Distant Relative (4.4)

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How Would You Rate This Episode?

10 (Perfect!)
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2%
9.5 (One of the Best)
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9.0 (Excellent)
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32%
8.5 (Very Good)
37
37%
8.0 (Pretty Good)
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12%
7.5 (Decent)
5
5%
7.0 (Average at Best)
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3%
6.5 (Not So Good)
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1%
6.0 (Pretty Bad)
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5.0 (Just Awful)
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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#71 Post by thechickinthemiddle »

So from my understanding, Wendy was indeed a mule making a delivery to the two guys, but arrived to see them killing the two other undercover federal agents, so the two guys had to kill her to cover their tracks. It does lend credence to Magnum's saying about the lie having a bit of truth to it.

I actually really like Carol's hair in this episode. Shame we don't really see it again.

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#72 Post by Milton Collins »

I posted a few years back that I didn't like this one WOW did I feel different when I watched it two days ago. I REALLY enjoyed it and wish I could re rate, mustve been in a bad mood that night in 2014 lol.

- The opening scene is in my top 5 funniest scenes of the show. Higgins and Agatha playing with the toy planes and TM being awakened and the ensuing argument ending in the crash is just amazingly funny! Thomas' laugh just KILLS ME ha ha ha!

- I also enjoy the scene where Rick introduces TM to Wendy, The way Rick introduces her and talks about seeing Bambi and getting a soda and being in by 10:30 lol And then TM calls Rick Orvi ha ha totally cracks me up!

- Really intense about her getting killed. I still get a small feeling of shock when they find out she is dead. The first time I watched it I figured she was a messed up bad kid but that they would find her!

- Sellecks acting when he tries to tell Rick the truth at the beach bar and Rick punches him is so good! Same for when he tells Higgins what happened. He truly is an amazing actor!

Overall very good episode, season 4 is really solid!

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#73 Post by jeffran »

The role of TC as the voice of reason and peacemaker of the group really struck me in this episode, as well as the excellent acting work by Roger Mosley. Solid episode (8.5 for me), and I agree with the comments about this episode as a two-part episode.

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#74 Post by Algernon Farnsworth »

I like this episode -- I think the New Wave club scene in Tijuana Tokyo sort of acknowledges that even if Magnum woke up at 33 realizing he'd never been 23, he still isn't 23. :) Having him seem confused and out-of-place. Then they defused it by throwing Carol Channing in there, with the "Why are you here?" "Well why are you here?" scene. :)

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#75 Post by .45caliber »

This is a great episode. I give it 9.0. From the RC plane scenes at beginning and end, to the shocker that Wendy is dead. TM, TC, Rick and Higgins all give great performances and we see Carol and Ice Pick too. All around just an outstanding episode of Magnum P.I. and has to rank very high in the whole series. Maybe top 25.

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#76 Post by ENSHealy »

Steve wrote:What struck me as funny about this episode was that they were able to cast so many Flock of Seagull wannabees in Oahu for the Tijuana Tokyo scene (I know, it was the eighties, but come on). Also, how would you like to have been cast as an extra in that scene, then trying to explain to your kids 20 years later the skin tight hot red spandex pants that prominently feature your "bits"........LOL!
Agreed. This is just egregious. Tom Selleck should have thrown his weight around to get some thicker pants on that guy.
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Jay-Firestorm wrote:* In the final scene, when Magnum shoots Higgins’ model plane down, if you pause (freeze frame) just before the plane explodes, you can see that in this shot it is actually a bi-plane; I believe this shot to be taken from the third season episode ‘Of Sound Mind’.
100% correct. They did adjust the exposure a little, but it’s the same footage.
Of Sound Mind:
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Sam wrote:
Styles Bitchley wrote:
mandolabar wrote:Anyone else see that, anyone have an opinion
I don't remember seeing it, but for some reason I can see him touching the ring as a sort of "fraternal" gesture. Sort of like, "I'm doing this for you buddy."
I don't have this episode so I can't comment but one thing I have noticed..With or without a ring..Selleck is always rubbing his ring finger with his thumb.
It’s totally a Tom Selleck gesture, I bet it’s subconscious, he even does it in the Jesse Stone movies.
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308GUY wrote:Question which has been touched on previously here: the two scenes where TM is looking out at Higgins (and Agatha for the first one) flying the planes, is supposed to be looking from the questhouse, yes? So that kind of helps establish the physical location of it, (the guesthouse), or at least what we are supposed to accept it to be, but where were these shots actually taken from?
The shots look like they were really taken from inside Pahonu, through a window on the ocean side. Of course they want us to think TM is looking at them from the guesthouse. TM looks like he was superimposed.
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I think there’s an argument to be made here that this shot was still created without violating the “they never shot inside the house” theory. To me it looks like he’s looking through this door (which looks like a window because of the tight shot):

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If that’s the case, doesn’t that door open up onto this space, which would make it then “outside” in the loggia?

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#77 Post by Pahonu »

The doors with white arrows pointing at them in the pics both open to the living room, on opposite sides. One pair faces the sea wall and the other the arched loggia. The seawall side of the living room has the window in the middle (shown) then another pair of doors. The courtyard side has another pair of doors, opening to the patio in the ell, but no middle window.

I would say they were definitely filming from inside the house. Selleck and the crew are inside but the shot is looking out.

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#78 Post by ENSHealy »

4.4 DISTANT RELATIVE
Famous guest stars: 1 Carol Channing
Hawaiian shirts: 1
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Tigers Cap: 1
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white logo on green
Shirtless: 2
OMG/Extraordinarys: 1
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings: 1
Negotiations:
Body Count:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking:
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 8
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/386845739

Potential magnumania usernames: Mother Mercy College for Girls

Apparently even running down stairs is too dangerous for the star:
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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#79 Post by davko »

Only 1 or 2 mentions of the scene where Magnum cries tears to Higgins in the study?! That scene was so touching. Do we see Thomas cry in any other episodes?

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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#80 Post by ENSHealy »

Memories Are Forever, when he sees the photo of Michelle developed.
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Re: Distant Relative (4.4)

#81 Post by litefoot »

On the MM webpage for this episode, the link for Carol Channing actually goes to Cameron Mitchell's IMDB page!

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