James J. Walters wrote:Jonny, you can get the MP3 from the 'Audio' section of the site, under 'MPI Theme Songs'.

Thanks for the tip. I am going to put the Freebairn-Smith song on my MP3 as soon as I can get my CD's organized.

The fact that the first one sounded a little like Mike Post's own "CHiPs" theme makes it seem like the producers might have asked for a Mike Post style of song. When they finally got Post to do a song, he came up with something completely different and original.

Here is the Rockford theme for anyone interested.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MNzabxjknJo

I think it was done by a "committee" at IGN, not one person. In any event, Magnum Mania's got you covered on the original theme song. Slap on some shades, light up a smoke and get down with the sonic jazz sounds of Ian Freebairn-Smith. Can ya dig that funky fuzz bass and horns, man? ;) http://magnu...

I guess it could be, but they reference Freebairn-Smith and the song description fits the original theme song better than the Post one. Yes. What I mean is, I suspect the writer used information based on the first theme song. Maybe he had to make a choice between the "first" or the "second," and he...

I suspect the winner was the Mike Post theme, but the person who wrote the description based it on thinking it was the original. That happens a lot with younger writers who aren't familiar with the topic.

Texas lightning. That looks like the episode I remember. Thanks.

This is interesting. I watched a youtube interview with Mike Post (Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues) who wrote the theme song to Magnum and many other shows. He said that it was easy for him to write because he had known Tom Selleck all through public school. They grew up together. Apparently this ...

My brother used to have some ivory-colored Sperry leather deck shoes (with the slits cut into the sole). I told him he should have bought the classic brown ones. But I didn't know that Magnum wore them. That's pretty cool.

I searched through the Magnum P.I. episode guide but could not find the episode I was looking for. I'm not even sure which season it was. It could have been any of seasons 1 through 5 I think. I saw the episode around 1985 (roughly) I think, but I don't know if it was a rerun or not. It was shown du...