Magnum, P.I.'s final season - is it real?

[auntiehill]

That's true! The character of "Lance" that he played on Rockford really made fun of all those stereotypical tv-hero things.

Tom and Rockford are alike in many ways.

 

[Star Wolf]

I think that was "China Doll," (season 1, ep. 3)That was the first full episode after the 2 part pilot (Yes, I am THAT big a geek).
That one didn't really bother me; I'd seen the bad guy get killed before. It was a kill or be killed moment. But having Tom getting the crap beat out of him, and having him stay beat-up through the rest of the episode, was not very usual in these types of shows. I liked that about "Magnum." Whenever he got beat up, he wore that bruise, bandage, whatever for the rest of the episode.

Sure bad guys had been killed before but normally while wrestling for the gun. In an unarmed situation for him to look at Thomas and try to take him and for Magnum to fire with no remorse was new for TV.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

But... but...

How was Robin Masters using Orson Wells voice on the corporate jet on that phone call to Higgins during one episode? Hell, if Robin Masters is Higgins, who was the person on the plane identifying himself as Robin Masters and talking on the phone to Higgins?


I'm Sooooooo confused! Rick, see if Icepick can dig up any clues! TC, are you busy this afternoon? I have a date on Kawaii...

 

[Mr Awe]

Magnum P.I. is one of the best shows of all time. There were plans for a movie but I'm sure those must be dead in the water by now. They don't make shows like this one any more.

Yes, he was originally killed during that season finale. I watched it live and originally the ending was more definite. He really was dead and you knew it.

Except . . . for the fact the news had already reported that he'd be back for another season. So, there was never that moment where you thought he had died. They edited that ending so that it appear more as if he was just injured and hallucinating or whatever. Less definite than before, but they changed it after the fact.

Mr Awe

 

[TGTheodore]

Yes, he was originally killed during that season finale. I watched it live and originally the ending was more definite. He really was dead and you knew it.

The original ending that actually aired has Thomas walking through limbo with Higgins insisting that he come back. He stopped, looked back, smiled, and started walking again into a freeze frame.

Completely ambiguous, not definite.

--Ted

 

[Mr Awe]

^^^ Nah, it was very clear at the time. That's even what the producers intended which is why they had to change it after the fact. The version that you can see now is not the same as the version that originally aired, and aired only once.

 

[TGTheodore]

The version that you can see now is not the same as the version that originally aired, and aired only once.

And I have it on tape. Somewhere ...

--Ted

 

[Mr Awe]

^^^ Wow, you're a bigger Magnum fan and/or pack rat than I am if you have the off-air recording of the original network run! I'm duly impressed!

Mr Awe

 

[TGTheodore]

^^^ Wow, you're a bigger Magnum fan and/or pack rat than I am if you have the off-air recording of the original network run! I'm duly impressed!

Yet I'm so incredibly deficient in so many other ways ...

--Ted

P.S. I only have about three or four original broadcast episodes on tape.

 

[auntiehill]

^I wish I did. The ones they show on TV are really faded now. I have two of the DVD sets, and hope, someday, to have them all.

Unfortunately, the DVDs have absolutely NO extras on them. The cheap bastards.

 

[Turtletrekker]

That only happened after 7 seasons, in this case.

wasnt the final season of Roseanne all a dream or something?

Everything after Dan's heart attack was part of a book Rosanne was writing.

Actually, wasn't the whole show a book that Rosanne was writing? I seem to remember in the (lame) finale when the "book" thing was revealed that Rosanne "switched" her daughters husbands for the book.

 

[biotech]

Pretty much, plus her sister was the lesbian, not her mother.