Your Magnum Experience

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SelleckLover · #16 Post by **SelleckLover** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:58 am

^5 eeyore! I was 29 in 1980!

eeyore · #17 Post by **eeyore** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 2:08 am

What a relief to have another lady here my age!

{hug}

Steve · #18 Post by **Steve** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:42 am

I was 26 myself in 1980......we boomers still have a bit kick in us left, and that's after surviving the disco era!

Steve
Chicago

SelleckLover · #19 Post by **SelleckLover** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:34 am

(((((((((((((((eeyore!)))))))))))))

mathewj · #20 Post by **mathewj** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:43 am

Hmm...I'm a little younger!

I was 2 in 1980 - but remember seeing the opening sequence and hearing that unforgetable theme and being taken by it even back then.

I guess it must have been the last few seasons which would have been the mid-80s or even later here in Australia.

I was however, never allowed to watch the show. So I guess I'm trying to get my own back by indulging in the previously 'forbidden' delights of the show that I so desperately wanted to watch back them.

Thats my experience - and I'm still loving it.

maggiepoole · #21 Post by **maggiepoole** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 4:02 am

SelleckLover wrote: I have thoroughly enjoyed whatever project he took on, or as my husband Jim says, I'd probably pay money to watch him read the phone book. (Yeah, I would!!!!)

My sis and I were driving in the car the other day trying to find some place with the GPS. We thought of a brilliant idea to have TS be the voice of our GPS. Just think of the marketing possibilities! "Turn left at the next road darling". Of course I would be drinking my OJ in the car too.

Magnum was one of my favorite TV shows growing up. Thanks to DVD, get to relive it all over again! How could I forget how awesome this show is! Memories Are Forever sure does leave an indelible impression on a 13 year old girl. *sigh* Yep, had the Magnum PI poster up in the room too. What a lasting testament that watching the show over 20 years later, I still laugh, cry, and love Magnum PI! Oh yeah, and TS still has the same affect on me.

Shermy · #22 Post by **Shermy** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 5:43 am

maggiepoole wrote:My sis and I were driving in the car the other day trying to find some place with the GPS. We thought of a brilliant idea to have TS be the voice of our GPS. Just think of the marketing possibilities!

If the GPS would periodically launch into life lessons featuring eccentric relatives, childhood remembrances, or long-forgotten athletes, that would be one of the greatest inventions ever.

MagnumPI_Cat · #23 Post by **MagnumPI_Cat** » Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:48 am

Reading all these stories have made me burst into fits of laughter.

Right. I wasn't even born when Magnum started airing, and I don't even know when it was aired in Australia. It all started when my mum brought home season 2 along with Kimba the White Lion. I instantly went and watched Kimba, as I had no idea of the brilliance of the Magnum dvds. I decided to watch an episode, and then watched another episode, and I was hooked. It took me up to Memories are forever to realise that Tom Selleck was one of the most handsome men I have ever seen.

My teachers at school have been rather irritated (I think) after I started to write Magnum, P.I. and Tom Selleck repetedly all over my books. Not to mention the drawings of the 308s in the back. I'm still waiting for the good old hold up of the book and scold from the teachers. From now on I shall draw the back of the Ferrari when a teacher speaks to the class. Everyone in my classes think I'm weird, but they don't know what they are missing.

Jeffrey · #24 Post by **Jeffrey** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 11:25 am

Watching The A-Team season 3, and I was out of episodes, and as an extra i recived a dvd with a Magnum, Miami Vice and Knight Rider episode. The only thing i did know about Magnum, that he had a Ferarri 308 GTS and a mustage.

I started to watch the Magnum season 3 episode 'Ki'i's Don't Lie'. A week from watching that ep, i bought Magnum, P.I. season 1 and became a fan of the show. It was great, al those action scene's, Higgins VS Magnum witch is always funny, and of course the friendship with Rick and T.C.

This all hapen't not so long ago. I'm from 1992...

Hope the English of this post is good. If it isn't, sorry.

MPS · #25 Post by **MPS** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 12:44 am

I was 26 in 1980, so was able to watch Magnum from the beginning. It wasn’t until I was expecting my third child in 1987 that the addiction truly took hold. MPI was in re-runs every night in LA at 8:00. Being exhausted and crabby, I would retreat to the bedroom to watch the show. I must have watched 5 nights a week for 6 months. My two daughters, who were 5 and 6 at the time, became hooked as well. Their Cabbage Patch dolls were great friends with TM, constantly flying back and forth to Hawaii to visit.
20 years later (and 3000 miles apart) the same two daughters happened upon MPI and started watching again. Now the whole family is purchasing the DVDs and quite happy to be back in Honolulu with TM, Higgins, TC and Rick.

Lt Tanaka · #26 Post by **Lt Tanaka** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:17 am

I was 7 in 1980.

Two tv stations were all that you could receive where I lived in Ireland at that time. Imported dramas are always cheaper than home made stuff so I think that RTE showed 90% of dramas and comedies made in other English-speaking countries. Some great, some rubbish but Magnum was instantly my favourite.

I mis-remembered some stuff. I thought he never used a gun for example.

I always wished I could watch it again and now have all "9" seasons on dvd and am happy out! I bought season one both US and English versions to be "complete". Trip to Hawaii coming up this summer perhaps. I'll be sure to put the photos up here.

Icepick · #27 Post by **Icepick** » Sat Apr 05, 2008 8:17 pm

I remember Season 7 on tv the most vividly, like it was yesterday(I'm almost 40 I might add). Probably 'cause of the talk of the show ending and how they would do a final episode, etc. The other episodes at the time that are quite clear were the Simon & Simon crossover eps, and of course any of the Michelle ones.

Klaus · #28 Post by **Klaus** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:03 am

I started to be a Magnum fan in my early teens in the mid-80ies.

We kids (my two younger sisters and I) weren't allowed to watch too much TV, especially in the evening (only Saturdays) and not the action series we so wanted to see. There wasn't too much around anyway in Austria, The Fall Guy, Knight Rider. Miami Vice was later at night and was too brutal, our mother wouldn't let us watch it.

But Magnum was an exception, somehow. It screened at 9:15 p.m., but in the summer holidays we could watch it. It was just perfect, T.M. in Hawaii, we had holidays, it was hot, everything fitted. IMO, the quality of the series (subconsciously) made our mom let it watch us. It is a very well made TV show with great characters, and Tom Selleck was simply great. It had action of course, but not too much, had humor, Magnum was not a superhero but a person with high morality. I think that all (and so much more I coulnd't possibly mention) got us (me) hooked.

IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:37 pm

I started watching Magnum as a kid and loved it. I wanted to be like TM between the ages of 11-13. The show wasn't avaliable for a long time. I got into it again when it started showing on USA and WGN and realized why I loved the show so much.

Frodoleader · #30 Post by **Frodoleader** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 4:44 pm

Back in 1980, my fiance, now my wife, told me of this show she and her mother really liked. The next week I watched my first episode. Now, 28 years later I am participating in a web forum discussing MPI.

By the way, does anyone remember how back in the '80's during MPI's network run, how it seemed everyone had a brother or cousin or boyfriend that looked like TS? They rarely ever did, but it was was fun regardless!