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The Best Episodes of Magnum, P.I. Season 5

Genres:Action & AdventureCrimeDramaMystery
Network:CBS

Every episode of Magnum, P.I. Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Magnum, P.I. Season 5!

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at...
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  • Little Games
    8.2/10(334)
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    #1 - Little Games

    Season 5 Episode 12

    Aired 1/3/1985

    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.

    Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman

    Writer: N/A

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  • Murder 101
    8.1/10(325)
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    #2 - Murder 101

    Season 5 Episode 8

    Aired 11/15/1984

    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.

    Director: Ivan Dixon

    Writer: N/A

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  • All for One (1)
    8.1/10(314)
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    #3 - All for One (1)

    Season 5 Episode 15

    Aired 1/31/1985

    Magnum and his friends, including Higgins, help a former Vietnam buddy to find a mutual friend being held prisoner in Cambodia.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

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  • Echoes of the Mind (1)
    8.0/10(392)
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    #4 - Echoes of the Mind (1)

    Season 5 Episode 1

    Aired 9/27/1984

    Magnum is caught between danger and intrigue as a frightened lady, who believes her life is in danger, involves him in a bizarre situation.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: N/A

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  • Echoes of the Mind (2)
    8.0/10(382)
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    #5 - Echoes of the Mind (2)

    Season 5 Episode 2

    Aired 10/4/1984

    Magnum finds himself torn between twin sisters as his involvement with one brings him into conflict with the other.

    Director: Georg Stanford Brown

    Writer: N/A

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  • Under World
    8.0/10(306)
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    #6 - Under World

    Season 5 Episode 5

    Aired 10/25/1984

    TC's chopper is about to touch down at the helipad when he loses control over it and plunges into the sea.

    Director: Ivan Dixon

    Writer: N/A

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  • All for One (2)
    8.0/10(297)
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    #7 - All for One (2)

    Season 5 Episode 16

    Aired 2/7/1985

    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.

    Director: Michael Vejar

    Writer: N/A

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  • Mac's Back
    7.8/10(344)
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    #8 - Mac's Back

    Season 5 Episode 3

    Aired 10/11/1984

    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.

    Director: Alan J. Levi

    Writer: N/A

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  • Blind Justice
    7.8/10(285)
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    #9 - Blind Justice

    Season 5 Episode 7

    Aired 11/8/1984

    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.

    Director: Russ Mayberry

    Writer: Chris Abbott

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  • Professor Jonathan Higgins
    7.7/10(300)
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    #10 - Professor Jonathan Higgins

    Season 5 Episode 13

    Aired 1/10/1985

    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.

    Director: Peter Medak

    Writer: Jay Huguely

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  • Compulsion
    7.7/10(286)
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    #11 - Compulsion

    Season 5 Episode 14

    Aired 1/24/1985

    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.

    Director: David Hemmings

    Writer: Chris Abbott

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  • Tran Quoc Jones
    7.6/10(304)
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    #12 - Tran Quoc Jones

    Season 5 Episode 9

    Aired 11/29/1984

    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.

    Director: Russ Mayberry

    Writer: Chris Abbott

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  • Luther Gillis: File #001
    7.6/10(292)
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    #13 - Luther Gillis: File #001

    Season 5 Episode 10

    Aired 12/6/1984

    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.

    Director: Ivan Dixon

    Writer: N/A

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  • Torah, Torah, Torah
    7.6/10(284)
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    #14 - Torah, Torah, Torah

    Season 5 Episode 21

    Aired 3/28/1985

    Danger and death are the overtones that result from a simple visit with Rabbi Asher Solomon when he arrives in Hawaii.

    Director: Leo Penn

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Legacy of Garwood Huddle
    7.5/10(318)
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    #15 - The Legacy of Garwood Huddle

    Season 5 Episode 4

    Aired 10/18/1984

    A reluctant Magnum agrees to help a friend of Higgins to find the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping of his grandchild.

    Director: Vincent McEveety

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Love-For-Sale Boat
    7.5/10(297)
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    #16 - The Love-For-Sale Boat

    Season 5 Episode 17

    Aired 2/14/1985

    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.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: J. Miyoko Hensley, Steven Hensley

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  • Ms. Jones
    7.5/10(284)
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    #17 - Ms. Jones

    Season 5 Episode 19

    Aired 3/7/1985

    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.

    Director: Ray Austin

    Writer: N/A

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  • Let Me Hear the Music
    7.4/10(307)
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    #18 - Let Me Hear the Music

    Season 5 Episode 18

    Aired 2/21/1985

    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.

    Director: David Hemmings

    Writer: Jay Huguely

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  • The Man from Marseilles
    7.4/10(267)
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    #19 - The Man from Marseilles

    Season 5 Episode 20

    Aired 3/14/1985

    A distinguished Frenchman contacts Magnum and asks for his help in supposedly finding a missing heir.

    Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

    Writer: N/A

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  • A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken
    7.4/10(270)
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    #20 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken

    Season 5 Episode 22

    Aired 4/4/1985

    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.

    Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

    Writer: Jay Huguely

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  • Fragments
    7.3/10(301)
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    #21 - Fragments

    Season 5 Episode 6

    Aired 11/1/1984

    Laura Griffin, a young woman with amazing psychic abilities, hires Magnum to investigate her own murder.

    Director: David Hemmings

    Writer: N/A

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  • Kiss of the Sabre
    6.9/10(310)
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    #22 - Kiss of the Sabre

    Season 5 Episode 11

    Aired 12/13/1984

    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.

    Director: John Patterson

    Writer: Jay Huguely

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Little Games" is the best rated episode of "Magnum, P.I." season 5. It scored 8.2/10 based on 334 votes. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/1985. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Murder 101".