Magnum, P.I.: Season 1

1980 · 18 episodes · ★ 6.8

What Season 1 of Magnum, P.I.

Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV is a private investigator who lives in Oahu, Hawaii, in the guest house at Robin's Nest, an oceanfront estate. His host, writer Robin Masters, rarely appears and is only heard from now and then. Magnum occupies the house in exchange for his security expertise, though the two share an earlier debt. He takes on all kinds of cases and drives Masters' red Ferrari. He is joined by butler Higgins, a difficult ex-military man, and his friends Rick and T.C. The starting point is the death of Dan Cook, Thomas's childhood friend. Magnum doesn't buy the official version and, together with Alice, Dan's sister, takes on the Navy.

18episodes

Dec 11, 1980Released

Apr 16, 1981Latest episode

13.7 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (1)
Dec 11, 1980 · 45 min · ★ 6.2
When Thomas's childhood friend and Naval comrade Dan Cook turns up dead, Thomas is adamant that the official cause of death, a burst bag of smuggled cocaine, is bogus, and enlists the aid of Dan's sister Alice in taking on the Navy to uncover the true nature of the top-secret assignment Dan was working on before his death.
Directing: Roger Young · Writing: Glen A. Larson · Starring: Branscombe Richmond, Fritz Weaver, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Loggia
1x02 Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii (2)
Dec 11, 1980 · 44 min · ★ 7.6
Magnum and Alice continue in their quest to find out the truth behind Lt. Dan Cook's death, and find themselves uncovering a case of gold smuggling, and a criminal mastermind whom Magnum and Dan once knew in Vietnam. But in trying to find out what really did happen to his deceased friend, Magnum puts his own life on the line as someone tries to stop him from investigating, using any means necessary...
Directing: Roger Young · Writing: Glen A. Larson · Starring: Branscombe Richmond, Fritz Weaver, Pamela Susan Shoop, Robert Loggia
1x03 China Doll
Dec 18, 1980 · 47 min · ★ 6.0
Magnum is hired by a beautiful Chinese antiques dealer that he's making a play for to protect a precious ancient vase—The Soul of Sung—until its buyer arrives in Hawaii to collect it. But unbeknownst to him, the priceless ornament is wanted by a Tong gang from the girl's home country, and a deadly martial arts assassin who can kill in the blink of an eye is hot on the trail.
Directing: Donald P. Bellisario · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: George Cheung, Susie Elene, Lee de Broux, Yankee Chang
1x04 Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too
Dec 25, 1980 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
It's the Christmas season, and against his better judgment, Magnum agrees to being hired by five young schoolgirls to find their teacher, who has seemingly gone missing after falling in love. While he's working on the case, Magnum manages to convince Higgins to let the young girls stay on the Masters estate, but he's unaware that he's being deceived in a scam over a valuable painting recently purchased by Robin Masters.
Directing: Bruce Seth Green · Writing: Babs Greyhosky · Starring: Al Harrington, Lauri Hendler, Katherine Cannon, Elizabeth Hoy
1x05 No Need to Know
Jan 8, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
Magnum returns from a case to find that Higgins' old Army commander is staying on the Masters estate, under tight security, until some I.R.A. members he helped capture are tried. Two secret intelligence agents hire Magnum to protect the brigadier and foil assassins out to kill him before the terrorists' trial, but the “need to know” basis the agents insist on operating by only serves to complicate matters for Magnum.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Frank Lupo · Starring: Richard Johnson, Robin Dearden, Edward Grover, Mariko Van Kampen
1x06 Skin Deep
Jan 15, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
When a beautiful model-actress is killed by a shotgun blast in a scenario closely resembling a scene from the script of an upcoming film, it is seemingly suicide. Magnum is hired by her former producer and lover to investigate any other men that she may have been seeing before her death.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Ian McShane, Ron Masak, Cathie Shirriff, Remi Abellira
1x07 Never Again... Never Again
Jan 22, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
When Saul and Lena, an aging couple who run a local shop, abruptly make plans to leave town, suspicious Magnum and Rick, who are friends with the couple, investigate.
Directing: Robert Loggia · Writing: Babs Greyhosky · Starring: Robert Ellenstein, Andy McDermott, Hanna Landy, Glenn Cannon
1x08 The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
Jan 29, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog after the attempted dognapping of the canine. Sir Algernon Farnsworth soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii when his former owner, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Allan Cole, Chris Bunch, Frank Lupo · Starring: Paul Gale, Michael V. Gazzo, Kathleen Nolan, Michael Nader
1x09 Missing in Action
Feb 5, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Magnum befriends her and, in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One.
Directing: Robert Loggia · Writing: Craig Buck, Ken Pettus · Starring: Rebecca Holden, Lance LeGault, Patrick Bishop, Remi Abellira
1x10 Lest We Forget
Feb 12, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
Magnum is hired by a Supreme Court nominee to find the woman he married on the eve of the raid on Pearl Harbor.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Miguel Ferrer, Scatman Crothers, Remi Abellira, Reri Tava Jobe
1x11 The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club
Feb 19, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
Rick is organizing a surf-ski competition to be held at the King Kamehameha Club (much to the disapproval of co-committee member Higgins) when a Kahuna appears and places a "curse" on the club and all who use it.
Directing: Winrich Kolbe · Writing: Babs Greyhosky · Starring: Herman Wedemeyer, Lew Ayres, Manu Tupou, Gretchen Corbett
1x12 Thicker than Blood
Feb 26, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
T.C. makes a late-night flight to land on a tanker, but on the journey back he is cornered and arrested by the Coast Guard for transporting drugs. Magnum and Rick are certain of their friend's innocence, but are shocked when he intends to accept the charges and refuses their help.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Michael Spilotro, Alan Caillou, Jeff MacKay, Vincent Caristi
1x13 All Roads Lead to Floyd
Mar 12, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 5.9
A bubbly young woman hires Magnum to find her father who, after being missing for over ten years, had sent her a postcard from Hawaii. But her father is involved in some rather shady business, and Magnum isn't the only one looking for him.
Directing: Ron Satlof · Writing: Babs Greyhosky, Rogers Turrentine · Starring: Noah Beery Jr., Georgia Schmidt, Anne Bloom, Red West
1x14 Adelaide
Mar 19, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
A woman hires Magnum to protect Norman, who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected twists.
Directing: Lawrence Doheny · Writing: Robert Hamilton · Starring: Cameron Mitchell, Christine Belford, Don Lamond, Allan Kucin
1x15 Don't Say Goodbye
Mar 26, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 5.9
Having once been hired by wealthy, blind Agatha Kimball to find her missing granddaughter, Amy, Magnum's services are once again called upon by his elderly friend after she has been contacted by a blackmailer claiming to have some important information about Amy.
Directing: Winrich Kolbe · Writing: Babs Greyhosky, T.J. Miles · Starring: Andrea Marcovicci, Mercedes McCambridge, Ted Danson, Jim Reynolds
1x16 The Black Orchid
Apr 2, 1981 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
Magnum has been hired by a woman to act out some of her rich, bored sister's fantasy dramas, concocted from 1930s Dashiell Hammett films. Although growing to enjoy the world of fantasy, Magnum has a hard time keeping up with the eccentric woman, and when he finds out that her husband is a wealthy, infamously jealous and bad-tempered business man, he decides to cut his losses and end the arrangement.
Directing: Ray Austin · Writing: Robert Hamilton · Starring: Judith Chapman, Ray Austin, Kathryn Leigh Scott, John Ireland
1x17 J. "Digger" Doyle
Apr 9, 1981 · 50 min · ★ 7.7
Magnum tries to impress a beautiful 'fan' of Robin's by showing her the Robin Masters estate, only to learn that she is actually a top security expert hired by Robin to test the estate's security.
Directing: Winrich Kolbe · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Erin Gray, Stewart Moss, Ric Marlow, Jacqueline Ray
1x18 Beauty Knows No Pain Season Finale
Apr 16, 1981 · 49 min · ★ 7.0
Magnum is hired by Barbara Terranova, a financially broke woman who can only afford his services for one day, to find her missing fiancé Roger. But the case has several tangles in store when Magnum finds there are others searching for Roger, too.
Directing: Ray Austin · Writing: Robert Hamilton · Starring: Darby Hinton, Marcia Wallace, Jeff MacKay, Curtis Credel