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Wave Goodbye

Episode ID: 26
Episode Number: 2.8
Air Date: 11/19/1981
Writer: Reuben Leder
Director: Sidney Hayers
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Patrick Bishop (Keoki)

Guest Stars

Vic Morrow (Sgt. Jordan), W.K. Stratton (Off. Kelly), Wings Hauser (Nick Frangakis), John Calvin (Gary), James Grant Benton (Ralph), Diane Crowley (Kacy)

Plot Outline

An ex-surfing champion and friend of Magnum's turns up dead on the beach and Magnum investigates. The prime suspects are a local drug pusher and a Vietnam vet, but Magnum believes someone else may be involved.

Rating

7.5 (14 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This was one of the last acting roles for Vic Morrow before his tragic accidental death while filming Twilight Zone: The Movie in July of 1982.

2 A lovely original Smooth Jazz piece composed by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter can be heard at the beginning of this episode when Kacy and Gary meet at the Surfrider Club. [audio]

3 Hawaiian local-style comedian James Grant Benton makes his first appearance on the show as Ralph the bartender. He will later play the recurring character Kika, as well as several other minor characters.

4 W.K. Stratton (Off. Kelley), who also appeared in the "Pilot Movie", was a Baa Baa Black Sheep (1976-1978) cast member with Larry Manetti and Jeff MacKay ("Mac").

5 During one of his conversations with Nick Frangakis, the struggling Vietnam Vet, we find out that Magnum once spent time at a VA Hospital for mental health treatment.

6 Rick mentions the "Snow Palace", the glitzy discotheque club he owned in the Pilot Movie (Rick's Café Americain).

Quotes

1
Higgins: Oh, Magnum.
Magnum: Hi, Higgins. You alright?
Higgins: I have a proposition for you. I'm sure that...
Magnum: Now wait a minute. Just wait a second Higgins. I mean this really is getting depressing, this constant deal making - I'll give you this, if you give me that. It's so unecessary. I mean, here we are living in paradise. I'm talkin' paradise, Higgins. We have everything we could ever possibly want out of life, right here. So, why? Why can't we just do things for one another, simply because we want to? Simply because we are friends. Simply because we feel like helping one another.
Higgins: Magnum...I want you to know I'm quite touched. I never thought you were capable of those admirable sentiments. I really mean that.
Magnum: Thank you.
Higgins: I...came down here this morning to...just as you so aptly describe it - 'Make a deal'. You see, the Audi's been under the weather and I need to pick up some paperwork at the club. I was going to ask you to fetch it for me. In return, I was going to give you use of the tennis courts for one week, but now I'm just asking you, as a friend.
Magnum: Two weeks.

2
Magnum: Hawaii is one of those places that keeps topping itself. Just when you think you'll never see another sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that only Gauguin could imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take. (Narration)

3
Magnum: One of the clichés of my profession is that to get information from a bartender you have to slip him some bills of various denominations; Bills that you can't afford, with pictures of unfamiliar presidents. And usually for information that isn't worth it. However, this was a special case and I wasn't in the mood for games. (Narration)

4
Magnum: Another cliché about getting information from bartenders, is that no matter how sincere they sound, you know as soon as you're out the door, they're on the phone warning they guy you want to see. And this guy didn't strike me as being particularly different. (Narration)

Flubs

1 At the end of the show after Sgt. Jordan had told Off. Kelly to drop his gun, he started reading Off. Kelly his rights as they were walking down the beach (presumably going to the patrol car) and just left the gun in the sand, next to Magnum.

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