I'm sure you're right that "Magnum" was picked for the character's last name because of its associations with powerful ammunition rounds. Watching the show as a little kid I had a cap gun that looked like an M1911 and had "Magnum .45" on the side, and it took a few years before I learned that an M19...

Remember the early premise of the show, that Magnum went off to war and never got to be a carefree guy in his 20s so he was doing that in his 30s. But that couldn't last forever. His beach bum lifestyle and the light hearted nature were part if the charm of the first four years, but as magnum approa...

Actually did go out paddling in my sit on top kayak on the fourth, as I do every year, and alway give a little nod to TM when I'm out there on that day.

Doc Ibold wrote:No idea what the connection is, but Faizon Love to Jeff MacKay?

Faizon Love was in "Elf" with Ed Asner, who was in "The Closer" with Tom Selleck, who was in "Magnum, pi" with Jeff Mackay

I like to think that I am a Magnum, but the truth is, height and weight at least, I am pretty much exactly the size of Rick. I don't think that will be a very cool or recognizable costume, so I am thinking of going either as Indiana Jones since I have an old bomber jacket and a fedora (and hey, if I...

As a younger Gen Xer, I knew her best as the voice of Bart Simpson's sarcastic and cynical teacher, Edna Krabappal, on the Simpson.

Thank heaven for little girls and big ones too : funny and serious episode to introduce anybody in the Magnum's world Funny, back in ~1998-1999, right after I graduated from college, I started thinking about Magnum again, and I got the idea to see if any Magnum PI episodes were available on VHS. Th...

Hi Reefmonkey, I did not know that. I liked him as the new Capt. Kirk in both the reboot movies. Looking forward to seeing him as Jack Ryan. Check out the resemblance side by side, especially when Robert Pine was younger, and they both have somewhat similar facial expressions. http://farm3.staticfl...

Interesting piece of trivia concerning this episide, Robert Pine who played Magnum's dad attended Ohio Wesleyan University. Tom Selleck's real life dad attended the same University. I like this episode because we get a look at a significent event in Magnum's childhood. Important in the overall deve...

it stuck in my head more than any other episode I saw. It is the only episode I REALLY remember watching, that I can remember thinking about it as I watched it That's because it deals with drowning, or the ugly fate that you are close to drowning and are powerless to do anything about it. The more ...

I know that it usually gets some high rankings. I usually skip it - not sure if it's because it's kind of claustrophobic or boring for me. Anyone else agrees and has an explanation? Funny, when I saw it as a little kid, I though it was kind of "boring", or at least it didn't have the elements I wan...

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I vote no, too much evidence, especially early on, for them being two different people. Though the idea of Robin being a guy Higgins partnered with while Higgins does all the writing is compelling, the J. Digger Doyle Episode, with Robin driving around in the Rolls Royce in the South of France, and ...

I don't know if it's just me but it look like he has a lazy eye. what do you think? I don't see it, and I am pretty attuned to people's eye alignment problems and notice them when others don't, being born with Duane Syndrome myself (though fortunately my "set point" is both eyes straight forward, I...

You know Sisophous , the MPI box set is coming out in October. You could get all eight seasons of Magnum for $150 and never have to worry about watching "streaming Magnum" again. ;) Do you know the difference between this box set for all 8 seasons and the seasons sold individually? Is the quality a...