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Magnum P.I.: The Complete Seventh Season

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Magnum P.I. is my favorite TV show of all time. It ran for 8 seasons. Season 7 contains some of the very best episodes of the series. Here are the episodes:

L.A. - While in Los Angeles to do some work for Robin Masters, Magnum meets Dana Delany. While some fans of the series love this episode, it's never been high on my list. I don't hate it either, but I don't see much special about it. This episode is two hours long.

One Picture is Worth - Magnum protects a woman who was a witness to a bank robbery/murder. There's a cliché scene where Magnum and the woman are hiding in a remote shack, and the bad guys are outside shooting at them, and the shack gets set on fire.

Straight and Narrow - A woman whom Magnum had met in the season 6 episode "The Hotel Dick" now hires Magnum to find her missing sister.

A.A.P.I. - Magnum tries to solve the murder of a famous French detective, who was poisoned at a convention of private investigators. There are also some dream sequences along the lines of 1940s film noir.

Death and Taxes - Magnum keeps getting phone calls which are either from a prankster, or from a crazy serial killer. This is one of the better episodes of this season.

Little Girl Who - This episode is one of the reasons why season 7 is a must own for fans of the series. This is a continuation of the wonderful "Memories Are Forever" from season 2. Just like that episode, this one is emotional, powerful, well written, well acted, and a real tear jerker.

Paper War - This is another one of the gems from this season. In one of the funniest episodes of the series, Magnum and Higgins repeatedly up the ante in an ever escalating series of practical jokes against each other. Magnum's mentioning of having an uncle named Otis who worked as an elevator operator is a joke that not everyone will get, but the point of the joke is that there is a real life elevator company named Otis. This is one of the best episodes of the series.

Novel Connection - This is the first episode of a two part crossover with "Murder She Wrote." I really enjoy the scenes with Angela Lansbury, whose acting performances are always a joy to watch. But the other guest actors are nowhere nearly as interesting.

Kapu - After being shot, Magnum wakes up on a small island and is taken care of by the natives.

Missing Melody - After 7 seasons, the writers of the show decided that T.C. was divorced and has two children. T.C.'s daughter gets kidnapped. I think the writers must have been pretty desperate for ideas when they wrote this one.

Death of the Flowers - Magnum tries to help his friend Carol to find out if a judge is taking bribes.

Autumn Warrior - Higgins takes a bunch of teenage juvenile delinquent brats on a survivalist trip into the wilderness.

Murder by Night - This is a nice homage to 1940s film noir.

On the Fly - This time it's T.C.'s turn to get shot.

Solo Flight - While mountain climbing alone, Magnum gets bitten by a centipede, and ends up trapped under the wreckage of an old World War II fighter plane. Magnum has lots of flashbacks, and we see many clips from previous episodes. The guy who played Mr. Roper on "Three's Company" also appears.

Forty - Magnum celebrates his 40th birthday, and falls in love with a reporter.

Laura - Frank Sinatra gives an absolutely wonderful performance - not as a singer, but as a retired police officer. I won't spoil the plot for you. This is a very good episode

Out of Sync - Dana Delaney comes to Hawaii to play the same character that she had played earlier this season.

The Aunt Who Came to Dinner - Magnum's aunt comes to visit. Apparently she has Alzheimer's disease. This is about as interesting as those ABC Afterschool Specials.

The People vs. Orville Wright - Rick confesses to having committed murder. This is a pretty good episode. But the most important thing is that the ending sets up the beginning of the next episode.

Limbo - When it originally aired, this was to be the last episode of the series. This is an extremely moving, emotional episode. I won't spoil the plot for you. I will say that this episode is absolutely essential viewing for fans of the series - if you only watch one episode form season 7, I recommend that it be this one. The song playing throughout much of the episode is "Looking For Space" by John Denver from his 1975 album "Windsong." After this episode aired, they decided to do one more season.

On a personal note, and agreeing with the other reviewers this is the one I've been waiting for, Magnum Pi's seventh season is I would say the best.

Most magnum pi fans would agree that seasons one, two and three were great, the show lost its way a little with seasons four, five and six, but then picked up again brilliantly with seasons seven and eight.

Season seven has no doubt the most memorable episodes of the entire series, ask any fan and just to name a few they would immediatly shout out episodes such as 'death and taxes', 'paper war', 'little girl who' and the outstanding season finale 'Limbo'.

Any person who is on the fence with this one should just purchase as its fantastic entertainment!

Definitely one of the best seasons if not THE BEST for the simple fact that it contains the episode "Paper War". This is the episode where Higgins and Magnum have an all out prank war, truly a fun episode. Also it contains the episode "Laura" with Sinatra himself!

This was a really good season with several touching and great episodes. I loved this show as a kid, but never saw many of the episodes in this season. The one feeling I had was there were several aspects of the storyline that the show carried through all season that were followed that was comforting and familiar. Some of the new additions were interesting as well.

My complaint is up until the last few episodes you really had no idea this was supposed to be the last season. It didn't wrap up any of the story arcs and many of the new arcs were left hanging. In the finale "Limbo," it felt like a decent season finale cliff hanger, but I have to say if they ended the series on that note I would be really angry.

I have no idea how the shortened season 8 will be, but I'm thankful they didn't end the series like this. The title "Limbo," is appropriate because it left all these arcs open and the fan in limbo, which is a crappy place to be considering there hasn't been any sort of Magnum reunion, movie, or anything since the show closed in the late 80's.

I know I'm not alone in saying this, that Magnum P.I. was my all time favorite television series. As with any T.V. show, not every episode can be brilliant, but the character of Thomas Magnum was so likeable, you could forgive some of the poor plots. The seventh season was supposed to be the last, as Tom Selleck was tired of doing it ( it takes a lot out of you, doing these action shows ), but he was talked into doing one more season ( #8 )AFTER THE SERIES ENDED. I often think it would have been wiser to have left it with the end of the 7th season. The ( then ) final episode so caught me by surprise that I got a little more than emotional over it, I'm embarrased to say. The original ending was one of the all time heart rending endings to any television series.

As others have mentioned, this is the best season of Magnum, P.I., and the DVD's do not disappoint. The Genesis songs "Tonight, Tonight, Tonight" and "Mama" are indeed featured in their respective episodes ("Laura" and "Death and Taxes"), and the poignant John Denver song from the excellent season finale is also intact, no music replacement in sight. Plus the "Murder, She Wrote" cross-over episode is featured as well.
With great guest stars including Dana Delaney and Frank Sinatra, great stories, laughs, action and lots of drama, any fan of Magnum or detective dramas in general will enjoy this set.

Magnum was a classic and this season is one of the best. Some great episodes including the famous ones with Dana Delaney. Not to be missed if you are a Magnum fan. I pity the fool that doesn't get this set.

The 7th season of Magnum PI follows the pattern of the previous DVD releases - high quality material released in a mediocre package. There are 5 single sided DVDs in the tri-fold arrangement with 2 DVDs on each of 2 folds and 1 on the remaining fold. There is no evidence that any restoration was done on the episodes but fortunately they are recent enough not to require much. Extras are limited to an "America's Top Sleuths" feature and a short "Inside the Ultimate Crime Crossover" segment. The episodes are not broken up into scenes.

I liked season 7 better than season 6. There were fewer mediocre episodes and more real jewels. Here are some good and a few bad impressions.

The 2 hour opening episode "L.A.", although by no means poor, really doesn't hold up when compared to the classic 2 parters of previous seasons. Inexplicably, this episode deleted a minute long chase scene. It isn't glaringly obvious but I got suspicious when a "girl in hot tub" was mentioned in the credits but was not on the DVD.

The crossover with Murder, She Wrote is indeed an actual crossover. Both casts appear across both parts in a single story. This is in contrast to the earlier Simon and Simon "crossover" where there are essentially two separate stories and the Magnum cast's appearances on Simon and Simon is merely gratuitous.

Frank Sinatra's last substantial acting role in the episode "Laura" is outstanding. He was a superb actor.

The worst, but by no means terrible, episode was "A.A.P.I.".

"Missing Melody" gets trashed because of the out of the blue introduction of T.C.'s ex-wife and children. I always thought this was an unfair criticism. TV shows have to resort to this sort of thing and it is really no worse than finding out that Magnum was once married. If you can get past this, the episode holds up fine.

I normally hate the supernatural elements that crept into certain Magnum episodes but "Limbo" gets a pass from me. Since it was intended to be a series finale it couldn't really change the tone of the show for the worst. Besides, it was all pulled off superbly. A very touching episode only slightly spoiled by reediting to leave room for Magnum pulling through.

Highly recommended to Magnum fans. For everyone else, start with season 1 and work your way forward.

I love Magnum, when the show first came out, when the first season was telivised my wednesday night was all planned. daddy took the kid,s out to a movie and ice cream and I had champagne and a bubble bath, a win win for everybody. well the kid,s have kid,s no more champagne but magnun is just a big sexy hunk no matter what age you watch his show.Just love all the season's nothing come's close,< except Rockford.>Thank,s for the memory amazon who say's you can,t go home again.

I have always been a Tom Selleck fan, so Magnum PI was one of my favorite shows when I was younger. Was wonderful to see the whole "Magnum gang" again. Ah, the memories....