Other notable supporting actors include Fritz Weaver (Captain Cooly). She's an engaging performer who should have had return appearances on Magnum. Pamela Susan Shoop does a fine job playing the slain Dan Cook's sister, particularly in her many scenes with Selleck. It must have been an in-between time, pop culturally speaking. Whatever the case, it's strange seeing disco being popular in 1980. It's the death of the Seventies and the birth of the Eighties, for better or worse. They wisely chose to jettison the "Snow Palace" disco angle and move to the friendlier and more upscale King Kamehameha Club. "Snow" must have been filmed in early 1980 but disco was already dead, at least on the pop music charts, since mid 1979. He does so with what I believe is an Ingram MAC-10 which Rick uses to waste the thug played Peter Kalua. Rick runs a sleazy disco but dresses and acts like Casablanca-era Humphrey Bogart-except he is the first member of the MPI main cast to take a life. Rick and T.C., like Higgins, remain in their basic role playing here which establishes who they are and what they do. ribbing Magnum about their being on a "mission" instead of a case is pretty funny stuff. Selleck and Mosley are tremendous fun to watch. Their helicopter banter while searching for the wreck is one I'd previously taken for granted. Higgins smirks and laughs more than usual and some of his dialogue is un-Higgins like (smacking the riding crop on the second-story metal railing for example) but they're not dramatically different from the Jonathan Quail Higgins we will come to know and love. Higgins is immediately said NOT to be Robin Masters but rather "the majordomo who sort of runs the place." Of the four principal characters, Higgins would take the longest to "find himself" though even those tweaks are minor. what it is are all present in Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii. The series debut is a ninety-minute movie and is the only long-running tv series which captured its essence from the very start: TM's narration, his character background with the US Navy, his Vietnam experience, his "beach bum" persona and nearly every other identifying concept that made Magnum, P.I. Long-winded and random-observations post alert. I rated Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii a 10
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