Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Second Season
by Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
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Actor: Jeff Pomerantz, John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Roger E. Mosley, Tom SelleckDirector: Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
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, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1083 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-04-12
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Color; Dolby; DVD; Full Screen; Subtitled; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: My Favorite Season!
Summary: 5 Stars
MAGNUM,PI was an American private detective drama starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, an ex-Navy officer and Vietnam Veteran now turned private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii that ran on CBS from December of 1980 thru May of 1988 and consistently ranked in the top 20 U.S. television programs during its first 5 years that this series was originally telecast in America.
Magnum also 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) which was the celebrated-but-never-seen author of several dozen lurid novels.
Obstensibly this is quid pro quo for Magnum's services based upon Magnum's claimed expertise in security, the pilot suggests Magnum also did Masters a favor of some kind.
In addition, Robin's Nest was guarded by 2 highly trained Doberman Pinschers named Zeus & Apollo, & all other aspects of the estate were managed by the often exasperated Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III(played by Texas-born veteran actor John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major with whom often as a humorous aside during various episodes of this series, Magnum must barter for use of the estates amenities other than the guest-house & the Ferrari 308 GTS, the tennis courts, wine cellar, expensive cameras, etc.
During the early seasons of MAGNUM, P.I., 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 was actually Robin Masters.
That possibility was contradictory to numerous references throughout the series run that make it clear that Higgins & Robin Masters were 2 different people.
In spite of this controversy, Higgins dual identity remained an open question until the series finale episode where Higgins first admits he's Robin Masters, but later suggests what he had said about being Robin Masters was a lie.
Magnum seemingly lived a dream lifestyle: He'd come & go as he pleased, worked only when he wanted to, had the almost unlimited use of the Ferrari as well as many other of Robin Masters luxuries.
Magnum would also keep a mini-fridge with a seemingly endless supply of fictional Coops beer, wore his fathers treasured Rolex GMT Master wristwatch, was seemingly surrounded by countless beautiful women who were often his clients or victims in the cases he solved & enjoyed adventures with his old Navy buddies from the Vietnam War T.C.(Roger Mosley)and Rick "Orville" Wright(Larry Manetti)that had a love/hate relationship with Magnum.
Interestingly, Magnum & Higgins often broke the fourth wall by "locking eyes" with the audience; other characters do this, but a lot less frequently.
At the end of Magnum's 7th Season, Magnum was killed off and its 1986-87 Season was intended to be the end of this 8-year detective drama, but there was an outcry from fans and an 8th Season was produced as its final season to bring Magnum "back to life" and to round the series off.
I love this 1981-82 Season of this detective drama the best throughout Magnum's whole 8-year run on CBS, since it had most of my favorite episodes like "Try To Remember", "Italian Ice", "The Last Page", "Wave Goodbye", "The Taking Of Dick McWilliams", "Texas Lightning", "Three Minus Two", "The Elmo Ziller Story", etc. along with the fact that Magnum was still in its honeymoon phase of the show during this season too.
In addition to why I like MAGNUM's Second Season the best, this season was funnier, especially during all the fall-outs that occured between Magnum, Higgins, TC, and Rick, plus Magnum used the Ferrari more in the 2nd Season than he did in most other seasons, especially more than he did in the last 4 seasons of this private detective drama, which was another reason why I was so excited and dying to have MAGNUM's complete 2nd Season released on DVD.
In addition to that; this MAGNUM DVD was complete and uncut like they were originally shown on CBS with the proper introduction, unlike the case when MAGNUM, P.I. was shown in reruns on WGN, USA, and A&E, which had too many deleted scenes with too many added commercials in between, plus A&E, USA, and WGN didn't use the proper introduction to this season or most other seasons of MAGNUM on top of that, since USA, A&E, and WGN had revised all the episodes of MAGNUM, PI to use the Sixth Season introduction to every single episode instead, which really sucked, because that made the seasons of this private detective drama less interesting to watch, since there wasn't much to compare to between each season all the way from the First Season to the Eighth Season.
But it was very interesting when you'd watch an episode from an earlier season and compare it to a later season, especially when the introduction between older and newer episodes are different, so you can compare to see how Magnum, Higgins, TC, and Rick and them looked in the earlier seasons and how they ended up looking in the later seasons, which the introductions show you as well when they don't use the same intro to every single episode along with the fact that the same introduction to any show gets old and boring after while, unless of course the introduction changes eventually.
In addition to why this 1981-82 Season of MAGNUM was one of the best seasons of MAGNUM, P.I.; this was also one of the seasons when Magnum would do his swims on the beach as a pasttime instead of playing more sports during his spare time since Magnum had stopped doing his swims on the beach by the time MAGNUM hit its 6th Season when Magnum started playing baseball and basketball with Rick and TC on his leisure time rather than swimming.
Something else that baffles me is like I had mentioned on my review about the MAGNUM, PI-Season 4 DVD is that in "The Jororo Kill" episode of this season, the Ed Russler character was played by Burr De Benning, but in "The Jororo Farewell" episode of Magnums 4th Season, Ed Russler gets played by John Saxon instead of Burr DeBenning for some reason even though Russler was supposedly the person and same character meeting up with Magnum again for a second time in MAGNUM's Fourth Season 2 years later since "The Jororo Kill" episode was shown for the very first time on CBS in January of 1982 which original air-date by the way was 1/7/82.
So now I am anxiously and eagerly awaiting for Magnum's 8th Season to be released on DVD on Tuesday March 4th, 2008.
I also noticed that this was the season when T.C. started calling Higgins "Higgy Baby" more often along with the fact that Magnum's fall outs with Higgins, TC, and Rick were a lot more hilarious in this season than they were in the last 5 seasons of this private detective show.
I also used to get a kick out of Higgins exclaiming his frequent used line of "Oh My God" and Magnum's often used line in his narrations of "I Know What You're Thinking" throughout all the episodes during MAGNUM's whole 1980-88 run on CBS.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when CBS's motto was "Reach For The Stars" and when Selleck was voted as TV's sexiest detective back in the early 1980's as well as his second year of being a superstar.
It was also interesting seeing
-Joanna Kerns in "The Last Page" episode before her co-starring days as Maggie Seaver on GROWING PAINS
-Julie Sommars in the "Texas Lightning" episode before her co-starring days on MATLOCK
-Beverly Garland in the "Two Minus Three" episode before her co-starring days on the detective drama SCARECROW & MRS. KING
-James Whitmore, Jr. in the "Billy Joe Bob" episode before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's incompetent fellow officer(Detective Bernie Terwilliger) on the police drama HUNTER.
-Tyne Daly in "The Jororo Kill" episode before her co-starring days on the police drama CAGNEY & LACY
-Football celebrity(Dick Butkus) doing a cameo in the "One More Summer" episode before his co-starring days on the sitcom MY TWO DADS
-Judith Chapman in "The Woman On The Beach" episode before her co-starring days on YOUNG & THE RESTLESS, DAYS OF OUR LIVES, and ALL MY CHILDREN
-Nancy Grahn in the "Try To Remember" episode after her co-starring days on GENERAL HOSPITAL & ONE LIFE TO LIVE & before her co-starring days on SANTA BARBARA
-Pat Morita in the "One More Summer" episode before his co-starring days on THE KARATE KID and HAPPY DAYS
Additionally, this season takes me all the way back to memory lane to the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was the president along with the fact that I was 9 years old and still living in the Imperial Valley in my hometown(El Centro, CA)at the time on top of that.
So now that Universal has all 8 seasons of MAGNUM out on DVD, hopefully this has inspired Warner Bros. to finally put the private detective drama MATT HOUSTON with Lee Horseley & Pamela Hensley out on DVD soon, since I've been waiting for MAGNUM's biggest rival MATT HOUSTON to be released on DVD for years now, especially throughout all the years I'd been awaiting for all 8 seasons of MAGNUM, PI to be put on DVD, since MATT HOUSTON was also a cool TV show that was in competition with MAGNUM throughout MATT HOUSTON's 3-year run on ABC, not to mention the amazing slight resemeblence between Thomas Magnum(Tom Selleck) and Matlock Houston(Lee Horseley), except Houston was a lot huskier, a lot tougher, a lot spunkier, and a lot more fortunate than Magnum was since Magnum was just a beach-bum private detective who lived on a shoe-string budget rent-free at the so-called Robin Masters estate in Hawaii barely able to stay afloat, but Houston was a filthy-rich Texas style private detective & former Vietnam veteran who lived in the L.A. Area to take over a family business overseas who did detective work on the side as a hobby and lived high on the hog in a ritzy penthouse in Hollywood.
Therefore Magnum was always broke and Houston never was since Houston was 3 times luckier than Magnum ever was since Houston was a playboy who was always rolling in dough living in luxury & owned all his cars & vehicles and often had pretty women around him and even more chicks than Magnum ever had around him too & had a PI agency office of his own in Downtown L.A., unlike Magnum who didn't even have an office or even own a car, plus Houston often paid people money in $100 bills to get information to find leads to help solve his investigations.
Therefore you could say that MATT HOUSTON was a lot like a rich-mans MAGNUM especially since Magnum(Tom Selleck)was outclassed by Houston(Lee Horseley)and could never even touch Houston since Houston lived the kind of lifestyle that Magnum envied & would have preffered to have, especially on a private investigators salary along with the fact that Magnum often used to get snookered by his clients a lot more often than Houston did just like Rockford(James Garner)did, which somewhat almost makes it seem so amazing how MAGNUM was able to outlast MATT HOUSTON, despite the fact that MATT HOUSTON was a private-eyes fantasy kind of show which made it a lot less realistic than most other private detective shows like MANNIX, THE ROCKFORD FILES, and SIMON & SIMON for instance.
In fact during MATT HOUSTONs whole 1982-85 run on ABC, various people used to ask Lee Horsley if he was trying to copy Tom Selleck, but Horsley would always reply back to them by saying "No, but I'm flattered you see a resemblence" & would never take it personally even though he knew people who asked him would just do that to irritate him on purpose, because of knowing that MATT HOUSTON was a very popular TV show in the 80's just like MAGNUM was, despite the fact that MAGNUM, PI lasted 5 times longer than MATT HOUSTON did.
Unfortunately MATT HOUSTON took a nose-dive in the ratings when it hit its Third Season on ABC when MIAMI VICE made its debut on NBC in the Fall of 1984 which led to its cancellation in the Spring of 1985 when MAGNUM's Sixth Season was underway on CBS, but part of what makes this 1981-82 Season of MAGNUM, PI so interesting is knowing that MATT HOUSTON wasn't even made yet when MAGNUM was in this season or in the 1st Season for that matter either since MATT HOUSTON didn't make its debut on CBS's rival network ABC till the Fall of 1982 when MAGNUM kicked off its Third Season on ABC's rival network CBS along with the fact that MATT HOUSTON had more action in it than MAGNUM, PI did on top of that.
As a matter of fact, MATT HOUSTON premiered on ABC on Sunday September 26th, 1982 which coincidentally happened to be on the same night KNIGHT RIDER made its debut on NBC, but MAGNUM, P.I. made its debut on CBS on Thursday December 11th, 1980 since MAGNUM premiered in the late Fall of 1980 2 years before MATT HOUSTON even came along.
Fortunately, MATT HOUSTON was never shown on the same night as MAGNUM, PI was, which definitely would have contributed to MAGNUM losing some viewers thru MATT HOUSTON, but throughout most of MATT HOUSTONS 3-Season run on ABC, we'd all get to watch MATT HOUSTON the day after watching MAGNUM, P.I. since MAGNUM was shown every Thursday night at 8PM on CBS and MATT HOUSTON was shown on ABC every Friday night at 10PM which made us all able to watch them both on the same week which eliminated any scheduling conflicts since MAGNUM & MATT HOUSTON were both on 2 different nights at 2 different time slots on 2 different networks, but it seemed almost as if MATT HOUSTON had came close to killing MAGNUM, PI during MATT HOUSTONs first 2 seasons on ABC since Magnum's lifestyle couldn't even come close to being as fortunate or as organized as Houstons lifestyle was.
In fact, something else I've noticed is every other person who has guest starred on MAGNUM, PI has also guest starred on MATT HOUSTON too such as Robin Dearden, Ed Grover, Alan Fudge, Steven Keats, Marta Dubois, Jill St. John, Cameron Mitchell, Burr DeBenning, Beverly Garland, Robert F. Lyons, James Fujioka, John Calvin, John-Dennis Johnston, Barbara Rush, Cesar Romero, Alan Hale, William Windom, Russ McCubbin, Lenore Kasdorf, Bill Lucking, Jack Hogan, Nancy Grahn, Dick Butkus, George Kee-Cheung, Katherine Cannon, Rebecca Holden, Jack Kruschen, James Luisi, Jenny Sherman, etc.
This detective drama also takes me back to the days before we had cell-phones, Internet, emails, and before sex, violence, swearing, & bad manners took over & corrupted television & when TV was much cleaner & trustworthy enough to watch.
In the meantime, I just got word that Paramount will finally be releasing MATT HOUSTON-Season 1 on DVD on Tuesday March 9th, 2010 and that Shout will be releasing SIMON & SIMON-Season 4 out on DVD on Tuesday April 6th, 2010, which gives us 2 private detective dramas in the works to look forward to in the Spring of 2010.
Description of Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Second Season
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Run time: 1083 minutes Rating: NrReturn to the Big Island for more adventure with Tom Selleck?s charmingly roguish detective hero, Thomas Magnum, courtesy of this three-disc set, which compiles the entire second season (1981-1982) of Magnum, P.I.. The 22 episodes included here (among them the two-part "Memories Are Forever") crystallize the key to the series? success: an appealing blend of action, drama, mystery, and comedy, cemented by Selleck and his likable castmates, especially John Hillerman, who would earn a Golden Globe for his work on Magnum in ?82. Highlights of the season include Magnum?s attempt to stop an international assassin ("The Jororo Kill," with Tyne Daly), the arrival of Hemingway-esque author Mad Buck Gibson (Darren McGavin) in the episode of the same name, and the aforementioned two-parter, which reunites Magnum with a woman he thought to have died after marrying her while serving in Vietnam. The usual array of classy guest stars are also on hand for this season; in addition to the aforementioned actors, there are turns by Mimi Rogers, Vic Morrow, Vera Miles, Jill St. John, and Elisha Cook Jr. (who plays a much different character than his recurring role as "Ice Pick" in future seasons). And Magnum obsessives should note early appearances by Gillian Dobb, who played Agatha Chumley in numerous subsequent episodes, as well as one of Higgins?s colorful, estranged half-brothers in "The Elmo Ziller Story." It?s unfortunate that the set itself doesn?t match the quality of the Episodes--extras are limited to second-season episodes from Knight Rider and The A-Team--but Magnum fans should be pleased to have all the episodes in a single set, and best of all, commercial-free. --Paul Gaita
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