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Episode ID: 127
Episode Number: 6.21
Air Date: 4/10/1986
Writer: Bruce Cervi
Story: Chas. Floyd Johnson
Director: Burt Brinkerhoff
Producer: Chris Abbott
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley)

Guest Stars

Cassie Yates (Shelly Faraday), Denny Miller (Agent Longdon), Geoff Heise (David Kirk), James Cromwell (French Policeman - uncredited), Jake Hoopai (Truck Driver)

Plot Outline

The picture's not pretty when Magnum's chance meeting with a photographer leads him to an embezzler who was believed to be dead.

Rating

7.5 (15 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Main guest star Cassie Yates (Shelly Faraday) previously appeared in Season Five's "Kiss of the Sabre" (5.11) where she played a very similiar (and highly annoying) character.

2 The estate's main house "living room" is seen for only the second time, following "This Island Isn't Big Enough" (6.16). The room has a new addition, satellite TV hookup! Higgins enthusiastically uses the new satellite hookup to watch the World Championships of Snooker.

3 Agatha breaks both ankles (at different times) in this episode. T.C. has a new girlfriend.

4 Magnum had a cousin named Claude who had a long-haired Persian cat. They used to play "Spin the Cat" with him, a game where they would spin him around on the kitchen linoleum, slide him across the floor, and watch him try to walk back. The cat loved it! [see quote below] Magnum also mentions an "Uncle Tom".

5 Agatha says she survived "The Blitz", which means she was in the UK in the early 1940s.

6 The Ferrari suffers front-right quarter panel and bumper damage after being hit by some bad guys. Magnum sends it to "Lefty's" for repair.

7 While riding in Shelly's car, Magnum tries to put on a seatbelt, but he finds that the seatbelt is broken. Magnum almost never wears a seatbelt in the show.

8 Rick's answering machine greeting is "When it beeps, speak. Chow."

9 Magnum videotapes a fictional 04/09/1986 opening day baseball game between the Detroit Tigers and the Toronto Bluejays. Magnum name-checks Tigers second baseman Lou Whitaker. Lou appeared as himself with Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell in Season Four's "A Sense of Debt" (4.8).

Quotes

1
Higgins: Not important? This is the first time in the long history of the game that those of us on "this side of world" can observe the snooker championships on "that side of the world", and you want me to squander this opportunity to hear some speech abouts cats?

2
(Magnum receives an award from the "Cat Admirers Society" for saving a drowning cat)
Magnum: ... Anyway, I never had a cat for a pet. I never did. I don't what happened, but I had this cousin Claude, and he had this long-haired Persian (smiles). We used to play this great game with him on the kitchen linoleum. We called it "Spin the Cat". (laughs) See, you'd take the cat (chuckles) and you'd spin him around, about eight or ten times. Then see, you'd just slide him down the kitchen floor, all the way to the door (laughs). You should see the cat when he tries to walk back to you (laughs). It's great! (stunned silence from the "Cat Lovers" crowd) Oh, it didn't hurt the cat. I mean, he, no, he liked the game. No, honest. He loved it. He loved it! He used to try to get us to play it with him, all the time. [audio]
(short time later, walking back to the car)
Agatha: Well, I wouldn't feel so badly Mr. Magnum. Actually, parts of your speech were quite amusing.
Magnum: Let's face it Agatha, it was a disaster.
Agatha: Well, look at it this way. Each person is only alloted so many times to fall on his face in his lifetime. Now, you have one less.
Magnum: (puzzled look) Thanks.

3
Shelly Faraday: Road signs are the windows of the world. A chance for us to get closer together, globally. [audio]

4
Agatha: You may be a terrible speech maker Mr. Magnum, but you're still a hero to me.

Flubs

1 The French police uniform and badge that James Cromwell wears at the airport is a very poor replica of a real French uniform and badge. (Noted by Vanity)

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