Season 1, Episode 18: Beauty Know No Pain

 


The season #1 Magnum finale is a bit of a silly affair. It features guest star Marcia Wallace hiring Magnum to find her boyfriend who had run off to Hawaii. It turns out he had stolen money that he found buried in a mobster's estate in New Jersey and was being pursued by both the Mob and treasury agents.

At the same time, Magnum was training for an Iron Man competition and they somehow worked in that Marcia Wallace's character would help Magnum train? Um, okay.

In any case, the mob guy gets a hold of the boyfriend first and is ready to kill him once the money is found, but Magnum gets there and tackles the inept hitman before he can do any damage. Yawn.



Overall, though, Thomas Magnum had quite a year. He managed to shoot four bad guys, killing three of them. He beat up several more. He did take some abuse, though. He was shot twice. He was concussed at least once. He took about eight more punches to the jaw, bruised his ribs, was kicked, kneed to the head, and took a throwing star to the back of the hand. All this and he managed to run an Iron Man challenge at the end of the season. What a warrior!

It's also tough to be a friend of Magnum's.

T.C. was concussed and had two cracked ribs. He also got his chopper shot up on three occasions.

Rick was poisoned and almost died. He also had to shoot a bad guy to death while helping out Magnum

Higgins was hit by a tranquilizer dart on one occasion and kidnapped and drugged with truth serum on another.


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