Magnum Mania!

All right Maniacs, here's your chance to champion your favourite episode that revolves around that WWII veteran we know and love: Jonathan Quayle Higgins III.

So which one is it and why?

In case you need a refresher, here are links to the episodes.

"Tropical Madness" (2.7)
"The Elmo Ziller Story" (2.21)
"Foiled Again" (3.8)
"Faith and Begorrah" (3.23)
"Letter to a Duchess" (4.6)
"The Case of the Red Faced Thespian" (4.12)
"Holmes Is Where the Heart Is" (4.18)
"Luther Gillis: File #001" (5.10)
"Professor Jonathan Higgins" (5.13)
"Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me?" (6.19)
"Autumn Warrior" (7.13)
"Pleasure Principle" (8.2)

My choice is The Case of the Red Faced Thespian. It probably ranks amongst my top 20 favorite episodes in general.

Pahonu wrote:My choice is The Case of the Red Faced Thespian. It probably ranks amongst my top 20 favorite episodes in general.

Agreed. That was my choice as well. Hillerman does such a great job in that one.

Styles Bitchley wrote:

Pahonu wrote:My choice is The Case of the Red Faced Thespian. It probably ranks amongst my top 20 favorite episodes in general.

Agreed. That was my choice as well. Hillerman does such a great job in that one.

Styles, I think we agree on more than a few episodes. If I'm not mistaken, I remember you saying you like the earlier, lighter episodes better, and that's true for me too. I also recall you liked Dead Man's Channel which isn't so popular here. I find the darker, more personal episodes difficult to sit through very often. They are, no doubt excellent, but I find that I can watch many of the first few season's lighter episodes repeatedly, and have probably grown to like them best for that reason.

"O cursed slave! - whip me, ye devils, from the possession of this heavenly sight! Blow me in deep winds! Roast me in sulphur! Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire! O Desdemona! Desdemona! DEAD?!"

Love, love, love "The Case of the Red Faced Thespian"! But I think I'd have to go with "Foiled Again" as my favorite. It's such a deeply personal episode for Higgins, filled with lots of memorable scenes and dialog exchanges. Throw in Troubshaw ("You're looking well... well-fed, that is"), Dana Wynter and a brief appearance by Don Muraco and you've got yourself a classic Magnum episode. "Tropical Madness" is right up there, too. But man, they're all good!

Pahonu wrote:Styles, I think we agree on more than a few episodes. If I'm not mistaken, I remember you saying you like the earlier, lighter episodes better, and that's true for me too. I also recall you liked Dead Man's Channel which isn't so popular here. I find the darker, more personal episodes difficult to sit through very often. They are, no doubt excellent, but I find that I can watch many of the first few season's lighter episodes repeatedly, and have probably grown to like them best for that reason.

Agreed!

And James, I also agree that they're all great. Foiled Again is probably second on my list.

I prematurely clicked!!!!

I write in Black on White (clicked Tropical Madness in error, d'oh!!) . . . would that fall into a "Higgins-centric" episode category?

ConchRepublican wrote:I prematurely clicked!!!!

I write in Black on White (clicked Tropical Madness in error, d'oh!!) . . . would that fall into a "Higgins-centric" episode category?

I guess it could. It certainly focusses on him, but maybe not as much as the others. Still, it's a great one!

My fav is "letter to a dutchess" mostly for personal reasons.

It's the first episode that I remember that I watched on TV, I like the plot and the developement of the Magnum-Higgins relationship. And I agree, that it's probably the least Higgins-centric Higgins episode

I voted "Letter to a Duchess", but if "Black on White" had been on the list I might have gone with that. Both are excellent episodes from the best seasons (3 & 4) of the show.

Another vote for Black on White if it was on the list...........

Dang, I really should have included "Black on White" as a Higgins-Centric episode in the episode guide. My bad. I think I'll do that right now...

J.J. Walters wrote:Dang, I really should have included "Black on White" as a Higgins-Centric episode in the episode guide. My bad. I think I'll do that right now...

The guide was what I used to compile the list. Black on White slipped my mind as well.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaugh! I am stuck! My family's favorite, far and away, is Holmes is Where the Heart Is---but I love Foiled Again. Oh, no! *insert prolonged waffling here*

This is a WONDERFUL poll, by the way, THANK YOU. As a CBHF*, I totally appreciate the effort you put into this.

~Amanda

*Clearly Biased Higgins Fan