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Season 8-Favorite Episodes

posted 9 years ago by w22nuschler
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I have been watching Magnum on Encore Classics since it came on a few years ago. I am still watching and they are about to finish off the final season, 8 again.

My favorite episodes are Legend of The Lost Art & The Pleasure Principle. Both episdes have plenty of humor in them. Legend is a great tribute to Raiders of the Lost Ark. I love the whole episode. It is done so well. The Pleasure Principle has Magnum acting like Higgins and Higgins acting like Magnum. They must have had fun with that one.

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[–] tsm_pi 9 years ago

Tiger' Fan and Unfinished business.

Can't stand Legend of the Lost Art... To each his own I guess. :)

[–] w22nuschler 9 years ago

Yes, I did enjoy the episodes mentioned above, I just lean towards the episodes with a little humor in them. I remember when Simon & Simon went really serious in Season 7 and it killed that show in the ratings. They tried to lighten up in Season 8 anfd it was too late. It did not help things that Downtown Brown had left after Season 6.

[–] robocop-37224 9 years ago

I'd like to see Simon and Simon come back on myself. I watched one episode where they episode like Rick was gonna have a Vietnam meltdown. Turns out his brother gets kidnapped , Rick puts on his old army uniform, camo makeup, with gun in hand he walks behind the kidnapper and knocks him out??? Very lame show and bad writing IMO.

[–] AIRORD 9 years ago

Unfinished Business was one of the best of the entire series. A view into a Thomas Magnum that we only briefly saw at the end of Did You See The Sunrise. If you watch closely in the episode Magnum tosses away his POW/MIA bracelet that was a staple of Magnums accessories along with the team ring. A powerful image.......

[–] zurichpoet 8 years ago

Classic stuff.

[–] horrorfan000 (2317) 6 years ago

Just finished revisiting this show on DVD.My favorite season 8 eps are Infiniti and Jelly donuts,Pleasure principle and Unfinished business.While not one of my favorites Legend of the lost art was a fun episode.Especially considering Selleck was originally offered the part of Indiana Jones.At least we got a small glimpse of what that would have been like.

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

I would say that the Pleasure Principle is actually my all around favorite episode of Magnum. I still need to get around to watching Legend of the Lost Art. I bought all the DVDs way back in 2012 and still haven't seen all the episodes. I have a tendency to bounce around the series a lot