Magnum, P.I.: Season 5

1984 · 22 episodes · ★ 6.8

What Season 5 of Magnum, P.I.

Season 5 of Magnum, P.I. Has 22 episodes and premiered on September 27, 1984. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

22episodes

Sep 27, 1984premiered

Apr 4, 1985Latest episode

16.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Echoes of the Mind (1)
Sep 27, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum is caught between danger and intrigue as a frightened lady, who believes her life is in danger, involves him in a bizarre situation.
Directing: Georg Stanford Brown · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Gillian Dobb, June Chadwick, Sharon Stone, Carolyn Seymour
5x02 Echoes of the Mind (2)
Oct 4, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum finds himself torn between twin sisters as his involvement with one brings him into conflict with the other.
Directing: Georg Stanford Brown · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Gillian Dobb, June Chadwick, Sharon Stone, Carolyn Seymour
5x03 Mac's Back
Oct 11, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum seems to be lost between reality and fantasy, past and present, when he is convinced that he has seen an old friend, Mac, very much alive, walking the streets of Honolulu.
Directing: Alan J. Levi · Writing: Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Clyde Kusatsu, Glenn Cannon, Jeff MacKay, Lance LeGault
5x04 The Legacy of Garwood Huddle
Oct 18, 1984 · 45 min
A reluctant Magnum agrees to help a friend of Higgins to find the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping of his grandchild.
Directing: Vincent McEveety · Writing: Richard Yalem · Starring: Dick Durock, Michael Anderson Jr., Elisha Cook Jr., Pat Hingle
5x05 Under World
Oct 25, 1984 · 45 min
TC's chopper is about to touch down at the helipad when he loses control over it and plunges into the sea.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Glenn Cannon, Judith Sykes, Richard Lawson, Sam Vlahos
5x06 Fragments
Nov 1, 1984 · 45 min
Laura Griffin, a young woman with amazing psychic abilities, hires Magnum to investigate her own murder.
Directing: David Hemmings · Writing: Nick Thiel, Donald P. Bellisario · Starring: Gillian Dobb, Samantha Eggar, Kenneth Mars, Jillie Mack
5x07 Blind Justice
Nov 8, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum is working on a case for assistant D.A. Carol and is forced to face a difficult dilemma concerning the guilt of innocence of the suspected murdered who is guilty of another crime.
Directing: Russ Mayberry · Writing: Chris Abbott · Starring: Natalie Gregory, Gary Epper, Barbara Rush, Margie Impert
5x08 Murder 101
Nov 15, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum is very enthusiastic about his new project, teaching a class at the University about private investigation. The class is small but interest is great about everyone helps a student investigate the strange behavior of her fiancé.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Rogers Turrentine · Starring: Max Kleven, Harry Townes, Hunter von Leer, Carole Kai
5x09 Tran Quoc Jones
Nov 29, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum tries to help a young Amerasian boy find his long lost G.I. father and ends up in the middle of political corruption and mob intrigue.
Directing: Russ Mayberry · Writing: Chris Abbott · Starring: Robert Tessier, Rick Lenz, Terry Kiser, Roland Harrah III
5x10 Luther Gillis: File #001
Dec 6, 1984 · 45 min
While Magnum is preoccupied with a very difficult case, help arrives just in time in the person of Luther Gillis, the hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis.
Directing: Ivan Dixon · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Don Knight, Gary Grubbs, Eugene Roche, Orson Welles
5x11 Kiss of the Sabre
Dec 13, 1984 · 45 min
Magnum is displaced from the guest house when an overly imaginative novelist, who suffers from a sever case of writer's block, becomes suspiciously interested and involved in his latest case.
Directing: John Patterson · Writing: Jay Huguely · Starring: Cassie Yates, Paul Gleason, Soon-Tek Oh, David Spielberg
5x12 Little Games
Jan 3, 1985 · 45 min
A very attractive security expert brings out the romantic in Magnum when she is hired to help protect Robin's Nest during a jewelry exhibit worth millions of dollars.
Directing: Arthur Allan Seidelman · Writing: Deborah Pratt · Starring: Jenny Agutter, Cesar Romero, Jeff MacKay, Jo Pruden
5x13 Professor Jonathan Higgins
Jan 10, 1985 · 45 min
Higgins is very pleased with the prospect of his distant cousin's arrival. She is to marry the heir of an old Hawaiian family but turns out to be a true punk rocker.
Directing: Peter Medak · Writing: Jay Huguely · Starring: Gillian Dobb, Jillie Mack, Lynn Wood, Ronald Knight
5x14 Compulsion
Jan 24, 1985 · 45 min
Magnum investigates a case which involves his friend Carol who works for the D.A. and who is about to testify against a man sent to prison by her father while Higgins struggles with the truth during a visit of former Sandhurst friends.
Directing: David Hemmings · Writing: Chris Abbott · Starring: Gillian Dobb, David Hemmings, John Pleshette, Susan Swift
5x15 All for One (1)
Jan 31, 1985 · 45 min
Magnum and his friends, including Higgins, help a former Vietnam buddy to find a mutual friend being held prisoner in Cambodia.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Robert Forster, Clyde Kusatsu, Seth Sakai, Dustin Nguyễn
5x16 All for One (2)
Feb 7, 1985 · 45 min
While in Cambodia on a rescue mission of an old Army buddy, Magnum, Higgins, Rick and TC realize that their lives are on the line because of great danger and deceit.
Directing: Michael Vejar · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Robert Forster, Clyde Kusatsu, Seth Sakai, Dustin Nguyễn
5x17 The Love-For-Sale Boat
Feb 14, 1985 · 45 min
Rick is the target of yet another of Mac's schemes but this time Mac goes too far, endangering everyone's life with his fantastic plan.
Directing: Ray Austin · Writing: J. Miyoko Hensley, Steven Hensley · Starring: Elisha Cook Jr., Jeff MacKay, Marilyn Tokuda, George Cheung
5x18 Let Me Hear the Music
Feb 21, 1985 · 45 min
Lacy Fletcher seeks Magnum's help to unearth five songs which has been written by the legendary George Lee Jessup for the woman he loves before he died 25 years ago.
Directing: David Hemmings · Writing: Jay Huguely · Starring: Amanda McBroom, Susan Oliver, Dennis Weaver, Kwan Hi Lim
5x19 Ms. Jones
Mar 7, 1985 · 45 min
After Magnum has just been put through the wringer at the Hall of Records, he is very reluctant but finally agrees to help one of the clerks, a woman named Ms. Jones, who is looking for her missing husband.
Directing: Ray Austin · Writing: Phil Combest · Starring: Harry Endo, Margie Impert, Kwan Hi Lim, Lance LeGault
5x20 The Man from Marseilles
Mar 14, 1985 · 45 min
A distinguished Frenchman contacts Magnum and asks for his help in supposedly finding a missing heir.
Directing: John Llewellyn Moxey · Writing: Reuben Leder · Starring: Joe Moore, Kathleen Lloyd, Kwan Hi Lim, Paul Verdier
5x21 Torah, Torah, Torah
Mar 28, 1985 · 45 min
Danger and death are the overtones that result from a simple visit with Rabbi Asher Solomon when he arrives in Hawaii.
Directing: Leo Penn · Writing: Martin Sage, Sybil Adelman · Starring: France Nuyen, Nehemiah Persoff, Ralph Strait, Kwan Hi Lim
5x22 A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken Season Finale
Apr 4, 1985 · 45 min
Magnum goes undercover and into a prison farm to find Darryl Jacobs who is the last person and former boyfriend of a missing young girl.
Directing: Bernard L. Kowalski · Writing: Jay Huguely, Joe Gores · Starring: Matt Clark, Linda Grovenor, Shannon Wilcox, Kathleen Lloyd