The Magnum P.I. Thread

[Nitro Express]

Ever the fucking contrarian. When someone doesn't provide a link, you heckle them, but even when they do you find some way to disagree with it and prove you are right by trying to explain what Tom Selleck was thinking.

Yeah if you provide a link and they don't like what you posted they piss all over it. Even if it's a source that would be ok to use in any college class unless the professor was a real radical liberal.

I really don't give a fuck. Roth got back into Van Halen. The music is great. We got to see it before western civilization implodes or WW III starts. All is good.

[DONNIEP]

Going back now and watching the pilot for Magnum you see how the characters were pretty much fully developed from the first episode. Well, except for Rick. But for the most part it was all there in the first show. The one thing that I don't think they ever directly addressed was that Magnum was a Navy SEAL.

[Angel]

I take it the car wasn't a Ferrari either.

Lol, no. Those would be a little hard to do surveillance in...would sort of stand out a little bit.

He did have one interesting assignment. An old guy who was worried his young girlfriend was seeing someone else. She was...another young girl. My son sat in a tree across from her apartment to obtain the photographic evidence.

[chefcraig]

Yes, sort of. They were printed in England, hard bound and called "annuals". Today I suppose it would be called a graphic novel.

I collect books, I especially love books with movie or tv tie-ins and was checking to see if there was anything out there like this:

The Kaminsky books are wonderful, if mainly for the odd effect of the way that when you read them, your mind recreates the voices of the characters in the show. It's a shame that he only came up with two of them before his death. Kaminsky also created the rather remarkable Inspector Rostnikov series, about a Russian police inspector, his family and somewhat odd co-workers. Kaminsky completed 16 books in the series, and appeared to be finishing off the tale before his untimely death in 2009. Highly recommended.

[Little Texan]

[Nitro Express]

Lol, no. Those would be a little hard to do surveillance in...would sort of stand out a little bit.

He did have one interesting assignment. An old guy who was worried his young girlfriend was seeing someone else. She was...another young girl. My son sat in a tree across from her apartment to obtain the photographic evidence.

Actually the seats in a Ferrari 308 are not the most comfortable. They are pretty hard. Not the best car to sit in for hours and hours.