son's) horn, but I kno...

I just recently watched through the whole series, in order, for the first time since, oh, EVER. And I remember this episode as the one where I first really noticed Magnum and Higgins dealing with each other, in any substantive way, on a level besides the surface bickery. I love the way that their de...

I watched this with the family last night--we were in a mystery mood, and 3/5 of us had not seen this episode yet. It was a great favorite. And I already bubbled about it here not long ago, but can I just say again, John Hillerman? Wow. There was Tom Selleck playing Magnum, pretty much straight tran...

By my count, this was the fourth and final time he broke the fourth wall, following "China Doll", "Never Again ... Never Again" and "The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii". He did it in Seasons One and Eight, with nothing in between! Odd. I don't remember those! Well, dang. I guess I'm just going to have to wa...

J.J. Walters wrote:

Higgins is clearly breaking the fourth wall here--is this the only time he does it? Magnum does it all the time, but I can't recall seeing Higgins do it before.

I want to make mention of Kenneth McMillan's excellent performance as Joe. He died just over a year after making this episode, but he was a truly great actor. He has a scene in Salem's Lot opposite the legendary James Mason. The two actors do a tremendous job, as McMillan, playing the town constabl...

Hey There... 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 wakin...

Happy 79th to the multitalented John Hillerman! Here's hoping he's having a wonderful, laid-back day, staying inside from the (finally!) rain!

~Amanda

I have been home sick today--bad cold--and have comforted myself with watching many Magnum episodes. This one was a blast! I am still on my first progression through the series (I was away at college with no TV, when these later seasons aired). I was delighted with this one--not just for the change ...

When watching this episode, I was reminded of "Home From the Sea," in the fourth season--the same artful editing. Or at least similarly artful--Home From the Sea had the best visual pacing I've ever seen, but this one did a very good job of folding the different stories in with each other. It was be...

I got on the show! I was the last caller. How awesome to get to talk to them!

I really liked this episode, but I could have used more Higgins interaction. I will be appeased by the fact that Magnum saw Higgins first in his delirium. But still.

Just sayin'.

I love the briefly insane look Magnum, with gun in hand, gives Higgins. This brief interchange--Higgins coming up with "there's no way you'll win," blithely ignorant of all the other goings-on, and Magnum's wordless-but-so-clear thought process as he looks at Higgins in disbelief, then at the gun, ...