Season 2, Episode 17: One More Summer

 


Episode #17 of the second season, "One More Summer" features a 36-year old Magnum reliving a bit of his glory days from when he was quarterback for Navy's football team in the 60's.

The Set-Up: The "Blazers" pro football team is having their training camp in Hawaii. The team's star quarterback Dorsey, at the tail end of his career, was Magnum's understudy at Navy, being three years younger than Thomas. Before training camp begins, someone takes a shot a him during a party. Dorsey hires Magnum to be his bodyguard and to get to the bottom of the shooting. In order to properly investigate the case, Magnum needs to go undercover as a walk-on, trying to make the team. T.C., former tight end at Grambling, is also a walk-on, but he just wants to play ball.



Magnum and T.C. get to put on the pads and throw the pigskin around, featuring some humorous takes of Magnum getting tackled and knocked senseless by the pro football regulars.

Eventually, the shooter is exposed as a psychotic young man who thought he was Dorsey. This man is killed by a security guard when he shows up to a practice with a rifle. When the investigation was still ongoing, though, Magnum figured out that the injections that Dorsey was getting from the trainer were only lidocaine and not both lidocaine and cortisone. This would cause Dorsey to shred his shoulder tendons feeling no pain. This was all done at the behest of the owner's wife(and Dorsey's jaded lover), who wanted to collect insurance on Dorsey's bum arm. Magnum intervenes and stops the owner's wife and the trainer.

Side Note: This week's episode featured guest appearances by Pat Morita(post Happy Days, pre-Karate Kid) and former NFL superstar Dick Butkus who ends up getting shot in the shoulder, but shakes it off as no big deal after being a football player for fifteen years...




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