A new-book store tends to have pretty much the same books in stock every day in the short run, because if they run out of a popular title, they reorder it. But a used-book store can't do that -- their inventory is never the same from one day to the next, so the employees don't necessarily know exact...

revruss wrote:I've been checking one local 1/2 Price Books quite a bit with no luck. Checked again today...

That's how it is with used-book stores -- they always have some amazing things, but you can never predict exactly *which* amazing things they'll have on any given day. Just keep on checking!

I thought the footage of the Attack on Pearl Harbor was very good. This looked very familiar to me. Was this footage used in the WWII movie, Tora! Tora! Tora!? I can't say which movie the footage is from, but it sure does look like it is from a movie, with the frames compressed horizontally in orde...

It's always seemed to me that big cities mentioned in tv shows are generally real (notable exceptions being Metropolis and Gotham City), but small towns are typically fictitious. Oddly enough, there really *is* a Hondo, Texas. It's a small town just west of San Antonio. (Is that in "Texas Hill Count...

One might think that Magnum -- who was already nearly certain that "Elmo" was actually Higgins -- would have been absolutely positive the whole thing was a hoax when he saw Agatha Chumley pretending to be Sylvia the front-desk clerk!

Thanks, R. C.! When we watched that episode a while back, I noticed that the views were quite similar to some photos I had taken (a few years pre- Magnum ) from another high-rise on Ala Wai Boulevard. I'm glad you posted the address --it's only a couple of blocks away. In your middle photo (below), ...

This is an unusual episode, in that Tanaka actually solves the crime, and Magnum has to play catch-up. Thinking back, I don't think Tanaka was fooled by the planted gun. He merely used it as an excuse to let Olivia out of jail -- giving her enough rope to hang herself, as they say. I'm guessing that...

Thanks for humoring my obsessive/compulsiveness!

At the end when she leaves the hospital her red nails look perfect. After fighting with the bad guys, climbing the rocks, collecting wood for the fire, grabing a hot fish right out of the fire, etc. Maybe they give manicures in the hospital. Maybe this should be a flub. She had her little sequined ...

A possible flub occurs in the beginning of the episode when Doc Ibold is asking Magnum questions and Magnum says his mother's name is "Martha." It is later revealed in "Going Home" (season 6) and later in "The Aunt Who Came To Dinner" (season 7) that his mother's name is Katherine. Magnum had compl...

An enjoyable episode, especially because of the new to-be-continued characters. One problem with this episode, from a dramatic point of view, is that there are no red herrings (unless you count Lt. Tanaka -- who would actually make a great villain, because who would suspect him?) The first time I sa...

She probably wrote in her spare time and just handed it to the producers, or maybe even Selleck. I would just love to hear the whole story! I see that you have identified the episode's author as "a Magnum hair stylist" on the episode page. Unless/until somebody can actually confirm that Caroline is...

We just watched this episode tonight on DVD. When they showed the Crouching Lion Inn, I said, "Hey, that's a real place!" I remembered driving by there in 1974 -- at least, I remembered driving by the "Crouching Lion" rock formation , and was pretty sure that the Inn was a real place too. So I went ...

Note also that Rick's reference to muscatel is a follow-up to the ringer's expressing a preference for muscatel during Magnum & what's-her-name's visit the previous day -- one of his handlers had said that they'd order some tomorrow -- so Magnum presumably figured that even if they hadn't really ord...

I wouldn't put too much faith in the subtitles. Just off the top of my head, they've had "hand glider" instead of "hang glider", "pau'ana" instead of "pau hana", "bro" instead of "brah" -- and when Saul (in "Never Again") asked the KKC bar tender for "two cents plain," they merely said he was "[spea...