EPISODE: 7.13 Autumn Warrior
Famous guest stars: .5 for future Saved By The Bell fame for Mr. Belding
Hawaiian shirts: 1
Tigers Cap:
Island Hopper shirts: 1
Shirtless Magnum:
OMG: 2
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings: 3
Negotiations:
Gun Play:
Bullet wounds:
Body Count (by Magnum):
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 8.5
Magnumometer Moments:
https://vimeo.com/682525554
The Episode Guide says that Thomas plays “Somewhere in the Night” on his sax…I don’t think that’s correct. It sure sounds like Strangers in the Night to me. TM playing Manilow? No. TM playing Sinatra? Yes.
The chopper that lands on the island has a different tail number: N4943T. Thought I’d spotted something new (I should know better by now) but the T.C.’s Chopper page mentions the tail number (but not its use in this particular episode).
Plot point quibbles:
1. Why would Mr. Belding put the rabbit gun together before they actually needed it. Seemed like a dumb move to me. Of course, the real dumb move was to even bring it, as they could easily have survived with no food for one weekend. Of course, it is needed to advance the plot I guess.
2. When Higgins is dragging Moki into the forest, why doesn’t Doug just grab the gun from Clint and go after them? Would have been pretty easy to catch up with Higgy having to drag a wounded teenager through the jungle.
3. Mr. Belding brought 5 boxes of shells? How many rabbits was he planning on shooting? (It had to be Mr. Belding that brought the shells, as they mention that the kids gear got searched but the “Counselor’s” does not.)
4. Someone else already mentioned the improbability of how quickly the kids stripped the chopper, but more importantly, how did they have the knowledge? They try to explain it away by saying Doug was in for stripping cars, and maybe there’s some comparison between disabling a car radio and a chopper radio, but how the hell does the kid know where the igniter is? And does it just pop off, with no tools? And it was Clint who stripped the chopper and Doug who was in for stripping cars, so they sent the wrong kid out to the chopper.
I feel the need to say once again that calling out all those quibbles didn’t really affect my enjoyment of the episode (although I didn’t think the young actors were very good) they’re just things that pop out at you and are hard to ignore. But as with most Magnum episodes, the rough spots are balanced out by the great moments, like the nymph in the safari jacket and the beard on the Queen. (Or is it the Queen Mother?) But one more tiny quibble…the scratches on Higgins face looked just a little too much like whiskers to me. Maybe it was a quiet tip of the cap by the makeup department to the role that introduced Jillie Mack to Tom Selleck...but I doubt it.
In all seriousness though, that's stuntman Bernie Pock. He was in Die Hard! Major props for that! 
