The Worst Episodes of Magnum, P.I.
Every episode of Magnum, P.I. ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Magnum, P.I.!
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 a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
The worst episode of "Magnum, P.I." is "Three Minus Two", rated 5/10 from 1 user votes. It was directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Robert Van Scoyk. "Three Minus Two" aired on 4/1/1982 and is rated 0.0 point(s) lower than the second lowest rated, "Faith and Begorrah".
5.0/10 1 votes#1 - Three Minus Two
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/1/1982
A beautiful leading fashion designer hires Thomas to protect her when one of her two partners in their designer clothing company is murdered, and she suspects that the other partner may have been behind it. But the assignment proves tricky as several people had a strong enough motive for the murder, and someone is planning a revenge killing...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Robert Van Scoyk
5.0/10 1 votes#2 - Faith and Begorrah
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 4/28/1983
Thomas is hired to follow Angie, the wife of his client Clarence, to see if she's being unfaithful. After watching Clarence in the ring training for his next title bout, Thomas is extremely reluctant to be the bearer of bad tidings. Clarence assures him that he wants proof that Angie is cheating, so that the fight's multi-million dollar purse won't be part of the settlement negotiations in the divorce proceedings she initiated. While he's on Angie's trail, Thomas meets a priest at the airport who turns out to be Higgins's Irish half-brother Paddy. Higgins isn't thrilled to see his sibling, especially when he discovers that Paddy has followed Ffolkes, Higgins's former commanding officer, to Hawaii after suspecting Ffolkes of stealing a relic during a search of Paddy's church for I.R.A. weapons. Paddy intends to hold hostage a certain English relic he pilfered from the custody of Ffolkes and Higgins until the one from his church is returned until Thomas steps in to mediate the standoff a
Director: Virgil W. Vogel
Writer: Donald P. Bellisario
6.6/10 574 votes#3 - The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/29/1981
Higgins volunteers Magnum's services to guard a wealthy socialite's quarantined dog, after the attempted dognapping of the canine. ""Sir Algernon Farnsworth"" soon finds himself to be the most wanted dog in Hawaii, when his former owner, ageing gangster Victor DiGiorgio, has need to get him back. Magnum and an animal regulations officer are soon on the run with Algie from the would-be dognappers - and the fact that the officer seems to be scared of dogs doesn't exactly make matters any easier - but just why does DiGiorgio want the mutt back so badly?...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Frank Lupo, Allan Cole, Chris Bunch
6.9/10 297 votes#4 - Kiss of the Sabre
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 12/13/1984
Robin's friend and aspiring writer Betty comes to the estate for a quiet place to overcome her case of writer's block as she works on her mystery adventure novel. In short order, she convinces Higgins to hand over the keys to the Ferrari and to relocate Thomas to the main house while she works in the guest house, much to Thomas's extreme displeasure. After Thomas is forced by a lack of transportation to let her observe his investigation of a hit-and-run insurance case, she begins to churn out a story inspired by Thomas's case, featuring Thomas as dashing international investigator Sebastian Sabre, Higgins as his faithful servant Boris, T.C. as his pilot Winston, Rick as club owner Swift, and herself as Sabre's glamorous girlfriend Collette. Her wild imagination unwittingly breaks open Thomas's investigation and plunges them both into danger.
Director: John Patterson
Writer: Jay Huguely
7.0/10 382 votes#5 - Mad Buck Gibson
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1981
The former wife of infamous adventure author and thrill-seeker ""Mad Buck"" Gibson, hires Magnum to protect her ex-husband, who, despite being in later life, continues to live his life to the full as a hell-raiser. With Buck to stay as a guest of Robin Master's on the Estate, she wants Thomas to keep him out of danger until she has collected the back alimony money he owes, but he may not be around to pay it if he keeps on with his dangerous antics - something which is proven when Buck makes his entrance onto the scene in a dare-devil parachute stunt - injuring Higgins in the process! Thomas has his work cut out for him trying to ensure that the ageing adventure-seeker, determined not to let age get the better of him, doesn't come to any harm with his wild adventures, but as he does so, he discovers that the man is harbouring a worrying secret, and is seemingly set on a course of self destruction...
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 319 votes#6 - Jororo Farewell
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1984
The Crown Prince of Jororo accompanies his teammates when their baseball team comes to Hawaii to play T.C.'s team, and takes up residence on the estate as a safety precaution against the death threats he's received. Thomas strikes up a friendship with the boy, who is eager to escape the ever watchful eyes of his bodyguards and governess, and who has a nasty habit of escaping whenever the opportunity presents. When terrorists attempt to assassinate the young prince, Thomas goes all out to protect him from his father's enemies, who turn out to be closer than anyone imagined.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 1 votes#7 - Photo Play
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 4/10/1986
Photographer Sally Faraday, looking to hire Magnum, meets him in undesirable circumstances when she prangs the front of the Ferrari while being pursued in a car chase by two men, an incident which also leaves Agatha with a broken ankle. Sally wants Thomas' help when it seems that she is being followed since returning from France with some photographs for a new book, in which she seems to have caught something on film that someone has reason to not want to ever be published...
Director: Burt Brinckerhoff
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 599 votes#8 - Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/25/1980
It's the Christmas season, and against his better judgement, Magnum agrees to being hired by five young schoolgirls to find their teacher, who has seemingly gone missing after falling in love. While he's working on the case, Magnum manages to convince Higgins to let the young girls stay on the Masters Estate, but he's unaware that he's being deceived in a scam over a valuable painting recently purchased by Robin Masters...
Director: Bruce Seth Green
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.1/10 476 votes#9 - Adelaide
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/19/1981
A perky woman hires Magnum to protect 'Norman', who is facing kidnap unless she pays a ransom; but the case has some unexpected turns when Thomas finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized race-horse...
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 465 votes#10 - The Black Orchid
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/2/1981
Magnum has been hired by a woman to act out some of her rich, bored sister's fantasy dramas, concocted from 1930s Dashiell Hammett films. Although growing to enjoy the world of fantasy, Magnum has a hard time keeping up with the eccentric woman, and when he finds out that her husband is a wealthy, infamously jealous and bad-tempered business man, he decides to cut his loses and finish the arrangement. But he is just informing the girl that he is calling a halt to his participation, when they are attacked by real thugs, and soon after the girl is poisoned. With the woman still caught up in her world of fantasy, Magnum must thrust himself back into reality to find out just what is really going on...
Director: Ray Austin
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 403 votes#11 - The Taking of Dick McWilliams
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1981
Magnum is hired by an old friend's Japanese wife when her now wealthy husband is kidnapped and held for $500,000 ransom. She wants Thomas to deliver the ransom without her strict father, who has never approved of the marriage, finding out. But the further he gets involved, Thomas more and more comes to suspect that not all about the kidnapping is as it seems...
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Diane Frolov
7.1/10 385 votes#12 - Italian Ice
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/4/1982
After Magnum daringly rescues a beautiful young woman - the daughter of a friend of Robin's - from a mobster's villa in Sicily, the girl comes to stay on the Masters Estate. As a result of the rescue, the girl quickly develops a crush on Thomas, and her presence puts strain on his relationship with his new girlfriend, and at the same time, curious things begin to happen. Thomas assumes that the Italian mobsters whom the girl was in the clutches of, are behind the questionable occurrences – unaware that T.C. is innocently giving them tourist flights around the island – but the trouble is actually coming from another source...
Director: Gilbert M. Shilton
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 314 votes#13 - Smaller Than Life
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/13/1983
Thomas's attempt to impress a new girlfriend by taking hang-gliding lessons lands him in the hospital with a broken shoulder; Rick bails out his childhood friend Waldo Norris on a breaking and entering charge, but Waldo insists that he's an insurance claims investigator trying to prove that a valuable figurine that was reported as stolen is still in the possession of its owners; after they get shot at by a man ransacking Waldo's hotel room, Rick does a little digging and discovers that his friend has been lying to him, and has also stolen one of Higgins's sketches by conning him into thinking that he's a representative of the Smithsonian; Waldo then confesses that he's really a CIA operative and the figurine contains sensitive information; after some further checking, Rick is able to verify his story, and Higgins and T.C. agree to help Waldo and Rick -- that is, until Thomas does even more checking and discovers that Waldo was fired from the CIA years before; Waldo then claims that he
Director: Alan J. Levi
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 308 votes#14 - Paradise Blues
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1984
T.C. drags a reluctant Magnum along to the newly-opened club of an old flame – a beautiful jazz singer who he fell in love with in Vietnam – who has just moved to the islands. Thomas doesn't dislike the woman, but insists to T.C. that trouble always follows her wherever she goes – but T.C., still infatuated with the girl, refuses to listen. But sure enough, the woman is in trouble, searching for a man who owes her $18,000 and mixed up with Detroit drug dealers that are out to kill her...
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski
Writer: Chris Abbott
7.2/10 503 votes#15 - Missing in Action
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/5/1981
A new singer at the King Kamehameha Club who claims to have E.S.P. hires Magnum to find her childhood friend-come-fiancée Eric, a Marine who has been listed as Missing In Action since 1972, whom now she has started getting psychic visions of. As he investigates, Thomas discovers that Eric was a member of the top-secret 'Delta Section', and is refusing to come in from the cold until he exposes the division's activities to the press – but is being pursued by a Delta operative who is determined to bring Eric in and keep him quiet, at any cost...
Director: Robert Loggia
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 455 votes#16 - Billy Joe Bob
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/1981
It's the Wild West all over again when a hot-headed young Texan hires Magnum to find his sister.
Director: Ray Austin
Writer: Jeff Wilhelm
7.2/10 418 votes#17 - From Moscow to Maui
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/1981
A year after escaping from Moscow in a Mig-30 jet, a Soviet defector hires Magnum to help his girlfriend defect from an Olympic track team visiting Hawaii. She is under close watch of undercover K.G.B. agents, and Magnum, T.C., and Rick, with assistance from Higgins, must carry out their plan with Military precision to free her...
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Andrew Schneider
7.2/10 420 votes#18 - The Sixth Position
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/1981
As a favour to Robin Masters, Thomas finds himself acting as body-guard to a famous ballerina, part of a visiting troupe, after she has had several attempts made on her life. The dancer's stuboness sees sparks flying between the pair as Magnum tries to protect her - and T.C.'s previously undeclared love of ballet comes in useful, with him more than willing to help Thomas out on the case for once. Meanwhile, Rick accepts a job on Magnum's behalf, to investigate a woman's husband, but Thomas becomes suspicious that the timing of the job is rather too coincidentally and comes to suspect that he's been hired for another reason; and the whole situation sees him uncovering a case of international intrigue...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.2/10 382 votes#19 - One More Summer
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/11/1982
After the attempted murder of a former Naval Academy buddy, care-free quarterback Dorsey Bramlett, Thomas agrees to join the professional American Football team that Bramlett is now on in training, in order to be close at hand and protect his pal should another attempt be made on his life. The would-be killer is determined and persistent, but that's nothing compared to the strenuous poundings Thomas has to endure during training...
Director: Rod Daniel
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 377 votes#20 - Mr. White Death
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1982
Magnum, Rick and T.C. are at a wrestling match to try and collect some betting money owed to Rick, when they find themselves in a tight corner up against some heavies, but they are helped out of the tight spot by ageing, cheerful wrestler Earl. When their new acquaintance - a former boxing champion who now wrestles in down-and-out clubs - learns that Magnum is a Private Investigator, he asks him to find him son, whom he was forced to leave many years ago. Higgins finds that he indirectly knows Earl through an old war friend, and the pair strike up a friendship, but as Thomas searches for Earl's estranged son, it begins to seem that elements of Earl's story do not completely add up...
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 356 votes#21 - Legacy From a Friend
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/10/1983
When his friend Marcus is found dead on the beach the day after he's seen sporting an expensive new car he can't afford, Thomas suspects foul play in the demise of the former lifeguard and volleyball player. A young woman with an ambition to rise in the ranks of the police department joins Thomas in his investigation, and they uncover the married woman, the blackmail, and the fencing operation in the center of Marcus's secret life which led to his death.
Director: Stuart Margolin
Writer: N/A
7.2/10 311 votes#22 - The Return of Luther Gillis
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1984
St. Louis-based Private Investigator Luther Gillis returns to Hawaii, accompanied by his secretary Blanche, to attend the annual Private Investigators convention, where Luther has been informed he will receive an award. But while Luther and Magnum attend the convention, Higgins and Blanche are kidnapped from the Estate, and the two P.I.s find themselves having to join forces once again...
Director: John Llewellyn Moxey
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 461 votes#23 - All Roads Lead to Floyd
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/12/1981
Magnum is hired by a bubbly young woman to find her father, who disappeared over ten years ago, not to be heard from since until she recently received a postcard from him sent from Hawaii. But her father is involved in some rather shady business, and Magnum isn't the only one looking for him...
Director: N/A
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.3/10 412 votes#24 - Wave Goodbye
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1981
When an ex-surfing champion, who was a friend of Magnum, Rick, and T.C.'s, is found dead on the beach, Magnum becomes concerned that the Police are not treating the case importantly enough and investigates the suspicious death for himself. During the course of his investigations, a local small-time drug supplier and an emotionally disturbed Vietnam veteran both stand out as prime suspects, but Thomas suspects that the culprit is someone else...
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 368 votes#25 - The Elmo Ziller Story
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/18/1982
Thomas is certain that Higgins is pulling some kind of prank when he supposedly meets Higgins' illegitimate half-brother Elmo Ziller, a guitar-plucking, 10-gallon-hat wearing Texan rodeo owner. Elmo was rumoured to have been killed in Texas recently, but with him seemingly still alive, his daughter hires Magnum to protect what is supposedly Elmo from the killers while his rodeo show is in Honolulu. Even though he is persuaded to take the case, Thomas is still certain that Higgins and Elmo are one and the same...
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: N/A