J. "Digger" Doyle (1.17)

[mauimudpup]

Thanks. Ya its that line that just made me think that all his other properties likely have interesting folks. Makes me wonder if that could have made it as a spinoff.


And how did the bad guys decide to go to Hawaii instead of one of the other three possibilities. Maybe I just missed that.

[Steve]

Just caught this episode again on a local Chicago station. I know this is probably due to my middle-aged, overactive hormone and still infatuated with Erin Gray mind of mine, but I always found it interesting that Tom Selleck and Jackie Ray divorced shortly after this episode. I always pictured Jackie walking in on Tom and Erin "studying lines" together.........LOL!

Steve
Chicago

[lutherhgillis]

In response to the flub:

" After "Digger" cons her way into Higgins' study and pulls the gun on Magnum and Higgins, she uses the red telephone to call Robin Masters. After a brief conversation with Robin, she hands the phone to Higgins, who speaks to Robin for 7 seconds. From Higgins' 7 second conversation with Robin, Higgins launches into a 61 second, detailed dialogue about the attempt on Robin's life, StarGuard, J. Doyle, Robin's plan to pick-up all of his tapes from one of his estates, etc. During Higgins' dialogue, Magnum interrupts Higgins briefly, but then Higgins continues with his dialogue. The question is: How could Higgins have gotten 61 seconds of very detailed dialogue from a 7 second conversation with Robin? This scene requires you to abandon all logic. (Noted by IslandHopper)"

According to the later episodes where Magnum pieces together that Higgins is really Robin and the other guy is a hired actor "with a voice like Orson Welles and a body like Truman Capote", it explains how Higgins could get a 7 second call from "Robin" and then give 61 seconds of dialogue in order to explain. Higgins knew the whole story from the beginning.

It raises the question however, that wouldn't Higgins have also known that the tapes were hidden in plain view along with Jefferson Starship, Blondie, and Styx in Magnum's quarters?

The series as a whole required us to abandon all logic but isn't that what TV is all about?

Good day.

[IslandHopper]

[grundle]

[A P Leyland]

Watched this one last night with the kids. Really enjoyed it. Some excellent interplay between the characters (Rick & TC especially), and some very good characterisation (Magnum acknowledges that it would be childish to engage in a race with Digger - and does it anyway!), the magnificent rescue of Higgins scene and Magnum's brilliant way of shutting him up ("Mum's the word, lads"). Good use of all characters (including Robin!) and for a guest character I liked Digger and would have liked to have seen her again. Some lovely scenery as well (and I don't just mean Erin Gray!).

Andy

[JonnyDaytona]

[J.J. Walters]

At one time, the tennis court appears to have had a practice wall on one side...



I don't recall ever seeing this again, so they must have taken this down at some point.

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Higgins: It's not a scratch! It's a bloody gouge!

[golfmobile]

Going back to our discussions of the estate grounds and demographics of where the buildings were in the story and are in actuality, looking at Digger's sketch of the property (shown in the April 25, 2007, post here):



We know this makes no sense based on where everything really is, but it really makes no sense, even in the show, because, as based on this sketch, when one enters the property and drives in on the driveway, one would go past the guesthouse before getting to the main house!! That never occurred, of course. And this also defeats all those episodes where Magnum and others walked back through the walkway to the right (as you face it) of the main house to go to (or come from) the guesthouse, which one wouldn't have to do based on this sketch layout.

So based on that picture:



The gatehouse is shown MUCH farther from the road than (1) it really is and (2) than it was ever shown as being in the show. Now, the two buildings on the lower part of the sketch may be labeled incorrectly, but if one is the guesthouse where TM lived, what's the other? Was a boathouse ever seen? But still NEITHER would be accessed by walking out to the right and in back of the main house. And no building but the gatehouse is passed when driving up the driveway. If this were the case, there would be no reason for TM to ever drive up to the main house -- he'd just stop and park by the guesthouse.

I guess not a lot of thought -- or follow-up -- went into the use of the Eve Anderson estate and how it would play out over the years on MPI. But once the "powers that be" knew the show was renewed for its seven-year contract, then some consistency should have been thought of by SOMEONE!!

(I'm posting this in the Digger Doyle episode section because this is where the sketch was shown -- and the only time something like this was ever seen, isn't it? If James thinks it should be moved to the estate thread, that's fine with me.)

golf

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"Portside, buddy."

[rubber chicken]

golf - yeah, that drawing just plain doesn't work. It served it's purpose in that episode though. Even without seeing the estate today in google maps, I think viewers would have realized there's no way that could have been right. It's still a neat artists rendition though.


James - I didn't recall seeing the wall, but I looked around in a few episodes and found it still there.

Here's another picture from J. "Digger" Doyle which shows the right side of the wall.


I also found it in Beauty Knows No Pain ( 1.18 ) (15:37)


And Mixed Doubles (3.10)