Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. is an American crime drama television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator (P.I.) living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 during its first-run broadcast on the American television network CBS. According to the Nielsen ratings, Magnum, P.I. consistently ranked in the top twenty U.S. television programs during the first five years of its original run in the United States.A reboot series of the same name was ordered to series on May 11, 2018, and premiered on September 24, 2018 on CBS.

Year:
1980
10,961 Views

Thomas Sullivan Magnum III:
[voiceover] Hawaii is one of those places that keeps topping itself - just when you think you'll never see a sunset as beautiful, there comes a sunrise that even Gauguin can only imagine. It kind of makes unemployment easier to take.

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III:
Magnum...

[Higgins watches Magnum sunbathing]

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III:
Oh, Magnum.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum III:
Hi, Higgins, Di.

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III:
I have a proposition for you, Magnum.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum III:
Now wait a minute, just wait a second, Higgins. Now this is really getting depressing, this constant deal making - I'll give you this if you give me that, it's so unnecessary. Now here we are in paradise, we have everything we could ever possibly want out of life just here. So why, why can't we just do things for one another simply because we want to, simply because we're friends, simply because we feel like helping each other?

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III:
Magnum, I want you to know I'm quite touched, I never thought you were capable of those admirable sentiments, I really mean that.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum III:
Thank you.

Jonathan Quayle Higgins III:
I came here this morning to, just as you so aptly describe it, make a deal. You see the lads have been under the weather and I need to pick up some paperwork from the club. I was going to ask you to fetch it for me and in return I was going to give you the use of the tennis court for one week. Now I'm just asking you as a friend.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum III:
Make it two weeks.

[while Magnum walks about in the market and asks questions about Marcus, Rose's henchwomen Crystal and Sylvia approach him. Sylvia threatens Magnum with a pocketknife. They take him to an abandoned warehouse]

Magnum:
This is not where my car is parked. Alright, girls, you want to tell me what's going on? I mean, if this is a robbery, I got about eight bucks.

[Crystal throws her handbag on the floor]

Magnum:
[to Sylvia] Here, you want my watch? It cost about $ 17.95 at the...

[Sylvia folds the pocketknife and puts it away. Crystal gives a battle-cry and kicks Magnum in the face]

Magnum:
C'mon!

[Sylvia kicks Magnum in the chest and strikes on his neck. Magnum is thrown against the wall]

Magnum:
That's enough! Never hit a woman before in my...

[Magnum gets another kick in the face from Crystal]

Crystal, Rose's henchwoman:
[smiles viciously] Maybe it's about time you suddenly started, before it's too late...

Magnum:
That's it!

[Magnum gets up and charges. Crystal gives another battle-cry. She and Sylvia kick and beat Magnum severely, until he is down. Crystal approaches him]

Crystal, Rose's henchwoman:
See, Rose doesn't like anybody snooping in this territory. Do you understand?

[Tracy enters]

Tracy Spencer:
Freeze! Police!

[Crystal and Sylvia run to the back door, finding it locked. Crystal kicks it open, and they escape. Tracy approaches Magnum]

Tracy Spencer:
Are you alright?

Magnum:
Why didn't pull you your gun?

Tracy Spencer:
[embarrassed] Because it got stuck... in my make-up case.

[Magnum sighs]


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