Podcast Episodes
Back to Search"Almost Home" (S3E11)
Episode 95
The ghosts of Pearl Harbor hang over this episode, which doesn’t really have a villain, except for that mobster who’s not really necessary for the pl…
1 year, 6 months ago
"No Need To Know" (S1E5)
Episode 94
Just like the proverbial dog who got run over by the pineapple truck, we’ve caught hold of an early “Magnum” episode that contains all the core trope…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Mad Buck Gibson" (S2E9)
Episode 93
Just before he was the dad in “A Christmas Story,” Darren McGavin took a trip to Hawaii to play pulp novelist Buck Gibson, a daredevil friend of Robi…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Faith and Begorrah" (S3E23)
Episode 92
They’re always after his Lucky Charms! Higgins’s Northern Irish half-brother arrives in Oahu and it’s all light comedy despite what’s going on back h…
1 year, 7 months ago
"Beauty Knows No Pain" (S1E18)
Episode 91
A guy in a blue sedan. A man with gold teeth. A woman (Marcia Wallace!) has come to Hawaii searching for her missing fiancé. Sounds like the plot to …
1 year, 8 months ago
"A Girl Named Sue" (S8E7)
Episode 90
We know what you’re thinking: Carol Burnett returns for a victory lap as the ramshackle, shambolic final season of “Magnum, p.i.” draws to a close. A…
1 year, 8 months ago
"Little Games" (S5E12)
Episode 89
Computer games! Mind games! Jenny Agutter appears (delighting Jason) in an episode that promises lots of Cesar Romero and doesn’t deliver (angering P…
1 year, 9 months ago
"Missing in Action" (S1E9)
Episode 88
Lance LeGault appears in this episode, but not as Buck Greene. We’re devastated. Instead, he’s a spy on the lookout for another spy who’s on the run—…
1 year, 9 months ago
"Skin Deep" (S1E6)
Episode 87
This early episode contains a disturbing scene of suggested suicide that should probably not have been anywhere on prime-time TV, let alone during a …
1 year, 9 months ago
"Let Me Hear the Music" (S5E18)
Episode 86
Many Weavers (but not Dennis Wheeler or Dennis Miller), some cowboy music, surprising “Star Trek” guest stars, and a plot that goes to some surprisin…
1 year, 9 months ago