This show was great. Well written, great locations, pretty ladies, Navy Seal Vietnam veteran, Ferrari, and a .45. Just what a ten year old boy needs to see to get a proper perspective on life.
Meanwhile the politics and economics erasing all that in reality ... "thank you for your service" contributing to USA being the biggest parasite in the world ... yeah great service ... Basically I loved Magnum because it's 100% fiction and I treat it as such too even as a kid I had enough common sense and basic logic to know better. Fast forward to today I see many adults in USA behave like spoiled 4 year olds ... and their children are even worse ...
If I recall correctly, it's been 35 years, since Mr. Selleck decided to end Magnum at season 7, but CBS didn't have a show to replace it. Even with its poor ratings, CBS needed to renew Magnum for one more season; all they had to do was meet Mr. Selleck's demands. met Mr. Selleck's demands for an eighth and definitely final season. Mr. Selleck's main request for the 8th season was extreme fiscal compensation for the cast and crew. I.e., anybody who worked on Magnum didn't have to worry about money after season 8. And then there is Jillie Mack. She appeared in three episodes of Magnum. During her private time, she was and still is Mrs. Tom Selleck.
Fun side nuggets - the original Magnum show had some ties to the "Air Wolf" TV show development. The later Magnum show was part of the Lenkov-verse in which it had ties to "NCIS", "JAG", "McGuyer", "Five-O", and even some reunions for actors from the TV show "Lost". At least that's what the wiki for Air Wolf and the Lenkov-verse says. Apologies if this was already covered and thanks for the fun show Minty!
Several military members were background extras on Magnum PI and Tour of Duty. Both were filmed on Oahu. I made $50 a day on Tour of Duty. My former Company Commander, Captain Bruce Barnes USMC, was featured more on Magnum PI on one of the last episodes. Magnum is hiding and about to snipe a Vietnamese prisoner being exchanged for an American POW from the Vietnam War. Captain Barnes, now retired Colonel, is seen rolling up in a jeep and scanning the area. Season 8, Episode 8: Unfinished Business (1988). Last I heard, Colonel Barnes worked at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.
A Point of interest both Roger E Mosley & Larry Manetti have both appeared in the New Magnum P.I , Roger played John Booky , a friend of TC`s (2 episodes) & Larry Played Nicky "The Kid" DeMarco , an Ex Mob Boss (3 episodes) he also played the same part in the new Hawaii 5-0 (6 episodes) ... ps After Magnum in 2007 Tom Selleck took the lead role in the TV series Las Vegas as A,J Cooper taking over from James Caan`s Ed Deline , in one episode we meet Two old poker playing friends of A,J`s called Larry & Roger who of course are played by Mosley & Manetti ..
Hope "Minty" gets around to covering The Rockford Files (Selleck appeared in 2 episodes), Miami Vice, and, of course, Columbo - at least the so-called CLASSIC version (1971~1978; NBC).
Love the pick minty, I got the same DVD box Set a few years ago and I had to buy it for my dad as he always talked about the show. We watched the whole show and it was always magnum night for us after work and hey you gotta love the show for Tom Selleck acting and humour
To be truly honest I have only seen a few episodes of the show and I think I only ever watched reruns on cable tv at a hotel several years ago but the theme song was definitely one of the things that stuck around in my mind. This is not a show that I grew up with and it isn’t an important piece of my childhood but the main reason I came here was because I love your channel’s content and your reviews. I would certainly like to look up Magnum Pi in the future but I mainly clicked on this video to support Minty. Great job and thanks for sharing your knowledge and secrets about Magnum Pi and I look forward to hearing more from you real soon.
Sellecks' approach to the Magnum character was genius. I've rewatched the series three or four times and know the dialogue by heart but I watch it again if the opportunity presented itself.
Hey Mint, as a hard core 80s TV guy, I watched this with great interest. I would never pass on Magnum or MacGyver. So when they decided to remake these I was somewhat skeptical and with good reason the new MacGyver was destroyed, but Magnum was a surprise Jay Hernandez created his own version of Magnum and Higgins as a British woman did take some getting used to, but she grew on me. Over the 5-year run, it had its ups and downs, but I watched it till the end. The show also brought back a few of the original actors, such as Roger E. Mosley as a barber and Larry Manetti as Nicky 'The Kid' DeMarco. I'm sorry they cancelled this one.
The theme song is a 10 out of 10. I perpetually watch the show, it's my happy place. And when Magnum died and they played John Denver's Looking for Space I balled. I met a guy who was restoring his Ferrari 308 and he let me drive it. That was a bucket list item I never thought I'd get. I love Magnum, Higgy Baby, Rick and TC.
Well- it was a goofy little show, but me being a Tom Selleck fan, what great acting. From the first episode to his first big screen debut; "Quigley Down Under" I have the full Mangum P.I. series on DVD- watch it a couple times a year and have most of his movies- except for "3 Men and a Baby". Sharron Stone, Frank Sinatra, Robert Loggia, Carol Burnett, just an amazing cast. But now I am hooked on the TV adapted book series, "Stone Cold" Forget the re-boot of Magnum P.I., watch the Stone Cold series and you will see glimpses of the Tom Magnum character all grown up, less whiny, and total bad-assery! Good stuff!
When the show first ran my family and I didn't really watch it much. Later I was staying with my father when it ran in syndication and he got hooked on watching every night, that's when I became a fan.
A very entertaining summary of a classic show, Minty. Wearing my Detroit Tigers cap as I type this! Although it is understandable that we might assume now that 1970s films and shows concerning Vietnam veterans such as The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, and First Blood - as well as allusions in the form of M.A.S.H. - were somehow stereotyping Vietnam veterans, at the time the situation was not as clear-cut. These films were highlighting the issue of PTSD that was at that time poorly-understood, officially downplayed, and horribly under-resourced during the conflict and the first few years afterwards. The condition of PTSD was not officially recognised until 1980; and that was largely due to the heightened awareness that popular media brought to the campaigns of veterans themselves - which had been sidelined and denigrated as unpatriotic and an offshoot of the '60s counter-culture by certain political factions of the time. It is also the case that it became an effective political tool at the time to try to garner support from former veterans by lauding their patriotism to turn against critics of the war... and counter-intuitively to laud their stability against those who wanted support for those veterans to be increased. In summary, to turn their dislike against the depictions of their own suffering rather than against the authorities failing to provide the mental and financial support they needed. When the US agency Veterans Affairs conducted their first study in 1983, they discovered that among Vietnam veterans, approximately 15% of men and 9% of women were found to currently have PTSD. Approximately 30% of men and 27% of women had PTSD at some point in their life following Vietnam, and many of these were experiencing PTSD as a chronic condition a decade after the end of their service. When reexamined in 2013, for some 40 years after service, 7% of female and 11% of male veterans who had served in combat zones still exhibited PTSD, of which 37% had depression related to it. Although I like to think that Magnum PI and the A-Team were well-meaning in their efforts to show veterans in a positive light, and a majority of veterans of that conflict had reintegrated positively into their lives, it would be a disservice to some of the other depictions of life after Vietnam to suggest that they were in some way intended to stereotype veterans - rather than to highlight the desperate need for recognition and support for some 700,000 who still need it to this day.
CBS had a thing there for a while with rebooting shows, you mentioned MacGuyer and Magnum PI, but there was also Hawaii Five-0 and I feel like there were more
Magnum, P.I. wasn't a Glen A. Larson show. It was a Donald P. Bellasario show (creator of Quantum Leap, JAG, NCIS, and Tales of the Gold Monkey). Magnum was originally cancelled with season 7 but it was saved by one season by a fan campaign and CBS' desperation to fill the time slot. There was a lot of picketing at CBS headquarters to bring back Magnum by fans. In fact, season 7's ending pretty much ended the show for good and they had to get creative to undo it with the season 8 opener.
I used to love this show. I'm now realized that, though I watched the next-to-last episode with its cliff-hanger ending, I never saw the final episode and, to this day, don't know how the show ended. I guess it's time to get that box set.
This was my favorite show when I was a kid, but I could only watch it as a rerun, with an unpredictable schedule. Until the DVD box set came out. Interesting fact about John Hillerman, who played Higgins. He wasn't British at all, he was from Texas. Born and died there. I was shocked when I learned this.
They did another crossover on this with the cartoon series Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers. Seems like Dale always reminded me of Magnum PI with his Hawaiian shirts he wore. Plus Chip looked like Indiana Jones in the outfit he wore.
Because my mom was a massive "Murder, She Wrote" fan, that was the only way I got to watch a Magnum PI episode. She decided to watch that crossover after watching the Murder She Wrote crossover. That aside, I should go back and watch the series sometime.
The shared universe of Magnum extends beyond Jessica Fletcher and Simon & Simon, I think Rockford was originally planned to guest star too, but it didn't happen on screen. Also, in one episode of Riptide Im pretty sure I remember one of the characters mentioning Rockford and/or Mannix(?) although its been a long while since I watched that one.
I was a teenager in the 1980s and loved the original Magnum P.I. However, I just recently started watching the revival Magnum P.I. and I’m enjoying it. In my opinion, It’s neither better nor worse than the original.
@MINTY There's one you missed. There was talk of Edward Woodward's series "The Equalizer" having a cross over with Magnum Pi. But, they decided against it due to the clash of series tones? But, if you think about it they both arre very similar. Except one is more light hearted while the other has a darker side to it. As for Quantum Leap? There's a episode in the original series callled "Another Mother" where the daughter in that episode is a fan of Magnum Pi and when she says she's going to miss it Sam says she doesn't have to worry it has another 8 seasons? Thank you for this and the "Rocky 2" episode. Carl Wethers RIP. Dean Stockwell RIP David
Minty, as you are checking out classic T.V series, you should do one for Miami Vice, which just so happens to have an awesome theme song to boot. I can only dimly remember this series, but i remember it being cool to my younger self.
#11 - The Ferrari was actually that of Robin Masters, whose property and estate were managed by Higgin's during his absence. #12 - Higgins would actually be revealed as Robin Masters in the final episode, though this wasn't planned at the beginning of the series. Orson Welles was originally meant to play Robin Masters but he died before he could do so.
They need to have a cross over with Magnum and Bluebloods! Have the Commishner complaning about his cousin living in some else's mansion and saying what a big success he is. Driving around in a fancy car, flying around in a helicopter.
I loved this show as a kid. FYI some of those "guest stars" weren't actually stars yet when they were on the show, like Sharon Stone and Ted Danson. But I do remember the Frank Sinatra episode.
I happen to go to Oahu last summer for a drum facilitator training retreat with a somewhat international community. It was kind of funny how my flight from the Pacific Northwest was just as long as the person who came from Australia, and we had the shortest flights of the group.
I can never see Tom Selleck without thinking of "Quigley Down Under". He was as cool as he was in Magnum PI but showed his extreme ruggedness. MPI is good but he had an easy life compared to Quigley's.
The Chinese typewriter was a pilot made at about the same time , as the Magnum pilot .it is striking how many elements are extremely similar Selleck plays a PI in Hawaii, who coaches little league wears a base ball hat, drives a red car and has a partner, James Witmore Jr. who appeared in a season one episode of magnum .many locations are the same .
I've watched the new Magnum and it's not bad. A bit too much "I'll just hack into this and that to get what we need" for my liking though. You mentioned the veterans in the old show and there is more of an emphasis on helping veterans in this version, which is nice. They are also big with "the feels" amongst the main group.
And if my memory serves me right, another guest star on the show was the late great British entertainer & quiz show host Bruce Forsyth. Who portrayed as a quiz show host!!😁 Junior from London 🇬🇧🇬🇧
John Hillerman was a fantastic character actor. Yes he was from Texas. The accent he used was called Mid Atlantic. Somewhere between America and Britain.
The MacGyver remake was great. You have to go into with the mindset of "if MacGyver was made during modern times" without looking for too many similarities with the original. They are two separate shows, basically. If you can do that, you will love it.
I watched some of that show back when it aired, and again I was a kid then, and a majority of it went over my head then, a;d I eventually watched the reruns of Magnum P.I., and I watched them as an adult, so it didn’t go over my head at that point, and I watched some of those episodes on that Teevee thing not that long ago too💁🏻♂.
I’m surprised that you didn’t include the helicopter crash that took the life of a cameraman. Astute viewers noticed that the helicopter changed slightly as a newer model was used after the crash. On another note, I saw Tom Selleck nearly crash one of the two Ferraris used in shooting. I got to see a scene filmed at Honolulu International Airport where he drives up to confront the villain.
In the episode titled A.A.P.I., a small appearance by none other than the late Stephen J. Cannell, AKA: The man in a typewriter. Cannell made many of his shows like The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hardcastle and McCormick, Riptide, Hunter, 21 Jumpstreet, Wiseguy, The Commish, Silk Stalkings and Renegade. He’s the one in the closing logo sequence for his studio where he took the paper out of his typewriter and fade to an animated paper where it land into a stack of papers to form a C at the end of each every his shows.
I loved the show, but it was at the same timeslot as some of my other favorite shows in the 80s- Automan, Mork&Mindy, Greatest American Hero, Starman, Max headroom. Thursday night, ABC showed cool scifi/fantasy shows. When Magnum PI moved to Wednesday, it was against Macgyver. So the timeslots didn't help... and the story got tired. and it never made any sense that Magnum seemed to never have any moiney? but "Robin" let him stay in the mansion, and use all his cars and stuff? I know in the end, they sorta said it was higgins... but that seemed just dumb
Dont throw your Magnum PI disc collection at them! That may be what they're there for! Ive wanted that car ever since then!!!!! I still do! And yes I know how wimpy it is..i still want it! :) That theme is one of the many great 80s themes...think of Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Rockford Files and other great themes and it goes with them.
I'm looking back on the show now. I found or wish to believe that Magnum P.I & The A-Team were both in the same shared universe. Connection being time Magnum, Rick, T.C spent in Da Nang. This also happens to be written on the back of Murdock jacket as he was a chopper pilot in Da Nang. which puts him directly in the same timeline as T.C. 🤯
About the reboot, I loved it! And to find out it got canceled for those reasons?!?!? Wow. With garbage being put ou today and that's why 1 of my recent favorite shows gets canceled 🤦♂️. And I also loved the Hawaii Five O reboot. Having watched the originals with my dad back then, it was awesome to see the differences in themes, style and action.
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Oh wow I think I'm having some very 80's deja vu
This show was great. Well written, great locations, pretty ladies, Navy Seal Vietnam veteran, Ferrari, and a .45. Just what a ten year old boy needs to see to get a proper perspective on life.
All around the world🥳 crazy 80s😂
Meanwhile the politics and economics erasing all that in reality ...
"thank you for your service" contributing to USA being the biggest parasite in the world ... yeah great service ...
Basically I loved Magnum because it's 100% fiction and I treat it as such too even as a kid I had enough common sense and basic logic to know better. Fast forward to today I see many adults in USA behave like spoiled 4 year olds ... and their children are even worse ...
We grew up on Oahu and saw both Magnum, PI and Hawaii five O in production on location as children it was amazing! great work Minty!!
If I recall correctly, it's been 35 years, since Mr. Selleck decided to end Magnum at season 7, but CBS didn't have a show to replace it. Even with its poor ratings, CBS needed to renew Magnum for one more season; all they had to do was meet Mr. Selleck's demands. met Mr. Selleck's demands for an eighth and definitely final season. Mr. Selleck's main request for the 8th season was extreme fiscal compensation for the cast and crew. I.e., anybody who worked on Magnum didn't have to worry about money after season 8.
And then there is Jillie Mack. She appeared in three episodes of Magnum. During her private time, she was and still is Mrs. Tom Selleck.
Fun side nuggets - the original Magnum show had some ties to the "Air Wolf" TV show development. The later Magnum show was part of the Lenkov-verse in which it had ties to "NCIS", "JAG", "McGuyer", "Five-O", and even some reunions for actors from the TV show "Lost". At least that's what the wiki for Air Wolf and the Lenkov-verse says. Apologies if this was already covered and thanks for the fun show Minty!
Magnum P.I. was so awesome, its '10 Things' had to be uploaded twice ...
Magnum was my favorite show as a little kid, and probably one of the reasons I ended up joining the Marines.
Okay, let's do this again, Minty. Still a good one.
He fixed the “Angelica Lansbury” line.
Several military members were background extras on Magnum PI and Tour of Duty. Both were filmed on Oahu.
I made $50 a day on Tour of Duty.
My former Company Commander, Captain Bruce Barnes USMC, was featured more on Magnum PI on one of the last episodes.
Magnum is hiding and about to snipe a Vietnamese prisoner being exchanged for an American POW from the Vietnam War.
Captain Barnes, now retired Colonel, is seen rolling up in a jeep and scanning the area. Season 8, Episode 8: Unfinished Business (1988).
Last I heard, Colonel Barnes worked at the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho.
A Point of interest both Roger E Mosley & Larry Manetti have both appeared in the New Magnum P.I , Roger played John Booky , a friend of TC`s (2 episodes) & Larry Played Nicky "The Kid" DeMarco , an Ex Mob Boss (3 episodes) he also played the same part in the new Hawaii 5-0 (6 episodes) ...
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After Magnum in 2007 Tom Selleck took the lead role in the TV series Las Vegas as A,J Cooper taking over from James Caan`s Ed Deline , in one episode we meet Two old poker playing friends of A,J`s called Larry & Roger who of course are played by Mosley & Manetti ..
Hope "Minty" gets around to covering The Rockford Files (Selleck appeared in 2 episodes), Miami Vice, and, of course, Columbo - at least the so-called CLASSIC version (1971~1978; NBC).
Magnum and PI‘s Jimmy was the best. Bring it back GMC
I always liked helicopter as a kid growing up.
Love the pick minty, I got the same DVD box Set a few years ago and I had to buy it for my dad as he always talked about the show. We watched the whole show and it was always magnum night for us after work and hey you gotta love the show for Tom Selleck acting and humour
I was shocked, as a kid, when I found out Higgins was ACTUALLY from Texas! It was a world-changing discovery 🤯
To my surprise, Niles, the butler on The Nanny, is also American, not British! 🚫🇬🇧, = 🇺🇸
He mentioned how he got fan male from England praising him for doing his homeland proud, LOL.
Higgie baby
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That theme song is so iconic. And 6'4" Tom Selleck makes that Ferrari look like a go-kart.
The 80s had a great array of television programs
Yeah both real actor shows and animated shows were REALLY cool back in the 80's 😉😉
"That's some bad shirt Minty" 🤣
To be truly honest I have only seen a few episodes of the show and I think I only ever watched reruns on cable tv at a hotel several years ago but the theme song was definitely one of the things that stuck around in my mind. This is not a show that I grew up with and it isn’t an important piece of my childhood but the main reason I came here was because I love your channel’s content and your reviews. I would certainly like to look up Magnum Pi in the future but I mainly clicked on this video to support Minty. Great job and thanks for sharing your knowledge and secrets about Magnum Pi and I look forward to hearing more from you real soon.
Minty!!! Please review THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE with Andrew Dice Clay!!! Such a great 80’s flick!!!
Sellecks' approach to the Magnum character was genius. I've rewatched the series three or four times and know the dialogue by heart but I watch it again if the opportunity presented itself.
I loved this show and still think it’s one of the best series to ever be broadcast.
You should do Airwolf! Great 80’s show!
with yet another great theme song
Must be a Groundhog day gag. 😎
Oh god, I thought you were just taking the piss with the MacGyver comment, I didnt realise they HAD done it.
Hey Mint, as a hard core 80s TV guy, I watched this with great interest. I would never pass on Magnum or MacGyver. So when they decided to remake these I was somewhat skeptical and with good reason the new MacGyver was destroyed, but Magnum was a surprise Jay Hernandez created his own version of Magnum and Higgins as a British woman did take some getting used to, but she grew on me. Over the 5-year run, it had its ups and downs, but I watched it till the end. The show also brought back a few of the original actors, such as Roger E. Mosley as a barber and Larry Manetti as Nicky 'The Kid' DeMarco. I'm sorry they cancelled this one.
The theme song is a 10 out of 10. I perpetually watch the show, it's my happy place. And when Magnum died and they played John Denver's Looking for Space I balled.
I met a guy who was restoring his Ferrari 308 and he let me drive it. That was a bucket list item I never thought I'd get. I love Magnum, Higgy Baby, Rick and TC.
Well- it was a goofy little show, but me being a Tom Selleck fan, what great acting. From the first episode to his first big screen debut; "Quigley Down Under" I have the full Mangum P.I. series on DVD- watch it a couple times a year and have most of his movies- except for "3 Men and a Baby". Sharron Stone, Frank Sinatra, Robert Loggia, Carol Burnett, just an amazing cast. But now I am hooked on the TV adapted book series, "Stone Cold" Forget the re-boot of Magnum P.I., watch the Stone Cold series and you will see glimpses of the Tom Magnum character all grown up, less whiny, and total bad-assery! Good stuff!
When the show first ran my family and I didn't really watch it much. Later I was staying with my father when it ran in syndication and he got hooked on watching every night, that's when I became a fan.
Not only was Magnum a Vietnam Vet, but TC and Rick were too, all having served in the same unit, they also all wore the same ring from that time.
A very entertaining summary of a classic show, Minty. Wearing my Detroit Tigers cap as I type this!
Although it is understandable that we might assume now that 1970s films and shows concerning Vietnam veterans such as The Deer Hunter, Apocalypse Now, and First Blood - as well as allusions in the form of M.A.S.H. - were somehow stereotyping Vietnam veterans, at the time the situation was not as clear-cut. These films were highlighting the issue of PTSD that was at that time poorly-understood, officially downplayed, and horribly under-resourced during the conflict and the first few years afterwards. The condition of PTSD was not officially recognised until 1980; and that was largely due to the heightened awareness that popular media brought to the campaigns of veterans themselves - which had been sidelined and denigrated as unpatriotic and an offshoot of the '60s counter-culture by certain political factions of the time. It is also the case that it became an effective political tool at the time to try to garner support from former veterans by lauding their patriotism to turn against critics of the war... and counter-intuitively to laud their stability against those who wanted support for those veterans to be increased. In summary, to turn their dislike against the depictions of their own suffering rather than against the authorities failing to provide the mental and financial support they needed.
When the US agency Veterans Affairs conducted their first study in 1983, they discovered that among Vietnam veterans, approximately 15% of men and 9% of women were found to currently have PTSD. Approximately 30% of men and 27% of women had PTSD at some point in their life following Vietnam, and many of these were experiencing PTSD as a chronic condition a decade after the end of their service. When reexamined in 2013, for some 40 years after service, 7% of female and 11% of male veterans who had served in combat zones still exhibited PTSD, of which 37% had depression related to it.
Although I like to think that Magnum PI and the A-Team were well-meaning in their efforts to show veterans in a positive light, and a majority of veterans of that conflict had reintegrated positively into their lives, it would be a disservice to some of the other depictions of life after Vietnam to suggest that they were in some way intended to stereotype veterans - rather than to highlight the desperate need for recognition and support for some 700,000 who still need it to this day.
I remember Tom playing a rookie P.I. In a couple of episodes of The Rockford Files. He was hilarious!
Love this show, remember watching reruns after school during the 90s and simply could not get enough. This and MacGyver are my goto 80s shows.
CBS had a thing there for a while with rebooting shows, you mentioned MacGuyer and Magnum PI, but there was also Hawaii Five-0 and I feel like there were more
A salute to Mr Glen A. Larson who produced so many iconic series we do enjoy.
Watched both times 👍🏻. I think I've watched every episode with my mother. Great series.
I love your channel! It’s refreshing. Something completely different from 99% of the other channels.
I'm sure I watched this about 3 days ago... why the re-upload Minty? Oh BTW, noticeably absent was the helicopter death scandal??
Magnum, P.I. wasn't a Glen A. Larson show. It was a Donald P. Bellasario show (creator of Quantum Leap, JAG, NCIS, and Tales of the Gold Monkey). Magnum was originally cancelled with season 7 but it was saved by one season by a fan campaign and CBS' desperation to fill the time slot. There was a lot of picketing at CBS headquarters to bring back Magnum by fans. In fact, season 7's ending pretty much ended the show for good and they had to get creative to undo it with the season 8 opener.
Until Glen Larson teamed up with Donald P. Bellisario to bring Magnum P.I. to CBS and the rest is history.
I used to love this show. I'm now realized that, though I watched the next-to-last episode with its cliff-hanger ending, I never saw the final episode and, to this day, don't know how the show ended. I guess it's time to get that box set.
This was my favorite show when I was a kid, but I could only watch it as a rerun, with an unpredictable schedule. Until the DVD box set came out.
Interesting fact about John Hillerman, who played Higgins. He wasn't British at all, he was from Texas. Born and died there. I was shocked when I learned this.
They did another crossover on this with the cartoon series Chip 'N Dale Rescue Rangers. Seems like Dale always reminded me of Magnum PI with his Hawaiian shirts he wore. Plus Chip looked like Indiana Jones in the outfit he wore.
Great video. Can't wait to see your take on Hill Street Blues, just for the list of guest stars alone!
That red Ferrari got made into a Transformer mostly because of Magnum PI. Awesome video.
Getting a super case of Deja vu
Because my mom was a massive "Murder, She Wrote" fan, that was the only way I got to watch a Magnum PI episode. She decided to watch that crossover after watching the Murder She Wrote crossover. That aside, I should go back and watch the series sometime.
The shared universe of Magnum extends beyond Jessica Fletcher and Simon & Simon, I think Rockford was originally planned to guest star too, but it didn't happen on screen. Also, in one episode of Riptide Im pretty sure I remember one of the characters mentioning Rockford and/or Mannix(?) although its been a long while since I watched that one.
I was a teenager in the 1980s and loved the original Magnum P.I. However, I just recently started watching the revival Magnum P.I. and I’m enjoying it. In my opinion, It’s neither better nor worse than the original.
Magnum so good, minty uploaded the video twice😊
i noticed that too lol
@MINTY There's one you missed. There was talk of Edward Woodward's series "The Equalizer" having a cross over with Magnum Pi. But, they decided against it due to the clash of series tones? But, if you think about it they both arre very similar. Except one is more light hearted while the other has a darker side to it.
As for Quantum Leap? There's a episode in the original series callled "Another Mother" where the daughter in that episode is a fan of Magnum Pi and when she says she's going to miss it Sam says she doesn't have to worry it has another 8 seasons?
Thank you for this and the "Rocky 2" episode.
Carl Wethers RIP.
Dean Stockwell RIP
David
I saw the show until I landed an evening job, so I missed a lot of it. That said, I was delighted to see Jeff MacKay in one of the clips.
Minty I love you channel and your breakdown of movies and TV shows. Just wondering if you would do a breakdown on Airwolf.
Minty, as you are checking out classic T.V series, you should do one for Miami Vice, which just so happens to have an awesome theme song to boot. I can only dimly remember this series, but i remember it being cool to my younger self.
#11 - The Ferrari was actually that of Robin Masters, whose property and estate were managed by Higgin's during his absence.
#12 - Higgins would actually be revealed as Robin Masters in the final episode, though this wasn't planned at the beginning of the series. Orson Welles was originally meant to play Robin Masters but he died before he could do so.
They need to have a cross over with Magnum and Bluebloods! Have the Commishner complaning about his cousin living in some else's mansion and saying what a big success he is. Driving around in a fancy car, flying around in a helicopter.
Didn't I just watch this? Cheers, from the USA!
I loved this show as a kid. FYI some of those "guest stars" weren't actually stars yet when they were on the show, like Sharon Stone and Ted Danson. But I do remember the Frank Sinatra episode.
One of the legendary TV characters of all time, cool video as always Minty, you take care sir
I happen to go to Oahu last summer for a drum facilitator training retreat with a somewhat international community. It was kind of funny how my flight from the Pacific Northwest was just as long as the person who came from Australia, and we had the shortest flights of the group.
Plowing through this series STRAIGHT THROUGH over a couple of months was a really, really good idea. Oh, and Michelle didn't deserve him!😆
"The guy" you quoted from JAWS was Peter Benchley, the author of the book the movie was based on.
Aye, that old chestnut again (music) 🙄 glad I got to watch the original video.
Fun Fact: Tom Selleck was on The Dating Game in the 60s! And 80s Xmen spinoff The New Mutants regularly watch Magnum PI in the comic book!
Great Video, as usual, Minty. I used to like this TV Show a lot, especially the Black On White & Did You See The Sunrise? Episodes.
I would've loved to have seen a Magnum P.I. Movie.
So are you doing Air wolf next?
I can never see Tom Selleck without thinking of "Quigley Down Under". He was as cool as he was in Magnum PI but showed his extreme ruggedness. MPI is good but he had an easy life compared to Quigley's.
The Chinese typewriter was a pilot made at about the same time , as the Magnum pilot .it is striking how many elements are extremely similar Selleck plays a PI in Hawaii, who coaches little league wears a base ball hat, drives a red car and has a partner, James Witmore Jr. who appeared in a season one episode of magnum .many locations are the same .
I've watched the new Magnum and it's not bad. A bit too much "I'll just hack into this and that to get what we need" for my liking though. You mentioned the veterans in the old show and there is more of an emphasis on helping veterans in this version, which is nice. They are also big with "the feels" amongst the main group.
And if my memory serves me right, another guest star on the show was the late great British entertainer & quiz show host Bruce Forsyth. Who portrayed as a quiz show host!!😁 Junior from London 🇬🇧🇬🇧
John Hillerman was a fantastic character actor. Yes he was from Texas. The accent he used was called Mid Atlantic. Somewhere between America and Britain.
The MacGyver remake was great. You have to go into with the mindset of "if MacGyver was made during modern times" without looking for too many similarities with the original. They are two separate shows, basically. If you can do that, you will love it.
Loved this one. You should try to do one on the Hunter tv series of the 80s.
That Ferrari is my favorite car of the 80’s because of this show
Great Episode :)
Would have loved to hear your take on the recurring 4th Wall breaks. ^^
I liked the ending, where he was able to get his daughter back and catch a break from the bad guys to be a father.
I watched some of that show back when it aired, and again I was a kid then, and a majority of it went over my head then, a;d I eventually watched the reruns of Magnum P.I., and I watched them as an adult, so it didn’t go over my head at that point, and I watched some of those episodes on that Teevee thing not that long ago too💁🏻♂.
The remake is definitely worth a watch. My opinion, of course.
A great show!!
Have you picked up the Playmobil Magnum PI set Minty??
Fantasy island would be a good one to do
I’m surprised that you didn’t include the helicopter crash that took the life of a cameraman. Astute viewers noticed that the helicopter changed slightly as a newer model was used after the crash.
On another note, I saw Tom Selleck nearly crash one of the two Ferraris used in shooting. I got to see a scene filmed at Honolulu International Airport where he drives up to confront the villain.
The Chopper crashed on the Big Island Back in the 90s
Another Viet Nam Vet TV show star is Angus MacGyver. It is pointed out in several episodes that he was EOD in Nam.
In the episode titled A.A.P.I., a small appearance by none other than the late Stephen J. Cannell, AKA: The man in a typewriter. Cannell made many of his shows like The Rockford Files, The Greatest American Hero, The A-Team, Hardcastle and McCormick, Riptide, Hunter, 21 Jumpstreet, Wiseguy, The Commish, Silk Stalkings and Renegade. He’s the one in the closing logo sequence for his studio where he took the paper out of his typewriter and fade to an animated paper where it land into a stack of papers to form a C at the end of each every his shows.
One of my fav shows of all time!!
Also some random trivia: The Tom Selleck show Blue Bloods came on right after the Magnum PI reboot.
Was a fun clean show with nice everything in site.
I loved the show, but it was at the same timeslot as some of my other favorite shows in the 80s- Automan, Mork&Mindy, Greatest American Hero, Starman, Max headroom. Thursday night, ABC showed cool scifi/fantasy shows. When Magnum PI moved to Wednesday, it was against Macgyver. So the timeslots didn't help... and the story got tired. and it never made any sense that Magnum seemed to never have any moiney? but "Robin" let him stay in the mansion, and use all his cars and stuff? I know in the end, they sorta said it was higgins... but that seemed just dumb
He was security when Masters was there and saved his life on more than one occasion. I'd say that rates a guest house and car.
Dont throw your Magnum PI disc collection at them! That may be what they're there for! Ive wanted that car ever since then!!!!! I still do! And yes I know how wimpy it is..i still want it! :) That theme is one of the many great 80s themes...think of Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Rockford Files and other great themes and it goes with them.
Great video Minty, thank you very much.
Please make more videos for 70-80-90's series.
Nobody dresses like James Bond in Hawaii.
I couldn't imagine how how that would be.
Great comment about not bothering to watch the reboot. Very cool.
You know if someone has an amazing mustache they’re either a serial killer or they’re Tom Selleck
#11, Thomas Magnum's favorite movie was 'Stalag 17'.
I am guessing the music got him busted since it is not the real music in this re-upload.
good catch
The old Magum P.I. is better than the newer one
I'm looking back on the show now. I found or wish to believe that Magnum P.I & The A-Team were both in the same shared universe. Connection being time Magnum, Rick, T.C spent in Da Nang. This also happens to be written on the back of Murdock jacket as he was a chopper pilot in Da Nang. which puts him directly in the same timeline as T.C. 🤯
9:03 Murder She Wrote ❤
That was a great cross-over!
Did you see the sunrise? A two parter episode was the best ever 📺👌👌👌
About the reboot, I loved it! And to find out it got canceled for those reasons?!?!? Wow. With garbage being put ou today and that's why 1 of my recent favorite shows gets canceled 🤦♂️. And I also loved the Hawaii Five O reboot. Having watched the originals with my dad back then, it was awesome to see the differences in themes, style and action.