Magnum Mania!

Legacy From a Friend

Episode ID: 59
Episode Number: 3.19
Air Date: 3/10/1983
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Stuart Margolin
Producer: Chas. Floyd Johnson
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Frank Atienza (Officer Puna)

Guest Stars

Annie Potts (Tracy Spencer), Rosemary Forsyth (Margaret Chase), Bob Minor (Rose), Annette McCarthy (Nancy Phillips), Susan Mechsner (Crystal), Julia Nickson-Soul (Carla), Sinjin Smith (Marcus Phillips), Ardi Maioho (Sylvia)

Plot Outline

A lifeguard is found dead soon after he's seen in an expensive new car that he clearly couldn't afford. Magnum partners with a young ambitious woman to crack the case in this story of blackmail and adultery.

Rating

8.0 (11 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The original title of this episode was "A Darker Side of Paradise". [pic]

2 Beach volleyball legend Sinjin Smith has a minor guest starring role as Marcus Phillips, Magnum's volleyball partner who is killed early in the episode.

3 Episode director Stuart Margolin (Angel Martin in The Rockford Files) will later guest star in "...By Its Cover" (3.21).

4 Annie Potts' character (Tracy Spencer) shows up again in "A.A.P.I." (7.5).

5 Bob Minor (Rose) is the show's lead stunt coordinator and Roger E. Mosley's stunt double.

6 The beach scene where they find Marcus' body was fimed at Makap'u Beach, not Sandy Beach where he was said to have drowned (and name-checked by Rick).

7 Julia Nickson-Soul (Carla) played one of the models in "Three Minus Two" (2.22).

8 The beach volleyball scenes were filmed at the Outrigger Canoe Club, the same location where the "Adelaide" (1.14) volleyball scenes were filmed.

9 Magnum gets beat up by two female enforcers with tight pants and long fingernails! [video]

10 T.C. wears a Penn State baseball cap for the first and only time.

11 During Higgins' first tour of India (date unknown, but probably 1948) "one of the lads ran afoul of a minor Rajah".

Quotes

1
Magnum: Higgins, there is nothing, absolutely nothing, that you can tell Robin that he doesn't already know - that we havn't laughed about together.
Higgins: The potato chip heiress from Buffalo who filled the tidal pool with...
Magnum: A little misunderstanding, Higgins. After it was drained...
Higgins: And then there is the Romanian mime troop who...
Magnum: You...You're not going to bring that up. I mean, you were there when the paramedics arrived! You know!
Higgins: I will take note of the panic in your voice and those guilt-crazed eyes as a scent to my favor, albeit with the slightest reluctance.
Magnum: Wait a minute! This isn't a favor, this is extortion and blackmail!

2
Tracy Spencer: Well look, when you're stalking big game, you've got to go into the jungle.

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