The Robin Masters Estate (Pahonu)

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Sam · #256 Post by **Sam** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 1:20 pm

This is the scene after MaGarrett pulls up to the side double doors...The courtyard and roof line don't match the estate.

#257 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:08 pm

Isn't that interesting! They tried to fool us into thinking they used Pahonu! I guess since they used Pahonu in the establishing shot, technically it qualifies as being used in the episode.

Hey Sam, if you get a chance, check "The Gunrunner" and "A Stranger in His Grave" sometime, too.

Sam · #258 Post by **Sam** » Tue Jan 12, 2010 2:14 pm

James,
The establishing shot came from "Sweet Terror"...

#259 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:03 am

Thanks Sam. Since it's actually seen in the episode, I'm going to leave it in, with a footnote.

Sam · #260 Post by **Sam** » Wed Jan 13, 2010 12:49 am

Sorry James...I don't have either of those episodes.

I know there is an episode where the estate was used for an establishing shot as a house on Maui but the house wasn't used.Let me think about it.I may be able to come up with the title.

#261 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:20 am

Someone has emailed me yet another instance where the Estate has been used a TV show. This time it's Vega$, with Selleck's old buddy Robert Urich. The episode is "Aloha, You're Dead" (a two-parter) from 1980. What's interesting is that this episode would have been filmed around the same time as the Magnum P.I. Pilot Movie. Gosh, it's been forever since I've seen a Vega$ episode!

Unfortunately, I have no way of verifying this, as only Season 1 of Vega$ has been released on DVD (and just a couple of months ago at that) and it appears to be ages since the show was in syndication (although I'm sure it's on somewhere, on some channel). But really, I have no reason to doubt the guy.

The IMDb episode description says the following about the episode:

Tanna is kidnapped by a cartel of illegal casino operators who recruit him to kill Philip Roth, whom they see as a threat when they learn that Roth plans to expand his casino empire into international markets. They do this by taking Tanna to their base in Hawaii and hypnotize him to try to get him to kill Roth.

I read that and immediately thought to myself, "Why do they want to kill the acclaimed novelist Phillip Roth? Does Phillip Roth have a casino empire? Why is Phillip Roth in a Vega$ episode??" Further investigation revealed that "Phillip Roth" is a recurring character on the show, played by Tony Curtis!

The episode has a couple of familiar MPI faces in it, including Branscombe Richmond and Manu Tupou! Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, and John Saxon are also in it. I would love to see this Vega$ episode!

Sam · #262 Post by **Sam** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:47 am

James...These last two photos look like they could be from the estate..

http://tvcowboys.net/pr/vegasa2.html

Also...Pernell died on Sunday at age 81...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731490/news#ni1469812

rubber chicken · #263 Post by **rubber chicken** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 2:43 pm

Wow, that certainly appears to be the estate. I've made a note of it and will try to get the dvd when it's available.

I got the Hawaii Five-O dvd with The Gunrunner episode, and the estate is indeed in that episode as well. I'll be posting screencaps. First I need to finally post the screencaps that I took months ago of the Hawaii Five-O William Shatner episode.

I'll be checking out Is This Any Way To Run A Paradise soon, and A Stranger in His Grave when season 10 is available.

Pahonu · #264 Post by **Pahonu** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 5:50 pm

I seem to recall the estate was also used in a 1980's TV movie called "Three on a Date". I only saw a short scene but I think it showed a car driving out of the front gate, but it was an aerial shot!

Steve · #265 Post by **Steve** » Wed Jan 27, 2010 9:04 pm

Too bad the Dowager Lady Anderson doesn't rent it out for productions now like she did in the 70's and 80's. It would sure expedite fixing up the property before one of us strikes it rich and takes it off her hands. By the way, I used to love Vegas and especially Phylis Davis......I never knew that it was created by Michael Mann until I just went to the IMBD site.........

#266 Post by **J.J. Walters** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:08 am

Sam wrote:James...These last two photos look like they could be from the estate..

http://tvcowboys.net/pr/vegasa2.html

Also...Pernell died on Sunday at age 81...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731490/news#ni1469812

Thanks Sam!

I hadn't heard that Pernell Roberts had died.

He was such a great actor. He had a commanding presence on the screen.

rubber chicken wrote:I got the Hawaii Five-O dvd with The Gunrunner episode, and the estate is indeed in that episode as well. I'll be posting screencaps. First I need to finally post the screencaps that I took months ago of the Hawaii Five-O William Shatner episode.

I'll be checking out Is This Any Way To Run A Paradise soon, and A Stranger in His Grave when season 10 is available.

Oh, awesome! Thanks my friend.

If you don't mind, when you do "The Gunrunner", get me a screen cap of Marian McCargo. Thanks.

Pahonu wrote:I seem to recall the estate was also used in a 1980's TV movie called "Three on a Date". I only saw a short scene but I think it showed a car driving out of the front gate, but it was an aerial shot!

Wow, another one! IMDb says it aired in '78.

In looking at the dates of all these episodes/movies, 1980 was apparently the "golden age" of the Anderson Estate! We have Hawaii Five-0's finale "Woe to Wo Fat", Vega$'s "Aloha, You're Dead", Charlie's Angels "Island Angels", and Magnum's Pilot Movie all being released in 1980 with scenes filmed at the estate. Vega$, Charlie's Angels and Magnum all aired within a month of each other!

The Jeffersons also filmed in Hawaii in 1980 ("The Jeffersons Go to Hawaii", a four parter). Now wouldn't THAT be something if they used the Estate!

Steve wrote:Too bad the Dowager Lady Anderson doesn't rent it out for productions now like she did in the 70's and 80's. It would sure expedite fixing up the property before one of us strikes it rich and takes it off her hands. By the way, I used to love Vegas and especially Phylis Davis......I never knew that it was created by Michael Mann until I just went to the IMBD site.........

I believe Mann only wrote the pilot and wasn't really involved with the show after that. Vega$ is most definitely an Aaron Spelling show!

And yes, who could forget Phyllis Davis!

rubber chicken · Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:47 pm

Here's the screenshots from the Hawaii Five-0 episode You Don't Have to Kill to Get Rich, But It Helps. It's season five's third episode, and aired on September 26th, 1972. This is the one where William Shatner climbs the side of the estate's main house.

I saw this episode and took the screenshots months ago now, so the details are a bit hazy, but I remember I quite enjoyed it. The estate is owned by a man named William Speer, the chairman of the board of Veritex, which appears to be a legitimate company, but is actually a highly organized blackmailing operation. Mr. Speer's operation intentionally catches a wealthy Texan tourist in a compromising situation. This man confides in Sam Tolliver (William Shatner), an old war buddy who is now a private investigator. Mr. Tolliver says he'll help and heads to Hawaii to take care of the situation, and himself as well. I'll leave it at that, but it was a very good episode imo. Quite a complex and interesting plot for a 50 minute show, and put together well.

The estate isn't heavily used in this episode however. It's first seen forty-one minutes into the show, and gets 3 minutes and 47 seconds of airtime.

Also seen in the episode is the pool area (2 & 3 in that link) and a few rooms of the Marriott Waikiki Beach Resort Kealohilani Tower, which was used in Magnum P.I.'s The Hotel Dick (6.5) and Who is Don Luis Higgins? (6.19).

I'll try to post screenshots from The Gunrunner soon.

A similar angle from Who is Don Luis Higgins? (6.19), fourteen years later:

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Danno's stuntman in a wig, after jumping down from the seawall:

Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:09 pm

Looking at those shots of the Estate back then makes me realize how much work (and $$) it would take to get it looking like that again.

So damn beautiful.

Steve · #269 Post by **Steve** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 2:15 pm

If I had to chose a great screen shot of the seawall, I think Magnum's shot in the opening sequence of the first episode wins over a shot of Steve McGarrett in a Bottany 500 suit or Dano's stunt double in a wig...........LOL!..Great work as always, RC!

Pahonu · #270 Post by **Pahonu** » Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:13 pm

I've seen that episode also. It was a pretty good one. I believe they also show the two rooms upstairs closest to the seawall, a bedroom and some kind of sitting room. These were shown in Cloth of Gold also, when Akamai was found dead and Kono later detects seawater on the pillowcase. By the way, the foliage is much less dense than even during Magnum. You can actually see the front of the one-story wing by the seawall. I'm excited to see The Gunrunner caps. I've not seen that one.