Magnum Mania!

I recently re-watched 'Who Is Don Luis Higgins... ...And Why is He Doing these Terrible Things to Me?', and while others seem to like it, I was personally rather disappointed in it after the excellent first two 'half brother' stories.

So... it may be an obvious question... but which is your favourite half-brother / episode?

I'm personally torn between Elmo and Paddy - both amusing characteres, and both of their stories have very good elements and are great fun.

Which is yours, and why?

I'll go with "Faith & Begorrah". One of my favorite episodes and I love Fr. Paddy!

Yep...Paddy McGuiness

I'm going with Paddy, but this is sort of a lesser of all evils. Other than for a good laugh, I find the Higgie siblings episodes not up to the usual MPI standard. I put them into the 'Anglo cat lover charity tea party' comedy category.

'The Elmo Ziller story' is one of my all time favorites anyway, not cause of the story, I just love that TM knows it`s Higgins all the time.

Although I like all of the "Double Higgins" episodes, my vote goes to "Faith & Begorrah".

F&B is not only one of my favorite Higgins half brother episodes, it's in my all-time top ten episodes. And Hawaii "doubling" as Ireland is priceless! Seeing those actors sweat while bundled up against the "Irish" cold gets me laughing every time.

I especially enjoyed "Faith and Begorrah". I found "Who is Don Luis" to be a little boirng, but I liked Don Luis Montegueo because he is so different from Higgins, and I laughed my heart out when Hillerman danced the rhumba!

I know that my next answer belongs in another category, but seeing Hillerman playing Higgins' father in "Deja Vu" was priceless!

Definitely "The Elmo Ziller Story", with "Faith and Begorrah" not far behind.

I'd have to say "The Elmo Ziller Story", and "Faith and Begorrah" in that order because of one simple thing, from the beginning we knew Father Paddy was not Higgins. We weren't sure about Elmo until almost the end of the episode.

I like F&B as well, but there's another ep that should be added. Echos of the Mind part 2.
We all thought it was Higgins impersonating his half-brother, only for him to show up dressed like him after Father Paddy had done everything he could to insult Lady Ashley.

In first place is "Faith and Begorrah"... the further revelations about Higgins' father were a delight.

"The Elmo Ziller Story" came a close second... though I'm not a big cowboy fan myself.

"Who Is Don Luis" was a little thin, but I greatly enjoyed Hillerman's accent - and indignation!