Interesting article . .

[golfmobile]

Just found this article -- interesting take on the show (if you haven't already read this one):

Museum of Broadcast Communications article

Now, where can we find the OTHER articles cited at lower right?

And we need to go to the LaSalle library!!

LaSalle library listing

And I found this on an MIT site (Sheesh! There's a lot out there analyzing this show!)

Another interesting case is Magnum, P.I. (CBS, 1980-1988): It is yet to be decided if the more characteristic features of the show, such as the flashback, and the voice-overs, evolved into a structural backbone before or after the printing of a ground-breaking article on the way this specific show dealt with collective memories of the Vietnam era (see Newcomb 1985). After Newcomb's definition of the cumulative narrative was coined producers would openly refer to that term and even claim in backsight that they used his analysis as sort of a manual for later seasons of the series.

Now where can we find the Newcomb article? Still searching . . .

golf

[J.J. Walters]

Horace Newcomb - "Magnum: The Champagne of TV"

I've looked for that several times and never could find it. I would love to read it someday.

[ENSHealy]

Here is a copy of the article:

[K Hale]

Great article.

[Rembrandt's Girl]

I copied/pasted the article into the Misc MPI Newpaper Articles thread.

[K Hale]

Article gets extra points for bringing in the sumo wrestler and the dwarf.

Interesting photo, too; it's not a literal scene from the episode.