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The Legacy of Garwood Huddle

Episode ID: 88
Episode Number: 5.4
Air Date: 10/18/1984
Writer: Richard Yalem
Director: Vincent McEveety
Producer: Reuben Leder
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Elisha Cook Jr. (Icepick)

Guest Stars

Pat Hingle (Garwood Huddle), John Ratzenberger (Walt Brewster), Belinda Montgomery (Frannie Huddle), Michael Anderson Jr. (Garwood Huddle Jr.), William Bryant (Arnold "Slick" Sims), Philip Sterling (Harry Clayborn), Wisa D'Orso (Mavis), Nancy DeCarl (TV Newscaster), Dick Durock (Norm)

Plot Outline

One crime might just justify another when Magnum helps a notorious bank robber find his hidden loot so he can pay the ransom on his kidnapped grandson.

Rating

7.5 (12 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The opening credits appear unusually late, some six minutes into the episode.

2 Garwood Huddle is an infamous unarmed bandit of the '40s. Along with gang members Arnold "Slick" Sims and Mortie Anderson, using toy guns, they successfully robbed 47 banks across the United States. Garwood escaped from a jail in Joliet, Illinois in '44 and went into hiding.

3 This episode has some signs that it is out of sequence with the surrounding episodes, most notably Magnum's hair length – short in the previous and next episodes, here it is quite long.

4 Magnum spends most of this episode smelling like a combination of old gym shorts and brussel sprouts thanks to some "Patchismo" cologne, which is supposed to bring out a persons natural scent.

5 Icepick is shown running his "business" from the back office of a deli store. We learn that he has "several" grandchildren, including one named "Butch".

6 Magnum makes another trip to the "Hall of Records", but Ms. Jones is nowhere in sight. We get to see what the building looks like from the outside.

7 The legendary Phil Hartman does a brief newscaster voiceover, although he is uncredited.

8 Nancy DeCarl makes a brief appearance as a TV newscaster. She is married to Larry Manetti and once was a real life TV news reporter.

9 Pat Hingle (Garwood Huddle) guest starred with John Hillerman in a 1976 episode of Hawaii Five-O (1968-1980).

10 In July of 1944, Higgins was in Mexico City with MI6. The Third Reich put some top secret documents into a Mexican bank (the "Banco Internacional") for safekeeping. Higgins' assignment was to hire a notorious criminal (Garwood Huddle) to steal them, a man who appeared to be robbing just another bank. The mission, of course, was to bring out the Nazi documents. Garwood returned all of the money and refused to accept any payment. It was his contribution to the war effort.

11 Higgins was in Salzburg "back in...", but he breaks off without detail.

Quotes

1
Magnum: Well, you could have got us both arrested! Then who would have found your little grandson?
Garwood: We ain't arrested! We're riding around in this fancy Italian race car of yours! Real inconspicuous! El Higgo told me you were very good, but I'm beginning to wonder, buddy.
Magnum: He said that?!

2
T.C.: You know, there's that smell again. It's smells kinda funny, like old gym shorts. You smell it Thomas?
Magnum: (says nothing)
T.C.: It's gettin' worse. It smells like old brussel sprouts.
Magnum: Ok! Ok! Ok...It's me. Some guy gave me this sample of "Patchismo" cologne.
T.C.: "Patchismo" col...Is this the same guy that gave you the "PatWax"?
Magnum: Yes, and I put some on and now I can't wash it off.
T.C.: Man, you should have smelled that stuff before you put it on.
Magnum: It doesn't smell like anything. It's supposed to take on your own natural scent.
T.C.: Heh, boy if that's your own natural scent you've got a serious problem.
Magnum: Look, will you stop it please and help me find William Daniels!
T.C.: Yeah, sure. You just stay down wind.

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