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The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u

Episode ID: 115
Episode Number: 6.9
Air Date: 11/14/1985
Writer: Reuben Leder
Director: Ivan Dixon
Producer: Chris Abbott
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Kathleen Lloyd (Carol Baldwin), Kwan Hi Lim (Lt. Tanaka), Gillian Dobb (Agatha Chumley), Glenn Cannon (Doc Ibold), James Grant Benton (Kika)

Guest Stars

Nancy Stafford (Amy Griswald), Beverly Todd (Donna Clemens), Michael Swan (Pirate James Dawkins), Chip Heller (Doug Fenwick), Steve Goldsberry (Terry Dobbs), Barbara Fitzsimmons (Maggie), Richard Sanford (Rev. Brown), Ron Wood (Mr. Kono), Jim Demarest (Conventioneer), Mark Pinkosh (Teenager)

Plot Outline

To promote his new book, Robin Masters' publishers stage a one million dollar treasure hunt using clues from the book. Magnum and friends join in, but it seems that someone is prepared to go to any extent, even to kill, to win the prize money!

Rating

8.0 (17 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 This episode uses reverse chronology by opening with a partial scene of the ending climax. It is also memorable for its Wacky Races-like plot and the high volume of recurring characters used - Doc Ibold, Carol, Agatha, Lt. Tanaka, Kika, they are all here. They are also seen together in many scenes, which is highly unusual for the show.

2 The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u is the 10th Robin Masters novel named in the show. The pirate story from the book takes place in the year 1759.

3 It's interesting to note that Magnum mentions that he personally took Robin Masters around the island to scout locations for the book.

4 T.C.'s Island Hoppers has temporarily moved into a house trailer near a marina. What's striking about it is that it appears to be in a populated, and busy area. Hardly a location where noisey helicopters would be accepted! (Noted by N1095A)

5 Universal Studios plugs its own cartoon Woody Woodpecker during this episode. Magnum is seen watching "Woodpecker in the Rough" from 1952.

6 Magnum is taking a Business Administration class at the "University".

7 For many years, the IMDB (and other sources) incorrectly credited the Rolling Stones' Ron Wood as appearing in this episode (as Mr. Kono), as well as three other MPI episodes. After numerous attempts, the correct Ron Wood was finally added to the IMDB in 2007.

8 Jim Demarest (Conventioneer in Hotel) is famous in Hawaii for his role as "Mr. Checkers" (#3) in the long-running KGMB children's show The Checkers & Pogo Show (1967-1979). Jim previously appeared Season One's "Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too" (1.4) and Season Five's "Let Me Hear the Music" (5.18).

9 The race registration scene, and one other brief scene with Higgins and Agatha, was filmed at the McCoy Pavilion (1201 Ala Moana Blvd) in Ala Moana Beach Park [map]. (Noted by rubber chicken)

10 The scenes around the waterfall pool (including the finale "jump scene") were filmed at Kapena Falls in the Nuuanu Valley. The pool is very close to the Sanju Pagoda of Kyoto Gardens Memorial Park. (Noted by rubber chicken)

Quotes

1
Magnum: Maybe the computer did make a mistake.
Mr. Kono (the Hotel Desk Clerk): The computer does not make mistakes.
[wav]

2
Magnum: I'm sorry you lost your Granda Flora Queen Elizabeth's over this Higgins.
Higgins: Thank you Magnum, the gesture is appreciated, but I suppose that when one works, as we do, for someone as eccentric, and as anarchicly impulsive, as Mr. Masters we must expect the unexpected and learn to live with the somewhat obsured vagaries of his work.
Magnum: You're right Higgins. I guess you and I will be doing this for a long time, too. Huh, you know, together.
Higgins: Yes, as a matter of fact....always.
(both smile and jump off cliff into the water)

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