List of Magnum, P.I. episodes

This is a list of episodes for Magnum, P.I.

Episodes

Season 1: 1980–1981

Episode	Title	Original Airdate	Summary
1	Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii	December 11, 1980	In the pilot episode, Magnum accidentally uncovers a drug operation in the islands when picking up an old Navy friend of his at the airport and helps his friend's sister uncover the truth about a conspiracy involving the NIA and Southeast-Asian drug dealers.
2	China Doll	December 18, 1980	Magnum is hired by a Chinese woman to protect her valuable vase and finds himself chased by a secret martial-arts practicing hitman.
3	Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too	December 25, 1980	When Magnum is hired by a group of young girls to find their teacher, he runs into a plot involving kidnapping and art theft.
4	No Need to Know	January 8, 1981	Higgins plays host to an English military General and Magnum is asked by the government to protect the man from the IRA.
5	Skin Deep	January 15, 1981	An actress's suicide leads Magnum to investigate and he uncovers foul play.
6	Never Again… Never Again	January 22, 1981	When a Jewish friend of Magnum's disappears, Magnum helps his wife to locate the man and uncovers a Nazi plot.
7	The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii	January 29, 1981	Magnum helps protect a dog from being kidnapped by gangsters.
8	Missing in Action	February 5, 1981	A psychic singer at Rick's club has premonitions of her long lost boyfriend and Magnum helps to track him down, only to find that he's involved in a secret military special forces outfit.
9	Lest We Forget	February 12, 1981	A Supreme Court judge hires Magnum to locate his wife, missing for decades.
10	The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club	February 19, 1981	Magnum investigates when a kahuna places a curse on the King Kamehameha Club.
11	Thicker Than Blood	February 26, 1981	When T.C. is arrested smuggling a man into the islands, Magnum and Rick must uncover T.C.'s real motives and discovers a plot by drug smugglers.
12	All Roads Lead to Floyd	March 12, 1981	Magnum is hired by a woman from the mid-west to find her father, a con-man on the run.
13	Adelaide	March 19, 1981	Magnum is hired by a jockey to protect her prize-winning horse.
14	Don't Say Goodbye	March 26, 1981	Magnum is hired by a blind friend to negotiate with a blackmailer and discovers a plot to murder his friend.
15	The Black Orchid	April 2, 1981	Magnum is hired to participate in a rich woman's theatrical fantasy game, but things become complicated when her disapproving husband gets involved and the game turns deadly.
16	J. "Digger" Doyle	April 9, 1981
17	Beauty Knows No Pain	April 16, 1981

Season 2: 1981–1982

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
18	Billy Joe Bob	October 8, 1981
19	Dead Man's Channel	October 15, 1981
20	The Woman on the Beach	October 22, 1981
21	From Moscow to Maui	October 29, 1981
22	Memories Are Forever Part 1	November 5, 1981
23	Memories Are Forever Part 2	November 5, 1981
24	Tropical Madness	November 12, 1981
25	Wave Goodbye	November 19, 1981
26	Mad Buck Gibson	November 26, 1981
27	The Taking of Dick McWilliams	December 3, 1981
28	The Sixth Position	December 17, 1981
29	Ghost Writer	December 24, 1981
30	The Jororo Kill	January 7, 1982
31	Computer Date	January 14, 1982
32	Try to Remember	January 28, 1982
33	Italian Ice	February 4, 1982
34	One More Summer	February 11, 1982
35	Texas Lightning	February 18, 1982
36	Double Jeopardy	February 25, 1982
37	The Last Page	March 4, 1982
38	The Elmo Ziller Story	March 25, 1982
39	Three Minus Two	April 1, 1982

Season 3: 1982–1983

Episode	Title	Original Airdate	Summary
40	Did You See the Sunrise?	September 30, 1982	In the most fan favorited episode of the series, Magnum, T.C., and an ex-army buddy named Nuzzo, try to track down a Russian maniac, Ivan who held them captive during the Vietnam War and won't stop until he successfully kills them all. While attempting to track down Ivan, Mac is "fired" from the Navy and starts hanging around Magnum. In reality, Mac wasn't fired, but also trying to find Ivan under Buck Green's orders and to prevent Magnum from killing him. However, after a night out at a bar, Mac gets in Magnum's Ferrari ahead of Magnum, which exploding, killing Mac. Magnum vows revenge.
41	Did You See the Sunrise? Part 2	September 30, 1982	With the help of the Navy, Magnum realizes that Nuzzo is an operative of Ivan's, and tries to persuade T.C., under mental hypnosis, to kill a visiting Japanese dignitary, telling T.C. that he's really killing Ivan. Magnum stops T.C. in time, but due to political immunity, Ivan is set free to kill again, his next target perhaps being the president. With Rick's help, Magnum takes Ivan prisoner, who taunts Magnum with his freedom and power and tells him that he can't do anything to stop him. At the end of the episode, Magnum asks Ivan if he "saw the sunrise?", something Mac wanted to do in his last words. As Ivan replies, Magnum raises his gun and kills Ivan in cold blood.
42	Ki'i's Don't Lie (Part 1)	October 7, 1982
N/A	Emeralds are Not a Girl's Best Friend (Part 2, a Simon & Simon episode)	October 5, 1982
43	The Eighth Part of the Village	October 14, 1982
44	Past Tense	October 21, 1982
45	Black on White	October 28, 1982
46	Flashback	November 4, 1982
47	Foiled Again	November 11, 1982
48	Mr. White Death	November 18, 1982
49	Mixed Doubles	December 2, 1982
50	Almost Home	December 9, 1982
51	Heal Thyself	December 16, 1982
52	Of Sound Mind	January 6, 1983
53	The Arrow That Is Not Aimed	January 27, 1983
54	Basket Case	February 3, 1983
55	Birdman of Budapest	February 10, 1983
56	I Do?	February 17, 1983
57	Forty Years from Sand Island	February 24, 1983
58	Legacy from a Friend	March 10, 1983
59	Two Birds of a Feather	March 17, 1983
60	...By Its Cover	March 31, 1983
61	The Big Blow	April 17, 1983
62	Faith and Begorrah	April 28, 1983

Season 4: 1983–1984

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
63	Home from the Sea	September 29, 1983
64	Luther Gillis: File #521	October 6, 1983
65	Smaller than Life	October 13, 1983
66	Distant Relative	October 20, 1983
67	Limited Engagement	November 3, 1983
68	Letter to a Duchess	November 10, 1983
69	Squeeze Play	November 17, 1983
70	A Sense of Debt	December 1, 1983
71	The Look	December 8, 1983
72	Operation: Silent Night	December 15, 1983
73	Jororo Farewell	January 5, 1984
74	The Case of the Red-Faced Thespian	January 19, 1984
75	No More Mr. Nice Guy	January 26, 1984
76	Rembrandt's Girl	February 2, 1984
77	Paradise Blues	February 9, 1984
78	The Return of Luther Gillis	February 16, 1984
79	Let the Punishment Fit the Crime	February 23, 1984
80	Holmes Is Where the Heart Is	March 8, 1984
81	On Face Value	March 15, 1984
82	Dream a Little Dream	March 29, 1984
83	I Witness	May 3, 1984

Season 5: 1984–1985

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
84	Echoes of the Mind Part 1	September 27, 1984	A young, paranoid woman named Diane DuPre' hires Magnum to investigate strange events happening around her. She claims to have a twin sister named Dierdre stalking her. While he's working for her Magnum begins to sense when she's in danger. Magnum breaks his number one rule and becomes romantically involved with a female client. Diane begins to show signs of paranoid delusions when she calls Thomas in a panic claiming to have shot a man a her residence. Magnum and Higgins arrive after the phone call to investigate only to find no obvious signs of an attack. By this time, Magnum has become so smitten with Diane, he stays at her residence out of concern for her well being. The episode ends with Magnum taking a shower and Diane stepping in to join him (or is it Dierdre?).
85	Echoes of the Mind Part 2	October 4, 1984	Part two begins with Dierdre and Magnum talking of Diane's residence the morning after Thomas' sleepover. Diedre begins to disparage Diane as week and naive, and herself as much more sexy and strong. By this time, it's become much more apparent to Thomas that Diane has multiple personalities. Diane finally becomes too distraught to live and commits suicide in the episode's final scene.
86	Mac's Back	October 11, 1984	Magnum becomes depressed since everyone important in his life ends up dying early or taken away from him. His father, his first wife, Michelle, and most recently, his love Diane, as well as his friend Lieutenant MacReynolds from the Naval Intelligence Agency Mac was blown up in the Ferrari. After a period of about a month of sitting on the beach and mourning Diane, Magnum cranks up the Ferrari and drives into Honolulu. While in downtown, Magnum sees a group of tourists and among them is a Sailor in his Class A uniform bearing a strong resemblance to Mac! Magnum rushes back to Robin's nest to tell his friends and they think Magnum has really gone off the deep end this time. They fear Magnum has really gone off the deep end. Magnum combs Honolulu and Pearl Harbor before he finds that "Mac" is another naval officer trying to get some Marine corps pilots off the hook for gambling illegally. The "new Mac" is gracious enough to make an appearance at Robin's nest to prove he isn't a figment of Magnum's imagination.
87	The Legacy of Garwood Huddle	October 18, 1984	An old friend of Higgins named Garwood Huddle turns up at the Estate after having escaped from prison. Garwood was a notorious bank robber in the 1940s recruited by Higgins during World War II to steal Nazi intelligence from a bank in Mexico City. The reason Garwood has escaped from prison is to recover his kidnapped-toddler grandson, Garwood III. Garwood III has been ransomed for $200,000, which Garwood has claimed to have hidden under the site of a modern day massage parlor. Magnum and Garwood drive to the massage parlor in the middle of the night and begin to serruptitiously rip up the floor looking for the money. Magnum agrees to help recover to help Garwood III on the condition Garwood stay hidden at Robin's Nest with Higgins until he finds the little boy. Only Garwood tails Magnum through the entire episode,eventually helping him pin down the culprit. A television interview given on local TV showing discrepancies in statements between the toddler's stepfather and mother give Magnum the clue he needs to solve the crime and find little Garwood, thus reuniting the family.
88	Under World	October 25, 1984	A psychic insurance investigator named Laura hires Magnum to solve a vision of what she sees as her own fatal shooting. She finds Magnum after seeing his picture on the front page of the local newspaper naming Magnum, instead of Higgins as the person holding auditions for an upcoming charity telethon (The catalyst for the B-storyline). The person who dies in the shooting is not Laura at all. Instead it's Magnum. A strange series of events, including a wild car chase through a dockside market, helps Magnum determine a former client of his is trying to steal a valuable bottle of wine from a deceased gangster's grave and wants him dead for knowing finding out his wife was having an affair
89	Fragments	November 1, 1984
90	Blind Justice	November 8, 1984
91	Murder 101	November 15, 1984
92	Tran Quoc Jones	November 29, 1984
93	Luther Gillis: File #001	December 6, 1984
94	Kiss of the Sabre	December 13, 1984
95	Little Games	January 3, 1985
96	Professor Jonathan Higgins	January 10, 1985
97	Compulsion	January 24, 1985
98	All for One Part 1	January 31, 1985
99	All for One Part 2	February 7, 1985
100	The-Love-For-Sale-Boat	February 14, 1985
101	Let Me Hear the Music	February 21, 1985
102	Ms Jones	March 7, 1985
103	The Man from Marseilles	March 14, 1985
104	Torah, Torah, Torah	March 28, 1985
105	A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken	April 4, 1985

Season 6: 1985–1986

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
106	Déjà Vu Part 1	September 26, 1985
107	Déjà Vu Part 2	September 26, 1985
108	Old Acquaintance	October 3, 1985
109	The Kona Winds	October 10, 1985
110	The Hotel Dick	October 17, 1985
111	Round and Around	October 24, 1985
112	Going Home	October 31, 1985
113	Paniolo	November 7, 1985
114	The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u	November 14, 1985
115	Blood and Honor	December 5, 1985
116	Rapture	December 12, 1985
117	I Never Wanted to Go to France, Anyway	January 2, 1986
118	Summer School	January 9, 1986
119	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	January 23, 1986
120	All Thieves on Deck	January 30, 1986
121	This Island Isn't Big Enough	February 13, 1986
122	Way of the Stalking Horse	February 20, 1986
123	Find Me a Rainbow	March 13, 1986
124	Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me?	March 20, 1986
125	A Little Bit of Luck, A Little Bit of Grief	April 3, 1986
126	Photo Play	April 10, 1986

Season 7: 1986–1987

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
127	L.A. Part 1	October 1, 1986
128	L.A. Part 2	October 1, 1986
129	One Picture is Worth	October 8, 1986
130	Straight and Narrow	October 15, 1986
131	A.A.P.I.	October 22, 1986
132	Death and Taxes	October 29, 1986	Around the 4th of July, while T.C. and Rick are on an island excursion and Higgins is at a writer's convention, Magnum begins the hated task of filling out his 1040 forms for a tax audit with the help of Lt. Maggie Poole. While trying to complete the task, Magnum is interrupted by a phonecall from a crazed maniac serial killer with a nursery rhyme for him. The man then hints that he knew about Felipe(from "Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii:). Magnum calls Lt. Page, who responds by ignoring Thomas' complaint. When a prostitute, and former client of Magnum's is found dead on Hotel Street, Magnum is alerted and ties together the murder with the nursery rhyme. After several more phonecalls and another prostitute murdered, Magnum confronts the killer, who himself is killed by Magnum for trying to murder a newsreporter who had nagged Magnum the whole episode and had given the killer the name, "The Ripper". After finding out the identity of the man as Milton Collins, a former client, Magnum concludes that he had "died with all the secrets", as Magnum never found out how he knew about Felipe, but that Collins wanted to make a name for himself and wanted to be appreciated by Magnum for doing him a favor in return for the assistance he got from Thomas when he was his client. Magnum then sails off into the ocean on his surfski to spend the 4th alone in thought(as seen in the episode Home from the Sea). Perhaps the darkest and most macabre of all the episodes, "Death and Taxes" features, for the first time in the series, a song from popular culture: Genesis', "Mama".
133	Little Girl Who	November 5, 1986
134	Paper War	November 12, 1986
135	Novel Connection (Part 1)	November 19, 1986
N/A	Magnum On Ice (Part 2, a Murder, She Wrote episode)	November 23, 1986
136	Kapu	November 26, 1986
137	Missing Melody	December 3, 1986
138	Death of the Flowers	December 10, 1986
139	Autumn Warrior	December 17, 1986
140	Murder by Night	January 14, 1987
141	On the Fly	January 21, 1987
142	Solo Flight	February 4, 1987
143	Forty	February 11, 1987
144	Laura	February 25, 1987	After being persuaded by Rick to take on a $10,000 missing person's case involving another P.I., Magnum at first is reluctant, and follows up a lead, which ends in the "P.I" that hired Magnum showing up and a brawl in a hotel bar. Magnum, Rick, and the "P.I." are arrested. Magnum learns that the P.I. is really retired Det. Sgt. Michael Doheny (Frank Sinatra) of the NYPD. Doheny then asks Magnum to help find a runaway named Kenneth Geiger. After Geiger's buddy, Dustin Murray is killed after being chased by Magnum and Doheny, Magnum finds out that Geiger and Murray were acquitted on the rape and murder of a young girl in Queens, New York named Laura O'Hara. Magnum then fins and assists Doheny with the help of Rick and HPD Lt. Page in tracking down Geiger. After Doheny disappears, Magnum finds out that Laura was Doheny's granddaughter. After a search through the Hotel Street Vice District for Doheny, featuring Genesis' hit song, "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight", Magnum finds Doheny on a rooftop of a parking garage. Doheny had confronted Geiger with a gun, and proceeded to beat him to death. After Geiger pulled a knife, Doheny continued beating Geiger, who finally stumbled and fell off the roof to his death. The final scene shows Doheny putting flowers on Laura's grave, saying "We got 'em honey, we got 'em". One of the darkest and saddest episodes of the series, it is also Frank Sinatra's last major film or television performance.
145	Out of Sync	March 11, 1987
146	The Aunt Who Came to Dinner	March 18, 1987
147	The People vs. Orville Wright	April 1, 1987
148	Limbo	April 15, 1987	Originally meant to be the final episode of the series, Magnum is critically wounded in a dockside warehouse firefight after being caught by surprise and running out of ammo. Ending up in a coma, Magnum "wakes up" in "Limbo" with the real Mac. For most of the episode, as Magnum walks around with Mac on Earth, he refuses to believe that he is "dead", and only dreaming, even though everyone else can't hear or see him. But, after concluding that it's starting to turn into the "worst dream he ever had", Magnum finally chooses to accept that fact that he isn't coming back to earth. Reluctantly, and sadly, Magnum says his goodbyes to everyone and willingly lets Michelle (who has re-married) and Lilly go after saving Michelle from the men who shot him. Throughout the episode, John Denver's song "Looking for Space" plays in its entirety, and ends as Magnum walks off into the clouds.

Season 8: 1987–1988

Episode	Title	Original Airdate
149	Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts	October 7, 1987
150	Pleasure Principle	October 14, 1987
151	Innocence... A Broad	October 28, 1987
152	Tigers Fan	November 4, 1987
153	Forever in Time	November 11, 1987
154	The Love that Lies	November 18, 1987
155	A Girl Named Sue	January 13, 1988
156	Unfinished Business	January 20, 1988	Magnum prepares for the Quang Ki trial, the man responsible for attempting to kill him and Michelle. When Ki is set free under a loophole, Magnum becomes bitter, and tries to gain information about the whereabouts of Michelle and Lily from Buck, who refuses, explaining that the Navy has done everything in its power to ensure their safety. But when Magnum receives a videotape from Ki of the murder of Michelle and Lily in a car explosion, Magnum vows revenge. Breaking-and-entering and gathering all the information about the whereabouts of Ki that he can, Magnum arms himself with a sniper rifle and commando gear, determined to kill Ki. However, when Maggie tells him that Ki will be exchanged for an American P.O.W. released from Vietnam after being held captive for over twenty years, Magnum reluctantly doesn't kill Ki on account of keeping relations between the U.S. and Vietnamese good in order to free more P.O.W.'s from the Vietnam War. The saddest episode of the series and a fan favorite, likewise with "Death and Taxes" and "Laura", "Unfinished Business" features Genesis' song, "The Brazilian" as Magnum prepares for revenge against Ki.
157	The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company	January 27, 1988
158	Legend of the Lost Art	February 10, 1988
159	Transitions	February 17, 1988
160	Resolutions Part 1	May 8, 1988
161	Resolutions Part 2	May 8, 1988

In 2011, the whole two-part finale was ranked #15 on the TV Guide Network special, TV's Most Unforgettable Finales.^[1]

References

1. ^ TV's Most Unforgettable Finales - Aired May 22, 2011 on TV Guide Network