Magnum P.I. - The Complete Fifth Season
by Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Carmella Barut, John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Roger E. Mosley, Tom SelleckDirector: Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
Brand: NBC Universal
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1058 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Magnum P.I. - The Complete Fifth Season
DVD Review: Not Enough Fuss!
Summary: 2 Stars
MAGNUM was an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a former Naval Intelligence officer/Vietnam veteran, now a beach-bum private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii that ran on CBS from December of 1980 to May of 1988 that consistently ranked in the top 20 American TV programs in the Nielsen ratings during the first 5 years of this detective drama.
Magnum lived & resided in the guest house of a posh, 200-acre beachfront estate known as Robin's Nest, in Hawaii, at the invitation of its owner(Robin Masters), the celebrated-but-never-seen author of several dozen lurid novels.
Ostensily this was quid pro quo for Magnum's services based upon Magnum's claimed expertise in security; the pilot episode "Don't Eat The Snow In Hawaii" suggests Magnum also did Robin Masters a favor of some sort.
Additionally, Robin's Nest was guarded by 2 highly trained Doberman Pinschers(Zeus & Apollo)and all other aspects of the estate were managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III(Played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an often exasperated ex-British Army Sgt. Major with whom often as a humorous aside during various episodes of the series, Magnum must barter for use of estate amenities other than the guest house & the Ferrari GTS, tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.
During the early seasons of MAGNUM, PI, the voice of Robin Masters heard only a few times per season was voiced by Orson Welles.
A recurrent theme throughout the last 2 seasons involves Magnum's suspicion that Higgins is actually Robin Masters, especially in the 7th Season in the "Paper Wars" episode when Magnum gets stuck in an elevator with Higgins, but this possibility is contradictory to numerous references throughout the series' run that make it clear that they are 2 different people. In spite of this, Higgins' dual identity remains an open question until the final episode "Resolutions" where Higgins admits he is Robin Masters, but later suggests what he had said about Robin Masters was a lie.
Magnum seemingly lived a dream lifestyle since he'd come & go as he pleases, works only when he wants to, has the unlimited use of the Ferrari as well as many other luxuries of Robin Masters.
Magnum also keeps a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of fictional Coops beer, wears his father's treasured Rolex GMT Master wristwatch, is seemingly surrounded by countless foxy women(who are often his clients or victims in the cases he's hired to investigate)and enjoys adventures with his Navy buddies that he served in Vietnam with which were TC(Roger Mosley)and Rick(Larry Manetti).
Interestingly, Magnum & Higgins often break the 4th wall by 'locking eyes' with the audience; other characters do this, though less frequently.
At the end of the 7th Season, Magnum was killed off, and was intended to be the end of the series. However, there was an outcry from fans and an 8th, final season was produced, to bring Magnum 'back to life' and round the series off.
The 5th Season of this detective drama was terrible and the season when this show started going kind of stale at least until Magnum kicked off its 1985-86 Season on CBS, because it wasn't as funny or as sophisticated as 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, or 8th Season, plus the Fifth Season of Magnum, which was the 1984-85 Season on CBS seemed like a repeat or a duplicate of the 3rd and 4th Season of Magnum, especially since the 5th Season used the same exact introduction as the 3rd and 4th Season since that opening intro became stale after using it in the 3rd Season along with the fact that the honeymoon phase of this private detective show was already gone.
But CBS should've changed the introduction to this private detective drama by the time it hit it's 5th Season instead of waiting till the 6th Season of that show, which was Magnum's 1985-86 Season on CBS and used and started the Sixth Season introduction for the 5th Season instead of using the same exact introduction as the 3rd and 4th Season along with the fact that Magnum, PI didn't seem to pick up again until the 6th Season, since the Sixth Season didn't feel like a repeat of the 3rd, 4th, or 5th Season either.
In addition to that, the DVD didn't even show the original air date of each episode either, unlike they did for the first 3 seasons of that show, which really sucks, especially if you ever get curious on when each episodes original air-date was, plus they didn't even put the air date on the listing of each episode on the DVD case next to the summary like the CHiPs DVD's did either, which really lags big time.
Therefore, this whole 1984-85 Season DVD really bites and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, unless of course you're a Magnum fan who "has" to have a collection of every single season of Magnum on DVD.
In the meantime, now that Universal has released all 8 seasons of MAGNUM, PI out on DVD, I hope this has inspired Warner Bros. or Paramount to finally release the remaining seasons of MAGNUM'S biggest rival MATT HOUSTON with Lee Horsley(Houston) & Pamela Hensley(CJ Parsons) out on DVD soon, since MATT HOUSTON was an interesting private detective show like MAGNUM, P.I. was that was in serious competition with MAGNUM throughout MATT HOUSTON's 3-year run on ABC back in the early 1980's, except Houston was a more significant kind of detective than Magnum was who always had his act together, unlike Magnum since Magnum was only a world-class private eye and beach bum who lived on a shoe-string budget and rent-free at the so-called Robin Masters estate in Honululu, Hawaii barely able to stay afloat and Houston was a filthy-rich Texas style private eye who lived a luxurious lifestyle that had moved to the L.A. Area to take over his family business overseas and did detective work on the side as a hobby who also had a swanky penthouse in the Hollywood hills and his detective agency in Downtown LA & frequently paid people money in $100 bills to get information to find leads to solve his cases along with the fact Houston was also a former Vietnam veteran like Magnum was, except Magnum could never touch Houston.
Therefore Magnum was always broke and Houston never was which resulted in Magnum always being in hot water, unlike Houston who lived high on the hog constantly outclassing Magnum along with the fact that Houston was also a playboy who always had cute chicks around him too.
Therefore Houston lived the kind of lifestyle that Magnum probably wished he could've live, especially on a private dicks salary, but unfortunately MATT HOUSTON ran out of steam when it hit it's Third Season on ABC when the ratings fell drastically all of the sudden, which led to MATT HOUSTON's cancellation back in the Summer of 1985 when MAGNUM's Sixth Season was underway on CBS, which also takes me back to memory lane to when Lee Horsley(Houston)used to get various people asking him "Are you trying to copy Tom Selleck?", but Horsley would always reply back by saying "No, but I'm flattered you see a resemblence.".
Lee Horseley also added that he knew that people would ask him about trying to copy Tom Selleck on purpose just to agitate him, but Horsley wouldn't let that question get him down, because of the fact that MATT HOUSTON was a very popular TV show like MAGNUM, PI was along with the fact that some people even preferred MATT HOUSTON to MAGNUM, especially since MATT HOUSTON had more action in it than MAGNUM, P.I. did along with the fact that Houston was a lot tougher, stronger, a lot huskier, a lot more organized, and a lot more fortunate than Magnum ever was along with the fact that Houston kicked more tail than Magnum did along with the fact that MAGNUM, PI probably started losing some viewers through MATT HOUSTON during MATT HOUSTON's first 2 seasons, especially since MAGNUM was already in its 3rd Season on CBS when MATT HOUSTON made its debut on CBS's rival network ABC in September of 1982.
As a matter of fact, MATT HOUSTON made premiered on ABC on Sunday September 26th, 1982 which coincidentally happened to be the same night that KNIGHT RIDER made its debut on NBC, but MAGNUM, PI had already made its debut on CBS on Thursday December 11th, 1980 since MAGNUM got off to a late start in the late Fall of 1980.
Something else I noticed that I couldn't help finding intriguing was every other person who has guest starred on MAGNUM, PI has also been on MATT HOUSTON too such as Cesar Romero, Alan Fudge, Beverly Garland, Robin Dearden, George Kee-Cheung, Ed Grover, Jack Hogan, Jack Kruschen, Jenny Sherman, Steven Keats, James Luisi, Robert F. Lyons, John-Dennis Johnston, Alan Hale, William Windom, Barbara Rush, Bill Lucking, Lenore Kasdorf, Russ McCubbin, Marta Dubois, John Calvin, etc.
By the way, I just got word that Paramount will finally be releasing the detective drama MATT HOUSTON-Season 1 out on DVD on Tuesday March 9th, 2010 and that the SHOUT Factory will be releasing the detective drama SIMON & SIMON-Season 4 out on DVD on Tuesday April 6th, 2010 and are both now available for pre-order which also gives us 2 new detective dramas in the works to look forward to in the Spring of 2010.
Description of Magnum P.I. - The Complete Fifth Season
Move into high gear, because Magnum P.I.: The Complete Fifth Season is now on DVD! Tom Selleck is back in his Emmy award-winning role as the charismatic detective who protects the sunny Hawaiian islands from vicious jewel thieves, ruthless kidnappers and even dangerous ghostly apparitions. Join Magnum, TC, Rick and Higgins in all 22 thrilling episodes packed with action, adventure and sexy Hawaiian fun. And there's even more of Magnum to go around on this 5-disc set with a sneak peek at Season Six with a classic bonus episode! Starring: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry ManettiBestsellers in DVD
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