Magnum Mania!

A Magnum fan (who wishes to remain anonymous) recently sent me a bunch of scanned (PDF) Magnum-related articles, all from 1980-1988. The sources are magazines (Variety, TV Guide, People) and newspapers (mostly NY-based - NY Daily News, NY Post). Very interesting reads. 25 articles are available, but more will be added later.

http://magnum-mania.com/Articles/Print_Media.html

Be sure to check out the following articles:

"He's Hawaii's Magnum Force, But Selleck Is Far From Pacific" - People
"What could possibly be bothering Tom Selleck?" - TV Guide

- Tom's background, MPI filming, High Road to China, Divorce Wars: A Love Story, Tom's parents, family pictures.

"Higgins - not Hamlet - will be fine, thank you" - TV Guide

- Great info on Hillerman.

"One foot in the ghetto, one in his Rolls Royce" - TV Guide

- w/ Mosley driving around Watts in a Rolls!

"Camera Adventures with Magnum P.I." - American Cinematographer

- D.P. John C. Flinn III and a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the filming of MPI.

Good stuff James.FYI...Number 13..copter pilot is a broken link.

This is great! More Magnum to read!

James,

I couldn't open Article 11 about Manetti.

Same here...also numbers 18,20 and 21

Thanks for this great archive!

These are great! Thanks for posting them.
It's interesting to read the very first one, written prior to MPI's premiere. There are a couple of "flubs". The first refers to "Robert" Masters. Second, in mentioning the team ring, the writer states it has a "T" on it (not the Cross of Lorraine).
Regardless, these are great. Some of the links don't work though.

Ahh, sorry about the broken links. I've corrected them.

This should be interesting, a trip in the wayback machine. Thank you to whomever sent them in!

They work now. Thanks again for providing these links for us!

Great reading, definitely brings back memories as I remember reading a couple of those articles when they came out. I found it fascinating that Bellisario was going to pull the production away from Hawaii if a lease agreement couldn't be reached with The State and Diamondhead Studios. What a different show it would have been if it had been shot in Hollywood and only exterior second unit shots done in Hawaii.........

I agree Steve. I thik the dynamic would have been entirely different. Thank goodness they reached the settlement and filmed in the islands as planned.

Suh weet!

These are great! I've only read 2 articles and am anxious to get to the rest . Thanks for posting them.

Does anyone know which episode is the two hour Western salute episode that brings back memories of Gunsmoke referred to in the American Cinematographer?