Magnum, P.I. - The Complete Second Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Alan J. Levi, Arthur Allan Seidelman, Bernard L. Kowalski, Burt Brinckerhoff, Burt Kennedy
Actors: Tom Selleck, John Hillerman, Roger E. Mosley, Larry Manetti, Andrea Marcovicci
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 6865
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 1083 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: MCAD27103D
UPC: 025192710322
EAN: 0025192710322
ASIN: B0007LXP86
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1980
Release Date: April 12, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Run time: 1083 minutes Rating: Nr
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Return to the Big Island for more adventure with Tom Selleck's charmingly roguish detective hero, Thomas Magnum, courtesy of this three-disc set, which compiles the entire second season (1981-1982) of Magnum, P.I.. The 22 episodes included here (among them the two-part "Memories Are Forever") crystallize the key to the series' success: an appealing blend of action, drama, mystery, and comedy, cemented by Selleck and his likable castmates, especially John Hillerman, who would earn a Golden Globe for his work on Magnum in '82. Highlights of the season include Magnum's attempt to stop an international assassin ("The Jororo Kill," with Tyne Daly), the arrival of Hemingway-esque author Mad Buck Gibson (Darren McGavin) in the episode of the same name, and the aforementioned two-parter, which reunites Magnum with a woman he thought to have died after marrying her while serving in Vietnam. The usual array of classy guest stars are also on hand for this season; in addition to the aforementioned actors, there are turns by Mimi Rogers, Vic Morrow, Vera Miles, Jill St. John, and Elisha Cook Jr. (who plays a much different character than his recurring role as "Ice Pick" in future seasons). And Magnum obsessives should note early appearances by Gillian Dobb, who played Agatha Chumley in numerous subsequent episodes, as well as one of Higgins's colorful, estranged half-brothers in "The Elmo Ziller Story." It's unfortunate that the set itself doesn't match the quality of the Episodes--extras are limited to second-season episodes from Knight Rider and The A-Team--but Magnum fans should be pleased to have all the episodes in a single set, and best of all, commercial-free. --Paul Gaita
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 cool November 18, 2008
Karen Reuter (Germany)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
just great! action, british coolness from Higgins, mysteries to be solved under the hawaian sun with Magnum and his friends ... those stories take you on a cool vacation trip. very recommendable
Still a great show! July 29, 2008
K. Capra
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great show, Tom and the cast are awesome, very enjoyable even after all these years.
magnum PI- The second season May 19, 2008
Deborah A. Stenard (Los Angeles, CA.)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for my mother for Mother's Day. She is a huge Tom Selleck fan and she was thrilled.
movie mad March 11, 2008
J. Frampton (queensland australia)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I now have the whole series of Magnum P.I. Much to my amazement my son
enjoys the series too. I am very happy with my collection.
My Favorite Season January 18, 2008
Taheen Lopez (United States- San Diego, CA)
I love this 1981-82 Season of Magnum, PI the best throughout Magnum's whole 8-year run on CBS, since it had most of my favorite episodes like Try To Remember, Italian Ice, The Last Page, Wave Goodbye, The Taking Of Dick McWilliams, Texas Lightning, Three Minus Two, The Elmo Ziller Story, etc.
In addition to why I like Magnums Second Season the best, I also noticed that in the 1981-82 Season that it's funnier incidents would happen between Magnum(Tom Selleck), Higgins(John Hillerman), TC(Roger Mosley), and Rick(Larry Manetti), plus Magnum used the Ferrari more in the 2nd Season than he did in most other seasons, especially more than he did in the last 4 seasons of this show, which was another reason why I was so excited and dying to have Magnum's complete 2nd Season released on DVD.
In addition to that; this Magnum, P.I. DVD was complete and uncut like they were originally shown on CBS with the proper introduction, unlike the case when Magnum was shown in reruns on WGN, USA, and A&E, which had too many deleted scenes with too many added commercials in between, plus A&E, USA, and WGN didn't use the proper introduction to this season or most other seasons of Magnum on top of that, since USA, A&E, and WGN had revised all the episodes of Magnum, PI to use the Sixth Season introduction to every single episode instead, which really sucked, because that made the seasons less interesting to watch, since there wasn't much to compare to between each season all the way from the First Season to the Eighth Season.
But it was very interesting when you'd watch an episode from an earlier season and compare it to a later season, especially when the introduction between older and newer episodes are different, so you can compare to see how Magnum, Higgins, T.C., and Rick and them looked in the earlier seasons and how they ended up looking in the later seasons, which the introductions show you as well when they don't use the same intro to every single episode along with the fact that the same introduction to any show gets old and boring after while, unless of course the introduction changes eventually.
So now I am anxiously and eagerly awaiting for Magnum's 8th Season to be released on DVD. I also noticed that this was the season when TC started calling the grouchy ole Higgins "Higgy Baby" more often, but I think TC called Higgins "Higgie Baby" the most in this 1981-82 Season of Magnum more than any other season.
Therefore, this was practically the season when TC started using the name "Higgie Baby", which I always got a kick out of. So this review should be helpful to anyone who religiously watched Magnum every week like I did back then when this season was on CBS.
This also takes me all the way back to memory lane when CBS's motto was "Reach For The Stars" and when Magnum(Tom Selleck) was voted as TV's sexiest detective back in the early 1980's as well as his second year of being a superstar.
I was also interesting seeing
-Joanna Kerns in "The Last Page" episode before her days on GROWING PAINS
-Julie Sommars in the "Texas Lightning" episode before her MATLOCK days
-Beverly Garland in the "Two Minus Three" episode before her SCARECROW & MRS. KING days
-Jim Whitmore, Jr. in the "Billy Joe Bob" episode before his co-starring days as Hunter & McCall's geeky fellow officer(Sgt. Bernie Terwilliger) on HUNTER.
-Tyne Daly in "The Jororo Kill" episode before her CAGNEY & LACY days
-Football celebrity(Dick Butkus) in the "One More Summer" episode
-Judith Chapman in "The Woman On The Beach" episode before her days on YOUNG & THE RESTLESS and DAYS OF OUR LIVES
Additionally, this season takes me all the way back to memory lane to the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was the president.
So now that Universal has all 8 seasons of MAGNUM out on DVD, I'm hoping it will inspire Warner Bros. to finally put the private detective drama MATT HOUSTON with Lee Horseley & Pamela Hensley out on DVD soon, since I've been waiting for MATT HOUSTON to be released on DVD for years now, especially throughout all the years I'd been awaiting for all 8 seasons of MAGNUM, PI to be put on DVD, since MATT HOUSTON was also a cool TV show that was in competition with MAGNUM throughout MATT HOUSTON's 3-year run on ABC, not to mention the amazing slight resemeblence between Magnum(Tom Selleck) and Houston(Lee Horseley).
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