From Moscow to Maui (2.4)

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#11 Post by **Doc Ibold** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:17 pm

I think "Olga" was the (larger) woman who TC and Magnum were ducking while trying to contact Nina in her cottage.

Sam · #12 Post by **Sam** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:38 pm

Yeah Doc,I think you are right.So that makes two Olga's.Olga was also the hookers name in "Mac's Back"

#13 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Fri Jan 09, 2009 3:14 pm

Oh, yeah!

Man, I totally missed her, even when I was looking for her.... twice! I still find it odd, though. She has like one short line of dialog (in russian) and 10 secs. of screen time, and she gets a 'co-starring' credit?

Richard McPherson (Mortician #2) has more dialog and screen time than she does and yet he's buried down at the end of the end credits. Hmph.

N1095A · #14 Post by **N1095A** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 4:53 am

I think Rick was talking about the wrong woman when he claimed "She's a He."

Jay-Firestorm · #15 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:37 pm

A short(er) review for this one; not a stinker, but just very very average.

[TV.com rating=7.5, Average]

A year after a fighter pilot defects from the Soviet Union, he hires Magnum to help his fiancé, who is part of an Olympic track team visiting Hawaii, to defect also. But Magnum has an awkward feeling about the case. A very average episode…

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There is nothing outstandingly wrong with ‘From Moscow to Maui’ as such, but it comes off as just a very average instalment of the series.

I suppose Soviet defectors could be interesting if handled well, but in this story I find it rather plain and not very engaging. It also feels like it should be more cleverly written than it is.

Part of the problem is that it takes a long time to really get going, and is too talky in places.
Also, the episode seems to have a number of stereotypes, and seemed somewhat dated even when it was made back in 1981!

Thankfully, things to pick up a bit later on, and the climax, with Magnum sneaking around in the truck full of coffins, is quite exciting.

The best thing about the episode is the great final scene, where Magnum tells Higgins of a big defeat he once had – which turns out to have been on the football field, much to the annoyance of Higgins!

This isn’t quite one of the series’ stinkers, there would be more of those in later seasons (five and six!), but this one just ends up very… AVERAGE.

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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:

* When Magnum, after coming out of the tidal pool, goes into the guesthouse to meet Yuri, he is supposedly towling himself dry – but he doesn’t seem to be very wet in the first place!

* On the DVD version, another case of abridged commercial breaks – acts two and four do not have a gap.

* This is the first time we hear of Magnum’s fondness for the Army-Navy game; it will be mentioned in a number of future episodes.

#16 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Sun May 17, 2009 9:43 pm

Jay-Firestorm wrote:The best thing about the episode is the great final scene, where Magnum tells Higgins of a big defeat he once had – which turns out to have been on the football field, much to the annoyance of Higgins!

Indeed! Great denouement. It's also another rare scene on the balcony of the main house (ala "The Eighth Part of the Village").

By the by (I just love saying that), anybody happen to know what these are?

Weird looking sprinkler heads, maybe?

#17 Post by **Doc Ibold** » Mon May 18, 2009 12:45 am

They look like covers for horseshoe poles. I think you put them there so you don't run them over when you're cutting the grass.

rubber chicken · #18 Post by **rubber chicken** » Mon May 18, 2009 5:10 am

I concur with the good Doctor. Objects that look like horseshoes can be seen hanging on the far frame...

I don't know why the frames would be needed though, the poles could be avoided easily enough by a mower without those I'd think. Maybe they keep the area around the pole dry, but I'm not sure they have tops on them. Or maybe if production vehicles were sometimes parked on the grass, they were built to make the poles more obvious. (?)

Looking through some of my screenshots of the yard I see that they're present during most of the seasons, if not all. But sometimes they don't appear to be there. This screenshot from Dead Man's Channel (2.2) shows them well, and the horseshoes are seen more clearly.

#19 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Mon May 18, 2009 11:02 pm

Ah, horseshoes stakes! Never noticed those before (and I didn't know horseshoes stakes had covers)!

I wonder if there is a putting green tucked away on the grounds somewhere?

rubber chicken · #20 Post by **rubber chicken** » Tue May 19, 2009 5:00 am

Well I know there's a swimming pool, because Magnum and Higgins fought over it. So why not a putting green? By the way, I think the pool is located in the courtyard - the grass retracts like those old gym floors, and waalaa!, a swimming pool. During crazy Robin Masters parties stewardesses were known to jump off the 2nd floor balcony into the deep end.

... I wonder why Magnum and Higgins never included the horseshoes court in their bargaining...

N1095A · #21 Post by **N1095A** » Tue May 19, 2009 1:25 pm

The pool is about 100 yds from the stables.

lutherhgillis · #22 Post by **lutherhgillis** » Tue May 19, 2009 3:12 pm

Decent episode but not great. The US/USSR thing was hot in the early 80s. I am not surprised this type of subject was addressed on MPI.

I know the fighter jet was not really a Mig 30. But Realistically, where would they have gotten a real Mig? I don;t consider this a flub.

One thing that does raise a question for me is this. I'm not sure of the fuel capacity but I do not believe a Mig could go from Russian territory to Hawaii much less from Moscow without refueling. My friend flew fighter jets for the Air Force and he would do training runs from Texas to South Carolina and would refuel in the air several times during the mission.

Another thing. If a Russian jet went off course and tried to rabbit, the Ruskies would send other jets to shoot him down. They would never have allowed someone to defect in a Mig 30...

Oh well, it was still fun to leave pie in the Russian's faces ...

joinerkev · #23 Post by **joinerkev** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:24 am

Hi guys
I posted a video on Youtube with one of my favourite scenes from this episode, please take a look. I wont even hazard a guess as to how long it took me but I am pleased with the result.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nrGTKaZUbs

Kev
York
UK

SelleckLover · #24 Post by **SelleckLover** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:07 am

luthergillis wrote:

'm not sure of the fuel capacity but I do not believe a Mig could go from Russian territory to Hawaii much less from Moscow without refueling.

My husband (whose job it was to spot aircraft when he was in the Navy during the Viet Nam war) says that a MIG does have the capability to go from Russian territory to Hawaii. Moscow wouldn't allow the MIG to be filled with enough fuel to get there. They were only given enough to get them where Moscow wanted them to go, and back.

Agatha · #25 Post by **Agatha** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:28 am

Yuri must have made a clandestine trip to the gas station!!

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