Magnum, podcast - revisiting "Magnum P.I."
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Magnum, podcast - revisiting "Magnum P.I."
Three yo-yos from the 2020s watch selected episodes of one of the greatest TV shows of the 1980s, “Magnum, p.i.” There are a lot of segments. E-mail magnum@theincomparable.com to suggest episodes or insult other listeners.
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112 episode
112: "A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken" (S5E22)
Shuffle, and cluck, and tour jeté, and cluck cluck cluck. It’s a Magnum season finale, and ours too. See you in a little while, turkeys!
Jason...
111: "Paper War" (S7E8)
It’s Higgins versus Magnum in a tit-for-tat, Roland for Oliver battle of pranks, hijinks, and accused felonies. There’s a long scene in an elevator. O...
110: "The Taking of Dick McWilliams" (S2E10)
Old cars versus helicopters, karate and seppuku, a helpful anecdote from Higgins, and a kidnapped guy who’s such a jerk that nobody (except maybe his...
109: "Three Minus Two" (S2E22)
This final episode of season two is strangely a leftover from season one, so far as we can tell. So many scenes from the opening credits! Julia Nickso...
108: "Try to Remember" (S2E15)
The most important supporting character in the show (the Ferrari) is sidelined and, oh yeah, Magnum is hospitalized! But is his amnesia a result of hi...
107: "Straight and Narrow" (S7E4)
Candy Clark returns as an ex-hooker who is a deeply unreliable partner. We get caught in the Island Breeze, which services a lot of local men who need...
106: "The Hotel Dick" (S6E5)
Presented by Famous Big Hi-Rise Hotel on Waikiki, it’s “The Hotel Dick!” Magnum quits his job (?) to become a hotel detective (??) and foil a thief ca...
105: "Dream a Little Dream" (S4E20)
Sun, surf, and fake Beach Boys muzak can only mean one thing: It’s time for flashbacks! In this episode, we see Magnum, T.C., and Rick as they were be...
104: "Solo Flight" (S7E16)
Norman Fell menaces in hallucinatory flashbacks, a centipede bite causes mayhem, a spider steals Herman the Shark’s valor, and there’s some guy named...
103: "China Doll" (S1E3)
This earliest non-pilot episode of Magnum features weird music, dogs, shots from the opening credits, an unfortunate Chinese food joke, fast dialogue,...
102: "Lest We Forget" (S1E10)
Back to the early days of “Magnum” with this episode featuring dual Ferrers and dual Lockharts along with a single Scatman. This episode really sets t...
101: "This Island Isn't Big Enough..." (S6E16)
Now lissen up, Pilgrim, there’s a fake Christopher Cross version of the Magnum Theme and a dead body in a trunk in this episode. We play a game of Bad...
100: "All For One, Part 2" (S5E16)
It’s our 100th episode spectacular! Major General Eyepatch threatens our friends with death! Rick faces death by remembering some guys on the 1969 Cub...
99: "All For One, Part 1" (S5E15)
Academy award nominee Robert Forster chews all available scenery in part one of this two-part episode featuring a rogue mission to Cambodia. The gang...
98: Season 6 is approaching!
It’s time for another Summer of Magnum, unless you’re one of our many Australian listeners, in which case you’ll just warm yourself with shots of 1980...
97: 2025 Member Special
We preview our 2025 Member Special, which is about S3E1 of “Vega$”, “Aloha You’re Dead,” starring Robert Urich. It aired a month before the first epis...
96: "Memories Are Forever" (S2E5-6)
We wrap up this season of “Magnum, podcast” with a blockbuster two-hour special that introduces us to Magnum’s ex-wife, yet not wife in the eyes of th...
95: "Almost Home" (S3E11)
The ghosts of Pearl Harbor hang over this episode, which doesn’t really have a villain, except for that mobster who’s not really necessary for the plo...
94: "No Need To Know" (S1E5)
Just like the proverbial dog who got run over by the pineapple truck, we’ve caught hold of an early “Magnum” episode that contains all the core tropes...
93: "Mad Buck Gibson" (S2E9)
Just before he was the dad in “A Christmas Story,” Darren McGavin took a trip to Hawaii to play pulp novelist Buck Gibson, a daredevil friend of Robin...
92: "Faith and Begorrah" (S3E23)
They’re always after his Lucky Charms! Higgins’s Northern Irish half-brother arrives in Oahu and it’s all light comedy despite what’s going on back ho...
91: "Beauty Knows No Pain" (S1E18)
A guy in a blue sedan. A man with gold teeth. A woman (Marcia Wallace!) has come to Hawaii searching for her missing fiancé. Sounds like the plot to...
90: "A Girl Named Sue" (S8E7)
We know what you’re thinking: Carol Burnett returns for a victory lap as the ramshackle, shambolic final season of “Magnum, p.i.” draws to a close. Al...
89: "Little Games" (S5E12)
Computer games! Mind games! Jenny Agutter appears (delighting Jason) in an episode that promises lots of Cesar Romero and doesn’t deliver (angering Ph...
88: "Missing in Action" (S1E9)
Lance LeGault appears in this episode, but not as Buck Greene. We’re devastated. Instead, he’s a spy on the lookout for another spy who’s on the run—a...
87: "Skin Deep" (S1E6)
This early episode contains a disturbing scene of suggested suicide that should probably not have been anywhere on prime-time TV, let alone during a l...
86: "Let Me Hear the Music" (S5E18)
Many Weavers (but not Dennis Wheeler or Dennis Miller), some cowboy music, surprising “Star Trek” guest stars, and a plot that goes to some surprising...
85: "Jororo Farewell" (S4E11)
In the sequel episode nobody demanded, Magnum must protect the prince of Jororo from a kidnapping, despite the interference of Dr. FBI. In another sur...
84: "Torah Torah Torah" (S5E21)
An old Rabbi friend of Higgins arrives in Hawaii, but his historic Torah has been stolen! Vic McCool and Dick Ling may be involved, as well as the own...
83: "Unfinished Business" (S8E8)
We’re back. And what’s this? A car bombing, a travesty of justice, the culmination of our least-favorite “Magnum” storyline… it must be a season eight...
82: Magnum Trading Cards
Thanks to Listener David, we return for this special episode where we react to the opening of an age-old pack of Magnum, p.i. Trading Cards. Images s...
81: "Kapu" (S7E10)
It’s like “Witness,” but on a made-up Hawaiian island! We end this season of “Magnum, podcast” on the forbidden island of Kapu. There’s no phone, no l...
80: "Dead Man's Channel" (S2E2)
This episode provides a missing archaeologist, a bitter academic dispute, and a goat, inspiring Phil to create a new segment: Is This Anything?
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79: "A Little Bit of Luck... A Little Bit of Grief" (S6E20)
In an episode that teaches us that friendships are like sponges, Magnum and TC repeatedly commit crimes and visit jail. Meanwhile, Rick wins the lotte...
78: "Pleasure Principle" (S8E2)
Can a ghost explode from eating too many ghost pastries? This is a “Freaky Friday” episode that’s… not so freaky. Magnum and Higgins trade places, sor...
77: "Basket Case" (S3E15)
People, if you’re betting against the spread on youth basketball games, it’s a sign that you have a serious gambling problem. Especially if they’re co...
76: "Rapture" (S6E11)
Under the sea, Under the sea Magnum will see a ghost so spookily Higgins and T.C. Think Magnum’s strange discovery Is purely buncombe (Mom is a d...
75: "Flashback" (S3E7)
Magnum dreams he’s in the 1930s and tries to prevent an innocent man from being executed! But Rick, T.C. and Higgins are all there too… sort of. Shock...
74: "Woman on the Beach" (S2E3)
It’s October, which means it’s spooky season, which means it’s time for an episode where Rick and Magnum may have seen a g-g-g-g-g-host! Also, Kenneth...
73: "Billy Joe Bob" (S2E1)
Listener Blair is back with a new selection to torment Phil, David, and Jason! But will they be tormented, or have they just stumbled on the Platonic...