Estate resident wrote:I do know he rented a very modest condo while living on Oahu, especially compared to Manetti's place. He said he was notified MPI was cancelled & he moved out and back to texas a week later. Thats pretty freakin fast movin' IMO.
I'm surprised he rented . . . you'd think with the success of the show if he bought a modest place, just renting it in the times he wasn't there would work out. I get this is pre-internet times we're talking about, but I'd think a travel agent would have been able to help him out with that.
Unless . . . gasp . . . he didn't really like Hawai'i all that much!
I've vacationed twice on Oahu & each time by the end of my stay I was ready to get off "the rock" as a local radio station called it there. It really is possible to get by w/out a car there though. Much less a 308GTB red Ferrari. I always laugh at the rediculousness of a "private" eye driving around Oahu in what had to one of the very few red ferrari's in the early 1980's. He would have been mobbed everywhere he went...so much for a low profile.
I used to have a boss while in the Army was stationed in the islands back in the 1960's. He said after a short time he was bored to death and could not wait to get back to the mainland. He said he had done all the things one could do there: surf, sail, dive, climb, etc.
"You are three months at Dak Wei and still you crack jokes?" - Ivan
I've always wondered how MPI would have been had it have taken place in Miami instead of Honolulu. Hawaii was still considered fairly exotic in 1980 which is why I think MPI was based in Hawaii.
Estate resident wrote:I've always wondered how MPI would have been had it have taken place in Miami instead of Honolulu. Hawaii was still considered fairly exotic in 1980 which is why I think MPI was based in Hawaii.
That, and Universal wanted to put to use the studios they had built a few of years earlier for Hawaii Five-O, which had just been canceled after 12 years. If I remember correctly, the original premise for the series had it taking place in LA, with the Magnum character (called Cutter, I believe) working as a PI and living in a Beverly Hills guest house. The TC character was a Texan who flew helicopters to the offshore oil rigs and Rick owned and ran a LA-area nightclub. Living in the area, it's intriguing to think about what could have been. I suppose there are several cities, including Miami, that would also have been interesting locales. New Orleans seems ripe for a series to take advantage of that cities unique character.
Pahonu wrote:If I remember correctly, the original premise for the series had it taking place in LA, with the Magnum character (called Cutter, I believe) working as a PI and living in a Beverly Hills guest house.
Sounds right to me. Eventually, Riptide and Simon and Simon ended up riding that California P.I. wave.
"How fiendishly deceptive of you Magnum. I could have sworn I was hearing the emasculation of a large rodent."
Hadn't seen that before! Interesting to see Hillerman speaking as Higgins (for Selleck) during an awards ceremony! He was in Higgins mode 24-7 in those days.
