Magnum, P.I.
CBS (ended 1988)
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Season 8
- Ep 13Resolutions (Part II)5/1/88
As Rick's wedding looms ever closer, Magnum continues surveillance on Linda to catch the psychopathic killer who is stalking her, gets news about his theory that Higgins is really Robin Masters, and learns the true fate of Lily. T.C. faces a reconciliation with his estranged wife. - Ep 12Resolutions5/1/88
Magnum ponders his future while paying a visit to his family in Virginia, where he unexpectedly meets his grandfather and considers an offer to be reinstated to the Navy, but returns to Hawaii to ascertain whether former girlfriend Linda Lee Ellison is being stalked. Rick prepares for his wedding to Cleo.moreless - Ep 11Transitions2/17/88
When Higgins asks Magnum's help in finding Robin's latest manuscript after it is stolen, a vacationing Luther Gillis lends a hand to help crack the case. - Ep 10Legend of the Lost Art2/10/88
Higgins wants Magnum to find the "Lost Art of the Ancients", a priceless ancient scroll from a fallen civilization, that could spell disaster if it should ever fall into the wrong hands. But an old flame of Magnum's, a foreign double agent, and a ruthless rival of Higgins' are all out to find the scroll as well.moreless - Ep 9The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company1/27/88
Thomas is trying to get Rick, T.C. and Higgins interested in joining him in a potentially lucrative new tourist business venture. But his friends all have other things on their minds, especially T.C., who puts thoughts of the deal on the back-burner when his son Bryant lands in trouble with the police after becoming mixed up with a juvenile biker gang.moreless - Ep 8Unfinished Business1/20/88
When Quang Ki, who attempted to kill both Magnum and his family, is suddenly acquitted, Magnum suspects there's been outside intervention and realizes he may have to take matters in his own hands. - Ep 7A Girl Named Sue1/13/88
Magnum and Susan Johnson—whom he was once locked in a bank vault with—discover they're working the same case, but each hired by a different sibling who accuses the other of having their father killed. - Ep 6The Love That Lies11/18/87
Magnum is trying to protect Carol, who is in the middle of a particularly controversial court case, when he is hired by a woman from the mainland to help locate the birth certificate for the child she gave up for adoption 30 years ago. - Ep 5Forever in Time11/11/87
Magnum catches sight of a woman attending a funeral who, he soon learns, resembles a beautiful Hawaiian princess who tragically died in a fire in 1910. He becomes enamored with the elusive beauty, and the mystery deepens when he's sent a locket holding photographs of what looks like himself and the princess.moreless - Ep 4Tigers Fan11/4/87
Lieutenant Tanaka is murdered while working undercover, but the official police report states that Tanaka died in a car accident, leaving Magnum to figure out exactly what's being covered-up and why. - Ep 3Innocence... A Broad10/28/87
Robin Masters is sued by a man who tripped at a recent party on the estate. As Magnum begins to investigate the man, who seems to be a professional at making false claims, a loud-mouth businessman for whom T.C. is piloting pays Magnum to take his perky fiance along on the case with him.moreless - Ep 2Pleasure Principle10/14/87
Still healing from his near-death ordeal, Magnum is surprised when Higgins hands over his estate duties to be able to take some time off and starts living the fast and loose life, becoming much more like Magnum in the process and leaving Magnum to determine what's caused this shift in personality.moreless - Ep 1Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts10/7/87
As Magnum's friends and family attempt to pull him out of the limbo in which he is trapped, he has an out-of-body experience in which he sees himself in heaven, guided by Mac.
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Season 7
- Ep 22Limbo4/15/87
Magnum, gravely wounded in a gunfight, lies in a coma and discovers he is not deadbut also not aliveand needs to help Michelle, who is in danger and being chased by killers. He meets up with the ghost of his former Naval buddy, Mac, and says good-bye to all his friends and how important they are all to him, in case he does not survive.moreless - Ep 21The People vs. Orville Wright4/1/87
When Rick is arrested for the murder of a hitman that was contracted to kill Ice Pick, Magnum finds himself in the midst of a tangled investigation, especially trying to figure out why Rick has confessed. - Ep 20The Aunt Who Came to Dinner3/18/87
Magnum gets a surprise when his aunt, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Phoebe Sullivan, pays an unexpected visit to Hawaii from New York, looking for his help as she's convinced that someone is trying to kill her for it, and that they have trailed her to the Islands. - Ep 19Out of Sync3/11/87
Cynthia Farrell comes to Hawaii to see Magnum, and to see if the two can recapture the magic of their relationship in L.A., but when Magnum is hired by an adult film star, he spends more time looking after his case than he does Cynthia. - Ep 18Laura2/25/87
Rick persuades Thomas to take a high-reward, low-effort missing person case, but the man paying for the case is actually a New York City cop whose true motive for finding this person isn't what he's claimed it is. - Ep 17Forty2/11/87
Magnum's loss of his lucky $2 on his 40th birthday leads to his discovery of a gang shaking down local merchants and his falling for a reporter with a tie to that very gang. - Ep 16Solo Flight2/4/87
Magnum decides to get away from various problems by going on a solo hike, without telling anyone where he is headed. But on the climb, and already suffering from a centipede bite, he becomes trapped under the wreckage of an old World War II fighter plane he discovers and faces the prospect that he may die there.moreless - Ep 15On the Fly1/21/87
T.C. gets caught in the crossfire when someone guns for Magnum after Mac impersonated him when trying to blackmail a high-powered Mexican criminal. - Ep 14Murder by Night1/14/87
In 1940s San Francisco, Private Investigator Thomas S. Magnum investigates the murder of newspaper tycoon William Maxfield in a case that involves characters that strangely bear a strong resemblance to (modern day) Magnum, T.C., Higgins, and Rick. - Ep 13Autumn Warrior12/17/86
Higgins' survivalist trip with some young offenders turns to a trip for pure survival when an escape attempt goes wrong and he finds himself hunted by the trio. Back at the Robin's Nest, Magnum—with Rick and T.C.—plans to take advantage of Higgins' absence by holding a big party. - Ep 12Death of the Flowers12/10/86
A judge who's been Carol's mentor turns up dead after she and Magnum suspect him of taking bribes, and their investigation turns up a link to Ice Pick. - Ep 11Missing Melody12/3/86
Magnum suspects the boyfriend of T.C.'s ex-wife may have something to do with the airport kidnapping of T.C.'s daughter, Melody. - Ep 10Kapu11/26/86
Injured while helping rescue a young girl who witnessed a murder, Magnum wakes up on a remote island with only a hazy memory of what transpired. - Ep 9Novel Connection11/19/86
Higgins is driving Pamela Batesan old editor friend of Robin Masters'along with her friend, and her secretary, to the Estate, when someone tries to run them off the road and over a cliff. But it seems that it's not a case for Magnum, as Pamela insists on waiting for her own mainland investigator friend to arrive and look into it: Jessica Fletcher.moreless - Ep 8Paper War11/12/86
Magnum finds himself dealing with both an increasingly hostile set of pranks pulled by him and Higgins against one another and his investigation into a crooked gambling operation. - Ep 7Little Girl Who11/5/86
Magnum's ex-wife, Michelle, leaves her five-year-old daughter with him for safekeeping as she escapes Vietnamese assassins out to kill her and her husband, General Hue. As he watches over the child, he begins to wonder why Michelle has suddenly left Lily with him and if Lily is his own daughter. - Ep 6Death and Taxes10/29/86
Magnum is taunted by phone calls from a killer who doles out nursery rhyme clues to his upcoming murders. - Ep 5A.A.P.I.10/22/86
At the 14th Annual Convention of Private Investigators, Magnum is to receive the 'Local P.I. of the Year' award, but the event is brought to a halt when Jean Claude Fornier, the famous French Detective, suddenly drops dead while giving a speechafter being poisonedand everyone in the room wants to be the one to solve the case.moreless - Ep 4Straight and Narrow10/15/86
Leslie Emery, a former call girl whom Magnum met when he was working as a hotel detective, wants to hire him to help her find her missing sister. - Ep 3One Picture is Worth10/8/86
A gifted deaf painter is the only eyewitness to a bank robbery in which four people were slaughtered. Carol persuades Magnum to secure the young woman on the Masters Estate and act as her bodyguard when her life is endangered after identifying one of the perpetrators in a police lineup. - Ep 2L.A. (Part II)10/1/86
Magnum and Cynthia became ever closer to each other as they investigate Marti's murder. Back in Hawaii, T.C., with help from Rick and Higgins, continues to search for the missing Kenny and get him out of the trouble he's in. - Ep 1L.A.10/1/86
Magnum arrives in Los Angeles to deliver a lawsuit to a small film company on behalf of Robin Masters, but during the trip befriends a stand-up comedienne who end up murdered in his hotel room. Meanwhile, back in Hawaii, one of the players on T.C.'s baseball team is mixed up with some small-time car thieves, who witnesses his friends being shot dead after stealing a car.moreless
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Season 6
- Ep 21Photo Play4/10/86
Photographer Sally Faraday, looking to hire Magnum, meets him in undesirable circumstances when she smashes into the front of the Ferrari while being pursued in a car chase by two men. - Ep 20A Little Bit of Luck, A Little Bit of Grief4/3/86
Magnum and T.C. end up in jail after trying to save T.C.'s underprivileged kids' club from a greedy land developer. Rick returns from a trip to the mainland with a millions dollars in lottery winnings and a fiancée. - Ep 19Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me?3/20/86
Another of Higgins' half-brothers arrives, this one the last in the royal line of Costa Del Rosa and who ends up suspect in the plot to assassinate the country's president at chess tournament. - Ep 18Find Me a Rainbow3/13/86
Lydia McCarthy, a wealthy young woman, hires Magnum to find her family's former chauffeur, claiming that he stole some jewelry from her, but she's really after her son. Much to Higgins' dismay, a group of underprivileged boys on a camp program stays at the Robin's Nest. - Ep 17Way of the Stalking Horse2/20/86
Magnum unwittingly leads a hitman—who hired him under the pretense of looking for his father—to his victim. - Ep 16This Island Isn't Big Enough...2/13/86
When Rick's boat returns from a cruise deserted, Magnum searches for the answers to what has happened to his friend and the passengers onboard, who now are all presumed dead. - Ep 15All Thieves on Deck1/30/86
With an attempt already having been made to steal it from the estate, Magnum is to spend a week aboard a luxury cruise ship guarding an Amakua, a valuable wooden Hawaiian statuette recently purchased by Robin Masters, to be displayed on the liner while en route to the Hilo Museum. - Ep 14Mad Dogs and Englishmen1/23/86
Magnum investigates why Higgins has left the estate in disgrace, refusing to believe he's embezzled from Robin Masters, and is more than a little taken aback by his replacement, a rather dizzy actress. - Ep 13Summer School1/9/86
After being expelled from a number of expensive schools, R.J., Robin's rich, careless, teenage nephew, arrives at the estate to be reformed and educated by Higgins. R.J., however, has other ideas and decides to impersonate Magnum after being impressed by his adventures. - Ep 12I Never Wanted to Go to France, Anyway...1/2/86
An old comrade of Higgins' brings his traveling carnival to Hawaii. But when one of the performers is fatally stabbed, Higgins asks Magnum to investigate. Working undercover as a carnival 'roustabout', aided by Rick, Magnum learns that even before the killing, the carnival had been experiencing a string of 'accidents', and must pin-point exactly who is trying to force the show out of business.moreless - Ep 11Rapture11/28/85
As he and T.C. deep sea scuba dive, Magnum sees a young boy who appears out of nowhere with no breathing apparatus and signals him to follow. Determined to prove that the boy was real, he learns that his vision matches the description of a young boy killed five years earlier in an explosion at sea.moreless - Ep 10Blood and Honor11/21/85
Magnum is called back to service by Admiral Hawkes, who has reason to suspect that there is a security leak at his base that is leaking coded information, and Magnum's prime suspect is the fiancée of the Admiral's son. - Ep 9The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u11/14/85
Magnum and a group of his treasure hunting friends are held at gunpoint on a cliff top with the one million dollar prize that was the hidden object of a treasure hunt competition, organized to help promote Robin Masters' new novel by using clues from it. - Ep 8Paniolo11/7/85
A supposed wealthy teenage ranch owner hires Magnum to stop a dangerous group of cattle rustlers on Hawaii's big island, but Magnum finds that his employer isn't quite all he seems and that the neighboring ranch owner implicated of being behind the cattle theft is a business partner of Robin Masters'.moreless - Ep 7Going Home10/31/85
After thirteen years away, Magnum returns to Tidewater, VA to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Everett, and reopens a long-running family feud when he suspects his stepfather of stealing and selling a missing family heirloom—a letter from Abraham Lincoln. - Ep 6Round and Around10/24/85
Ron Pennington, a friend of T.C. and Magnum's on their basketball team, is shot dead when interrupting an armed grocery store hold-up, and they discover his son is linked to the murder. - Ep 5The Hotel Dick10/17/85
Magnum decides to get a 'real job' and takes on the challenge of being the house detective for a hotel, but finds his boss all too Higgins-like and is tasked with apprehending an elusive thief before an upcoming jewelry convention to be held at the hotel. - Ep 4The Kona Winds10/10/85
As a Kona storm front bears down on Hawaii, Magnum rescues a woman who fears for her life after witnessing her husband murder his partner. Meanwhile, Higgins tries to defend the Robin's Nest against nature's wrath. - Ep 3Old Acquaintance10/3/85
An old friend from his high school days needs Magnum's help to track down a stolen dolphin. - Ep 2Deja Vu (Part II)9/26/85
Magnum helps Penelope to continue to investigate Geoffrey's death and learns of Higgins' reluctance to visit his father. - Ep 1Deja Vu9/26/85
While Magnum and Higgins are in London setting up Robin Masters' new estate, Magnum looks into a war buddy's death, and Higgins wonders if he should visit his father.
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Season 5
- Ep 22A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken4/4/85
Hired to help find Carol's niece, Magnum goes undercover as a prisoner to talk to her ex-boyfriend, the last person to see her before her disappearance. - Ep 21Torah, Torah, Torah3/28/85
When Magnum picks up a rabbi friend of Higgins' at the airport they're ambushed, a valuable Torah is stolen, and the investigation of the theft leads Magnum to a gang of smugglers. - Ep 20The Man From Marseilles3/14/85
An international French detective—the real-life model for a series of best-selling novels by Robin Masters—who is staying at the Estate, asks Thomas' help in locating a missing heir he's trying to track down. - Ep 19Ms. Jones3/7/85
A reluctant Magnum is hired by Ms. Jones—the clerk at the Hall of Records who often aggravates him with excessive red tape—to help her find her husband, Ray, an expert computer programmer who has disappeared after completing work on a valuable new artificial intelligence formula. - Ep 18Let Me Hear the Music2/21/85
Magnum is hired by country musician Lacy Fletcher to unearth five songs written over 25 years ago by legendary singer George Lee Jessup shortly before his death, and it seems that Lacy is not the only person searching for the songs. - Ep 17The Love-For-Sale Boat2/14/85
Rick finds himself in deep trouble when he borrows money from Ice Pick to buy a yacht from Mac that wasn't his to sell. - Ep 16All For One Part II2/7/85
Magnum, Tyler, and Higgins are held prisoner by the Vietnamese major that has a reign of terror over Chong Ker. As Rick recovers from his wounds, T.C. works with a local he's befriended trying to repair an old helicopter for their escape, but it becomes apparent that Tyler has been deceitful about the true nature of the mission.moreless - Ep 15All For One1/31/85
Tyler McKinney, an old commando acquaintance, asks Magnum, Rick, and T.C. to help him rescue a buddy who is held prisoner after being captured in Chong Ker, Cambodia by Vietnamese soldiers. - Ep 14Compulsion1/24/85
Carol turns to Magnum for help when she feels threatened by a number of suspicious incidents. Higgins tries to pass off the Robin's Nest as his own to former classmates from his Sandhurst days. - Ep 13Professor Jonathan Higgins1/10/85
After Agatha and her friends are swindled out of $100,000 by a shady investment company, she hires Magnum to track down the crooks and retrieve their money. Higgins' distant cousin arrives to marry the heir of a local socialite and turns out to be a punk rocker in need of a drastic makeover before she can be accepted into society.moreless - Ep 12Little Games1/3/85
Hoping to make up for crashing the Estate's security system, Magnum has Mac fix it and challenges an insurance security specialist to certify it's acceptable for the Estate to host a jewelry competititon. - Ep 11Kiss of the Sabre12/13/84
A writer friend of Robin's stays at the estate and soon involves herself in Magnum's insurance investigation of a hit-and-run, leading to her incorporation of Magnum and the case into her story. - Ep 10Luther Gillis: File #00112/6/84
Robin and Higgins simultaneously ask Magnum to do some investigative work, so he calls on Luther Gillis to nail the man who's blackmailing Higgins, while he goes undercover to investigate embezzlement in a bank owned by Robin's friend. - Ep 9Tran Quoc Jones11/29/84
Magnum protects a political candidate and agrees to help a Vietnamese-American boy find his father, but soon learns the two are tied together. - Ep 8Murder 10111/15/84
At the urging of the students in the private investigation class that Magnum is teaching at a local college, he takes on the investigation into the disappearance of a student's fiancé as the class' field work. - Ep 7Blind Justice11/8/84
Magnum wrestles with his conscience when he discovers evidence proving both that a man on trial for murdering his wife is innocent, but that he's also gotten away with a different murder. Meanwhile, Higgins, tired of Magnum's slackness around the Estate, takes use of the Ferrari away from him. - Ep 6Fragments11/1/84
A psychic hires Magnum to save her from the future she's seen for herself—being murdered. Meanwhile, Magnum also finds danger in trying to get paid by a client, and Higgins organizes a benefit variety show. - Ep 5Under World10/25/84
After T.C. has a helicopter crash that leaves him comatose, Magnum discovers that it was shot down and sets out to find why someone would target his friend. - Ep 4The Legacy of Garwood Huddle10/18/84
Higgins persuades Magnum to help Garwood Huddle, a member of a notorious group of 1940s bank robbers, who's escaped from prison to rescue his kidnapped grandson. - Ep 3Mac's Back10/11/84
When Magnum swears he's seen his deceased friend, Mac, just how badly Diane's suicide has affected him is debated by Higgins, T.C., and Rick. - Ep 2Echoes of the Mind (Part II)10/4/84
Magnum deals with the arrival of Diane's twin, Diedre, with both of them claiming the other is no good. Meanwhile, Higgins must extricate himself from his two engagements. - Ep 1Echoes of the Mind9/27/84
Magnum is hired by Diane Dupres, who was kidnapped as a child with her twin sister and who now believes that someone is trying to kill her. Meanwhile, Higgins finds himself with two women believing they're to be married to him.
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Season 4
- Ep 21I Witness5/3/84
When the King Kamehameha Club is robbed late one evening by thieves wearing animal masks to conceal their identities, Lt. Tanaka is frustrated by Higgins, Rick, and T.C. each having their own different accounts of what happened. - Ep 20Dream a Little Dream3/29/84
Magnum is rehired by his first client, a surfing champion who was being threatened and whom he nearly started a serious relationship with, and this new case seems to parallel the events of 1979. - Ep 19On Face Value3/15/84
Magnum is left guilt-ridden after he returns gunfire during a high-speed chase, only for it cause another car to crash and severely injure the young woman driving it. - Ep 18Holmes Is Where the Heart Is3/8/84
As he continues his memoirs, Higgins recalls the spring of 1976 when a friend from Sandhurst, David Worth, arrives in Honolulu to attend the funeral of a mutual friend. Insisting that his name is Stanley Sigerson, Sherlock Holmes' most frequently used alias, and that Higgins is Watson, Holmes's faithful friend, David firmly believes that their friend was murdered by none other than Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis.moreless - Ep 17Let the Punishment Fit the Crime2/23/84
While Higgins is preparing to direct a selection of pieces from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado to be staged at the Estate, Magnum is hired by an attractive young woman to find her missing brother, whom she claims has disappeared after joining a religious cult. The girl has musical experience and agrees to help out with rehearsals of Higgins' production while Magnum seeks out her missing brother.moreless - Ep 16The Return of Luther Gillis2/16/84
Luther Gillis returns to Hawaii, accompanied by his secretary Blanche, to attend the annual Private Investigators convention, where Luther has been informed he will receive an award. But while Luther and Magnum attend the convention, Higgins and Blanche are kidnapped from the Estate, and the two P.I.s find themselves having to join forces once again.moreless - Ep 15Paradise Blues2/9/84
T.C. drags a reluctant Magnum along to the newly-opened club of an old flame—a beautiful jazz singer who he fell in love with in Vietnam—who has just moved to the islands, but has a penchant for for having trouble follow her. - Ep 14Rembrandt's Girl2/2/84
Magnum agrees to take a case investigating a recently paroled counterfeiter whose daughter suspects he's returned to his old ways. - Ep 13No More Mr. Nice Guy1/26/84
Magnum is forced to forgo his much-anticipated trip to the Army–Navy game and a reunion with his 1967 championship teammates when Rick, T.C., and Higgins guilt him into remaining in Hawaii and helping Carol save her career by nabbing one of the largest drug distributors in the islands. - Ep 12The Case of the Red Faced Thespian1/19/84
When a guest is murdered at a Great Gatsby-themed party at the Robin's Nest, a concussed Higgins becomes the prime suspect. - Ep 11Jororo Farewell1/5/84
The Crown Prince of Jororo, in Hawaii as part of a youth baseball team, stays at the Robin's Nest to secure him against death threats. - Ep 10Operation: Silent Night12/15/83
On Christmas Eve, T.C.'s helicopter goes down—with Magnum, Rick, and Higgins on board—on a small isle a Navy vessel is about to shell for target practice. - Ep 9The Look12/8/83
A disc jockey whom Magnum remembers from his time in the Vietnam War asks for his help in locating her lover, whom she lost contact with during the conflict, and finding out who has been threatening her. - Ep 8A Sense of Debt12/1/83
Magnum piggybacks collecting a debt due to T.C. with a trip to see a Tigers homestand. Meanwhile, T.C. steps into the ring to take the place of a boxer he hit with Magnum's Ferrari. - Ep 7Squeeze Play11/17/83
Robin bets use of the Robin's Nest for a year against a magazine publisher on the outcome of a softball game between the magazine's team and the King Kamehameha team. Meanwhile, Magnum tries to track down the ex-husband of a team member who's owed her alimony. - Ep 6Letter to a Duchess11/10/83
When Higgins pens a love note for a visiting English duchess, she thinks it's from Magnum and clearly reciprocates. Meanwhile, Magnum gets ready for the annual surf-ski race. - Ep 5Limited Engagement11/3/83
Magnum's investigation into a rash of convenience store thefts leads him to meet two elderly sisters who claim to be victims of a slumlord. - Ep 4Distant Relative10/20/83
When Thomas reluctantly agrees to chaperone Rick's 22-year-old sister, who promptly runs off and is murdered, he finds himself blamed by Rick and trying both to find the killers and stop Rick from exacting bloody vengeance. - Ep 3Smaller Than Life10/13/83
With Thomas laid up in the hospital, Rick gets T.C. and Higgins to help a childhood friend who makes one fantastic claim after another about why he needs to get hold of a valuable figurine. - Ep 2Luther Gillis: File #52110/6/83
When Thomas and old-school private eye Luther Gillis encounter each other in a seedy hotel room with a dead drug dealer as they separately investigate the whereabouts of Nancy Perkins, a St. Louis runaway, they decide to team up to find the missing girl after the police burst into the room and arrest them on suspicion of murder.moreless - Ep 1Home From the Sea9/29/83
Magnum's tradition of spending the Fourth of July alone at sea turns to a life-and-death battle when he's capsized, and a current takes him further and further from land. He uses his memories of family to keep himself alive while Higgins, T.C., and Rick begin to search for him.
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Season 3
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Season 2
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Season 1
