Magnum Mania!

On the Fly

Episode ID: 142
Episode Number: 7.15
Air Date: 1/21/1987
Writer: Jay Huguely
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Producer: Rick Weaver
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Recurring Characters

Jeff MacKay (Jim "Mac" Bonnick)

Guest Stars

Anette Courset (Maria Torres), Byrne Piven (Pasqual Valez), Mike Moroff (Emilio), David Cadiente (Juan), Jimmy Ortega (Suertudo), David Traylor (Art)

Plot Outline

A case of mistaken identity has Magnum fighting back against two rival Mexican crime families who both want him dead.

Rating

8.0 (12 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 Jeff MacKay returns as Jim "Mac" Bonnick for the first time in almost two years. He was last seen in "The Love-For-Sale Boat" (5.17).

2 Damage all around in this episode - T.C. and "Mac" are shot and hospitalized, Magnum gets whiplash, the Island Hoppers Vanagon is shot-up with automatic weapons fire, and there is an "Alamo-style" shootout in the main house at Robin's Nest with several fatalities (and a destroyed 1st edition O. Henry book)!

3 Magnum compares his stint as an aviator to women in movies. He talks about Doris Day in Julie (1956), Karen Black in Airport (1970) and Julie Hagerty in Airplane (1980).

4 Anette Courset (Maria Torres) is credited as "Annette Cardona".

5 Higgins is fluent in Spanish, Magnum is not.

6 "Mac" has several old and valuable comic books that are discussed in this episode - Marvel Comics "Vol. 1", the first "Tales from the Crypt" (1950) and Huey, Dewey, and Louie "On Vacation" (1963). Higgins sells them at the end to pay for the destroyed 1st Edition O. Henry book.

7 Higgins quotes Arthur Wellesley (1st Duke of Wellington) - "Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won".

8 Magnum says he's a "cheese freak".

9 The beat-up car that Magnum and Rick use to fool the bad guys is a Checker Taxi with no taxi markings [pic]. (Noted by Sam & SelleckLover)

Quotes

1
Magnum: Any luck on Mac yet?
Rick: Landlady says she hasn't seen him since early this morning, but I got the place staked out. He's probably in some chopper chop shop somewhere.
Magnum: Rick, we don't know for sure if Mac took the chopper.
Rick: Hey, will you quit defending him!
Magnum: I'm not defending him, exactly.
Rick: Yes you are! This bum has conned us all at least once. You better start realizing this isn't your good old honest friend "Mac". Thomas, the real "Mac" is dead. And this Jim...
Magnum: Jim Bonnick...
Rick: The point is that you gotta quit letting him off so easy because he looks like the old "Mac", Thomas.
Magnum: I am not letting him off, but I still don't think he can be connected to an attempt on T.C.

2
(During a shootout at the estate)
Magnum: Higgins, where are the dogs?
Higgins: At the kennel, for a grooming.
Magnum: Great, you picked today to give them a haircut?!
Higgins: I had no way of knowing you and me would be fighting the Alamo this afternoon. Really Magnum, you had no right to involve Robin Masters estate in your clandestine affairs.
(short time later, several books are "shot up")
Higgins: O. Henry 1st edition destroyed! Balzac barely spared!

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