Magnum, P.I.: Season 3

1982 · 23 episodes · ★ 6.6

What Season 3 of Magnum, P.I.

Season 3 of Magnum, P.I. Has 23 episodes and premiered on September 30, 1982. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

23episodes

Sep 30, 1982premiered

Apr 28, 1983Latest episode

17.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 Did You See the Sunrise? (1)
Sep 30, 1982 · 45 min
Magnum and TC put their lives on the line to protect an old Navy buddy who firmly believes the trio are marked for death from an enemy dating back to the Vietnam war.
Directing: Ray Austin · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Jean Bruce Scott, Bo Svenson, Jeff MacKay, Lance LeGault
3x02 Did You See the Sunrise? (2)
Sep 30, 1982 · 45 min
As Magnum, T.C. and Nuzo plan to get to Ivan before he kills them, the Navy - in particular, Colonel Greene and Admiral Hawkes - have their own concerns and questions regarding Mac's death. But things are not as previously thought about Nuzo, and not only is T.C.'s life in great danger, but many other people's too, namely a Japanese prince.
Directed by Ray Austin · Starring: Paul Burke, James Whitmore Jr., Lance LeGault, Jean Bruce Scott
3x03 Ki'i's Don't Lie (I)
Oct 7, 1982 · 45 min
A team of private investigators fly to Hawaii to recover a valuable and deadly native artifact, and find themselves in conflict with private investigator Thomas Magnum, Higgins, and a beautiful (but larcenous) socialite.The crossover continues on Simon & Simon S02E01 Emeralds Are Not a Girl's Best Friend (II).
Directed by Lawrence Doheny · Written by Philip DeGuere Jr., Bob Shayne · Starring: Jameson Parker, Liam Sullivan, Morgan Fairchild, Gerald McRaney
3x04 The Eighth Part of the Village
Oct 14, 1982 · 45 min
The arrival by sea of a large crate destined for Robin Masters leads Magnum into a bizarre situation involving a wealthy Japanese businessman, his errant daughter and a fortune in pearls.
Directing: James Frawley · Writing: George Geiger · Starring: Dick Durock, Kim Miyori, Rick Hill, Marilyn Tokuda
3x05 Past Tense
Oct 21, 1982 · 45 min
When TC's chopper, in which Higgins is a passenger, is hi-jacked for use in a spectacular prison break, it begins a dangerous chain of events for Magnum.
Directing: Michael O'Herlihy · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Pat Studstill, James Wainwright, Drew Snyder, Frank Atienza
3x06 Black on White
Oct 28, 1982 · 45 min
Higgins is on the hit list of African Mau-Mau warriors who are seeking bloody revenge on all ex-British soldiers in Higgins' old regiment.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Gillian Dobb, Lynne Moody, Glenn Cannon, Ian McShane
3x07 Flashback
Nov 4, 1982 · 45 min
A perplexed Magnum finds himself trapped in a time warp while attempting to clear a union leader accused of murdering a construction magnate.
Directed by Ivan Dixon · Written by Lance Madrid III · Starring: Anne Lockhart, Lee Patterson, Rosemary Murphy, Robin Strand
3x08 Foiled Again
Nov 11, 1982 · 45 min
An apparent freak fencing accident puts Higgins in jail for murder and Magnum on the trail of the real killer.
Directed by Michael Vejar · Written by Tom Greene · Starring: Nicholas Hammond, Paxton Whitehead, Dana Wynter, Patty McCormack
3x09 Mr. White Death
Nov 18, 1982 · 45 min
Earl Gianelli, an aged wrestler who hires Magnum to find his long lost son, puts the private investigator on a bloody trail of revenge.
Directed by Jeffrey Hayden · Written by Reuben Leder · Starring: Ernest Borgnine, Margie Impert, James Edgcomb, Linda Ryan
3x10 Mixed Doubles
Dec 2, 1982 · 45 min
Hired to protect a young tennis star, whose off-court behavior leaves much to be desired, Magnum finds his loyalties strained when a prime suspect turns out to be an old and dear friend.
Directing: Burt Kennedy · Writing: Rob Gilmer, Reuben Leder · Starring: Anulka Dziubinska, Kim Richards, Elaine Giftos, Henry Gibson
3x11 Almost Home
Dec 9, 1982 · 45 min
Magnum is hired by a cocktail waitress who has been refused permission to scatter her dead father's ashes at Pearl Harbor, and wants Magnum to help her overcome Navy red tape.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Alan Cassidy, Rob Gilmer · Starring: Gillian Dobb, Stephen Elliott, Jean Bruce Scott, Beulah Quo
3x12 Heal Thyself
Dec 16, 1982 · 45 min
Magnum offers to help a former Army nurse, now a doctor, who is accused of murdering three patients under her care.
Directed by Leo Penn · Written by Rob Gilmer · Starring: Chris Penn, Marcia Strassman, Edward Winter, Peter Brown
3x13 Of Sound Mind
Jan 6, 1983 · 45 min
A wealthy, much-hated practical joker caps his career by leaving Magnum over fifty million dollars in his will, much to the chagrin and potential enmity of his money-hungry relations.
Directed by Michael Vejar · Written by Andrew Schneider · Starring: Elaine Joyce, James Murtaugh, Raymond Singer, Michael Delano
3x14 The Arrow That Is Not Aimed
Jan 27, 1983 · 45 min
When a valuable artifact entrusted to a modern day Samurai warrior is stolen, Magnum becomes involved in a culture and a way of life that hasn't altered in centuries.
Directing: James Frawley · Writing: J. Miyoko Hensley, Steven Hensley · Starring: Mako, Seth Sakai, Tommy Fujiwara, Lee de Broux
3x15 Basket Case
Feb 3, 1983 · 45 min
With both Magnum and TC sponsoring youth basketball teams, their rivalry comes to a head with the appearance of a 13-year-old basketball whiz, Willie Hitchinson.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Julie Friedgen · Starring: William Schallert, Dana Hill, Jo Pruden, Joe Moore
3x16 Birdman of Budapest
Feb 10, 1983 · 45 min
A vicious macaw, trained to attack, is only one of the problems facing Magnum when an elderly woman claiming to be Robin Master's former high school English teacher arrives at the estate to write a book on ornithologists.
Directed by Michael Vejar · Written by Louis F. Vipperman · Starring: Sylvia Sidney, Fritz Feld, Joseph Wiseman, Orson Welles
3x17 I Do?
Feb 17, 1983 · 45 min
The president of a family owned business hires Magnum to ferret out the dishonest activities of his nephew, who is supposedly stealing from the company.
Directed by Ivan Dixon · Written by Rob Gilmer · Starring: Nicolas Coster, Mary Jackson, Dick O'Neill, Katherine Cannon
3x18 Forty Years from Sand Island
Feb 24, 1983 · 45 min
When Higgins is involved in a dangerous accident, Magnum's investigation leads to a murder that occurred forty years ago in a Japanese internment camp.
Directed by Michael Vejar · Written by Rogers Turrentine, Rob Gilmer, Reuben Leder · Starring: Keye Luke, James Shigeta, Marilyn Tokuda, John Roselius
3x19 Legacy from a Friend
Mar 10, 1983 · 45 min
Magnum is pleased to see his friend, Marcus, driving a new expensive sports car but the pleasure turns to dismay when Marcus' battered body is discovered in the surf.
Directing: Stuart Margolin · Writing: Robert Hamilton · Starring: Rosemary Forsyth, Bob Minor, Annie Potts, Annette McCarthy
3x20 Two Birds of a Feather
Mar 17, 1983 · 45 min
A customized plane, being piloted to Hawaii by Sam Houston Hunter, a Vietnam vet, crashes in the tidal pool at Robin's Nest and everyone assumes it was insufficient gas and pilot error that caused it.
Starring: John Calvin, William Lucking, Richard Roundtree, Ann Doran
3x21 ...By Its Cover
Mar 31, 1983 · 45 min
Conned by an old friend, Magnum and TC agree to deliver a set of encyclopedias, not knowing that the knowledge contained within is a large marijuana drop.
Directed by Michael Vejar · Written by Donald P. Bellisario, Rogers Turrentine, Rob Gilmer · Starring: Stuart Margolin, Carlene Watkins, Robert Apisa, Ronald Hunter
3x22 The Big Blow
Apr 7, 1983 · 45 min
It's an ill wind that proves prophetic when a tropical hurricane unleashes its fury on the evening of a very important social event.
Directed by Alan J. Levi · Written by Reuben Leder · Starring: Kelly Ward, John McCook, Sondra Currie, James Doohan
3x23 Faith and Begorrah Season Finale
Apr 28, 1983 · 45 min
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.
Directed by Virgil W. Vogel · Written by Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Gillian Dobb, Richard Johnson, Donald P. Bellisario, Lee Canalito