Magnum, P.I. - The Complete First Season
by Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bruce Seth Green, Burt Brinckerhoff
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Actor: John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Marcia Wallace, Roger E. Mosley, Tom SelleckDirector: Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Bruce Seth Green, Burt Brinckerhoff
Brand: Magnum
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1113 minutes
Published: 2004-09-01
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
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DVD Review: The Season That Made Tom Selleck A Star & A Sex Symbol
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally, MAGNUM's abbreviated 1980-81 Season was put on DVD with each and every episode complete and uncut like it originally was during MAGNUM, P.I.'s whole 8-year run on CBS with the exception of each episode on this DVD being commercial-free, which is wonderful and even better than having to worry and wait about all the commercials we'd have to watch in between even on CBS, plus all these episodes of MAGNUM on WGN, USA, and A&E don't even compare to how they're all shown on this DVD, since every episode had too many deleted scenes with too many commercials added in between to allot for time whenever MAGNUM, PI was shown in reruns on on both cable TV and syndication.
In addition, each episode of this detective drama also includes a brief summary along with it's original air-date of this 1980-1981 Season of MAGNUM on CBS and includes closed captioning on them too, but it's just too bad they couldn't make MAGNUM's 6th, 7th, and 8th Season DVD box set like this one, because it would've made them even better.
Additionally, the First Season shows you how the former Navy officer & Vietnam veteran now turned private investigator Thomas Magnum(Tom Selleck)got started along with his love/hate relationship with his Navy buddies from the Vietnam War T.C.(Roger Mosley) and Rick "Orville" Wright(Larry Manetti), along with the often exasperated British butler Jonathan Higgins(John Hillerman)and the dogs(Zeus & Apollo)and explains the estragned relationship and situation that Magnum and Higgins had with the so-called famous Robin Masters even though Robin was never shown on the series, even though the snazzy red Ferrari Magnum always drove was Robin's, which even said "Robin 1" on the license plate throughout MAGNUM's whole 1980-88 run on CBS.
This 1980-81 Season was also one of the funniest seasons of this private detective drama as well and was my second favorite season of MAGNUM, P.I. as well as the season that made Magnum(Tom Selleck)the sexiest & most charming detective on TV back then, especially in the early 1980's along with the fact that MAGNUM was in its honeymoon phase of the show during this season too despite the fact that this was only half a season.
This is also the season that made Tom Selleck a superstar and a sex symbol along with the fact that MAGNUM, PI came out a year later from playing his role as fellow gumshoe(Lance White) on the detective drama THE ROCKFORD FILES, which was an inspiration to MAGNUM, P.I., but it just so happens that MAGNUM had made its debut on CBS 11 months after NBC had cancelled THE ROCKFORD FILES, due to James Garner(Rockford) having health issues.
Additionally; it was also interesting seeing
-Gretchen Corbett in "The Curse Of The Kamehumeau Club" episode after her co-starring days as Rockford's sexy attorney girlfriend(Beth Davenport) in the first 4 seasons of THE ROCKFORD FILES which was of course before Corbett left Rockford in January of 1978 due to a salary dispute.
-Rebecca Holden in the "Missing In Action" episode before her co-starring days as KITT's technician(April Curtis) on KNIGHT RIDER
-Erin Gray in the "J. Digger Doyle" episode before her co-starring days as Kate Summers on SILVER SPOONS and during her co-starring days as Buck Rogers side kick(Col. Wilma Deering)on BUCK ROGERS
-Lance LeGault in the "Missing In Action" episode before his co-starring days as the tough-as-nails Army nemesis(Col. Decker)on THE A-TEAM and before his co-starring days as Magnum's bitter Navy nemesis(Col. Green) on MAGNUM
-Noah Beery, Jr. in the "All Roads Lead To Floyd" episode after his co-starring days as Rockford's persistent father(Joseph "Rocky" Rockford) on THE ROCKFORD FILES
-Ted Danson in the "Don't Say Goodbye" episode before his co-starring days as Sam Malone on CHEERS and before his co-starring days on BECKER
-Judy Chapman in "The Black Orchid" episode before her co-starring days on YOUNG & THE RESTLESS and DAYS OF OUR LIVES
-Laurie Hendler in the "Thank Heaven For Little Girls & Big Ones Too" episode before her co-starring days on GIMME A BREAK
-Anne Lockhart in the "Lest We Forget" episode after her co-starring days as Lt. Sheba on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA
-Edward Grover in the "No Need To Know" episode after his co-starring days on the short-lived NBC series SUPERTRAIN in the Winter of 1979.
The 1980-1981 Season of MAGNUM, P.I. was also the season that became almost a spin-off of HAWAII 5-0 and THE ROCKFORD FILES.
This season takes me all the way back to memory lane to the recession we had going on back in 1981-1982 when we had all those budget cuts going on during Ronald Reagan's presidency after winning the presidential election in November of 1980.
So now that Universal has all 8 seasons of MAGNUM, PI out on DVD, I can hardly wait till Warner Bros. finally puts the detective drama MATT HOUSTON out on DVD, since I liked that show too along with the fact that MATT HOUSTON was a very popular private detective show in competition with MAGNUM during MATT HOUSTON's 3-year run on ABC from 1982-85, not to mention the intriguing slight resemblence between Magnum(Tom Selleck)and Houston(Lee Horseley), except Houston was a lot more fortunate, a lot tougher, a lot huskier, and a lot spunkier than Magnum ever was along with the fact that Magnum was always broke and Houston never was since Magnum was just a Hawaiian beach-bum private investigator who lived rent-free on a rich man's estate in Oahu, Hawaii; but Houston was a filthy-rich Texas style private investigator & former Vietnam Vet who lived high on the hog in a swanky penthouse in Hollywood & had a detective agency in Downtown LA that only did detective work on the side as a hobby & would often pay people money in $100 bills to get information to get leads & solve his cases along with the fact that Houston was like the Rolls-Royce in private detective shows who always wore spiffy 3-piece suits, but Magnum usually wore more casual clothes like Hawaiian shirts, blue jeans, shorts, & often wore a Detroit Tigers cap.
Therefore you could say that MATT HOUSTON was like a rich-mans MAGNUM since Houston pretty much outclassed Magnum since Magnum couldn't even touch Houston since Houston lived the kind of lifestyle that Magnum would've envied and wanted for himself, but unfortunately MATT HOUSTON bit the dust when it hit it's 3rd Season on ABC, which led to MATT HOUSTON's cancellation in the Summer of 1985 when MAGNUM's 6th Season was underway on CBS which simply goes to show you that sometimes old things and old ways are better than newer ones, which is probably another reason why MAGNUM, P.I. outlasted MATT HOUSTON which also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when both MAGNUM and MATT HOUSTON used to be on KTLA every Monday thru Friday at one time back in the early Fall of 1987 kicking off with MATT HOUSTON at 5PM followed by MAGNUM, PI at 6PM.
As a matter of fact, people used to ask Lee Horsley(Houston)if he was trying to copy Tom Selleck(Magnum), but Horsley would always answer "No, but I'm flattered you see a resemblence" although Horsley knew people were just trying to agitate him, but Horsley would never take it personally because MATT HOUSTON was a very popular TV show like MAGNUM was, despite the fact that MAGNUM, P.I. lasted nearly 5 times longer than MATT HOUSTON did, but at least now I have both MAGNUM & MATT HOUSTON as well as THE ROCKFORD FILES and SIMON & SIMON with my DVD collection at home now.
Fortunately Paramount will be releasing MATT HOUSTON-Season 1 out on DVD on March 9th, 2010 and is available for pre-order, which is wonderful news for all you MATT HOUSTON fans out there.
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