Magnum Mania!

Memories Are Forever (1)

Episode ID: 23
Episode Number: 2.5
Air Date: 11/5/1981
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Ray Austin
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Marta DuBois (Michelle Hue), Jeff MacKay (Lt. "Mac" MacReynolds), Lance LeGault (Col. Buck Greene), Soon-Tek Oh (Gen. Hue), Patrick Bishop (Keoki)

Guest Stars

Clyde Kusatsu (Col. Ki), Paul Burke (Admiral Kitchner), Brian Fong (Tan-soo), Soo Yong (Old Woman), Yankee Chang (Priest)

Plot Outline

While working on a routine case, Magnum believes he has spotted Michelle, the woman he married while he was serving in the Vietnam War and who he thought had been killed in a bombing raid. T.C. and Rick are suspicious of the sighting but Magnum begins a thorough search of the area to find her. However, his search for Michelle places him in uncomfortable political territory.

Rating

9.5 (22 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Michelle Hue (Marta DuBois) and General Hue (Soon-Tek Oh) appear for the first time in the series. Events relating to Michelle and Magnum will continue in "Little Girl Who" (7.7), "Limbo" (7.22) and "Unfinished Business" (8.8).

2 This episode won an Eddie for Best Edited Episode from a Television Series. The recipients were Michael Berman & Ed Guidotti.

3 This episode was originally broadcast as a feature-length, two-hour movie. The episode is broken up into two parts for syndication runs.

4 The guest star credits appear bottom-center of the screen, not the usual bottom-left.

5 All of the fictional "Little Siagon" scenes were filmed on location in the infamous Hotel Street section of Honolulu.

6 The estate's darkroom is seen for the second time. It was previously seen in the "Pilot Movie". Note here that the darkroom is slightly different. This is because the darkroom in the pilot was actually filmed at the Anderson Estate (the real Robin's Nest). Here, the darkroom is a set on a soundstage.

7 The setting for the meeting between Gen. Hue and Admiral Kitchner was filmed at the Dillingham Ranch on the North Shore. This locaton was also used in Season One's "The Black Orchid" (1.16).

8 Rick is seen smoking cigarettes again. In "The Woman on the Beach" (2.3), we saw him smoking while under stress, commenting that he had given it up.

9 We get two close-up shots of Magnum's driving license during this episode. His drivers license shows the following info:

STATE OF HAWAII
DRIVER'S LICENSE
546 10 8740 (SSN)
(signature)
Magnum Thom Sull
11435 18th Ave
Honolulu HI 46816 0 2 3
3RN 6-04. BI M N 1/05/46*

* The 1/05/46 birth date will be contradicted in several later episodes.

Quotes

1
Mac: Well, look at the bright side of this, there is a positive side. The Navy will release you from active duty just as soon as you testify and Washington is beautiful this time of year, and filled with lovely ladies, just especially for a Navy Commander.
Magnum: I was a Lieutenant.
Mac: Aha, well not any more. The President just promoted you to full Commander ... Sir.
Magnum: And they give the condemned man a terrific last meal, too.

Flubs

1 The circular scar on the left side of Magnum's chest, the one that was there in the pilot and other episodes, is not there in this episode. (Noted by IslandHopper)

2 When Magnum takes the picture of Michelle to the club and approaches the table that Rick and T.C. are sitting at, T.C. says "fourteen bucks up on you" to Rick, but his lips are definitely saying something else. (Noted by seahawks1)

3 At his wedding day in Saigon, Magnum is with Michelle, Rick and T.C. at a restaurant. Magnum is in his dress whites and above his ribbons above his left breast pocket, you can see a gold badge, which is not a SEAL badge, it appears to be a "surface warfare" insignia/badge. This is the same one he had in the Pilot Movie. In the Pilot Movie, he did not have a SEAL badge either. However, later when Mac tells Magnum he has been reactivated to testify about his old unit, and Mac delivers a kahaki uniform complete with ribbons and insignia, note that the "surface warfare" badge Magnum had in the Pilot Movie, and when he flashed back during this episode, is not on this uniform. In its place is the SEAL badge which should have been a part of Magnum's uniform from the start. (Noted by IslandHopper)

4 During one of the Vietnam chopper flashback scenes, Rick is holding a machine gun left-handed style, shooting down into the jungle. A quick scene change shows the shooting taking place from Rick's vantage point, but the gun is now being held right-handed. The scene changes so quickly that he would not have been able to change the gun around in such a short period of time. Plus, people who are "weapons specialists" rarely shoot 'both-handed' so to speak, especially when they are taking aim down the sights, above the barrel, as Rick is doing. (Noted by Wally)

5 During the flashback scene with Magnum, Michelle, Rick and TC in the restaurant, Rick raises his glass to make a toast. He says, "and I got one more toast." After he says this, he says, "and this one is gonna kill ya." You can tell this last line was looped in post production, because the sound quality is totally different. (Noted by IslandHopper)

6 Just after Col. Ki is given Magnum's wallet, Magnum gets up after his second night without sleep and heads outside. When he reaches the bottom of the guesthouse stairs he is greeted by "The Lads" who promptly chase him back up the stairs. At this point, you can see a dog trainers hand (probably the hand of Scott E. Hart) in the upper right of the screen hitting the balcony calling the dogs up the stairs in pursuit. (Noted by artie)

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