Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Third Season (1980)

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The neat thing about reruns for us is that because it is old, somehow it is easier to suspend reality for a while. I don't know why. October 6, 2008

Magnum Rocks!

This DVD was okay, but Magnum's 1982-83 Season wasn't as good as the 1st Season, 2nd Season, 6th Season, 7th Season, or 8th Season, because the Third Season of Magnum wasn't quite as funny as the first 2 seasons, plus I had noticed that on the Closed Captioning of each 3rd Season episode of this Magnum, P.I. DVD had left out a lot of the words that were actually said and they had revised the way the words were actually said on each episode, unlike it was on the DVD box sets of Season 1, 2, 6, and 7.

In addition to that, Magnum's 3rd Season wasn't as sophisticated as the 1st, 2nd, 6th, 7th, or 8th Season either.

Therefore, Magnum's 1982-83 Season kind of lacked some of the more sophisticated traits that all of those other seasons had.

So the creator(Donald Bellasario) should've done better on Magnum's Third Season, especially more like he did with the first 2 seasons.

On the other hand, Magnum's 1982-83 Season had some cool episodes too like "By It's Cover", "Mixed Doubles", which were my 2 favorite episodes of the 3rd Season, especially since they had an episode with Stuart Margolin, which played Rockford's ex-con buddy(Angel Martin) on THE ROCKFORD FILES, which was kind of intriguing, since Stuart Margolin's guest starred character on the "By Its Cover" episode was similar to his character on Rockford along with the fact that MAGNUM, P.I. was a private detective show just like THE ROCKFORD FILES was.

It was also interesting seeing Ernest Borgnine in the "Mr. White Death" episode before his days on AIRWOLF amd watching cast collide on the "KI's Don't Lie" episode when Magnum(Tom Selleck) ends up teaming up with Rick and A.J. Simon(Gerald McRaney & Jameson Parker) from the detective drama SIMON & SIMON to solve a bizarre mystery on a curse plaguing the islands of Hawaii along with the fact that SIMON & SIMON was kind of a spin-off of MAGNUM, PI.

This was also the season when Col. Buck Green(Lance LeGault) joins the cast as a part-time co-star on MAGNUM in the "Did You See The Sunrise" episode along with the fact that Col. Green was the same guy who played Col.Decker on THE A-TEAM.

I also liked the episodes "The Arrow That Is Not Aimed", "Birdman Of Budapest", and "Forty Years From Sand Island", since they bring up things from Magnum and Higgins past and bring in some unusual intriguing things to those episodes like trying to retrieve a stolen priceless Japanese plate in the "The Arrow That Is Not Aimed" episode along with the fact that I got a kick out of Magnum and Higgins being called "Magnum-San" and "Higgins-San" by Magnum's client(Mako).

The "Forty Years From Sand Island" episode was also an intriguing episode, especially when someone tries to kill Magnum and Higgins for revenge, due to some Americans torturing and killing a Japanese man while some foreigners were held captive at a prison camp in the past.

Additionally, the Third Season seemed to talk about Magnum's days in Vietnam the most more than any other season of MAGNUM, P.I. throughout Magnum's whole 8-year run on CBS for some reason.

In addition, this season also takes me all the way back to memory lane when MATT HOUSTON came out on ABC for the first time giving MAGNUM some interesting competition, especially since MATT HOUSTON was a very popular private detective show back then along with the fact that MATT HOUSTON had reminded so many people of MAGNUM, since there was obviously a slight resemblence between Magnum(Tom Selleck) and Houston(Lee Horseley), except Houston was huskier than Magnum was, plus I noticed that MATT HOUSTON had a lot of the same people who've guest starred on MAGNUM, P.I. as well. January 22, 2008

MAGNUM PI

SO FAR I HAVE ALL SEVEN SEASONS. I THINK TOM SELLECK IS GREAT AND I RATE THEM ALL A FIVE STAR. January 7, 2008

Good quality, good price, good show!!!

This one's worth it guys. Great DVD transfer, good menu and great packaging. Very impressed with the quality of some of the shows. (Not all of them are good) Great show too. Imagine driving around Hawaii in a Ferrarri with loads of girls in bikinis all over the islands. Wouldn't mind his job at all...

Great show and great quality. You will want to watch this series more than once.... (I'll bet you do too)

Do yourself a favour, you won't be sorry. November 26, 2007

Good shows, but NO closed captions

Universal seems to have an aversion to closed captions, for some reason. In place of it, they use "subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired." After months of playing with the DVDs, I finally managed to turn the subtitles on while pushing each button on the remote in turn. Not only do I not know how I did it, it had turned itself off again the next day when I ran the DVD again. It is, in my opinion, a very poor system. If anybody has a fool-proof way to turn the subtitles on, I'd be very glad to hear it; I couldn't find any answers at the Universal site.

Because of this problem, I downgrade the set from 5 stars to 3. October 4, 2007

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