Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii
- Episode aired Dec 11, 1980
- Not Rated
- 46m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
1.4K
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Magnum's old Navy buddy is dead and the Navy says he was a cocaine smuggler. Magnum sets out to prove his buddy was framed.Magnum's old Navy buddy is dead and the Navy says he was a cocaine smuggler. Magnum sets out to prove his buddy was framed.Magnum's old Navy buddy is dead and the Navy says he was a cocaine smuggler. Magnum sets out to prove his buddy was framed.
W.K. Stratton
- Ensign Healy
- (as W. K. Stratton)
Lillian Müller
- Greta
- (as Yuliis Ruval)
Jeff MacKay
- Ski
- (as Jeff Mackay)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaUsed the same sound stage in Hawaii as Hawaii Five-O (1968).
- GoofsAfter Magnum "steals" the Ferrari, he slides the Targa roof back then takes off. With no cutaway, the roof is nowhere to bee seen, this kind of roof has to be lifted off then put vertically behind the seats. There had to be 1 or 2 people to quickly take it away.
- Quotes
Jonathan Quayle Higgins III: [to Magnum, as he is fixing Higgins a drink] Don't ruin my whiskey with ice. I'm not a bloody American!
- Crazy creditsFamed character actor Branscombe Richmond is credited in this episode as "Moki" yet Moki never appears on screen. He is credited in both part one and part two. He later shows up in three more episodes, but strangely this appearance must have ended up on the cutting room floor.
- Alternate versionsThis pilot was later edited into two parts for syndication. The episode was renamed "Don't Eat The Snow in Hawaii", and deletes the show's opening and closing themes and replaces it with the familar 1981-88 opening credit music.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fan des années 80: 1981 #2 (2010)
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I eat the snow
Dont Eat the Snow is as good as it gets. Where have all the good ideas for television gone? Instead of watching next week's Friends episode try to track down a copy of this movie. If you see it you will end up taping Magnum every day from the A&E channel.
Magnum PI as a series was not as good as it could have been but when all totaled up, it served up about 40 or 50 great episodes that were as dramatic and moving as anything yet done on the subject of the Vietnam war vets and the American life lived once at home. This is the story of aging warriors dealing with a life out of the war setting. A bit timid and unprepared for real civilian life, these four guys settle in Hawaii to be surrounded by jungle fauna and short black-haired Asian people, the war not yet fully out of the rear view mirror.
So when I say that the series was not as good as it could have been I mean to say that this 2-hour pilot movie was so good, set such a high standard that the series had no other chance but to let down. The 2-hour pace, the big budget look and sound of "Snow..." is quite out of the ordinary for any of the three decades I have been taking in TV-movies.
High Art Baby....
Magnum PI as a series was not as good as it could have been but when all totaled up, it served up about 40 or 50 great episodes that were as dramatic and moving as anything yet done on the subject of the Vietnam war vets and the American life lived once at home. This is the story of aging warriors dealing with a life out of the war setting. A bit timid and unprepared for real civilian life, these four guys settle in Hawaii to be surrounded by jungle fauna and short black-haired Asian people, the war not yet fully out of the rear view mirror.
So when I say that the series was not as good as it could have been I mean to say that this 2-hour pilot movie was so good, set such a high standard that the series had no other chance but to let down. The 2-hour pace, the big budget look and sound of "Snow..." is quite out of the ordinary for any of the three decades I have been taking in TV-movies.
High Art Baby....
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- Nov 18, 2001
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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