Magnum P.i. [repack]

Inside: diesel, shadow, and Boyd. He was sitting on a crate of frozen mahi-mahi, holding a glass of something that wasn’t juice. “You Magnum?” “Depends. Are you worth finding?” He laughed. It was the laugh of a man who’d spent his last good idea three drinks ago. “Tell Celeste I’m dead.” “You don’t look dead.” “That’s the con, isn’t it?”

The Ferrari didn’t like the rain. Neither did my hair, but one of us had a choice about it. I slid across the hood—red as a Honolulu sunset, wet as a drowned mongoose—and dropped into the driver’s seat. The leather sighed. So did I. Magnum P.I.

In 2018, CBS launched a modern reboot starring Jay Hernandez as a updated version of Thomas Magnum. While it maintained the core premise of a veteran-turned-P.I. in Hawaii, it introduced significant changes, such as reimagining Juliet Higgins (played by Perdita Weeks) as a female former MI6 agent and eventual business partner. Inside: diesel, shadow, and Boyd

: An ex-Navy SEAL who resigned his commission to become a private investigator. He lived in the guest house of a luxurious estate known as "Robin's Nest," owned by the mysterious author Robin Masters. Are you worth finding

TC was the muscle and the pilot. A Vietnam chopper pilot running a charter service called "Island Hoppers," TC grounded the show. He was the dad of the group, constantly exasperated by Magnum’s schemes but always willing to fly into machine-gun fire to save him. "TC, get the chopper!" remains a staple shout-out in pop culture.

When CBS first aired Magnum P.I. on December 11, 1980, it was an instant hit, but its success was hardly accidental. The creators, Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, crafted a premise that was part wish-fulfillment and part post-Vietnam commentary.