Magnum Mania!

Forty Years From Sand Island

Episode ID: 58
Episode Number: 3.18
Air Date: 2/24/1983
Writers: Rogers Turrentine, Rob Gilmer, Reuben Leder
Director: Mike Vejar
Producer: Chas. Floyd Johnson
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

James Shigeta (Richard Enoka), Keye Luke (Saji Goto), Marilyn Tokuda (Nancy Nakamura), Danny Kamekona (Russell Nakamura), John Roselius (Golf Pro), David Palmer (Fred Sorenson), Michael Duffett (Victor Goertz), Francis Yoshida (Kirin Nakamura)

Plot Outline

There's no stopping Magnum as he races to find the person who tampered with the brakes of the Ferrari that Higgins was driving.

Rating

7.5 (11 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Sand Island is a real location on Oahu. It is located at the entrance to Honolulu Harbor. During WWII, it was used as the main U.S. Army Internment Camp for Japanese-Americans and foreign nationals.

2 This episode features the famous "runaway wheelchair" scene, with an injured Higgins flying out of control down a steep hill in a wheelchair! This scene was shot at the Windward (Hawaii Loa) campus of Hawaii Pacific University at the Amos Starr & Juliette Montague Cooke Memorial Academic Center. (Noted by rubber chicken)

3 Magnum and T.C. are seen wearing the MIA bracelets for the first time.

4 Higgins mentions that he is doing research for an unnamed Robin Masters novel, "a portion of which is set in Hawaii during WWII". Part of the novel deals with the experiences of Japanese-Americans who were interned in Hawaii.

5 The guards in the opening flashback scene can be seen wearing a 25th Infantry Division (Tropic Lighting) patch. During WWII, the 25th Infantry Division was based in Oahu, at the Schofield Barracks. (Noted by IslandHopper)

6 Magnums wears his camouflage SEAL cap AND his Al's Automotive cap. We also see him swing a golf club, a rare sight!

7 Higgins hurts his right arm, head, neck, and back in the Ferrari crash (brake failure). Magnum is shot in the right shoulder.

8 Both "Canyon Hospital" and "Hanaloa Country Club" are fictional, as is the "Oppenheimer Regal Tribolt" lock that Magnum picks.

9 In the denouement, Magnum says, "Jay Rickley Schneider is letting his daughter marry an orchid grower?". The name "Jay Rickley Schneider" appears to be a reference to former MPI producers J. Rickley Dumm and Andrew Schneider.

Quotes

1
Higgins: I find it particularly offensive that you used them to wash down an order from something called "Macho Taco"!
Magnum: Higgins, don't do this terrible thing. I am on a case, now if you don't mind.
Higgins: But, I do mind very much. The very thought of a Chateau du Beaux anywhere near a "Macho Taco"! Really Magnum, civilized people must set some sort of standards. In the final analysis, it's all we got!

2
Higgins: My god Magnum, you sound like Perry Mason!

Flubs

1 When Magnum visits Nakamura and begins to walk around back with Nancy, he is wearing his normal boat shoes, but when he gets to the back he is suddenly wearing dark brown shoes. When he returns to his car, he is wearing the boat shoes again. (Noted by Allen Heaps)

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