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

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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 12 - Little Games
    8.2/10(377 votes)

    S5:E12

    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:Deborah Pratt

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  2. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 15 - All for One (1)
    8.2/10(353 votes)

    S5:E15

    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:Reuben Leder

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  3. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 2 - Echoes of the Mind (2)
    8.1/10(433 votes)

    S5:E2

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

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Donald P. Bellisario

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  4. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 5 - Under World
    8.1/10(348 votes)

    S5:E5

    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:Reuben Leder

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  5. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 8 - Murder 101
    8.1/10(366 votes)

    S5:E8

    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:Rogers Turrentine

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  6. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 1 - Echoes of the Mind (1)
    8.0/10(449 votes)

    S5:E1

    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:Donald P. Bellisario

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  7. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 16 - All for One (2)
    8.0/10(336 votes)

    S5:E16

    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:Reuben Leder

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  8. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 3 - Mac's Back
    7.8/10(392 votes)

    S5:E3

    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:Donald P. Bellisario

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  9. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 7 - Blind Justice
    7.8/10(326 votes)

    S5:E7

    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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  10. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 13 - Professor Jonathan Higgins
    7.7/10(341 votes)

    S5:E13

    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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  11. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 4 - The Legacy of Garwood Huddle
    7.6/10(359 votes)

    S5:E4

    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:Richard Yalem

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  12. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 9 - Tran Quoc Jones
    7.6/10(341 votes)

    S5:E9

    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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  13. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 10 - Luther Gillis: File #001
    7.6/10(328 votes)

    S5:E10

    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:Reuben Leder

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  14. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 14 - Compulsion
    7.6/10(325 votes)

    S5:E14

    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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  15. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 21 - Torah, Torah, Torah
    7.6/10(323 votes)

    S5:E21

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

    Director:Leo Penn
    Writers:Martin Sage, Sybil Adelman

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  16. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 19 - Ms. Jones
    7.5/10(324 votes)

    S5:E19

    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:Phil Combest

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  17. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 17 - The Love-For-Sale Boat
    7.4/10(333 votes)

    S5:E17

    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
    Writers:J. Miyoko Hensley, Steven Hensley

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  18. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 18 - Let Me Hear the Music
    7.4/10(341 votes)

    S5:E18

    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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  19. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 20 - The Man from Marseilles
    7.4/10(300 votes)

    S5:E20

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

    Director:John Llewellyn Moxey
    Writer:Reuben Leder

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  20. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 22 - A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken
    7.4/10(302 votes)

    S5:E22

    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
    Writers:Jay Huguely, Joe Gores

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  21. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 6 - Fragments
    7.3/10(346 votes)

    S5:E6

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

    Director:David Hemmings
    Writer:Nick Thiel

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  22. Magnum, P.I. Season 5 Episode 11 - Kiss of the Sabre
    6.8/10(346 votes)

    S5:E11

    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 377 votes. Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Deborah Pratt, it aired on 1/3/1985. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "All for One (1)".