Legacy From a Friend (3.19)

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#41 Post by Henry Lewis »

James J. Walters wrote:
I also just found out recently that the actor playing Marcus, Magnum's volleyball partner who gets killed, is none other than Sinjin Smith! Sinjin will later become one of the biggest names in (beach) volleyball! In the episode, he is credited as St. John Smith, which threw me off.
Sinjin already was the best beach volleyball player in the world when this episode aired. I was playing at the time and I remember the beach being abuzz because Sinjin was on Magnum!

More trivia for you... On the other side of the net is Sinjin's brother Andrew Smith, nowhere near as good a player as Sinjin but he did win a few opens in his day. He was also a Ralph Lauren model. The fourth player I believe is Jon Anderson who was Hawaii's best player at the time. They were playing on the Outrigger Canoe Club court and it looks like they were really playing a game and not just staging something for the camera - I'm sure Selleck insisted, after all, it's not everyday you get to partner with Sinjin Smith! Probably also why they showed stills from the game during the credits.
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#42 Post by J.J. Walters »

Great info Henry! Thanks! I wondered who those others guys were.
Henry Lewis wrote:Sinjin already was the best beach volleyball player in the world when this episode aired. I was playing at the time and I remember the beach being abuzz because Sinjin was on Magnum!
Thanks for the clarification. For some reason, I thought Sinjin was still a couple years away from being #1 (in 1982). I see now that I was wrong. The guy had a heck of a career, that's for sure!
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#43 Post by Sam »

Possible credit flub.

I posted the first picture two years ago.The pic on the left side is Sgt Ardi Maioho taken from the Starbulletin,on the right is Sylvia the street merchant from the episode...Ardi is credited as Sylvia.

This second photo is Julia Nickson-Soul ,she also appears in this episode,credited as Carla,Rose's henchwoman.

In the third photo,I've combined the photos.......It's my belief that Julia played the role of Sylvia.If the credits are correct the photos match vertically.....What say you?

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#44 Post by J.J. Walters »

Sam, I was incorrect in our PM. The in-episode credits are correct - Julia Nickson is "Carla", (Sgt.) Ardi Maioho is "Sylvia". The IMDb is incorrect in that Carla is not "Rose's Henchwoman", Sylvia is! Conversely, Sylvia is not the street merchant, Carla is! Not sure why the IMDb added "Rose's Henchwoman" to the end of "Carla", as the in-episode credits only name "Carla".

What's confusing is that neither Carla or Sylvia are addressed by their name in the episode, and Julia Nickson looks like she could be either character! What gave it away for me was the size and build of Rose's brunette henchwoman (hehe, love that word "henchwoman"). The actress who plays the brunette henchwoman is shorter and stockier than Ms. Julia Nickson. The body shape of the actress who plays the street merchant is much more in line with Julia Nickson.

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Julia Nickson in "Three Minus Two":

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I've corrected the credits on the various pages (Video, Classic Scenes, etc.)

Thanks for pointing this out Sam! :)
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#45 Post by Sam »

Okay,thanks James,now it makes sense..

So the correct match is left to right.

You were right Doc Ibold.

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#46 Post by Doc Ibold »

Sam wrote:Okay,thanks James,now it makes sense..

So the correct match is left to right.

You were right Doc Ibold.
Wait.... I was right on which topic?

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#47 Post by Carmen »

Doesn`t matter Doc - you`re mostly right :wink:
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#48 Post by Doc Ibold »

I'm so confused.....

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#49 Post by robspace54 »

I chuckled at this episode. Daisy is from Cincinnati, Ohio (since I live there) and I have no idea how she developed that accent in Ohio. Must have been a transplant!

I'd forgotten that Annie Potts played in this episode and we finally get to to see Bob Minor (Rose). Poor TM gets a whoopin but he gets revenge later and not a nail was broken.

I think that this episode had too many red herrings dragged through it. The blackmail, hot goods, an unexplained drowning (was he pushed, did he jump, or did his paramour clout him over the head?), Daisy as a detective... all of which is a bit jammed togther by TM wandering through it.

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#50 Post by Tuan Vu »

I really enjoyed this episode, not because of the story, which was confusing, but because of Annie Potts. She was very cute and funny, and had great chemistry with Tom Selleck. Their comical interactions were great! :lol:

I wished she had had a recurring role on the show, since she was a private investigator wannabe and there would have been a lot of opportunities for her to appear. But I guess this was more of a "guys" show, about Magnum and the other guys.

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#51 Post by All About the Stache »

A decent episode, I suppose. Thought the karate chicks were pretty silly, and the ending a bit "easy" so to speak. Other than that I enjoyed it, Janine from Ghostbusters was in it, after all!
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#52 Post by miltontheripper »

Agree with the above comment about the "too easy" ending, a Magnum vs. Rose fight would have been awesome! The female karate beating of Magnum was hilarious! Good overall episode.

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#53 Post by Scooter »

First time poster here...just got finished watching this episode on the DVD.

Count me into the "it was too easy" category along with a bit confusing.

I didn't really understand what happened to Magnum's friend Marcus; Did Rose drown him in the surf after he confronted him about the blackmail?

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#54 Post by MaiTaiMan »

This episode was pretty good...and I rated it as such. I liked the plot of Magnum's volleyball friend getting murdered, and of course he had to figure out who did it. "Magnum, p.i." many times had Magnum's cases being more personal than the usual, as Higgins would say, tawdry divorce case...and this one was no exception. It somehow made it more realistic and you feel you can relate to the characters, and that Magnum truly cared for others.

However, the one downfall to this episode was the annoying as heck, irritating Annie Potts as 'Tracy'!! :? I've never been a huge Annie Potts fan...as her voice (in my opinion) is as annoying as The Nanny's (Fran Drescher's)! :x

I can only handle "stupid" or "dorky" so much...then it isn't funny to me...it's just stupid! To me, this is how I viewed the character of Tracy Spenser. She took too much away from the real plot of the episode! It was like they wrote the episode...then they went back in and added this Tracy, and her bumbling, slap-stick ways for comic relief. :roll: It wasn't that funny, and it seemed really out of place, and/or it just didn't flow with the episode very smoothly. Unfortunately she returned again a few seasons later...but at least she was only in the two episodes.
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#55 Post by Mark R.Y. »

This is one of my favorites of Season 3. It really has the flavor of a traditional "private eye" (sorry, TM, but that's what the genre is called!) tale. Lots of fun, and I laughed out loud at the Sesame Street "Bert" puppet in Marcus' apartment at around the 9:15 point. (Sorry, my computer isn't playing DVDs anymore or else I'd make a screen grab.) There is a "Bert is Evil" website that is devoted to photoshopped pics of Bert appearing with Osama bin Laden and other notorious people. And here he is having a cameo in a Magnum ep! :D

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