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Magnum, P.I. Season 1 Episodes

  • 1980-1988
  • 8 Seasons
  • CBS
  • Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
  • TV-PG
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Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV (Tom Selleck) is an ex-Navy "NIA" (ONI) Lieutenant, and Vietnam Special Ops veteran who resigned his commission at age thirty-three because he never got to be twenty-three. On the beautiful Hawaiian islands, Magnum is a P.I. who enjoys life, his buddies, and who works just hard enough to keep it real.

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

18 Episodes 1980 - 1981

Episode 1

Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii

Thu, Dec 11, 198046 mins

Continuing his quest to prove his dead Navy buddy, Lt Dan Cook, innocent of cocaine charges, Magnum begins his own investigation of the Hawaiian cocaine trade. With the help of TC, Rick, and Dan's sister, he delves more and more deeply into the seamy underworld of smuggling. Finally he confronts a crime lord who both he and Dan had known from their previous tours of duty in Vietnam. Magnum has to deal with this crime boss if he is to establish Dan's innocence.

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Episode 2

Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii: Part 2

Thu, Dec 11, 198045 mins

Magnum continues to learn about the framing of his dead Naval pal. He looks for a female drug dealer, an Arab gold buyer and a mobster.

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Episode 3

China Doll

Thu, Dec 18, 198050 mins

Magnum is hired to protect "The Soul of Soong," an ancient Chinese vase, until it can be delivered to its owner.

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Episode 4

Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too

Thu, Dec 25, 198050 mins

Five little schoolgirls from Vermont ask Magnum to find their missing teacher.

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Episode 5

No Need to Know

Thu, Jan 8, 198148 mins

Magnum is hired to protect a British Brigadier who is hunted by the IRA.

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Episode 6

Skin Deep

Thu, Jan 15, 198150 mins

Magnum investigates the suicide of a beautiful actress who killed herself with a shotgun.

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Episode 7

Never Again... Never Again

Thu, Jan 22, 198150 mins

Magnum helps two elderly Jewish Holocaust survivors who are being pursued by Nazis.

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Episode 8

The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii

Thu, Jan 29, 198150 mins

Magnum is tasked with guarding "Sir Algernon Farnsworth," a wealthy socialite's dog.

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Episode 9

Missing in Action

Thu, Feb 5, 198150 mins

Magnum is hired by a new singer at the King Kamehameha Club to find her fiancé who is listed as MIA during the Vietnam War. She not only believes he's still alive, she keeps having visions of him being killed.

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Episode 10

Lest We Forget

Thu, Feb 12, 198150 mins

A man nominated to be a Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court asks Magnum to find a woman he last saw on December 6, 1941.

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Episode 11

The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club

Thu, Feb 19, 198150 mins

A Kahuna places a curse on Rick and the King Kamehameha Club. Soon people get sick and die and a TV reporter sensationalizes what is happening and antagonizes Magnum.

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Episode 12

Thicker Than Blood

Thu, Feb 26, 198150 mins

TC flies out to a freighter at sea during the night to smuggle a Marine deserter back to the U.S.

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Episode 13

All Roads Lead to Floyd

Thu, Mar 12, 198160 mins

A girl from Kansas comes to Hawaii and hires Magnum to find her father who disappeared years ago. She got a postcard from him from Hawaii. Magnum tries to find him but just when he does he trail runs cold. Eventually he finds him and just as he was about to explain things someone takes a shot at him. So he runs. Magnum eventually learns why he disappeared. And at the same time he had an accident driving the Ferrari. And when the person who struck him doesn't have insurance he lets the person go. But when Higgins learns of this he tells Magnum either he pays or he can't use the Ferrari anymore.

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Episode 14

Adelaide

Thu, Mar 19, 198150 mins

A woman hires Magnum to protect "Norman," a prized show horse who may be kidnapped.

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Episode 15

Don't Say Goodbye

Thu, Mar 26, 198149 mins

Agatha Kimball, a wealthy blind woman, is being blackmailed and she hires Magnum to pay the blackmailer.

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Episode 16

The Black Orchid

Thu, Apr 2, 198150 mins

A rich, bored woman, married to one of the richest men in Hawaii, hires Magnum to act out some of her "games," but then the "games" become reality.

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Episode 17

J. "Digger" Doyle

Thu, Apr 9, 198150 mins

Thieves are attempting to steal tapes of Robin Masters' new book. Magnum joins forces with security expert J. "Digger" Doyle to prevent the theft.

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Episode 18

Beauty Knows No Pain

Thu, Apr 16, 198149 mins

A woman from Bayonne, New Jersey hires Magnum for one day to find her fiancé.

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