How did you get into Magnum?

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BobBlusoe · #31 Post by **BobBlusoe** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 11:52 pm

the only reason for blu ray for me is buying a 15 disc blu ray of the series to take to college is easier than taking the equivilant of 38 dvds (and stealing over half of those from my mom!) also with a blu ray we might get surround sound like we did with the Prisoner! both shows were originally in Mono (Except for later Magnum, I'm told.) But I know what you mean.

MACattack · #32 Post by **MACattack** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:19 am

I've only seen The Prisoner on TV. Talk about a weird show, man.

BobBlusoe · #33 Post by **BobBlusoe** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:22 am

Yeah It was one of those shows that could be put into the category "Didn't make any bleeping sense at all ever"

But I like the look of the village, and how manic and random #6 is. I'd never even try to talk to that guy!

MACattack · #34 Post by **MACattack** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:38 am

Yeah, he was like Dr. Who on crack!

BobBlusoe · #35 Post by **BobBlusoe** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:48 am

hahaha!

I wonder how Higgins would work as a #2?

HIGGY: Oh My God! #6, you shattered #1's most beautiful snow globe to try and knock out the map guy? That's unacceptable, even for you.

#6: (Calmy)Yes...(smiles)....(explodes) WHY DON'T YOU BUY HIM A NEW ONE!!!!!...(calm again)...if you aren't too strapped for cash...be seeing you...(walks away, proceeds to blow up the Stone Boat)

#36 Post by **Styles Bitchley** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:08 pm

BobBlusoe wrote:the only reason for blu ray for me is buying a 15 disc blu ray of the series to take to college is easier than taking the equivilant of 38 dvds (and stealing over half of those from my mom!) also with a blu ray we might get surround sound like we did with the Prisoner! both shows were originally in Mono (Except for later Magnum, I'm told.) But I know what you mean.

Why don't you just rip them onto your laptop and take it to college with you? isn't that was all the all the kids are doing these days???

For me, I got into MPI at various points throughout the '80s. I was never a hard core fan during the original run, but I loved it at the same time. I was only six in 1980, but by the mid-80s I was getting to a stage where I could really appreciate the show. In the intervening years I used to really get excited when I could catch an episode in re-run. When season 1 was first released as a DVD set, it was a no brainer for me.

There are a lot of things that I find exciting about Magnum, but I think what I like in the back of my mind is that he reminds me of my dad in his prime. My parents were divorced so I didn't get to see him much. Physically my old man reminds me of TS and he wore ball caps and polo shirts and liked fast cars. Hmm, this is starting to sound like a therapy session.

You see, Magnum Mania is not only entertaining, it's cathartic as well!

Donuts ensucrats · Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:22 pm

At the first run of the series in my country I was not a big fan of the series but I watched a few episodes that impressed me and has remained on my memory. "home from the sea" and "Operation Silent night" are examples. Today, watching the series at night after work is for me like a medicine or a therapy. Relaxing, laughing.... I like to see these characters and how they live. My wife has become a fan too.

Carmen · #38 Post by **Carmen** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:23 pm

How did I get into Magnum p.i.? - I am female, Tom Selleck was on TV, things were set.

SelleckLover · #39 Post by **SelleckLover** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:14 pm

Carmen wrote:

How did I get into Magnum p.i.? - I am female, Tom Selleck was on TV, things were set.

That pretty much sums it up for me, too! Wow, am I shallow or what???!

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Mon Jan 25, 2010 6:56 pm

I was a kid that was at the right age to think a guy living on the beach in Hawaii, driving a Ferrari, being single with women everywhere, and shooting and getting shot at were pretty damn cool. I think every guy my age wanted to be Thomas Sullivan Magnum at one point in his life.

Dervish · #41 Post by **Dervish** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:05 pm

IKnowWhatYoureThinking wrote:I think every guy my age wanted to be Thomas Sullivan Magnum at one point in his life.

When did we stop wanting to be Magnum?

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:30 pm

Dervish wrote:
IKnowWhatYoureThinking wrote:I think every guy my age wanted to be Thomas Sullivan Magnum at one point in his life.
When did we stop wanting to be Magnum?

True! I guess we need to start working on our private investigators liscense.

Steve · #43 Post by **Steve** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 1:10 am

I've posted this before, my experience goes back to the original run of the series, but sadly not from the beginning. I do recall seeing Tom Selleck on commercials and his Salem and Chaz print ads in the 70's. Now, back in the late seventies I was married to a "she devil" (just kidding) from southern California whose sister went to High School with TS and always tried to follow his career. She told us about his new series coming out called Magnum,pi. My ex ultimately left me just before the series started so I guess I just never got around to watching when it did premier. Now, this wasn't because of my divorce, but looking back I was just thinking, ugh, another P.I. show (they were all over the tube in the 50's 60' and 70's). Cut ahead a couple of years when one of my employees would keep pestering me about the show and how good it was and I would love it. Well, I finally gave in and my first show I turned on was a Luther H. Gillis episode and wala, I WAS HOOKED!

BobBlusoe · #44 Post by **BobBlusoe** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 4:13 am

Another thing I love about the series is the great scenery of Hawaii you see in it. I don't know why but for some reason the grain on the film and the 80's buildings make Hawaii feel more real than any new High-Def footage of the islands. Like you feel like you're actually there.

Leopard71 · #45 Post by **Leopard71** » Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:33 am

I guess like anyone else,,I just happened on it during its first season.. My ex & I had 2 young kids, didnt go out much and had the normal..get home from work, makr dinner, clean up, park in front of TV..typical USA middle class existence..

I think the ex corralled me during one of the openbings..we missed the pilot- durng the scene when Magnum's is holding the floating bikinid babe and glances at her butt.. The ex picked up on it and had me check it out the following week..then I was hooked!!!

Hawaii, and esp Higgins w all the droning ex war tales and Magnums eye rolls..I immed called up my oldes friend from Hs and college..we're both Nam era vets..and hyped the show.. He called back later and was excited too.. after that Magnum became the Thur night show to never miss..and this was just prior to the emergence of VCRs so you had to be there..

When the show s intro began w the music, both our kids, then 5 and 1 would dance right in front of the screen furiously..

Id ask my son, then 5 the name of each character as they appeared in scenes:

Me: Brian whos that?
Brian: HIGGINS!!!!

Me: Kristen...whos that???

Kristen ( then just beginning to talk)>>>> TC!!!!

Me..who're they??( the dogs)......... da Lads!!!! in unison...

and so it went..every Thursday

admittedly..some episodes dragged a bit, then picked up,, but to this day both my kids. now 28 & 31 remember and can ID Magnum and the show

on call.......

During a very tumultuous decade in my life..that son Brian 3 yrs later was decked by a car in front of the house 3 ft away from me..had 2 plastic surgery operations on his face..then yrs of family strife, then divorce..remarriage and life again with a new wife and child to come...all thats really precious to most of us humanoids..

this show and all it meant to me ..that pleasant TV Thursday night memory is one of my favorites from that time..before everything went to hell......

I spose thats the way our brains are wired..triggering one thing then another..we hopefully discard the tragic and rekindle the precious....

blessings & peace to all on this fantastic board..and KUDOS to whoever dreamed it up

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