The Worst Episodes of Magnum, P.I.

A beautiful fashion designer who has risen to the top of her profession hires Magnum to protect her when one of her two partners in a clothing firm is murdered.

Director: Sidney Hayers

Writer: Robert Van Scoyk

Higgins' half brother, an Irish Catholic priest from Northern Ireland, arrives in Hawaii to confront a British officer who he claims stole an ancient artifact from his church.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel

Writer: Donald P. Bellisario

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, aging gangster Victor DiGiorgio, needs to get him back.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Frank Lupo, Allan Cole, Chris Bunch

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

Mad Buck Gibson, an old friend of Robin Masters and a legend in his own time for his earthy novels and macho existence, arrives in Hawaii and it becomes Magnum's lot to protect the hell-raiser from himself.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Robert Hamilton

Magnum befriends the young Price of Jororo who is the target of terrorists.

Director: Ivan Dixon

Writer: N/A

Magnum's encounter with a photographer uncovers an embezzler long thought dead.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff

Writer: N/A

It's the Christmas season, and against his better judgment, 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

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 Magnum finds that her uncle is an old Vietnam comrade who is against him being hired, and that Norman is none other than a prized racehorse.

Director: Lawrence Doheny

Writer: Robert Hamilton

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 losses and end 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: Robert Hamilton

When her wealthy American husband is kidnapped and held for an exorbitant ransom, a beautiful Japanese woman seeks Magnum's help.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Diane Frolov

A simple request to act as a bodyguard for a world famous ballerina leads to a puzzling international situation for Magnum.

Director: Sidney Hayers

Writer: Babs Greyhosky

When Magnum flies to Sicily, at the request of Robin Masters, to rescue a beautiful damsel in distress, he proves that chivalry is alive and well.

Director: Gilbert M. Shilton

Writer: N/A

Magnum is pleased to see his friend, Marcus, driving a new expensive sports car but the pleasure turns to dismay when Marcus' battered body is discovered in the surf.

Director: Stuart Margolin

Writer: N/A

Magnum and Rick discover that trouble comes in all shapes and sizes.

Director: Alan J. Levi

Writer: N/A

An old friend from Magnum and TC's Vietnam days turns up in Hawaii asking for their help.

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Writer: Chris Abbott

Although Eric Tobin was reported missing in action over eight years ago, his fiancee, Laura Fraser, endowed with ESP, doesn't believe it. Arriving in Hawaii, where she occasionally has flashes involving Eric, Laura goes to work for Rick at the King Kamehameha Club as a singer. Magnum befriends her and in finding out the truth about Tobin, discovers that he was a highly trained and effective government agent working under the control of a man known only as Delta One. Magnum's search brings him into opposition with the sensitive intelligence organization, resulting in a dramatic preordained conclusion.

Director: Robert Loggia

Writer: Craig Buck

The code of the West is resurrected when a hot-headed young Texan hires Magnum to find his former cheerleader sister.

Director: Ray Austin

Writer: Jeff Wilhelm

Magnum plays Cupid's helper when he becomes involved with a former Russian pilot who has defected and a member of the Soviet track team in Hawaii for an exhibition match, plus various members of the dreaded KGB.

Director: Michael Vejar

Writer: Andrew Schneider

As a favor to his old friend, quarterback Dorsey Bramlett, Magnum joins the pro football team in training so he can better protect his old Academy buddy.

Director: Rod Daniel

Writer: N/A

When Magnum encounters a guitar-playing, ten gallon hat wearer with a thick Texas drawl, who looks exactly like Higgins, he thinks he is being set up for a rip roaring gag.

Director: Michael Vejar

Writer: N/A

Earl Gianelli, an aged wrestler who hires Magnum to find his long lost son, puts the private investigator on a bloody trail of revenge.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

Magnum finds himself working with anachronistic gumshoe Luther Gillis again after someone kidnaps Higgins and Luther's secretary.

Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Writer: N/A

Magnum returns home after 13 years to attend his beloved grandfather's funeral.

Director: Harry Harris

Writer: Chris Abbott

A bubbly young woman hires Magnum to find her father who, after being missing for over ten years, had sent her a postcard from Hawaii. But her father is involved in some rather shady business, and Magnum isn't the only one looking for him.

Director: Ron Satlof

Writer: Babs Greyhosky, Rogers Turrentine