Magnum, P.I.

TV-PG

162 episodes8 seasons

US Release

~ He's a Hellraiser in Paradise. ~

Overview:

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

Created by:

Glen A. Larson & Donald P. Bellisario

Status:

Ended

Language:

English

First air date:

12/11/1980

Last air date:

5/1/1988

Key words:

helicopter
hawaii
private investigator
ferrari
dobermann

Seasons

Season 1

18 Episodes

Season 2

22 Episodes

Season 3

23 Episodes

Season 4

21 Episodes

Season 5

22 Episodes

Season 6

21 Episodes

Season 7

22 Episodes

Season 8

13 Episodes

Cast

Tom Selleck

~ as ~

Thomas Magnum

John Hillerman

~ as ~

Jonathan Higgins

Roger E. Mosley

~ as ~

Terry 'TC' Calvin

Larry Manetti

~ as ~

Rick Wright

Gillian Dobb

~ as ~

Agatha Chumley and 2 more

Jeff MacKay

~ as ~

Ski and 2 more

Kwan Hi Lim

~ as ~

Yoshi Tanaka and 1 more

Kathleen Lloyd

~ as ~

Carol Baldwin and 1 more

Elisha Cook Jr.

~ as ~

Harold W. Farber and 2 more

Jean Bruce Scott

~ as ~

Lt. Cmdr. Maggie Poole, USN

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Reviews (2)

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Peter89Spencer
Written 5 year(s) ago
9
Best show in the 80s! Magnum is the guy who everybody wants to be, and what every lady wants.

Magnum, P.I. is a feel good TV series everybody to enjoy.
GenerationofSwine
Written 2 year(s) ago
10
Had it come out in the 90s, Tom Magnum would have been a paranoid character fighting off the nightmares that plague him for all eternity after losing half his men in combat, or being the last man left in his squad.

And had it come out today, he'd be almost perfect, struggling never, with no character development. Stagnate, boring, with no growth to speak of. He'd be right all the time and end each episode political statement... like the New Magnum does.

Instead he was written in the 80s, and he is kind of a mooch, but a charismatic one. He struggles and overcomes, his relationship with his friends grows and evolves, and he deals with Vietnam and flashbacks in a realistic and functioning way.

He is capable of screwing up and fixing his mistakes. He is light and comical and void of an agenda. And he has friends that will unquestioningly follow him into a bar room brawl just because, well, that's what real friends do.

It makes everything fun and relatable, it makes the show more down to earth and realistic that it would have been in following decades. And that goes double when its a story that involves an expensive sports car... which, to make it believable, he doesn't own.