Magnum Mania!

Echoes of the Mind (1)

Episode ID: 85
Episode Number: 5.1
Air Date: 9/27/1984
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley), Glenn Cannon (Doc Ibold), Elissa Dulce Hoopai (Rosine), Deborah Pratt (Gloria)

Guest Stars

Sharon Stone (Diane Dupres), Carolyn Seymour (Lady Ashley), George Innes (David Billingsworth), June Chadwick (Sara)

Plot Outline

It's double trouble for Magnum when he finds himself falling for sexy Diane Dupres, only to discover that her seductive twin sister, Deidre, claims that Diane is a paranoid hysteric with a history of attempted murder.

Rating

9.0 (14 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The original title of this episode was "Sister, Sister". (Noted by Mike Barnes)

2 This two-parter is commonly referred to as "The Sharon Stone Episode". Sharon Stone will make an uncredited flashback appearance (from this episode) as Diane Dupres in "Mac's Back" (5.3).

3 For the first time in the show, the Kahala Hilton is used as a filming location for the King Kamehameha Club. This location will be used several more times in Season Five only and then will never be used again. The hotel changed ownership in 1993 and is now known as the Kahala Hotel & Resort.

4 The opening scene is set to the "End Title" theme from the first original soundtrack (New American Orchestra version) of Ridley Scott's Sci-Fi masterpiece Blade Runner (1982). [audio]

5 Higgins' official title is Lord Jonathan Higgins, the Baron of Perth. He's the second son of the Duke of Perth.

6 The famous "shower scene" between Selleck and Stone is only the second "shower scene" (man/woman in shower together with implied sexual overtones) shown on network primetime TV. The first was on St. Elsewhere (Nov. 1983) with Dr. Bobby Caldwell (Mark Harmon) and Joan Halloran (Nancy Stafford*).

7 The scenes at Diane Dupres' house were filmed at The Contemporary Museum in Makiki, at a building called The Spalding House (built in 1925, for Alice Cooke Spalding, founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts). (Noted by rubber chicken)

8 The song that Higgins is listening to in the study when Magnum walks in is the "underground" WWI Royal Air Force song "Bless ’Em All". Written by Fred Godfrey, the song was also very popular during WWII. (Noted by rubber chicken)

9 Deborah Pratt begins her role as Gloria, T.C.'s girlfriend. She will later write the screenplay's for "Little Games" (5.12) and "Little Girl Who" (7.7). At the time, she was Donald P. Bellisario's wife.

10 Lady Ashley certainly looks a lot different from when we last saw her at the very end of Season Two's "Computer Date" (2.14), where she was short, plump and average looking. Here, she is tall and thin, and kind of looks like a runway model! This if, of course, due to Lady Ashley being played by two different actresses. In "Computer Date", she was played by Olga Marr. In this episode, it is the British actress Carolyn Seymour. Carolyn will have a small role later in the season in "The Love-For-Sale Boat" (5.17).

* Nancy Stafford will make a guest star appearance in Season Six's "The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u" (6.9).

Quotes

1
Higgins: Lady Ashley, you look positively smashing, especially for a woman your age.

2
Magnum: I feel like John Garfield, Higgins. You know, in some kind of '40s movie. It's as if our lives are to be inter-meshed and there is nothing I can do about it.
Higgins: You're falling in love.
Magnum: I just met her!
Higgins: Well it happens that way sometimes, if you're lucky. I'll never forget the day I met Elizabeth, Lady Ashley.

Flubs

1 Just before the episode title appears, in the lower-left corner, a crew member can be seen quickly running off the road to go behind some rocks to get out of the shot. (Noted by Tuan Vu)

2 When Magnum, T.C. and Diane are flying in the chopper, the last shot of the chopper flying and banking slightly to the right shows the tail rotor blade on the right side. The tail rotor is supposed to be on the left as in the previous shots. (Noted by IslandHopper)

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