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Almost Home

Episode ID: 51
Episode Number: 3.11
Air Date: 12/9/1982
Writers: Alan Cassidy, Rob Gilmer
Story: Alan Cassidy
Director: Ivan Dixon
Producer: Chas. Floyd Johnson
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley), Jean Bruce Scott (Lt. Maggie Poole)

Guest Stars

Kathleen Lloyd (Bridget Archer), Beulah Quo (Aiko Tamura), Gilbert Green (Rear Adm. Philip Wheeler), Stephen Elliott (Vic Stout)

Plot Outline

When a woman is denied permission to scatter her late father's ashes at a Pearl Harbor memorial, Magnum delves into the past to investigate a decades-old court-martial ruling.

Rating

8.0 (11 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor features prominently in this story. It is used for the opening and closing scenes.

2 Stock footage from the Attack on Pearl Harbor (along with some reenactment shots) is used at the beginning of this episode.

3 Kathleen Lloyd (Bridget Archer) will go on to play the recurring character Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Carol Baldwin, starting with "Distant Relative" (4.4). The character of Carol Baldwin was first seen in "Foiled Again" (3.8), but was played by a different actress, Patty McCormack (for one episode only).

4 Magnum drives the GMC Jimmy.

5 Bridget Archer's father's name was Miles Archer. Yet another reference to the The Maltese Falcon in the show. (Noted by N1095A)

6 The Ferrari is stolen and T.C.'s chopper is shot (again).

Quotes

1
Rick: I think I'm in love!
T.C. (Checks watch): Ten minutes to ten. I wondered how long it'd take you to fall in love today.

2
Agatha: Jonathan, come quickly! Your buns are smoking!

3
Magnum: Come on T.C., nothing can go wrong! Take it down.
T.C.: "Come on T.C., nothing can go wrong". I wish I had a dollar for every time you've said that. It would probably just cover your gas bill!

Flubs

1 In the scene where Magnum and T.C. sneak into the warehouse and the bad guys come chasing them in the red jeep, and Magnum and T.C. are running for T.C.'s helicopter to escape. Magnum and T.C. jump in the chopper and immediately take off! It takes a heli anywhere from 3-7 minutes to warm up and get the rotors spinning enough to be able to lift off. There's no way they could have jumped in the chopper, started the engine and taken off, the way you can in a car! (Noted by golfmobile)

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