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by charybdis1966
Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:34 am
Forum: Season 8
Topic: Forever in Time (8.5)
Replies: 38
Views: 85282

Re: Forever in Time (8.5)

Continuing my first time viewing of season 8 and this one came up tonight. Initially this had “Curse of the King Kamehameha club” vibes but then it went off on a left turn after that. TM’s high waisted trousers did make me chortle somewhat in the last act but I should remember this aired around 35 y...
by charybdis1966
Sat Mar 23, 2024 12:45 am
Forum: Season 8
Topic: Tigers Fan (8.4)
Replies: 84
Views: 169559

Re: Tigers Fan (8.4)

I saw this episode for the first time today and aside from Higgins line about the Albanian Countess I found the whole story dull and unengaging. It doesn’t help that the opening scene centred around baseball, unfortunately a sport I find deeply tedious (yes I know - this from a cricket fan), finishi...
by charybdis1966
Sun Feb 11, 2024 1:11 am
Forum: Season 6
Topic: Find Me a Rainbow (6.18)
Replies: 65
Views: 116938

Re: Find Me a Rainbow (6.18)

My first viewing of this episode today and I found it slightly underwhelming. Highlights - Lydia, the pleasant beach “scenery”, Higgins getting splattered in the face with caviar and no Carol Baldwin. Lowlights - the final scene where the lost child turns up was rather jarring and unlikely, a repeti...
by charybdis1966
Sat Feb 10, 2024 1:04 am
Forum: Season 6
Topic: Way of the Stalking Horse (6.17)
Replies: 54
Views: 99968

Re: Way of the Stalking Horse (6.17)

I saw this episode for the first time today (only about 40 years after it was originally shown) and as many have noted it stands head and shoulders above most of season 6 (Kona Winds is a more than decent episode admittedly). A good, dark and atmospheric episode with a plot twist - something that ev...
by charybdis1966
Wed Nov 01, 2023 5:01 pm
Forum: Season 1
Topic: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1) (1.1)
Replies: 160
Views: 321287

Re: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1) (1.1)

To add, the original jazzy theme wasn’t just from the pilot. A shortened version was used in the first eight or so episodes, following the revving Ferrari. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JumPsCbB7rQ I always enjoyed the original theme in the pilot, particularly because the credits very creatively in...
by charybdis1966
Tue Apr 04, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: Should I move to Oahu?
Replies: 31
Views: 29007

Re: Should I move to Oahu?

Almost 5 years later and I'm going to update my own thread and the idea of moving to the islands. I ran the numbers several times. In the end I wasn't willing to pay 2 million plus for a new and modern house, or compromise with something old. The left wing politics are the other factor that kept me...
by charybdis1966
Thu Mar 09, 2023 12:37 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: Who's the hottest babe on Magnum P.I.?
Replies: 305
Views: 331967

Re: Who's the hottest babe on Magnum P.I.?

I always found Kim Miyori rather delectable. Of course, any woman with really red lipstick gets my engine firing on all cylinders. http://www.magnum-pi.com/wp-content/uploads/magnum-pi-naiades-27.jpg Of course, they would need to be 100% pure female that doesn't steal luggage. https://upload.wikime...
by charybdis1966
Fri Jan 06, 2023 3:29 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: Best "Silly" Episode
Replies: 7
Views: 3619

Re: Best "Silly" Episode

I'm partial to "Tropical Madness" (2.7) - the funniest/silliest bit is Devon Ericson's excrutiating english accent - an appalling effort as bad as the benchmark for bad english accents, Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins (or as he says it "Maori Pawpins"). :D There's not too much genuine peril in that ep...
by charybdis1966
Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:10 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: 40th Anniversary Watch Party
Replies: 1018
Views: 819789

Re: 40th Anniversary Watch Party

I'm running a little behind on my viewing, but my boys and I are going camping this weekend so we'll take along the episodes to catch up, and probably Operation: Silent Night... and I forget if there was another Christmas episode. I can only think of “Thank heavens for little girls..and big ones to...
by charybdis1966
Mon Dec 12, 2022 11:57 pm
Forum: Season 5
Topic: Professor Jonathan Higgins (5.13)
Replies: 91
Views: 172548

Re: Professor Jonathan Higgins (5.13)

I took some pictures of yours truly at Whitby (where Cook the explorer was based and set sail from to discover Hawaii, Cook Islands etc..) today - if anyone could PM me an e mail address I can send them to if there’s interest in seeing them posted here.
by charybdis1966
Fri Nov 25, 2022 12:00 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: For UK fans
Replies: 18
Views: 5625

Re: For UK fans

Strangely, ITV4 has got to Season 5, episode 6 (Fragments) and will then be going back to the beginning again (Don't eat the snow in Hawaii) - that's annoying !
I understand whole seasons may not be shown (if they do not have the rights to show them), but why stop mid way through season 5 ? :cry:
by charybdis1966
Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:50 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: 40th Anniversary Watch Party
Replies: 1018
Views: 819789

Re: 40th Anniversary Watch Party

https://media4.giphy.com/media/CXiJlZYQOux7twtDqW/giphy.gif?cid=790b7611cb0f5d7ac88ad2432b1d119ee929f145b633fef0&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g November 18th, 1982 Magnum, P.I. Mr. White Death Season Number: 3.9 Air Date: 11/18/1982 An aging, former professional wrestling champion asks Magnum to find his long-...
by charybdis1966
Wed Nov 09, 2022 1:49 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: 40th Anniversary Watch Party
Replies: 1018
Views: 819789

Re: 40th Anniversary Watch Party

I see, so Saab was trying to be different and safer (maybe?). I'd be curious to see the statistics for car accident injuries caused by the key. Of all things... I mean if it's a serious crash then I would think the key would be the least of my worries. But it would have to be a pretty serious crash...
by charybdis1966
Tue Nov 08, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: 40th Anniversary Watch Party
Replies: 1018
Views: 819789

Re: 40th Anniversary Watch Party

That's right, just behind the handbrake; it was so that in the event of a front end collision the key wouldn't ram into the drivers legs as a steering column mounted ignition would Sorry, I'm not sure I follow. :? The key, which is inside the ignition inside the steering column, would ram into a dr...
by charybdis1966
Mon Nov 07, 2022 6:05 pm
Forum: Magnum P.I. Talk
Topic: 40th Anniversary Watch Party
Replies: 1018
Views: 819789

Re: 40th Anniversary Watch Party

I remember a college buddy’s older brother had a turbo version. It had the ignition key in the center console if I remember correctly. That’s about all I remember about it other than it was black. That's right, just behind the handbrake; it was so that in the event of a front end collision the key ...