Episode Guide Index

4.1     061   09/29/83       Home From the Sea
                              Des Meeres und der Tiefe Wellen
W: Donald P. Bellisario
D: Harvey Laidman

  Magnum survives in the sea by remembering his swim-practice with his dad.

***
    The Rolex GMT Master replaces Magnum's plain military watch.  Robert Pine
    (_Chips_) guest stars as Thomas S. Magnum III, Magnum's father.

4.2     062   10/06/83       Luther Gillis: File #521
                              Der letzte der echten Schnüffler
W: Reuben Leder
D: Reuben Leder

  Magnum is searching for Nancy Perkins when he meets Private
  Investigator Luther Gillis who has his own methods of work...

***
    Luther fires more than six shots from his revolver without reloading.
    Tanaka's nephew Bif is mistakenly referred to as his grandson.  Eugene
    Roche begins his role as Luther Gillis.  He returns in many future ep's.

4.3     063   10/13/83       Smaller Than Life
                              Klein, aber oho
W: J. Rickley Dumm
D: Alan J. Levi

  Rick has got problems with a friend from the past.

***
    Higgins quotes the Smithsonian Institution which later displayed items
    from the Magnum, P.I. series in its Museum of American History in Washington.

4.4     064   10/20/83       Distant Relative
                              Die kleine Schwester
W: Nick Thiel
D: Virgil Vogel

  Magnum chaperones Rick's little sister one night around Honolulu.  But the
  worst happens.

***
    Thomas and Rick come to blows for the second time.  Kathleen Lloyd takes
    over the role of Carol Baldwin.  Carol Channing (_Thoroughly Modern
    Millie_) makes a cameo appearance.

4.5     065   11/03/83       Limited Engagement
                              Der letzte Auftritt
W: Richard Yalem, Jay Huguely
D: Harvey Laidman

  Magnum investigates a series of robberies in a grocery store chain,
  posing as a store clerk.

***
    This is popularly known as the "pickled egg" ep.

4.6     066   11/10/83       Letter to a Duchess
                              Das Geheimnis der Herzogin
W: Robert Hamilton
D: Bernard Kowalski

  Lady Wilkerson, widow of the late Duke of Whitt, comes to Hawaii.
  Higgins is taken with her.  But she is attracted to Magnum.  She is
  kidnapped and Thomas and Higgins set out to rescue her.

***
    Somehow the surf ski is back, even though it was lost in "Home From The Sea".

4.7     067   11/17/83       Squeeze Play
                              Foulspiel
W: Reuben Leder
D: Harry Falk

  Robin Masters loses his signed Picasso, expensive old wine and other
  things in a poker game to a card shark. Then he bets the estate,
  his Hawaiian house, on a victory by his softball team.
  Magnum searches for Jerome Kappelwitz, the ex-husband of one of his
  team mates. Jerome is a former professional baseball player.

***
    This is the one and only time Thomas wears an "away" Tigers cap.  When
    the Tigers play at home their caps have a white "D".  When they play on
    the road their caps have an orange "D".  Also at one point he wears a
    baseball cap from the University of Southern California, where Selleck
    played junior varsity baseball in college.

4.8     068   12/01/83       A Sense of Debt
                              Der Catcher
W: Jay Huguely
D: Ivan Dixon

  Magnum flies to Detroit to look for someone who debts money to T.C., and of
  course to watch the Detroit Tigers. Meanwhile, Magnum lent the Ferrari to
  T.C. who collides with a man who is a boxer. T.C. has got to fight the last
  two fights for him because the man would lose all his money if his
  contract isn't completed.

***
    This is the first episode in which the Makai Pier is used as T. C.'s
    helipad.  Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammel, members of the Detroit Tigers,
    guest star as does Shannon Doherty (_Heathers_, _Beverly Hills 90210_).

4.9     069   12/08/83       The Look
                              Die Stimme
W: Louis F. Vipperman
D: Harry Falk

  Magnum hears Holly Hudson alias Holly Fox on local radio station KTDE.
  He remembers her voice from Radio Vietnam. She is terrified by a perverted
  caller.

***
    This episode contains the first reference to the Tidewater area of
    Virginia as being the place where Thomas grew up.  A prop error exists
    when the birthday sign for Higgins on T. C.'s chopper comes and goes from
    one scene to the next near the end.

4.10    070   12/15/83       Operation: Silent Night
                              Stille Nacht
W: Chris Abbott-Fish, Reuben Leder
D: Michael Vejar

  Magnum, Higgins, T.C. and Rick are stranded on an island because the
  helicopter broke. It seems that they have to celebrate Christmas there.
  A rough Navy officer wants to use that island as a shelling target
  that night...

***
    This ep. contains the first reference to New Orleans as T. C.'s home town.

4.11    071   01/05/84       Jororo Farewell
                              Anschlag auf den Prinzen
W: Reuben Leder
D: Reuben Leder

  The Prince of the Jororo Islands comes with his Baseball team to Hawaii.
  He lives in Robin Masters' house until the game between his team and the
  team coached by T.C.. But the prince often tries to run away, so his
  security chief is under pressure.

***
    Tigers hero Al Kaline is Magnum's role model.  He has an outfielder's
    glove signed by Kaline in this ep., a signed bat ("I Witness", "Paper War"),
    and a copy of Kaline's rookie baseball card ("Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts").

4.12    072   01/19/84       The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian
                              Masken, Mörder und Moneten
W: Robert Hamilton
D: Ivan Dixon

  On Masters' estate, a party takes place where the guests have to come
  dressed like famous people from the 1920's. It is a charity party for
  an institution for hard to educate boys. Higgins is "out of order" because
  he is injured by a croquet ball that struck him on the head.

***
    This ep. contains rare references to Higgins' beginning at Robin's Nest
    twelve years before.

4.13    073   01/26/84       No More Mr. Nice Guy
                              Hereingelegt
W: Nick Thiel
D: Michael Vejar

  Magnum has to cancel his trip for a reunion at the Naval Academy because
  Carol needs his help solving a case.

***
    There is quite a bit of discussion of the fictional beer Old Dusseldorf
    in this ep.  The Army/Navy game is mistakenly said to be taking place in
    Pasadena, CA on Thomas' television.  Riding to the airport in T. C.'s van,
    they use stock footage of the van traveling along the coast.  The only
    problem is, in the footage they use the van is going in the opposite
    direction from Honolulu International!

4.14    074   02/02/84       Rembrandt's Girl
                              Rembrandts Tochter
W: Chris Abbott-Fish
D: James Frawley

  A woman from Masters' bank wants Magnum to observe her father Herbie
  "Rembrandt" Norton, who made her expensive gifts althogh he just came
  out of prison weeks ago. By accident, the woman locks herself and Magnum
  in the bank vault.

***
    Actress/Comedian Carol Burnett (_Annie_) begins a role that she continues
    in "A Girl Named Sue".  Jillie Mack (_Hooperman_) appears here and again in
    "Professor Jonathan Higgins".  She and Selleck were married a few years
    later.

4.15    075   02/09/84       Paradise Blues
                              Flucht vor dem Tod
W: Chris Abbott-Fish
D: Bernard L. Kowalski

  Alexis Carter, a singer and old wartime friend of T.C.'s, comes to Hawaii
  to find a guy who debts $18,000 to her (David Mitchell).

***
    By this time in the series a new Ferrari 308 Quattrovalvole has replaced
    the 1979 308 GTS that was purchased in New Jersey and driven across the
    US as a promotion then shipped to Oahu for the premiere of the series.
    Manetti reportedly bought the GTS for himself when it was replaced by
    the Quattrovalvole.  The scene near the end of a sedan going off a cliff
    and crashing in flames is used again as stock footage in "Limbo".
    Trumpeter Chuck Mangione guest stars.

4.16    076   02/16/84       The Return of Luther Gillis
                              Die Rückkehr von Luther Gillis
W: Reuben Leder
D: John L. Moxey

  P.I. Gillis and his secretary Blanche are visiting Hawaii to receive an
  award, but instead, he and Magnum have to search for kidnappers who
  kidnapped Higgins and Blanche.

***
    Geoffrey Lewis (_The Shadow Riders_) appears again in
    "I Never Wanted To Go To France, Anyway".

4.17    077   02/23/84       Let the Punishment Fit the Crime
                              Der Mordplan
W: Robert Hamilton
D: Bernard L. Kowalski

  Higgins prepares the performing of selections from _The Mikado_, while
  Magnum searches for the brother of Sally DeForest. She fears that the sect
  her brother is a member of kills people who try to resign from it.

***
    The title is a quote from one of the songs in The Mikado.

4.18    078   03/08/84       Holmes Is Where the Heart is
                              {no German title available to me, yet}
W: Judy Burns, Chris Abbott-Fish, Jay Huguely
D: John Llewellyn Moxey

  A former British secret agent and old friend of Higgins' arrives on
  Oahu imagining himself as Sherlock Holmes.

***
    Patrick MacNee (_The Avengers_) guest stars.  Hillerman has a chance to
    practice playing Dr. Watson, the role he takes on in the 1990 TV movie
    _Hands Of A Murderer_.

4.19    079   03/15/84       On Face Value
                              Der Unfall
W: Nick Thiel
D: Harvey Laidman

  Magnum is involved in a car-chase where a young woman gets heavily injured.

***
    Thomas says that the estate's tidal pool was originally built as a place
    to raise sea turtles.  This is true in reality as well.  The Eve Anderson
    estate which is used as Robin's Nest is called Pahonu which means turtle
    in Hawaiian.  It was at one time a turtle farm.

4.20    080   03/29/84       Dream A Little Dream
                              Traumfrau
W: Reuben Leder
D: Roger E. Mosley

  Magnum helps the woman who was his first client as a private investigator
  after he resigned from the Navy.  Working for her in the present causes
  him to continuously remember the past and events seem to be following the
  same pattern.

***
    A rare look at Thomas' life in Honolulu prior to Robin's Nest, this ep.
    is directed by Roger E. Mosley.  Editing error:  T. C. wears different
    headsets in different scenes while in the chopper.

4.21    081   05/03/84       I Witness
                              Rashumon, die Fortsetzung
W: Reuben Leder, Chris Abbott-Fish
D: John L. Moxey

  Magnum wants to watch a great Detroit Tigers game, when
  a news bullettin reports of an armed robbery at the K. K. C.
  Higgins, T.C. and Rick are eye witnesses. Magnum asks them about what's
  happened. Everyone tells his own story where he is the hero...

***
    This is Kioki's last episode.



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