Misc. MPI Newspaper Articles

[MHTR]

If J.Q. Higgins were a real person I bet he'd say:

"I say Magnum, I'm a bit surprised by all the negative reviews."

[Steve]

It would be interesting to see a better picture of the extras and see if we recognize anyone..............

[Rembrandt's Girl]

It would be interesting to see a better picture of the extras and see if we recognize anyone..............

Hi Steve,

Do you mean these particular gentlemen?

[Rembrandt's Girl]

Hi again Steve,

If that was your question, I checked A.A.P.I. and they're the gentlemen at the convention seated on the other side of the podium from TM...

[Steve]

Thanks RG, I recognized them I was talking about the extras in line behind the newspaper photo. I was wondering if the mysterious Lady X might be in line or the gorgeous silver haired mature woman that appears in many episodes.... I believe she was tagged Lady Z....

[Rembrandt's Girl]

Thanks RG, I recognized them I was talking about the extras in line behind the newspaper photo. I was wondering if the mysterious Lady X might be in line or the gorgeous silver haired mature woman that appears in many episodes.... I believe she was tagged Lady Z....

Ah, gotcha Steve. Yes, that would be interesting to see the extras back there! Too bad the article is in black & white, would've been easier to see the faces if it was in color

Here's your "foxy lady" (cue Jimi Hendrix) When I went back through the Lady X thread to get these pics you guys called her "Lady Y"...







youtu.be/_PVjcIO4MT4

[ENSHealy]

Question for Rembrandt's Girl, and forgive me if you already answered it for someone else and I overlooked it: what source, program, database, etc. are you using to dig up all these gems? Over the years, I've tried to put google to work, but generally you only get results from publications that have converted their back issues to text, and you only get that converted text, not image files of the original articles.

Just curious how you are going about it, you sure are turning up a treasure trove of priceless material.

[KENJI]

Question for Rembrandt's Girl, and forgive me if you already answered it for someone else and I overlooked it: what source, program, database, etc. are you using to dig up all these gems? Over the years, I've tried to put google to work, but generally you only get results from publications that have converted their back issues to text, and you only get that converted text, not image files of the original articles.

Just curious how you are going about it, you sure are turning up a treasure trove of priceless material.

That's her bread and butter, not to mention MM job security ENSHealy....you can't ask her that.

[Rembrandt's Girl]

Question for Rembrandt's Girl, and forgive me if you already answered it for someone else and I overlooked it: what source, program, database, etc. are you using to dig up all these gems? Over the years, I've tried to put google to work, but generally you only get results from publications that have converted their back issues to text, and you only get that converted text, not image files of the original articles.

Just curious how you are going about it, you sure are turning up a treasure trove of priceless material.

That's her bread and butter, not to mention MM job security ENSHealy....you can't ask her that.

Haha, very funny KENJI!

Hi ENSHealy!

If you're referring to the MPI newspaper articles, I have a premium subscription to newspapers.com. There are so many articles, snippets, etc. and I really enjoy reading them (takes me back in time!), and I was posting what I thought might be of interest to folks here. I've got a really good one on Gillian Dobb that I'll be posting a bit later.

As far as other research goes, again, newspapers.com, ancestry.com, image searches, social media, government websites, books about Hawaiian history, etc. It's really just great fun for me and I enjoy sharing what I find.

I'm working on something right now regarding Pahonu that is a doozie so stay tuned! I hope I can come through... waiting to hear back from a "source" as I type this!

[ENSHealy]

Ahh...so newspapers.com is your secret! I'll have to check it out, although I probably can't spring for a premium membership, I'm saving up for a red Fiero and the cash to have a targa top installed in it.

[T.Q.]

Here are reviews that ran the day of the premiere...still more to come. I'm not posting mostly negative articles intentionally...apparently there were quite a few negative reviews.

Various newspapers, December 11, 1980...

Had fun reading these.

Reviews were so bad.

Critics completely bashing the show. No one thought it would last even half a season it seems.

Pretty funny.

Thanks for finding/sharing these.

[Steve]

Gotta love critics, seems like they write before they think many times.
At least the viewing public spoke loud enough to keep it going.....

[Rembrandt's Girl]

[Rembrandt's Girl]

Reposting a special series that was published in the local Hawaii newspaper when MPI was drawing to a close called "Aloha Magnum". I initially posted these in a separate thread of its own but wanted to also have them included with the rest of the miscellaneous MPI newspaper articles.

Honolulu Star-Bulletin, April 1988...





















Second set of articles in the series...











Third set of articles in the series...








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Fourth in the series.....







Fifth & final in the series.....

[Steve]

AaaaHaaa! The mystery of Kenji is finally solved.....He is actually Clarence "Mac" Maki............Good job keeping that a secret buddy