I saw the last half of this one tonight, and I was struck by how at the last scene in the cemetery, Magnum shoots Choi point-blank -- very similar to the later Ivan scene. So, in a way, TM was executing an "unarmed" man, though I'm sure Choi's martial arts skills would make his hands "lethal weapons."
On another note with respect to this scene, I believe that there is no way a skilled martial arts guy like Choi would let his attention be distracted away from TM, the potential enemy on the ground right in front of him, to look up at TC's chopper, and particularly not for the length of time his attention was distracted (about 3 full seconds). That looked really "set up" to me -- just to allow TM to get the .45.
And on this note also, TM was hit on his right hand with the flying star. So again, he had to use his left hand to fire the .45. Memories of bringing Ivan out of the limo with the gun in TM's left hand, but then he shoots Ivan with his right hand. Must be ambi-dextrous with hand guns!
As to the question here about the shirt: I have the one being sold currently as the Magnum shirt, along with some other pieces of clothing with the same fabric. Now that I look at it closely, it is NOT the same. It is DARNED close, but the one being sold these days does not have the same pattern of yellow/gold philodendron leaves on the shirt shown in these pictures (snapped of the show on TV tonight), and his gold/yellow leaves are more prevalent, while my shirt has more prevalent teal palm fronds, and HIS parrots seem to have white heads (with their wings extended) that my purple parrots are missing (NOT missing their heads, just that their heads aren't white) (and, I just noticed, on the back of his shirt, he seems to have some white antheriums that my shirt doesn't have):
My shirt:
As for the double-head turn, I think it's two different shots. The lighting looks different on each. Here they are side by side:
and a single one of the over-the-left-shoulder (the one not used in the intro -- and, boy, does he look drunk in this one -- I caught his eyes in a near-blink)
However, the more I study these in details, I could see how they MAY be mirror shots. The pattern on the shirt and most of the shadows look mirror. I don't know if a lighting change occurred when the film was flipped over, but, still, to me, his face looks "fuller" in the left shoulder shot, a little more double chin? Yet the same highlighting of lights on the SAME locks of hair on both sides? Near EXACT same head angle? Shoot, the more I study it, the more I go for the flipped film option. But the second shot was stopped in the middle of the eyebrow wiggle, so it looked different at the time. Sheesh, I don't know! But now looking at the shadows on the chin, I think not. Someone else vote here!
Also, on this one, the closing music is the "old" music, so this is one episode syndicated on TV that does not have the music changed (the intro does have the Mike Post music dubbed in).