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!
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 ..
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 don’t recall the year but my mother and father were on their motorcycle in Nevada somewhere and were passed by a Ferrari like the one in magnum. My mom swore it was Tom Selleck driving with a very short petite woman in the passenger seat. We later learned that this was at the time he had just got married. Also seems that he did get one of the cars used on the show.
#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.
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.
this is happening on so many channels now. Is it a RUclips thing or just more and more channels have to do quick fixes and reupload to avoid strikes? In any case, I will let this play on mute in another tab to give our boy, Minty the view. :)
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 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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 🇬🇧🇬🇧
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. 🤯
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.
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
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:07 🕵️♂️ *Introduction to Magnum PI* - Overview of Magnum PI as one of the coolest TV shows of the '80s. - Brief description of Tom Selleck's character, Thomas Magnum, a private investigator in Oahu, Hawaii. - Mention of the show's iconic elements, including the red Ferrari and Hawaiian shirts. 01:49 🚫 *Magnum PI Initial Cancellation* - Magnum PI faced initial cancellation challenges. - Glenn A. Larson's involvement and the cancellation by ABC. - The show's revival and success with CBS. 05:39 🤵♂️ *Tom Selleck's Almost Role as Indiana Jones* - Tom Selleck was initially cast for Indiana Jones. - Selleck's conflict with filming commitments. - Selleck's subsequent success with Magnum PI. 07:15 🔄 *Magnum PI Set Recycles Hawaii 5-0* - Most of Magnum PI shot on location in Hawaii. - Recycled sets and pieces from Hawaii 5-0. - Attempts to involve Jack Lord from Hawaii 5-0 in Magnum PI. 08:39 🔄 *Shared Universes in Magnum PI* - Magnum PI's shared universe with Hawaii 5-0, Murder She Wrote, and Simon and Simon. - Mention of crossovers with Angela Lansbury, Simon and Simon, and the proposed Quantum Leap crossover. - The delightfully random nature of these crossovers. 10:19 🌟 *Famous Guest Stars in Magnum PI* - A lineup of regular and likable characters. - Mention of guest stars including Frank Sinatra, Sharon Stone, Ted Danson, and more. - The diverse and random lineup of guest stars. 11:44 🇺🇸 *Positive Representation of Vietnam Vets* - Magnum PI's positive representation of Vietnam Vets. - Depiction of Thomas Magnum as a normal, mentally adjusted vet. - Contrast with the media's portrayal of Vietnam Vets in that era. 13:18 🎵 *Success of Magnum PI Theme Song* - Discussion on the show's theme songs and composers. - Comparison of the original and new theme tunes. - Mike Post's contribution and the theme's popularity. 15:25 ⬇️ *Magnum PI's Decline and Cancellation* - Magnum PI's decline in viewership over seasons. - Attempts to boost views by moving the show and Selleck becoming a producer. - The show's final season and eventual cancellation. 17:14 🚫 *Failed Movie and Revived Series* - Discussion of attempts to bring back Magnum PI as a movie. - Tom Clancy's script and Universal Pictures' lack of faith. - The 2018 reboot of Magnum PI with Jay Hernandez. Made with HARPA AI
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 ...
Oh wow I think I'm having some very 80's deja vu
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.
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!!
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 was my favorite show as a little kid, and probably one of the reasons I ended up joining the Marines.
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
@@jonathanturner4220 Right? 😏
Okay, let's do this again, Minty. Still a good one.
He fixed the “Angelica Lansbury” line.
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 ..
Magnum P.I. was so awesome, its '10 Things' had to be uploaded twice ...
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.
Magnum and PI‘s Jimmy was the best. Bring it back GMC
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
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).
I always liked helicopter as a kid growing up.
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 😉😉
I loved this show and still think it’s one of the best series to ever be broadcast.
That theme song is so iconic. And 6'4" Tom Selleck makes that Ferrari look like a go-kart.
"That's some bad shirt Minty" 🤣
Must be a Groundhog day gag. 😎
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
Getting a super case of Deja vu
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.
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!
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.
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.
You should do Airwolf! Great 80’s show!
with yet another great theme song
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.
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.
Magnum so good, minty uploaded the video twice😊
i noticed that too lol
Didn't I just watch this? Cheers, from the USA!
Nobody dresses like James Bond in Hawaii.
I couldn't imagine how how that would be.
Just the episode we needed from Minty😊👍🏻
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'm sure I watched this about 3 days ago... why the re-upload Minty? Oh BTW, noticeably absent was the helicopter death scandal??
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.
A salute to Mr Glen A. Larson who produced so many iconic series we do enjoy.
That red Ferrari got made into a Transformer mostly because of Magnum PI. Awesome video.
One of the legendary TV characters of all time, cool video as always Minty, you take care sir
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.
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.
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.
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.
Fantasy island would be a good one to do
Watched both times 👍🏻. I think I've watched every episode with my mother. Great series.
Oh god, I thought you were just taking the piss with the MacGyver comment, I didnt realise they HAD done it.
I am guessing the music got him busted since it is not the real music in this re-upload.
good catch
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.
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 don’t recall the year but my mother and father were on their motorcycle in Nevada somewhere and were passed by a Ferrari like the one in magnum. My mom swore it was Tom Selleck driving with a very short petite woman in the passenger seat. We later learned that this was at the time he had just got married. Also seems that he did get one of the cars used on the show.
#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.
Thank you for doing a lot of my 80s movies!
Aye, that old chestnut again (music) 🙄 glad I got to watch the original video.
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.
From what's happened to indie, now with Disney he dodged a bullet
I love your channel! It’s refreshing. Something completely different from 99% of the other channels.
I would've loved to have seen a Magnum P.I. Movie.
You know if someone has an amazing mustache they’re either a serial killer or they’re Tom Selleck
That Ferrari is my favorite car of the 80’s because of this show
Great video. Can't wait to see your take on Hill Street Blues, just for the list of guest stars alone!
this is happening on so many channels now. Is it a RUclips thing or just more and more channels have to do quick fixes and reupload to avoid strikes?
In any case, I will let this play on mute in another tab to give our boy, Minty the view. :)
Was a fun clean show with nice everything in site.
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 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.
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💁🏻♂.
At 4:28, he's racking an empty weapon, and exercising horrible trigger dicipline with his finger on the trigger.
One of my fav shows of all time!!
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.
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!
Assume music got tge video demonetised? Miss that Magnum P.I. theme though.
Oh wait, it's still in it? What was changed in the reupload then?
Probably shortened the playing time of the music
BTW Minty,
I only been on three episodes for season 5 of the Magnum P.I. reboot.
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.
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.
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 Chopper crashed on the Big Island Back in the 90s
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 🇬🇧🇬🇧
Great comment about not bothering to watch the reboot. Very cool.
Magnum is better than any show airing on TV today
Another Viet Nam Vet TV show star is Angus MacGyver. It is pointed out in several episodes that he was EOD in Nam.
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. 🤯
It's one of the best TV shows of the 80s
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.
Whoa! Look at the rump on Selleck!
"The guy" you quoted from JAWS was Peter Benchley, the author of the book the movie was based on.
No comments about the ALMOST series finale at the end of the 7th season?
Remember the commercial teasing up to season eight with the cast doing a seance?
Did you see the sunrise? A two parter episode was the best ever 📺👌👌👌
Wow. I love the not so subtle dig at the Indiana Jones movies.😂 True though. As always, great video Minty.
I watched it again for ya 😉. Great show and great episode so it was worth it.
Loved this one. You should try to do one on the Hunter tv series of the 80s.
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
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:07 🕵️♂️ *Introduction to Magnum PI*
- Overview of Magnum PI as one of the coolest TV shows of the '80s.
- Brief description of Tom Selleck's character, Thomas Magnum, a private investigator in Oahu, Hawaii.
- Mention of the show's iconic elements, including the red Ferrari and Hawaiian shirts.
01:49 🚫 *Magnum PI Initial Cancellation*
- Magnum PI faced initial cancellation challenges.
- Glenn A. Larson's involvement and the cancellation by ABC.
- The show's revival and success with CBS.
05:39 🤵♂️ *Tom Selleck's Almost Role as Indiana Jones*
- Tom Selleck was initially cast for Indiana Jones.
- Selleck's conflict with filming commitments.
- Selleck's subsequent success with Magnum PI.
07:15 🔄 *Magnum PI Set Recycles Hawaii 5-0*
- Most of Magnum PI shot on location in Hawaii.
- Recycled sets and pieces from Hawaii 5-0.
- Attempts to involve Jack Lord from Hawaii 5-0 in Magnum PI.
08:39 🔄 *Shared Universes in Magnum PI*
- Magnum PI's shared universe with Hawaii 5-0, Murder She Wrote, and Simon and Simon.
- Mention of crossovers with Angela Lansbury, Simon and Simon, and the proposed Quantum Leap crossover.
- The delightfully random nature of these crossovers.
10:19 🌟 *Famous Guest Stars in Magnum PI*
- A lineup of regular and likable characters.
- Mention of guest stars including Frank Sinatra, Sharon Stone, Ted Danson, and more.
- The diverse and random lineup of guest stars.
11:44 🇺🇸 *Positive Representation of Vietnam Vets*
- Magnum PI's positive representation of Vietnam Vets.
- Depiction of Thomas Magnum as a normal, mentally adjusted vet.
- Contrast with the media's portrayal of Vietnam Vets in that era.
13:18 🎵 *Success of Magnum PI Theme Song*
- Discussion on the show's theme songs and composers.
- Comparison of the original and new theme tunes.
- Mike Post's contribution and the theme's popularity.
15:25 ⬇️ *Magnum PI's Decline and Cancellation*
- Magnum PI's decline in viewership over seasons.
- Attempts to boost views by moving the show and Selleck becoming a producer.
- The show's final season and eventual cancellation.
17:14 🚫 *Failed Movie and Revived Series*
- Discussion of attempts to bring back Magnum PI as a movie.
- Tom Clancy's script and Universal Pictures' lack of faith.
- The 2018 reboot of Magnum PI with Jay Hernandez.
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The old Magum P.I. is better than the newer one
Hay minty can you please Priscilla queen of the desert
That was a movie I haven’t heard someone mention in a long while! I remember it was hilarious!
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.