... or Ivan the Russian ....

A little trivia about the color magenta: while most of us were taught as children that the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue, the actual primaries are really cyan, yellow, and magenta. You're right, there's apparently a good case to be made for cyan, magenta, and yellow (instead of blue, red...

You're right, everybody! This is an awe-inspiring site -- detailled episode guides, lengthy character biographies, articles on random topics, lists of everything -- and links! good heavens, the links! Most other sites of this complexity are selling something, but unless James is a silent partner in ...

Member #200 (who joined on March 12) is revruss . From a quick scan of the member list, it looks like revruss and the aforementioned member #100, jrusso67 , are the only two members who have the character string "russ" in their screen names. Cue the Twilight Zone music and roll out another Ferrari!

Magnum does indicate that he’s picking up a buddy from a military flight . He says something like he is picking up a buddy coming in on a “MACs” flight. MAC is an acronym for “ M ilitary A irlift C ommand.” Thanks, IH -- I couldn't remember that acronym. I see that James has already changed the Plo...

A flub I noticed during this episode was when Magnum and Ensign Healy were on the dock talking about Lt. Cook, Ens. Healy referred to a Japanese Zero. In referring to the Zero, he said "oh yeah, a 30 year old Japanese zero." Healy later explains that the Zero was shot down during the attack on Pear...

Back in the early 1980's almost no one had a VCR. You watched an episode one time and maybe you might see it one more time in reruns during the summer. This surely affected the mindset of the show's creators as well. .... The original Star Trek is filled with such flubs in continuity, and the actor...

Actually, most of the time when TC is acting like someone, he pulls the overacting bit. .... I kind of like it because it IS so over the top! TC's overacting (when he's pretending to be someone else) actually makes those scenes very believable. I mean, TC's supposed to be a helicopter pilot, not an...

The title of this episode refers to Jeannie's "lightning-fast" dealing of cards, but she didn't look fast to me. Have I been watching too many fancy dealers on tv?

I wonder if they had planned to get a stunt-dealer for the closeups, then changed their minds?

... the episode in Season Three is the syndicated version. HOWEVER, you can find the original episode and the Simon and Simon crossover on Season One. Thanks, Doc! When Hubby and I watched the Season One DVD's, we realized that "Kii's" was a Third-Season episode, so we waited and watched it on the ...

Oh, you're right, Hopper. Maybe my reaction that "Eighth Part of the Village" was the first time was because it was the first (?) time that his middle name was spoken . But "Memories Are Forever" obviously established that his middle name is Sullivan (or selected portions thereof) -- unless it was s...

It's very rewarding that he took Ivan out, but ... [w]hat did they do with the body? I've often wondered the same thing. Did they shoot the limo driver too? And, don't you think that the State Department would be more than a little peeved.... I was also surprised that Magnum used his own gun.... Hu...

I think it was "Way of the Stalking Horse" ... when my spouse pointed out that TM was batting left-handed. Maybe he's right-handed for everything but batting. Could well be. There are all sorts of reasons why a person might do a particular thing with "the other hand." My father was a natural leftie...

In one of the voice-overs near the beginning of this episode, Magnum refers to himself as "Thomas Sullivan Magnum." I said, "Hey, that's the first time the show has mentioned his middle name," and Hubby said, "No, I think T.C. called him 'Thomas Sullivan Magnum' a couple of episodes ago." Can anyone...

What if the goal of killing the japanese ambassador was to strain relations between the US and Japan? Either that, or the Soviets had some specific reason for wanting the Japanese prince out of the way (he was anti-Soviet, perhaps), and making it look like an American was responsible for his death ...