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Magnum, P.I. Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1982 - 1983
Episode 1
Did You See the Sunrise?
Thu, Sep 30, 198293 mins
Magnum, TC and Nuzo had escaped from a North Vietnamese POW camp during the Vietnam War. Nuzo returns to Hawaii and tells TC that the brutal Russian Colonel who was at the camp has returned to the U.S. and is going to kill him.
Episode 2
Ki'is Don't Lie
Thu, Oct 7, 198248 mins
The Poison God's Ki'i, a wooden Polynesian God image, was found in a cave in Hawaii. Unless it is returned to the cave, anyone who comes in contact with it will die.
Episode 3
The Eighth Part of the Village
Thu, Oct 14, 198248 mins
Higgins sends Magnum to the docks to pick up a crate of books but instead of books, he finds a young Japanese woman in the crate.
Episode 4
Past Tense
Thu, Oct 21, 198248 mins
TC's helicopter is skyjacked and he is forced to land in a local prison and help a prisoner escape.
Episode 5
Black on White
Thu, Oct 28, 198248 mins
Higgins is quarantined in the guest house with Magnum because TM may have been exposed to a deadly African virus. Or, is it something else?
Episode 6
Flashback
Thu, Nov 4, 198248 mins
Magnum wakes up one morning and finds he is back in 1936 and must solve a murder.
Episode 7
Foiled Again
Thu, Nov 11, 198248 mins
Higgins is in a fencing match against a man he has hated for years.
Episode 8
Mr. White Death
Thu, Nov 18, 198248 mins
A professional wrestler from the mainland asks Magnum to find his son.
Episode 9
Mixed Doubles
Thu, Dec 2, 198248 mins
Magnum is, once again, duped into free investigation work. This time, as a tennis player in a pro-am tournament, Higgins pairs him with a rising star instead of the veteran he had chemistry with years ago when he was serving in the US Navy with her brother.
Episode 10
Almost Home
Thu, Dec 9, 198248 mins
Magnum helps a cocktail waitress from Cleveland who wants to place her father's remains on the battleship Arizona in Pearl Harbor.
Episode 11
Heal Thyself
Thu, Dec 16, 198248 mins
A doctor that Magnum knew in Vietnam when she was an Army nurse is accused of murdering three patients in a Hawaiian hospital.
Episode 12
Of Sound Mind
Thu, Jan 6, 198348 mins
Magnum inherits $50 million from a former client who died in a plane crash.
Episode 13
The Arrow That Is Not Aimed
Thu, Jan 27, 198360 mins
A Japanese Samurai warrior brings an antique plate to Hawaii that Robin Masters had purchased. The Samurai is attacked, the plate is stolen and Robin wants TM to recover it.
Episode 14
Basket Case
Thu, Feb 3, 198348 mins
TC and Magnum are each coaching a youth basketball team and a young girl joins TM's team.
Episode 15
Birdman of Budapest
Thu, Feb 10, 198348 mins
Robin Masters' high school English teacher is staying at the estate while she writes a book about birds.
Episode 16
I Do?
Thu, Feb 17, 198348 mins
Magnum marries the niece of the company president in order to catch a thief.
Episode 17
Forty Years from Sand Island
Thu, Feb 24, 198348 mins
Two Japanese-Americans who were interned on Sand Island in January 1942 witness two soldiers beating a fellow Japanese internee to death. This incident causes repercussions today.
Episode 18
Legacy from a Friend
Thu, Mar 10, 198348 mins
The body of Magnum's friend, an experienced lifeguard, is found on a beach after an apparent drowning but TM does not believe he drowned.
Episode 19
Two Birds of a Feather
Thu, Mar 17, 198348 mins
A small plane crashes into the estate's tidal pool. Magnum saves the pilot, Sam Hunter. Hunter was delivering the plane from the mainland and can't help but wonder why he ran out of fuel. Magnum for some reason thinks he knows him but doesn't know where. Hunter returns to the mainland and everyone accuse him of fouling up but he maintains he didn't do anything wrong. He goes home to Texas for his son's birthday. Back in Hawaii someone breaks into the estate and looks for something inside the plane Magnum goes out and sees them and they shoot at him. Magnum finds that there are some lead bars in the plane. He then calls Hunter who tells him about the lead and the man he was delivering the plane to. It seems like the man involved in some shady business which prompts Hunter to go back to the airfield to confront the man he thinks placed the lead in the plane.
Episode 20
...By Its Cover
Thu, Mar 31, 198348 mins
Magnum meets an old Naval Academy buddy and ends up delivering marijuana.
Episode 21
The Big Blow
Thu, Apr 7, 198348 mins
Higgins and Magnum are hosting a party attended by some of Robin Masters' friends and Robin is suppose to attend. But then a hurricane strikes and a couple of criminals and a pregnant woman who's about to give birth show up. While Higgins tries to help the woman, Magnum tries to take care of the guys. And he is also trying to find out which one of Robin's guests is there to kill him.
Episode 22
Faith and Begorrah
Thu, Apr 28, 198348 mins
Higgins' half brother, an Irish Catholic priest from Northern Ireland, arrives in Hawaii to confront a British officer who he claims stole an ancient artifact from his church.