Double Jeopardy (2.19)

[Kalai-pahoa]

A very good and well written episode. My rate is 8.5. almost at the end of the ep I guess there is a bit show of the father-son relationship between TM and JQH. While they are watching the dailies suddenly TM leaves the room to reach Olivia Ross at the hospital beacause he understood she was guilty.
Higgins reacts trying to say "I say, Magnum...", but TM has just gone out. He looks like a father disappointed in son's behavior as he says "He does that all the time" - "Does what?" - "Never mind".


Then a little flub: during the taxi ride, at the beginning of the ep, we see them pass the gate of the estate and we can watch the original white 'Pahonu' plaque on the wall, so they immediately back up but now we can see that the fictional house number plaque '1429' has been stuck to the wall.


a funny bumper sticker behind the taxi reads "...riding a haole..."


The 'release from prison' scene was shot at 'Court of Appeals', Kapuaiwa Building, 426 Queen Street.

[grundle]

I just watched the season 5 episode of Get Smart called "Widow Often Annie."

Dana Wynter (the actress in this episode of Magnum) played a KAOS agent who had married a doezen CONTROL agents, bought life insurance policies for them with KAOS as the beneficiary, and then killed them.

She married Max (it was a fake ceremony, but she didn't know that). She set up an "accident" to kill him, but it didn't work.

That's basically the same plot as in this Magnum episode. In both episodes, she tries to kill her husband by "accident."

And in both episodes, it fails.

Also, in both episodes, her confession is recorded on a tape recorder.

Here is the episode in question. Now you can see what she looked like when she was younger, when Magnum first liked her:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPxwNJPRurg

[charybdis1966]

Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.

I knew I recognised him from somewhere.

[Pahonu]

Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.

I knew I recognised him from somewhere.

He was also the first James Bond! He appeared in a television movie based on Ian Flemming's Casino Royale before any of the films were made. Peter Lorre was the bad guy. They called him Jimmy Bond and he was American!

[charybdis1966]

Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.

I knew I recognised him from somewhere.

He was also the first James Bond! He appeared in a television movie based on Ian Flemming's Casino Royale before any of the films were made. Peter Lorre was the bad guy. They called him Jimmy Bond and he was American!

Jimmy Bond ? That sounds an interesting premise; it also reminds me of the "Our man Flint" films which always seemed to me to be an attempt at a US version of Ian Fleming's character.

[Hawaii Winds]

Another one from Giuseppe...

A boom mic is visible:

Looks like a big azz avocado....lol

[Pahonu]

Barry Nelson (who plays William Knox, the film producer guy), was in another Bellisario/Larson production a few years earlier, Battlestar Galactica as Bogan in The Magnificent Warriors(1978). He plays a guy who hoodwinks one of the heroes into becoming town sheriff.

I knew I recognised him from somewhere.

He was also the first James Bond! He appeared in a television movie based on Ian Flemming's Casino Royale before any of the films were made. Peter Lorre was the bad guy. They called him Jimmy Bond and he was American!

Jimmy Bond ? That sounds an interesting premise; it also reminds me of the "Our man Flint" films which always seemed to me to be an attempt at a US version of Ian Fleming's character.

This was actually a licensed version of the Ian Flemming novel, not a ripoff. Needless to say, it didn't go anywhere.

[SignGuyHPW]

Couldn't really get into this one too much. I kind of suspected from the start that it was the wife looking to kill her husband because nothing else really fit. She handed the gun back to him to film the scene and I was like, "well, there's the killer since she was the last one to have had the gun." I understand Robin using his own properties for use on a movie based on his book, but it almost seemed like it was an amateur production. They hadn't cast the part Rick wanted despite being almost finished with the film, they used an untrained stunt man to do the stunts for the star of the film, they didn't think to have everything closed off and secure when they started filming so random cars and people could get into the shot, nobody connected with the movie seemingly had a hit in years, they used the lads instead of dogs specificly trained for that sort of thing, etc, etc.

TC seemed really angry in this one. He never seemed to care to be there which was a bit out of character. Tanaka was great in this one. It seemed like he was setting up the wife to confess to it the whole time. I wish they'd done one or two more about turning Robin's books into movies. Maybe a comedy episode where Higgins (who happened to study drama while he healed from a leg wound suffered when falling into an abandoned mine shaft in Wales a short time after the war) was cast as the star and he had to leave Magnum in charge of the estate for a couple of months.

[Milton Collins]

I really didn't care for this one to much, everything seemed pretty forces including the rather predictable plot. I did however enjoy TM's battle with the sushi brothers:) And Tanaka was especially good in this one! And I liked seeing the innkeeper from "The Shining" as Billy, the movie director or whatever. Always love spotting a recognizable actor in an MPI episode!

[EZiller]

I also thought this may have worked better as a pure comedic episode, TM as a stunt double. I liked when they were showing the rushes, when the "Sushi Brothers" were beating the crap out of TM as Jack Martin's character and Higgins had a huge smile on his face, truly enjoying it. BTW, haven't seen it mentioned, but for all you 60's tube heads, the guy playing Jack Martin [Larry Pennell] was none other than the same guy who played Dash Riprock, a Hollywood actor who was Elly Mae Clampett's beau in a few episodes from the early years of the "Beverly Hillbillies." Dash was one of several beefcake actors that Jed Clampett's movie studio, Mammoth Pictures, had under contract. One afternoon the studio sent them all over to squire Elly Mae. Besides Dash, they had Bolt Upright, Biff Steele, Crunch Hardtack, etc. I believe Jethro had decided he could also become an actor and was going to be called Beef Jerky. If Selleck had been a few years older he would have been perfect in this cameo.

Gave it an 8. The romantic angle between TM and Dana Wynter as Olivia seemed awkward. She's almost old enough to be his mom.

[Doc Ibold]

I also thought this may have worked better as a pure comedic episode, TM as a stunt double. I liked when they were showing the rushes, when the "Sushi Brothers" were beating the crap out of TM as Jack Martin's character and Higgins had a huge smile on his face, truly enjoying it. BTW, haven't seen it mentioned, but for all you 60's tube heads, the guy playing Jack Martin [Larry Pennell] was none other than the same guy who played Dash Riprock, a Hollywood actor who was Elly Mae Clampett's beau in a few episodes from the early years of the "Beverly Hillbillies." Dash was one of several beefcake actors that Jed Clampett's movie studio, Mammoth Pictures, had under contract. One afternoon the studio sent them all over to squire Elly Mae. Besides Dash, they had Bolt Upright, Biff Steele, Crunch Hardtack, etc. I believe Jethro had decided he could also become an actor and was going to be called Beef Jerky. If Selleck had been a few years older he would have been perfect in this cameo.

Gave it an 8. The romantic angle between TM and Dana Wynter as Olivia seemed awkward. She's almost old enough to be his mom.

Those were seriously the names??!!

[EZiller]

I also thought this may have worked better as a pure comedic episode, TM as a stunt double. I liked when they were showing the rushes, when the "Sushi Brothers" were beating the crap out of TM as Jack Martin's character and Higgins had a huge smile on his face, truly enjoying it. BTW, haven't seen it mentioned, but for all you 60's tube heads, the guy playing Jack Martin [Larry Pennell] was none other than the same guy who played Dash Riprock, a Hollywood actor who was Elly Mae Clampett's beau in a few episodes from the early years of the "Beverly Hillbillies." Dash was one of several beefcake actors that Jed Clampett's movie studio, Mammoth Pictures, had under contract. One afternoon the studio sent them all over to squire Elly Mae. Besides Dash, they had Bolt Upright, Biff Steele, Crunch Hardtack, etc. I believe Jethro had decided he could also become an actor and was going to be called Beef Jerky. If Selleck had been a few years older he would have been perfect in this cameo.

Gave it an 8. The romantic angle between TM and Dana Wynter as Olivia seemed awkward. She's almost old enough to be his mom.

Those were seriously the names??!!

Yes. And I forgot to mention Race Burley and Tab Strong.

The Beverly Hillbillies, at least for the first few years, was incredibly hilarious satire.

[Doc Ibold]

I also thought this may have worked better as a pure comedic episode, TM as a stunt double. I liked when they were showing the rushes, when the "Sushi Brothers" were beating the crap out of TM as Jack Martin's character and Higgins had a huge smile on his face, truly enjoying it. BTW, haven't seen it mentioned, but for all you 60's tube heads, the guy playing Jack Martin [Larry Pennell] was none other than the same guy who played Dash Riprock, a Hollywood actor who was Elly Mae Clampett's beau in a few episodes from the early years of the "Beverly Hillbillies." Dash was one of several beefcake actors that Jed Clampett's movie studio, Mammoth Pictures, had under contract. One afternoon the studio sent them all over to squire Elly Mae. Besides Dash, they had Bolt Upright, Biff Steele, Crunch Hardtack, etc. I believe Jethro had decided he could also become an actor and was going to be called Beef Jerky. If Selleck had been a few years older he would have been perfect in this cameo.

Gave it an 8. The romantic angle between TM and Dana Wynter as Olivia seemed awkward. She's almost old enough to be his mom.

Those were seriously the names??!!

Yes. And I forgot to mention Race Burley and Tab Strong.

The Beverly Hillbillies, at least for the first few years, was incredibly hilarious satire.

Wow... Sounds like actors in a different sort of movie.

[Harold Farber]

Rating: 6.0

This has always been one of my least favourites of the entire series and after having just watched it again, nothing has changed. There is a whopping 20-25 minute drag where nothing happens, the acting in this one (even from Manetti and Mosley) seems forced and sub-par and (as previously mentioned) it really needed a b-plot to keep things interesting until the last act.

Also, is this the first episode to not feature the Ferrari?

[Little Garwood]

7.5 [Decent]

I like Estate-heavy episodes, so that adds to Double Jeopardy's rating, as does the always-welcome appearance of Dana Wynter as Olivia Ross. Wynter just radiates class and sophistication; must be all that studio-era breeding. Count me as another who finds her irresistible. Thankfully, Wynter would return to Magnum in yet another episode involving a rigged item, Higgins' fencing foil(iirc), in S3's Foiled Again.

The jabs at the film industry throughout the episode are amusing touches, with T.C.'s line about "That's crazy, even for these people" and Olivia's remark about everyone in Hollywood needing to see a shrink because of all the sensitive egos there. Spineless director Myrt Callahan (Kathleen Nolan) and frustrated producer William B. Knox (Barry Nelson) were cut-out characters but I think that was the point. Love the title 23 Guns to Cairo. I could easily imagine that as a Dirty Dozen/Where Eagles Dare kind-of movie from the 1960s.

Double Jeopardy also boasts Lt. Tanaka at his "Columbo-of-the-Islands" best. Love the Tigers trade talk banter with Magnum.