Magnum P.I. Season One Intro

My favorite is when he unlocks and slides back the top from the driver's seat.
Dave

 

I picked up on that too! He even had an odd look on his face when he did it.

 

Did you notice when he peels off the grass during the opening scenes he shifts to 4th.
Ian McShane (Deadwood's Al Swearengen) is in Skin Deep and Bllack on White episodes.

Stephen

 

I have all Magnums on tape-have had for years. Now, it is all DVD.

There are too many favorites to count, but a few cool things to watch. In "Echoes of the Mind," check out a young and VERY HOT Sharon Stone.

In the one where Higgins is getting married and the guys are in the strip club drinking, in the background you can see topless girls--on regular TV.

This was TV at its best.

 

I'm a rank amateur magnumologist compared to our own Dr. Tommy.

 

my fav magnum scene was when he was cruising in the ferrari going about 20-30 mph. something happened and he needed to scoot out. he downshifts, and then the camera shifts to a full screen shot of the rear tires absolutely shredding with smoke and the whole 9 yards. i love the 308, but i dont think it could shred the tires that much from a stand still, let alone at 30 mph. looked impressive though

 

They pour clorox on the road to make the wheels spin.

 

Subject says it all.


Stephen

 

Yep, I do that every time I pull out of my housing development.

 

Do you think Magnum will ever be shown on TV again??? Hear anymore about a Magnum movie??

 

Magnum PI is shown on Sleuth Television (a cable channel.)

 

We could have an entire thread devoted to 308-related goofs in the series.

I just got all of the episodes on Blu Ray and I'm watching them again.

In the pilot alone, Higgins gets in the 308 and "drives away" by pretending to shift into gear. It never gets out of neutral.

Also there is a part where Magnum unlatches the roof, then literally slides it back over the top of the car and out of sight. I guess he has enough of Robin's money to keep buying new targa tops!

 

This article by P.J. O'Rourke apparently first appeared in either Car and Driver or Road & Track nearly 40 years ago. I read it nearly 30 years ago in a book that was a compilation of some of O'Rourke's writings. I was a starving grad student at the time, but the 308 was already my dream car.

Now, here is the interesting part. If you read the short story to the very end, you will see a reference to a "movie" titled Don't Eat the Snow from Hawaii. That is actually NOT the name of a movie. It is the title of the Magnum PI pilot episode! Of course, the author, at the time, did not know this!

 

I have a reprint they sold of that article on heavy card stock; it's a great story. I particularly like how he casually mentions his co-pilot taking home a chick during their reporting, and his comment that "What it can't outrun, it can outhandle." It may not be fast by modern standards, but I like to imagine what an absolute marvel it must have been in 1978.

 

There was a slight error at the beginning of that great article. It wasn't a Bama game that stuck them in traffic. It was the Hall of Fame Classic at Legion Field on 29 Dec 1979. Missouri vs South Carloina. I was at that game (decked out in as much Bama gear an 11 year old could layer on. It was cold.).

Their route would have had them pass right by my home on I20/59 that day. I can see the highway from my front yard. I always thought that was cool.

 

I was in front of the TV for the pilot and again for the last episode. Never missed one.

The first two seasons were always the best to me. Most series seem to get better as they go along as the characters begin to find themselves but I have always felt Magnum had it dead on right out of the gate. I didn't care for where it went years later such as Higgins/Robin Masters thing. I get it and it was a cool idea but if you paid attention to the series, it was uncomfortably clear that it was an afterthought. The concept just doesn't match up with many early episodes.

But I still loved the show

 

There was news today about a TV "reboot". Ugh.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/magnum-p-i-reboot-cbs-from-peter-lenkov-1202559394/

 

Please God no

 

There was an ABC show (1983-86) called "Hardcastle and McCormick" that featured car called the "Coyote X" -- played by a VW chassis kit car based on the McLaren M6GT (season 1), and a De Lorean DMC-12 (seasons 2,3).

But every time they showed the car shifting, the console image was a Ferrari 308.
I've always wondered if they filmed that themselves, or used footage from CBS's "Magnum P.I.".


The news is that CBS is planning a reboot pilot --- with Higgins retconned as a woman.

CBS has already rebooted "Hawaii Five-O" and "MacGyver" (which I refuse to watch).
Don't many car companies try to remake "past glories" just before going bankrupt?

I think Selleck should be focusing on the new "Jesse Stone" films, as it looks like CBS is trying to kill off "Blue Bloods".
(Seasons 7 and 8 episodes look like they've had ghostwriters from soap operas inflicted on the scripts.)