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This is not a flub, just something that caught my attention:
When Magnum tells TC that he was on the Naval Academy's basketball team, TC mockingly calls him "Kareem-Abdul Magnum." But Magnum's Academy days were in the 60's, so TC might more logically have called him "Thomas Alcindor," since Lew Alcindor did not change his name to Kareem-Abdul Jabbar until 1971 (according to Wikipedia).
Of course, this episode is set in the 80's, so TC is simply alluding to the athlete's then-current name.
When Magnum tells TC that he was on the Naval Academy's basketball team, TC mockingly calls him "Kareem-Abdul Magnum." But Magnum's Academy days were in the 60's, so TC might more logically have called him "Thomas Alcindor," since Lew Alcindor did not change his name to Kareem-Abdul Jabbar until 1971 (according to Wikipedia).
Of course, this episode is set in the 80's, so TC is simply alluding to the athlete's then-current name.
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See, this is why I like this show. On any other series this Fagin rip off with a cute kid would have been saccharine enough to make my teeth ache, but on MPI it's an enjoyable, if lightweight, entry into the series. This is the very first episode of Magnum I ever remember seeing when it aired on Sunday nights in the UK. I think I saw shows before this one (I distinclty remember the pilot) but I remember this so vividly I can see where my Nan (who likes Selleck a great deal) was sat.
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I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your episode comments. Thank you for contributing to the discussions.
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your episode comments. Thank you for contributing to the discussions.
Indeed!A P Leyland wrote:On any other series this Fagin rip off with a cute kid would have been saccharine enough to make my teeth ache, but on MPI it's an enjoyable, if lightweight, entry into the series.
Higgins: It's not a scratch! It's a bloody gouge!
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Just a horrible episode. "Willie" just might be the most annoying character of the series, and the whole dining scene was just bizarre.
Higgins and TM just happened to have fake replicas of everything worth value of Robin's in that estate?? How convinient
Higgins and TM just happened to have fake replicas of everything worth value of Robin's in that estate?? How convinient
Was vaccinated with a phonograph needle one summer break
Same summer that I kissed her on her daddy's boat
And shot across the lake
Singing all the way...
Oh I say mama
Living Ain't a luxury
Oh I say mama
And a lil' ain't enough for me
Same summer that I kissed her on her daddy's boat
And shot across the lake
Singing all the way...
Oh I say mama
Living Ain't a luxury
Oh I say mama
And a lil' ain't enough for me
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Really? Willie is one of my very favorite episode characters. A tough, streetwise, basketball whiz, grifter-child with a heart. Her scenes with Magnum almost bring me to tears. It's painfully obvious how much she wishes to break free of her foster parents and live with somebody as honorable and kind as Thomas Magnum. And at the end, she passed up the game-winning shot to pass the ball to a teammate. For me, Willie is a unique and memorable character.
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I also enjoyed this episode, and the acting of Dana Hill. Here's a mini-biography from IMDb:
Dana Hill was born Dana Lynne Goetz on May 6, 1964, in a suburb of Los Angeles to parents Sandy Hill and Ted Goetz. Despite diabetes ending a promising future in athletics when she was just 10 years old, Dana gamely threw herself into acting when still in her early teens, taking her mother's maiden name as her professional acting name. She found success early on with her performances in both Fallen Angel (1981) (TV) and Shoot the Moon (1982), winning high praise from critics. For her stage work, Hill won the 1986 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in "Picnic." However, complications from her diabetes set in and the consequent decline in her health meant that from the mid-1980s on, Dana increasingly turned to voice over roles in animated movies and television programs such as Jetsons: The Movie (1990), "Goof Troop" (1992) and "Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man" (1994). In early 1996, Dana's health grew increasingly fragile as was evident to her friends and co-stars. Late that May, she slipped into a diabetic coma. On the 5th of June she suffered a paralytic stroke and on July 15 she died peacefully in the hospital at the age of 32, bringing an untimely end to a career that in less than two decades had spanned the big and small screen, animation and the theater.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Paul Melville
May she rest in peace.
Dana Hill was born Dana Lynne Goetz on May 6, 1964, in a suburb of Los Angeles to parents Sandy Hill and Ted Goetz. Despite diabetes ending a promising future in athletics when she was just 10 years old, Dana gamely threw herself into acting when still in her early teens, taking her mother's maiden name as her professional acting name. She found success early on with her performances in both Fallen Angel (1981) (TV) and Shoot the Moon (1982), winning high praise from critics. For her stage work, Hill won the 1986 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in "Picnic." However, complications from her diabetes set in and the consequent decline in her health meant that from the mid-1980s on, Dana increasingly turned to voice over roles in animated movies and television programs such as Jetsons: The Movie (1990), "Goof Troop" (1992) and "Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man" (1994). In early 1996, Dana's health grew increasingly fragile as was evident to her friends and co-stars. Late that May, she slipped into a diabetic coma. On the 5th of June she suffered a paralytic stroke and on July 15 she died peacefully in the hospital at the age of 32, bringing an untimely end to a career that in less than two decades had spanned the big and small screen, animation and the theater.
IMDb Mini Biography By: Paul Melville
May she rest in peace.
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