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Never Again ... Never Again

Episode ID: 7
Episode Number: 1.7
Air Date: 1/22/1981
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
Story: Jim Carlson, Terrence McDonnell
Director: Robert Loggia
Producer: J. Rickley Dumm
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Hanna Hertelendy (Lena Greenberg), Robert Ellenstein (Saul Greenberg), Glenn Cannon (Dr. Bernard Kessler), Clay Wai (Miko), Earl Kingston (Ruben), Todd Camenson (Karl)

Plot Outline

When Saul and Lena, and older couple who run a local shop, abruptly make plans to leave town, Magnum and Rick become suspicious and decide to investigate. After Saul suffers a heart attack and disappears from the hospital, Lena confesses to Magnum that they are Holocaust survivors being hunted by Neo-Nazis. Magnum and Rick must now work together to save Saul in time.

Rating

8.5 (18 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This episode features one of the best plot twists of the entire series!

2 Magnum wears the VMO-2 Da Nang baseball cap [pic] for the first time! (Noted by Mike Barnes)

3 This is one of the few episodes to feature the indoor bar/restaurant of the King Kamehameha Club, filmed at the Elks Honolulu Lodge (2933 Kalakaua Avenue).

4 Higgins "breaks the fourth wall" (by "locking eyes" with the audience) for the first time. He will do so in only a handful of episodes (including the next one).

5 During the scenes at the hospital the same three people are paged over the PA, at different times, each time in exactly the same way:

• "Janet Clark, please report to Maternity. Janet Clark." [3 times]
• "Dr. Sigapelli to Cardiology. Dr. Sigapelli." [4 times]
• "Dr. Haywood, you're wanted in Pediatrics. Dr. Haywood to Pediatrics." [3 times]

When Magnum goes back to the hospital later that night, and sneaks into Dr. Kessler's office, we can hear a "Nurse Emory" being paged twice, and then while he's searching the office, we hear the faint sound of "Janet Clark" being paged twice more! (Noted by Carol the Dabbler)

6 The Makani Kai Marina in Kaneohe is used as a filming location. The boat that is used throughout the episode (and for the climax) is named Cherokee, and its home port is the same marina.

7 During the climactic scene with Magnum and Lena on the boat, a number of Lena's lines appear to be dubbed and re-recorded in post-production.

8 Glenn Cannon plays Dr. Bernard Kessler. He will start his regular role as another Doctor, Doc Ibold, in Season Two's "Try to Remember" (2.15).

9 Saul and Lena's house was filmed in Kaimuki, just north of the Hawaii Film Studio [map]. "Saul's Shirt Shop" was filmed at 3573 Waialae Avenue, also in Kaimuki [map]. (Noted by rubber chicken)

10 In 1946, Higgins was sent to Suez, Egypt for assignment. He also briefly attended the Nuremberg Trials in Germany in 1946.

Quotes

1
Higgins: Magnum, feed the lads, would you? There are steaks in the freezer. (Magnum makes an excited face.) Very well, you can have one too.

2
Higgins: I was there you know.
Magnum: Where?
Higgins: Nuremberg, during the trials. They all had excuses, reasons for doing what they did, even the so-called 'little fish', but when you saw the films, the camps, you realized there were no 'little fish'. I just thought you ought to know.
Magnum: Higgins, thank you.
Higgins: Of course, this changes nothing between us. I still expect you to respect the rules and regulations that pertain to your stay on the estate. There will be no wild parties, no outrageous liberties, no unauthorized overnight guests!
(roll end-credits)

Flubs

1 On the shot of Magnum (stunt double) jumping from the jetty to the boat, he lands much lower - seemingly about to fall into the sea – than in the next shot, where we see Magnum (Selleck) climbing up the back of the boat.

2 When Magnum and Rick drive up in the Ferrari to Saul's house and get out of the car to go up to the ambulance, and then into the house, Rick leaves his car door open. When they return to the car shortly after, the door has somehow miraculously been closed. (Noted by seahawks1)

3 The single ring of the doorbell of at Dr. Kessler's house doesn't match with the numerous times Rick presses it.

4 When Magnum leaves Lena with Higgins at Robin's Nest, to retrieve some of her things, he is wearing jeans. A short time later, on his way back to Robin's Nest, he is seen driving the Ferrari with shorts on.

5 A noticeably poor audio overdub occurs in the denouement, in the last words of the episode, as Higgins says, "There will be no wild parties, no outrageous liberties, no unauthorized overnight guests!".

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