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Episode 1 - Season 1, Episode 1: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. A fun-loving private detective, living on a luxurious Hawaiian estate, boldly takes on Navy higher-ups and becomes a target for killers when he tracks the cold blooded murderers of his best friend.

  

Episode 1 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. A fun-loving private detective, living on a luxurious Hawaiian estate, boldly takes on Navy higher-ups and becomes a target for killers when he tracks the cold blooded murderers of his best friend.

  

Episode 2 - Season 1, Episode 2: Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. A fun-loving private detective, living on a luxurious Hawaiian estate, boldly takes on Navy higher-ups and becomes a target for killers when he tracks the cold blooded murderers of his best friend.

  

Episode 2 - Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. A fun-loving private detective, living on a luxurious Hawaiian estate, boldly takes on Navy higher-ups and becomes a target for killers when he tracks the cold blooded murderers of his best friend.

  

Episode 3 - Season 1, Episode 3: China Doll

Magnum is hired by a beautiful Chinese antiques dealer that he's making a play for to protect a precious ancient vase, The Soul of Sung, until its buyer arrives in Hawaii to collect it. But unbeknown to him, the priceless ornament is wanted by a Tong gang from the girl's home country, and a deadly martial arts assassin who can kill in the blink of an eye is hot on the trail.

  

Episode 3 - China Doll

Magnum is hired by a beautiful Chinese antiques dealer that he's making a play for to protect a precious ancient vase, The Soul of Sung, until its buyer arrives in Hawaii to collect it. But unbeknown to him, the priceless ornament is wanted by a Tong gang from the girl's home country, and a deadly martial arts assassin who can kill in the blink of an eye is hot on the trail.

  

Episode 4 - Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones, Too

It's the Christmas season, and against his better judgment, Magnum agrees to being hired by five young schoolgirls to find their teacher, who has seemingly gone missing after falling in love. While he's working on the case, Magnum manages to convince Higgins to let the young girls stay on the Masters estate, but he's unaware that he's being deceived in a scam over a valuable painting recently purchased by Robin Masters.

  

Episode 4 - Season 1, Episode 4: Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones, Too

It's the Christmas season, and against his better judgment, Magnum agrees to being hired by five young schoolgirls to find their teacher, who has seemingly gone missing after falling in love. While he's working on the case, Magnum manages to convince Higgins to let the young girls stay on the Masters estate, but he's unaware that he's being deceived in a scam over a valuable painting recently purchased by Robin Masters.

  

Episode 5 - Season 1, Episode 5: No Need to Know

Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some I.R.A. members he helped capture are tried. Two secret intelligence agents hire Magnum to protect the brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trial, but the "need to know" basis the agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum.

  

Episode 5 - No Need to Know

Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some I.R.A. members he helped capture are tried. Two secret intelligence agents hire Magnum to protect the brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trial, but the "need to know" basis the agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum.

  

Episode 6 - Season 1, Episode 6: Skin Deep

When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shotgun blast in a scenario closely resembling a scene from the script of an upcoming film, it is seemingly suicide. Magnum is hired by her former producer and lover to investigate any other men that she may have been seeing before her death - a case that Magnum is reluctant to take, but, feeling guilty for not taking it before the girl was killed, agrees to.

  

Episode 6 - Skin Deep

When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shotgun blast in a scenario closely resembling a scene from the script of an upcoming film, it is seemingly suicide. Magnum is hired by her former producer and lover to investigate any other men that she may have been seeing before her death - a case that Magnum is reluctant to take, but, feeling guilty for not taking it before the girl was killed, agrees to.

  

Episode 7 - Season 1, Episode 7: Never Again...Never Again

When Saul and Lena, an aging couple who run a local shop, abruptly make plans to leave town, suspicious Magnum and Rick, who are friends with the couple, investigate - only to arrive at the pair's home to see Saul whisked away in an ambulance after suffering a heart attack. Yet when they check at the hospital, he's not there, and it becomes apparent that Saul has been kidnapped. Magnum houses Lena at Robin's Nest while looking for her missing husband, where she explains that they are Holocaust survivors who are being hunted by neo-Nazis.

  

Episode 7 - Never Again...Never Again

When Saul and Lena, an aging couple who run a local shop, abruptly make plans to leave town, suspicious Magnum and Rick, who are friends with the couple, investigate - only to arrive at the pair's home to see Saul whisked away in an ambulance after suffering a heart attack. Yet when they check at the hospital, he's not there, and it becomes apparent that Saul has been kidnapped. Magnum houses Lena at Robin's Nest while looking for her missing husband, where she explains that they are Holocaust survivors who are being hunted by neo-Nazis.

  

Episode 8 - Season 1, Episode 8: Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog after the attempted dognapping of the canine. Sir Algernon Farnsworth soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii when his former owner, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

  

Episode 8 - Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog after the attempted dognapping of the canine. Sir Algernon Farnsworth soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii when his former owner, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

  

Episode 9 - Season 1, Episode 9: Missing in Action

Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Arriving in Hawaii, where she occasionally has flashes involving Eric, Laura goes to work for Rick at the King Kamehameha Club as a singer. Magnum befriends her and in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One. Magnum's search brings him into opposition with the sensitive intelligence organization, resulting in a dramatic preordained conclusion.

  

Episode 9 - Missing in Action

Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Arriving in Hawaii, where she occasionally has flashes involving Eric, Laura goes to work for Rick at the King Kamehameha Club as a singer. Magnum befriends her and in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One. Magnum's search brings him into opposition with the sensitive intelligence organization, resulting in a dramatic preordained conclusion.

  

Episode 10 - Season 1, Episode 10: Lest We Forget

Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. He was a young Navy Ensign, she was a prostitute, and after their marriage they subsequently became separated in the bombings, with the Judge presuming her dead - until recently, after he started receiving blackmail threats relating to an incident 40 years ago.

     

Episode 10 - Lest We Forget

Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor. He was a young Navy Ensign, she was a prostitute, and after their marriage they subsequently became separated in the bombings, with the Judge presuming her dead - until recently, after he started receiving blackmail threats relating to an incident 40 years ago.

     

Episode 11 - Season 1, Episode 11: The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club

Rick is organizing a surf-ski competition to be held at the King Kamehameha Club (much to the disapproval of co-committee member Higgins) when a Kahuna appears and places a "curse" on the club and all who use it. Magnum and others are skeptical, but the native locals take such curses very seriously, and it seems there may be something in it when one of the competitors suddenly collapses and dies; then, amongst other incidents, fire breaks out in the kitchen; and Rick falls ill. Magnum investigates to try and find a more logical explanation behind the events, but his inquiries aren't helped by a hounding news reporter, who sees the series of strange incidents as a chance for a big news story.

  

Episode 11 - The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club

Rick is organizing a surf-ski competition to be held at the King Kamehameha Club (much to the disapproval of co-committee member Higgins) when a Kahuna appears and places a "curse" on the club and all who use it. Magnum and others are skeptical, but the native locals take such curses very seriously, and it seems there may be something in it when one of the competitors suddenly collapses and dies; then, amongst other incidents, fire breaks out in the kitchen; and Rick falls ill. Magnum investigates to try and find a more logical explanation behind the events, but his inquiries aren't helped by a hounding news reporter, who sees the series of strange incidents as a chance for a big news story.

  

Episode 12 - Season 1, Episode 12: Thicker than Blood

T.C. makes a late-night flight to land on a tanker, but on the journey back he is cornered and arrested by the Coast Guard for transporting drugs. Magnum and Rick are certain of their friend's innocence, but are shocked when he intends to accept the charges and refuses their help. Magnum investigates to find that T.C.'s trip to the tanker was to collect and bring home a man who once saved T.C.'s life in Vietnam, a deserter who is now supposedly a reformed drug addict, and who was calling in an old debt to be flown back into U.S. territory.

  

Episode 12 - Thicker than Blood

T.C. makes a late-night flight to land on a tanker, but on the journey back he is cornered and arrested by the Coast Guard for transporting drugs. Magnum and Rick are certain of their friend's innocence, but are shocked when he intends to accept the charges and refuses their help. Magnum investigates to find that T.C.'s trip to the tanker was to collect and bring home a man who once saved T.C.'s life in Vietnam, a deserter who is now supposedly a reformed drug addict, and who was calling in an old debt to be flown back into U.S. territory.

  

Episode 13 - All Roads Lead to Floyd

A bubbly young woman hires Magnum to find her father who, after being missing for over ten years, had sent her a postcard from Hawaii. But her father is involved in some rather shady business, and Magnum isn't the only one looking for him.

  

Episode 13 - Season 1, Episode 13: All Roads Lead to Floyd

A bubbly young woman hires Magnum to find her father who, after being missing for over ten years, had sent her a postcard from Hawaii. But her father is involved in some rather shady business, and Magnum isn't the only one looking for him.

  

Episode 14 - Season 1, Episode 14: Adelaide

A perky woman hires Magnum to protect 'Norman', who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected turns when Magnum finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized racehorse.

  

Episode 14 - Adelaide

A perky woman hires Magnum to protect 'Norman', who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected turns when Magnum finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized racehorse.

  

Episode 15 - Season 1, Episode 15: Don't Say Goodbye

Having once been hired by wealthy, blind Agatha Kimball to find her missing granddaughter Amy, Magnum's services are once again called upon by his elderly friend after she has been contacted by a blackmailer claiming to have some important information about Amy. She instructs Magnum to pay the man and get rid of whatever the information about Amy is without investigating further, but when Agatha is nearly killed in a series of suspicious accidents, and when the blackmailer is shot dead during the delivery of the ransom, Magnum decides he must ignore instructions and investigate just what trouble his elderly friend and her granddaughter are in.

  

Episode 15 - Don't Say Goodbye

Having once been hired by wealthy, blind Agatha Kimball to find her missing granddaughter Amy, Magnum's services are once again called upon by his elderly friend after she has been contacted by a blackmailer claiming to have some important information about Amy. She instructs Magnum to pay the man and get rid of whatever the information about Amy is without investigating further, but when Agatha is nearly killed in a series of suspicious accidents, and when the blackmailer is shot dead during the delivery of the ransom, Magnum decides he must ignore instructions and investigate just what trouble his elderly friend and her granddaughter are in.

  

Episode 16 - The Black Orchid

Magnum has been hired by a woman to act out some of her rich, bored sister's fantasy dramas, concocted from 1930s Dashiell Hammett films. Although growing to enjoy the world of fantasy, Magnum has a hard time keeping up with the eccentric woman, and when he finds out that her husband is a wealthy, infamously jealous and bad-tempered business man, he decides to cut his losses and end the arrangement. But he is just informing the girl that he is calling a halt to his participation when they are attacked by real thugs, and soon after the girl is poisoned. With the woman still caught up in her world of fantasy, Magnum must thrust himself back into reality to find out just what is really going on.

  

Episode 16 - Season 1, Episode 16: The Black Orchid

Magnum has been hired by a woman to act out some of her rich, bored sister's fantasy dramas, concocted from 1930s Dashiell Hammett films. Although growing to enjoy the world of fantasy, Magnum has a hard time keeping up with the eccentric woman, and when he finds out that her husband is a wealthy, infamously jealous and bad-tempered business man, he decides to cut his losses and end the arrangement. But he is just informing the girl that he is calling a halt to his participation when they are attacked by real thugs, and soon after the girl is poisoned. With the woman still caught up in her world of fantasy, Magnum must thrust himself back into reality to find out just what is really going on.

  

Episode 17 - J. 'Digger' Doyle

Magnum tries to impress a beautiful 'fan' of Robin's by showing her the Robin Masters estate, only to learn that she is actually a top security expert hired by Robin to test the estate's security. J. "Digger" Doyle and her boss, David, are hired by the absent Robin Masters when his life is threatened if he publishes his latest manuscript. On the chance that the tapes he uses to dictate his novels are at the estate, Higgins is kidnapped by a group seemingly led by a woman named Lisa. In a surprise twist, Magnum comes to the rescue, foiling the kidnappers and the man behind the scheme.

  

Episode 17 - Season 1, Episode 17: J. 'Digger' Doyle

Magnum tries to impress a beautiful 'fan' of Robin's by showing her the Robin Masters estate, only to learn that she is actually a top security expert hired by Robin to test the estate's security. J. "Digger" Doyle and her boss, David, are hired by the absent Robin Masters when his life is threatened if he publishes his latest manuscript. On the chance that the tapes he uses to dictate his novels are at the estate, Higgins is kidnapped by a group seemingly led by a woman named Lisa. In a surprise twist, Magnum comes to the rescue, foiling the kidnappers and the man behind the scheme.

  

Episode 18 - Season 1, Episode 18: Beauty Knows No Pain

Magnum is hired by Barbara Terranova, a financially broke woman who can only afford his services for one day, to find her missing fiancé Roger. But the case has several tangles in store when Magnum finds there are others searching for Roger too. Matters are complicated even further when T.C., desperate for some much-needed publicity for Island Hoppers, collars him into competing in the upcoming swim-run-bike Ironman triathlon. Fitness trainer Barbara trains him for the event in exchange for his extended help in locating her fiancé.

  

Episode 18 - Beauty Knows No Pain

Magnum is hired by Barbara Terranova, a financially broke woman who can only afford his services for one day, to find her missing fiancé Roger. But the case has several tangles in store when Magnum finds there are others searching for Roger too. Matters are complicated even further when T.C., desperate for some much-needed publicity for Island Hoppers, collars him into competing in the upcoming swim-run-bike Ironman triathlon. Fitness trainer Barbara trains him for the event in exchange for his extended help in locating her fiancé.

     

Episode 19 - Season 2, Episode 1: Billy Joe Bob

The code of the West is resurrected when a hot-headed young Texan hires Magnum to find his former cheerleader sister.

  

Episode 20 - Season 2, Episode 2: Dead Man's Channel

Ancient superstitions and modern marine archaeology blend to provide Magnum with one of his most dangerous assignments.

  

Episode 21 - Season 2, Episode 3: The Woman On the Beach

An ethereal, mysterious beauty brings out Rick's sense of gallantry and he enlists Magnum's aid in solving a crime that occurred thirty-five years ago.

  

Episode 22 - Season 2, Episode 4: From Moscow to Maui

Magnum plays Cupid's helper when he becomes involved with a former Russian pilot who has defected and a member of the Soviet track team in Hawaii for an exhibition match, plus various members of the dreaded KGB.

  

Episode 23 - Season 2, Episode 5: Memories Are Forever, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. A tragic event which he believed had been successfully relegated to the far corners of his mind, resurfaces and explodes with jolting clarity for Magnum, when he briefly sees a girl he is convinced is his wife, reported dead in the ruins of Saigon.

  

Episode 24 - Season 2, Episode 6: Memories Are Forever, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. A tragic event which he believed had been successfully relegated to the far corners of his mind, resurfaces and explodes with jolting clarity for Magnum, when he briefly sees a girl he is convinced is his wife, reported dead in the ruins of Saigon.

  

Episode 25 - Season 2, Episode 7: Tropical Madness

An aloof, beautiful girl, a Sumo wrestler, and a little person spell trouble and intrigue.

  

Episode 26 - Season 2, Episode 8: Wave Goodbye

Friendship has always ranked high on his list of priorities and when his good friend and surfing companion, Kacy, is found murdered on the beach, Magnum determinedly tracks down her killer.

  

Episode 27 - Season 2, Episode 9: Mad Buck Gibson

Mad Buck Gibson, an old friend of Robin Masters and a legend in his own time for his earthy novels and macho existence, arrives in Hawaii and it becomes Magnum's lot to protect the hell-raiser from himself.

  

Episode 28 - Season 2, Episode 10: Taking of Dick McWilliams

When her wealthy American husband is kidnapped and held for an exorbitant ransom, a beautiful Japanese woman seeks Magnum's help.

  

Episode 29 - Season 2, Episode 11: The Sixth Position

A simple request to act as a bodyguard for a world famous ballerina leads to a puzzling international situation for Magnum.

  

Episode 30 - Season 2, Episode 12: Ghost Writer

An eccentric, reclusive inventor, a beautiful author and a distraught senator's wife form the strange triangle surrounding Magnum as he tries to unravel a situation that could lead to sudden death.

  

Episode 31 - Season 2, Episode 13: The Jororo Kill

Magnum is caught in the crossfire of international politics and terrorism when a news correspondent and an assassin, a master of disguises, arrive in Honolulu.

  

Episode 32 - Season 2, Episode 14: Computer Date

A relatively simple case of industrial espionage turns to a complex case of divided loyalties for Magnum, when he is hired by a computer magnate to investigate the theft of valuable codes.

  

Episode 33 - Season 2, Episode 15: Try to Remember

A private investigator with amnesia is really in trouble, as Magnum discovers after his near fatal accident with the Ferrari leaves him in that condition.

  

Episode 34 - Season 2, Episode 16: Italian Ice

When Magnum flies to Sicily, at the request of Robin Masters, to rescue a beautiful damsel in distress, he proves that chivalry is alive and well.

  

Episode 35 - Season 2, Episode 17: One More Summer

As a favor to his old friend, quarterback Dorsey Bramlett, Magnum joins the pro football team in training so he can better protect his old Academy buddy.

  

Episode 36 - Season 2, Episode 18: Texas Lightning

A high stakes poker game, international espionage, murder and dueling copter form the background of a complicated assignment for Magnum.

  

Episode 37 - Season 2, Episode 19: Double Jeopardy

When Robin Master's latest book is made into a motion picture, the author donates the use of Robin's Nest as a location and Magnum is quickly enmeshed in the temperaments and politics of the film world.

  

Episode 38 - Season 2, Episode 20: The Last Page

Victory doesn't mean the end of the war for some participants and Magnum learns to his peril.

  

Episode 39 - Season 2, Episode 21: The Elmo Ziller Story

When Magnum encounters a guitar-playing, ten gallon hat wearer with a thick Texas drawl, who looks exactly like Higgins, he thinks he is being set up for a rip roaring gag.

  

Episode 40 - Season 2, Episode 22: Three Minus Two

A beautiful fashion designer who has risen to the top of her profession hires Magnum to protect her when one of her two partners in a clothing firm is murdered.

  

Episode 41 - Season 3, Episode 1: Did You See Sunrise?, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. Magnum and TC put their lives on the line to protect an old Navy buddy who firmly believes the trio are marked for death from an enemy dating back to the Vietnam war on the third season premiere.

  

Episode 42 - Season 3, Episode 2: Did You See Sunrise?, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. Magnum and TC put their lives on the line to protect an old Navy buddy who firmly believes the trio are marked for death from an enemy dating back to the Vietnam war on the second part of the third season premiere.

  

Episode 43 - Season 3, Episode 3: Ki'i's Don't Lie

A team of private investigators fly to Hawaii to recover a valuable and deadly native artifact, and find themselves in conflict with private investigator Thomas Magnum, Higgins, and a beautiful (but larcenous) socialite, portrayed by guest star Morgan Fairchild.

  

Episode 44 - Season 3, Episode 4: Eighth Part of the Village

The arrival by sea of a large crate destined for Robin Masters leads Magnum into a bizarre situation involving a wealthy Japanese businessman, his errant daughter and a fortune in pearls.

  

Episode 45 - Season 3, Episode 5: Past Tense

When TC's chopper, in which Higgins is a passenger, is hi-jacked for use in a spectacular prison break, it begins a dangerous chain of events for Magnum.

  

Episode 46 - Season 3, Episode 6: Black On White

Higgins is on the hit list of African Mau-Mau warriors who are seeking bloody revenge on all ex-British soldiers in Higgins' old regiment.

  

Episode 47 - Season 3, Episode 7: Flashback

A perplexed Magnum finds himself trapped in a time warp while attempting to clear a union leader accused of murdering a construction magnate.

  

Episode 48 - Season 3, Episode 8: Foiled Again

An apparent freak fencing accident puts Higgins in jail for murder and Magnum on the trail of the real killer.

  

Episode 49 - Season 3, Episode 9: Mr. White Death

Academy Award winner Ernest Borgnine is a special guest star playing Earl Gianelli, an aged wrestler who hires Magnum to find his long lost son which puts the private investigator on a bloody trail of revenge.

  

Episode 50 - Season 3, Episode 10: Mixed Doubles

Hired to protect a young tennis star, whose off-court behavior leaves much to be desired, Magnum finds his loyalties strained when a prime suspect turns out to be an old and dear friend.

  

Episode 51 - Season 3, Episode 11: Almost Home

Magnum is hired by a cocktail waitress who has been refused permission to scatter her dead father's ashes at Pearl Harbor, and wants Magnum to help her overcome Navy red tape.

  

Episode 52 - Season 3, Episode 12: Heal Thyself

Magnum offers to help a former Army nurse, now a doctor, who is accused of murdering three patients under her care.

  

Episode 53 - Season 3, Episode 13: Of Sound Mind

A wealthy, much-hated practical joker caps his career by leaving Magnum over fifty million dollars in his will, much to the chagrin and potential enmity of his money-hungry relations.

  

Episode 54 - Season 3, Episode 14: Arrow That Is Not Aimed

When a valuable artifact entrusted to a modern day Samurai warrior is stolen, Magnum becomes involved in a culture and a way of life that hasn't altered in centuries.

  

Episode 55 - Season 3, Episode 15: Basket Case

With both Magnum and TC sponsoring youth basketball teams, their rivalry comes to a head with the appearance of a 13-year-old basketball whiz, Willie Hitchinson.

  

Episode 56 - Season 3, Episode 16: Birdman of Budapest

A vicious macaw, trained to attack, is only one of the problems facing Magnum when an elderly woman claiming to be Robin Master's former high school English teacher arrives at the estate to write a book on ornithologists.

  

Episode 57 - Season 3, Episode 17: I Do?

The president of a family owned business hires Magnum to ferret out the dishonest activities of his nephew, who is supposedly stealing from the company.

  

Episode 58 - Season 3, Episode 18: Forty Years from Sand Island

When Higgins is involved in a dangerous accident, Magnum's investigation leads to a murder that occurred forty years ago in a Japanese internment camp.

  

Episode 59 - Season 3, Episode 19: Legacy from a Friend

Magnum is pleased to see his friend, Marcus, driving a new expensive sports car but the pleasure turns to dismay when Marcus' battered body is discovered in the surf.

  

Episode 60 - Season 3, Episode 20: Two Birds of a Feather

A customized plane, being piloted to Hawaii by Sam Houston Hunter, a Vietnam vet, crashes in the tidal pool at Robin's Nest and everyone assumes it was insufficient gas and pilot error that caused it.

  

Episode 61 - Season 3, Episode 21: ...By Its Cover

Conned by an old friend, Magnum and TC agree to deliver a set of encyclopedias, not knowing that the knowledge contained within is a large marijuana drop.

  

Episode 62 - Season 3, Episode 22: The Big Blow

It's an ill wind that proves prophetic when a tropical hurricane unleashes its fury on the evening of a very important social event.

  

Episode 63 - Season 3, Episode 23: Faith and Begorrah

John Hillerman, who stars as Higgins, also guest stars as Father Paddy MacGuiness, an impoverished Irish priest who is Higgins' illegitimate half-brother.

  

Episode 64 - Season 4, Episode 1: Home from the Sea

Magnum is caught in a treacherous current when his surf ski is capsized miles from shore with near disastrous results.

  

Episode 65 - Season 4, Episode 2: Luther Gillis: File #521

Magnum joins forces with a hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis whey they find themselves investigating the same case but from opposite ends of the spectrum.

  

Episode 66 - Season 4, Episode 3: Smaller than Life

Magnum and Rick discover that trouble comes in all shapes and sizes.

  

Episode 67 - Season 4, Episode 4: Distant Relative

Magnum does not count on murder when he chaperones Rick's convent-school sister on a night on the town.

  

Episode 68 - Season 4, Episode 5: Limited Engagement

Hired to investigate a strange series of robberies, Magnum's gallantry comes to the fore when two seemingly helpless, but independent elderly ladies are involved in an accident.

  

Episode 69 - Season 4, Episode 6: Letter to a Duchess

A flowery note of admiration from Higgins to a titles English woman, traveling the Islands incognito, is mistakenly attributed to Magnum.

  

Episode 70 - Season 4, Episode 7: Squeeze Play

Robin's Nest may be lost to Magnum and Higgins unless the local softball team can beat high-powered tycoon Buzz Benoit's players.

  

Episode 71 - Season 4, Episode 8: A Sense of Debt

TC puts life and limb on the line when he enters the boxing ring to repay an old debt.

  

Episode 72 - Season 4, Episode 9: The Look

Saigon's most popular disc jockey arrives in Honolulu and Magnum discovers she is the victim of vicious phone calls and threats.

  

Episode 73 - Season 4, Episode 10: Operation: Silent Night

Magnum, Rick, Higgins and TC spend an unexpected Christmas Eve on a remote island used by the military for gunnery practice.

  

Episode 74 - Season 4, Episode 11: Jororo Farewell

Magnum befriends the young Price of Jororo who is the target of terrorists.

  

Episode 75 - Season 4, Episode 12: The Case of the Red Faced Thespian

Magnum must utilize his deductive powers when a lavish costume party becomes the scene of a baffling murder.

  

Episode 76 - Season 4, Episode 13: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Magnum and Higgins' friend, Carol - now a Deputy District Attorney - cons them into helping her set up a sting operation.

  

Episode 77 - Season 4, Episode 14: Rembrandt's Girl

Susan Johnson (played by Carol Burnett) is a bank teller who, desperate to hire Magnum, locks the two of them in a time-released bank vault.

  

Episode 78 - Season 4, Episode 15: Paradise Blues

An old friend from Magnum and TC's Vietnam days turns up in Hawaii asking for their help.

  

Episode 79 - Season 4, Episode 16: The Return of Luther Gillis

Magnum finds himself working with anachronistic gumshoe Luther Gillis again after someone kidnaps Higgins and Luther's secretary.

  

Episode 80 - Season 4, Episode 17: Let the Punishment Fit Crime

A young woman who persuades Magnum to look for her brother also finagles a role in Higgins' musical production for a visiting British politician.

  

Episode 81 - Season 4, Episode 18: Holmes Is Where Heart Is

A former British secret agent and old friend of Higgins arrives in Honolulu imagining himself as Sherlock Holmes.

  

Episode 82 - Season 4, Episode 19: On Face Value

A freak accident, occurring while Magnum is in hot pursuit of suspects causes traumatic injuries for an innocent bystander.

  

Episode 83 - Season 4, Episode 20: Dream a Little Dream

Magnum has feelings of déjà vu when he meets a young woman, who is a contestant in a Surf-Out held on Hawaii's North Shore.

  

Episode 84 - Season 4, Episode 21: I Witness

The King of Kamehameha Club is robbed by masked gunmen and the three principal eye witnesses - Higgins, T.C. and Rick - have decidedly different views of what happened.

  

Episode 85 - Season 5, Episode 1: Echoes of the Mind, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. Magnum is caught between danger and intrigue as a frightened lady, who believes her life is in danger, involves him in a bizarre situation, in the first of a special two part episode.

  

Episode 86 - Season 5, Episode 2: Echoes of the Mind, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. Magnum finds himself torn between twin sisters as his involvement with one brings him into conflict with the other, in the conclusion of the two part special.

  

Episode 87 - Season 5, Episode 3: Mac's Back

Magnum seems to be lost between reality and fantasy, past and present, when he is convinced that he has seen an old friend, Mac, very much alive, walking the streets of Honolulu.

  

Episode 88 - Season 5, Episode 4: The Legacy of Garwood Huddle

A reluctant Magnum agrees to help a friend of Higgins to find the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping of his grandchild.

  

Episode 89 - Season 5, Episode 5: Under World

TC's chopper is about to touch down at the helipad when he loses control over it and plunges into the sea.

  

Episode 90 - Season 5, Episode 6: Fragments

Laura Griffin, a young woman with amazing psychic abilities, hires Magnum to investigate her own murder.

  

Episode 91 - Season 5, Episode 7: Blind Justice

Magnum is working on a case for assistant D.A. Carol and is forced to face a difficult dilemma concerning the guilt of innocence of the suspected murdered who is guilty of another crime.

  

Episode 92 - Season 5, Episode 8: Murder 101

Magnum is very enthusiastic about his new project, teaching a class at the University about private investigation. The class is small but interest is great about everyone helps a student investigate the strange behavior of her fiancé.

  

Episode 93 - Season 5, Episode 9: Tran Quoc Jones

Magnum tries to help a young Amerasian boy find his long lost G.I. father and ends up in the middle of political corruption and mob intrigue.

  

Episode 94 - Season 5, Episode 10: Luther Gillis: File #001

While Magnum is preoccupied with a very difficult case, help arrives just in time in the person of Luther Gillis, the hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis.

  

Episode 95 - Season 5, Episode 11: Kiss of the Sabre

Magnum is displaced from the guest house when an overly imaginative novelist, who suffers from a sever case of writer's block, becomes suspiciously interested and involved in his latest case.

  

Episode 96 - Season 5, Episode 12: Little Games

A very attractive security expert brings out the romantic in Magnum when she is hired to help protect Robin's Nest during a jewelry exhibit worth millions of dollars.

  

Episode 97 - Season 5, Episode 13: Professor Jonathan Higgins

Higgins is very pleased with the prospect of his distant cousin's arrival. She is to marry the heir of an old Hawaiian family but turns out to be a true punk rocker.

  

Episode 98 - Season 5, Episode 14: Compulsion

Magnum investigates a case which involves his friend Carol who works for the D.A. and who is about to testify against a man sent to prison by her father while Higgins struggles with the truth during a visit of former Sandhurst friends.

  

Episode 99 - Season 5, Episode 15: All for One, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. Magnum and his friends, including Higgins, help a former Vietnam buddy to find a mutual friend being held prisoner in Cambodia.

  

Episode 100 - Season 5, Episode 16: All for One, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. While in Cambodia on a rescue mission of an old Army buddy, Magnum, Higgins, Rick and TC realize that their lives are on the line because of great danger and deceit.

  

Episode 101 - Season 5, Episode 17: The Love-For-Sale Boat

Rick is the target of yet another of Mac's schemes but this time Mac goes too far, endangering everyone's life with his fantastic plan.

  

Episode 102 - Season 5, Episode 18: Let Me Hear the Music

Lacy Fletcher seeks Magnum's help to unearth five songs which has been written by the legendary George Lee Jessup for the woman he loves before he died 25 years ago.

  

Episode 103 - Season 5, Episode 19: Ms. Jones

After Magnum has just been put through the wringer at the Hall of Records, he is very reluctant but finally agrees to help one of the clerks, a woman named Ms. Jones, who is looking for her missing husband.

  

Episode 104 - Season 5, Episode 20: The Man from Marseilles

A distinguished Frenchman contacts Magnum and asks for his help in supposedly finding a missing heir.

  

Episode 105 - Season 5, Episode 21: Torah, Torah, Torah

Danger and death are the overtones that result from a simple visit with Rabbi Asher Solomon when he arrives in Hawaii.

  

Episode 106 - Season 5, Episode 22: A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken

Magnum goes undercover and into a prison farm to find Darryl Jacobs who is the last person and former boyfriend of a missing young girl.

  

Episode 107 - Season 6, Episode 1: Déjà Vu, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. Magnum and Higgins are on their way to London to attend to urgent business for Robin Masters and find themselves stirring up the past.

  

Episode 108 - Season 6, Episode 2: Déjà Vu, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. Magnum and Higgins are on their way to London to attend to urgent business for Robin Masters and find themselves stirring up the past.

  

Episode 109 - Season 6, Episode 3: Old Acquaintance

Magnum welcomes a former high school friend who enlists his help to rescue a highly trained dolphin.

  

Episode 110 - Season 6, Episode 4: The Kona Winds

After saving Lauren Henderson from nearly drowning, Magnum falls in love with her and is drawn into a difficult situation.

  

Episode 111 - Season 6, Episode 5: The Hotel Dick

Magnum's services are enlisted during the imminent opening of an International Convention of Jewelry Designers at an Island hotel.

  

Episode 112 - Season 6, Episode 6: Round and Around

Magnum discovers that the death of TC's good friend was accidental.

  

Episode 113 - Season 6, Episode 7: Going Home

Magnum returns home after 13 years to attend his beloved grandfather's funeral.

  

Episode 114 - Season 6, Episode 8: Paniolo

Magnum discovers that cattle rustlers abound on the Island of Hawaii.

  

Episode 115 - Season 6, Episode 9: The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u

Magnum is hired to work with a representative of a publishing company to supervise a treasure hunt.

  

Episode 116 - Season 6, Episode 10: Blood and Honor

Magnum sees to it that a leak in the security system of a U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor is eliminated.

  

Episode 117 - Season 6, Episode 11: Rapture

Magnum becomes obsessed with finding a boy he thinks he has seen while scuba diving in Hawaiian waters.

  

Episode 118 - Season 6, Episode 12: I Never Wanted to Go to France, Anyway...

Bizarre accidents overshadow the glitter and glamour of carnival on the island.

  

Episode 119 - Season 6, Episode 13: Summer School

Magnum is the target of racketeers who want him dead and Robin Masters' nephew impersonates him, with very dangerous consequences.

  

Episode 120 - Season 6, Episode 14: Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Magnum decides to investigate the mystery surrounding Higgins' sudden departure from Robin's Nest.

  

Episode 121 - Season 6, Episode 15: All Thieves On Deck

Magnum, TC, Rick and Higgins must guard the statuette of a priceless Hawaiian Family God on route to the Hilo Museum.

  

Episode 122 - Season 6, Episode 16: This Island Isn't Big Enough...

When Rick's boat returns from a cruise empty, Magnum, TC and Higgins go in search of Rick and his passengers who are presumed dead.

  

Episode 123 - Season 6, Episode 17: Way of the Stalking Horse

Magnum tastes death when he is set up by a hit man.

  

Episode 124 - Season 6, Episode 18: Find Me a Rainbow

While searching for a missing boy, Magnum comes across a black market baby business.

  

Episode 125 - Season 6, Episode 19: Who Is Don Luis and Why Is Doing Terrible Things to Me?

Higgins must cope with a visiting dignitary, an invitational chess tournament and the appearance of his flamboyant half brother.

  

Episode 126 - Season 6, Episode 20: A Little Bit of Luck...A Little Bit of Grief

Friendships are tested when Rick becomes a million dollar lottery winner while TC and Magnum fight the destruction of TC's club house for underprivileged and troubled kids.

  

Episode 127 - Season 6, Episode 21: Photo Play

Magnum's encounter with a photographer uncovers an embezzler long thought dead.

  

Episode 128 - Season 7, Episode 1: L.A., Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. In the two part season opener, a routine business trip brings Magnum a new love enveloped in a deadly duel involving politics and drugs.

  

Episode 129 - Season 7, Episode 2: L.A., Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. In the two part season opener, a routine business trip brings Magnum a new love enveloped in a deadly duel involving politics and drugs.

  

Episode 130 - Season 7, Episode 3: One Picture Is Worth...

Magnum is hired to protect a deaf woman who is a famous artist, as well as the only eyewitness to a bank robbery and murder.

  

Episode 131 - Season 7, Episode 4: Straight and Narrow

Magnum helps an ex-call girl find her missing sister who is involved with powerful political figures.

  

Episode 132 - Season 7, Episode 5: A.A.P.I.

Magnum is elected Local P.I. of the Year, yet his award presentation as well as his investigation into a murder is hindered by the intervention of Luther Gillis and Tracy Spencer.

  

Episode 133 - Season 7, Episode 6: Death and Taxes

Magnum becomes the obsession and medium for a crazed killer who works though nursery rhymes.

  

Episode 134 - Season 7, Episode 7: Little Girl Who

Magnum must help his ex-wife Michelle and her daughter to freedom before they are assassinated.

  

Episode 135 - Season 7, Episode 8: Paper War

Magnum is trying to break a major gambling ring in the Islands while he and Higgins are feuding.

  

Episode 136 - Season 7, Episode 9: Novel Connection

An attempt is made on the lives of Robin's guests and Magnum is upset that one guest wants mainland investigator Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury in her "Murder, She Wrote" role) to handle the case.

  

Episode 137 - Season 7, Episode 10: Kapu

Magnum is wounded while saving a young Hawaiian woman from a hired killer.

  

Episode 138 - Season 7, Episode 11: Missing Melody

TC's daughter is abducted during a visit to the estate.

  

Episode 139 - Season 7, Episode 12: Death of the Flowers

The murder of Carol's mentor, Judge Kearns (Michael Constantine), raises suspicion that he may have been involved in taking payoffs. With Kathleen Lloyd.

  

Episode 140 - Season 7, Episode 13: Autumn Warrior

A survival trip for Higgins and a group of boys from prison camp tests Higgins' skills in the survival of the fittest.

  

Episode 141 - Season 7, Episode 14: Murder By Night

A murder in the 1940's revolves around a cast of characters which resemble Magnum, TC, Rick and Higgins in the manner of the old fashioned detective novels.

  

Episode 142 - Season 7, Episode 15: On the Fly

A case of mistaken identity leaves Magnum hunted by a Mexican mafia boss.

  

Episode 143 - Season 7, Episode 16: Solo Flight

Magnum reviews his mortality, his last case and his friends while trapped under an airplane wreckage on a remote mountain.

  

Episode 144 - Season 7, Episode 17: Forty

About to turn forty, Magnum loses his lucky $2 bill and falls for a television reporter who may be connected to a case he is working on in Chinatown.

  

Episode 145 - Season 7, Episode 18: Laura

Magnum works with Michael Doheny, a retired policeman, who is searching for the man who murdered his granddaughter.

  

Episode 146 - Season 7, Episode 19: Out of Sync

Magnums weekend with Cynthia, his supposed fiancée, is interrupted by an actress claiming a movie producer murders girls in his pornographic movies.

  

Episode 147 - Season 7, Episode 20: The Aunt Who Came to Dinner

Magnum has a visit from his famous Aunt Phoebe, a prize-winning playwright and he soon learns she is suffering from Alzheimer's Disease.

  

Episode 148 - Season 7, Episode 21: The People vs. Orville Wright

Rick is arrested for allegedly killing a hit man contracted to murder Icepick.

  

Episode 149 - Season 7, Episode 22: Limbo

Magnum finds his spirit in a state of 'limbo' following a shoot-out which leaves him in a coma.

  

Episode 150 - Season 8, Episode 1: Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts

Can Magnum's family and friends help him out of limbo? Can he get himself out? Magnum is caught between life and death on the season premiere.

  

Episode 151 - Season 8, Episode 2: Pleasure Principle

If clothes make the man, Higgins is in for a swinging time while Magnum takes on a more dignified hue, complicating more than their respective daily routines on the estate.

  

Episode 152 - Season 8, Episode 3: Innocence… A Broad

Magnum gains a lovely assistant while working on a case for Higgins which exposes the inner workings of a dangerous mob figure.

  

Episode 153 - Season 8, Episode 4: Tigers Fan

Magnum investigates the death of a close friend, a lieutenant who may have been involved in illicit activities.

  

Episode 154 - Season 8, Episode 5: Forever in Time

While helping Higgins with a pageant for the Hawaiian Historical Society, Magnum becomes infatuated with an ethereal and elusive local beauty, bringing danger to them both.

  

Episode 155 - Season 8, Episode 6: The Love That Lies

Magnum becomes embroiled in Carol Baldwin's professional and private life which puts his investigative skills on a sensitive course.

  

Episode 156 - Season 8, Episode 7: A Girl Named Sue

Multi-Emmy Award winner Carol Burnett reprises her role of bank teller Susan Johnson, recently turned private investigator, whose path collided with Magnum once before.

  

Episode 157 - Season 8, Episode 8: Unfinished Business

When the indictment against Quang Ki in his attempt to murder Magnum is dismissed, it becomes evident that the villain will stop at nothing to place Magnum's former wife and daughter in deadly jeopardy.

  

Episode 158 - Season 8, Episode 9: The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company

Magnum's enthusiasm for a lucrative business deal is put on the back burner when TC's son lands in jail.

  

Episode 159 - Season 8, Episode 10: Legend of the Lost Art

A priceless ancient scroll is the object of a search Magnum conducts at Higgins' request, and that could lead him to certain death.

  

Episode 160 - Season 8, Episode 11: Transitions

Higgins is stalked by a mysterious killer whose game plan is to obtain Robin Masters' newest manuscript, and Luther Gillis, the St. Louis private eye, helps to muddy mysterious waters with his unwanted assistance.

  

Episode 161 - Season 8, Episode 12: Resolutions, Pt. 1

Part 1 of 2. While visiting his family in Virginia, Magnum receives an alarming phone call which sends him back to Hawaii to find romance, suspense and danger in a special two-hour finale.

  

Episode 162 - Season 8, Episode 13: Resolutions, Pt. 2

Part 2 of 2. While visiting his family in Virginia, Magnum receives an alarming phone call which sends him back to Hawaii to find romance, suspense and danger in a special two-hour finale.

  



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