Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Third Season
by Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
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Actor: John Hillerman, Larry Manetti, Richard Roundtree, 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 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-31
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Third Season
DVD Review: Magnum Rocks!
Summary: 3 Stars
This DVD was okay, but Magnum's 1982-83 Season wasn't as good as the 1st Season, 2nd Season, 6th Season, 7th Season, or 8th Season, because the Third Season of Magnum wasn't quite as funny as the first 2 seasons, plus I had noticed that on the Closed Captioning mode of each 3rd Season episode of this MAGNUM, P.I. DVD had left out a lot of the words in the subtitles that were actually said and they had revised and/or edited the way the words were actually said on each episode, unlike it was on the DVD box sets of Season 1, 2, 6, and 7.
Therefore, Magnum's 3rd Season kind of lacked some of the more sophisticated traits that all of those other seasons of this detective drama had throughout MAGNUMs whole 8-year run on CBS.
So creator(Donald Bellasario) should've done better on Magnum's 1982-1983 Season especially more like he did with the first 2 seasons along with the fact that MAGNUM's honeymoon phase of this show was dying while the detective drama MATT HOUSTON's honeymoon phase of the show was just starting when MATT HOUSTON made its debut on ABC in the Fall of 1982 on Sunday September 26th, 1982 which coincidentally happened to premiere on the same night KNIGHT RIDER made its premiere on NBC.
I also loved the crossover episode "KI'Is Don't Lie" when Magnum(Tom Selleck) ends up teaming up with Rick and A.J. Simon(Gerald McRaney, Jameson Parker) from the detective drama SIMON & SIMON to solve a bizarre rash of mysterious deaths plaguing the islands of Hawaii along with the fact that the detective drama SIMON & SIMON was kind of a spin-off of MAGNUM, PI.
This was also the season when Lance LeGault known for his role as the hard-nosed Army nemesis(Col.Decker),joins the cast as Magnum's insenstive Navy nemesis(Col.Green)in the "Did You See The Sunrise" episode.
I also liked the episodes "The Arrow That Is Not Aimed", "Birdman Of Budapest", and "Forty Years From Sand Island", since they bring up things from Magnum and Higgins(John Hillerman) past and bring in some unusual intriguing things to those episodes like trying to retrieve a stolen priceless Japanese Picaso plate in the "The Arrow That Is Not Aimed" episode along with the fact that I got a kick out of Magnum and Higgins being called "Magnum-San" and "Higgins-San" by Magnum's client(Mako).
Additionally, the Third Season seemed to talk about Magnum's days in Vietnam the most more than any other season of MAGNUM, P.I. throughout Magnum's whole 1980-88 run on CBS for some reason.
It was also interesting seeing
-Stuart Margolin in the "By Its Cover" episode after his co-starring days as Jim Rockford's manipulative ex-con buddy(Angel Martin)on THE ROCKFORD FILES
-John McCook in "The Big Blow" episode before his co-starring days on BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL and THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
-Joanna Kerns in the "Two Birds Of A Feather" episode before her co-starring days as Maggie Seaver on GROWING PAINS
-Peter Brown in the "Heal Thyself" episode before his days on THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL and YOUNG & THE RESTLESS
-Bill Lucking in the "Two Birds Of A Feather" episode during his co-starring days as the overzealous nemesis(Col.Lynch)on THE A-TEAM
-James Whitmore, Jr. before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's doofus fellow officer(Sgt. Bernie Terwilliger)
-Nick Hammond in the "Foiled Again" episode after his co-starring days on SPIDERMAN
-Ernest Borgnine in the "Mr. White Death" episode before his co-starring days as Hawke's co-pilot buddy(Dominic Santini)on AIRWOLF
-Keye Luke in the "Forty Years From Sand Island" episode after his co-starring days on KUNG FU
-Richard Roundtree in the "Two Birds Of A Feather" episode after his co-starring days on SHAFT
-Barry Van-Dyke in "The Big Blow" episode before his co-starring days as Stringfellow Hawke's long lost MIA kid brother(St. Hawke)on the new AIRWOLF series
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when we had all those budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
So now that Universal has released all 8 seasons of MAGNUM, P.I. on DVD, I'm hoping this has inspired Warner Bros. to finally get MATT HOUSTON released on DVD soon, since I've been dying for MATT HOUSTON to be released on DVD for nearly 4 years now along with the fact that MATT HOUSTON was in competition with MAGNUM throughout MATT HOUSTON's whole 3-year run on ABC, since MATT HOUSTON was kind of a carbon copy of MAGNUM, P.I. not to mention that Matlock Houston(Lee Horsley)had a slight resemblence to Thomas Magnum(Tom Selleck), except Houston was a lot huskier, a tougher, a lot more organized, and a lot more fortunate than Magnum ever was since Houston was a very wealthy man living high on the hog in a ritzy penthouse in Hollywood who had a detective agency in Downtown LA and was never broke, unlike Magnum who was always indebted to people since Houston was a filthy-rich playboy from Texas who moved to the L.A. Area to take over a family business overseas and did detective work on his leisure time as a hobby, unlike Magnum who lived on a shoe-string budget & rent-free at the so-called Robin Masters estate in Hawaii always struggling to make a living on a private eye's salary barely able to make ends meet, but Houston was always rolling in bucks and always had foxy babes around him, even more often than Magnum ever did.
Therefore, you could say that MATT HOUSTON was like a rich-mans MAGNUM along with the fact that many people used to tease Lee Horsley by asking him if he was trying to copy Tom Selleck, but would always tell them he wasn't, but that he was flattered they saw a resemblence, but would never take it personally because MATT HOUSTON was a very popular TV show just like MAGNUM, P.I. was, except MATT HOUSTON was obviously a more upgraded detective drama than MAGNUM ever was, despite the fact that MATT HOUSTON didn't last very long, unlike MAGNUM, PI which lasted way longer since the premiere of MIAMI VICE in the Fall of 1984 had led to MATT HOUSTON's cancellation in the Spring of 1985 when MAGNUM's 6th Season was underway.
Fortunately I just got word that Paramount will finally be releasing MATT HOUSTON out on DVD on March 9th, 2010 and SIMON & SIMON is scheduled to be released on DVD on Tuesday April 6th, 2010 and are now both available for pre-order as we speak which shall give us 2 new classic private detective show releases to look forward to in the Spring of 2010.
Description of Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Third Season
TV's most charismatic detective is back and ready for action in Magnum P.I.: The Complete Third Season. All 22 unforgettable episodes are included in this 3 double-sided disc set, available on DVD for the first time! Hit the adventure-filled streets of Hawaii with Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck), T.C. (Roger E. Mosley), Rick (Larry Manetti) and, of course, the fiery red Ferrari, as they take on cases involving stolen artifacts, prison breakouts, murder and their own haunting memories of combat. Including a bonus preview episode from the fourth season, Magnum P.I.: The Complete Third Season is a fun and exciting thrill-ride! Starring: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry ManettiBestsellers in DVD
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