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Episode aired Apr 10, 1986
Not Rated
48m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

259

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Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, and Cassie Yates in Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Action Adventure Crime Drama Mystery

A woman who is writing a book about road signs hires Magnum because someone is following her and attempting to steal something but she does not know what it is.A woman who is writing a book about road signs hires Magnum because someone is following her and attempting to steal something but she does not know what it is.A woman who is writing a book about road signs hires Magnum because someone is following her and attempting to steal something but she does not know what it is.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

259

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The Snooker player that Higgins was watching (Caldwell) was none other than 6 times World Champion Steve Davis.

Goofs
When Higgins is watching the snooker tournament he is capturing it using a still camera with a motorized drive. It is not a 35mm movie camera. Later, he develops a roll of 35mm movie film that was supposedly shot with this camera. Not only was the camera wrong, but by 1986 video cameras were readily available and with Robin Masters' wealth, Higgins would have had a video camera rather than a film camera. Later Higgins refers to the film as being of still photos. One doesn't capture a winning snooker shot using still photography.

Quotes
[last lines]
Thomas Magnum: Caviar?
Shelly Faraday: Ooh, thanks. Got any catsup?

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Featured review

4/10

Funny irony

The Childless Cat Ladies of Honolulu honor Magnum at their monthly meeting for saving some tubby tabby from certain demise in a tidal pool.

That sets up an amusing scene with Higgins, who couldn't give two meows about the cat fanciers because he's engrossed in watching the Snooker Championships of 1986 on ESPN. Unfortunately that meant he didn't get a chance to tell Magnum that his speech detailing his cruelty toward cats as a kid was gonna cause the cat club to drop kittens.

The A plot involves Cassie Yates as the attractive damsel in distress. While the bad guys were chasing her Pontiac Fiero they clip the red Ferrari. Chaos ensues.

In an odd bit of casting for an episode involving childless cat ladies, noted l3ftyst g3sb3g James Cromwell plays a gendarme at the airport in Nice, France.

Anyway, too much of the episode involves characters yelling at each other. Were they riffing on the scr3wball antics of Moonlighting's Cybil Shepherd and Bruce Willis, the breakout hit show of 1986? Because it didn't work here. Like almost all scr3wball "comedies" it wasn't funny, just irritating.