Magnum, P.I.: Season 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Magnum, P.I. Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Echoes of the Mind (1)
Sep 27, 1984
Magnum is caught between danger and intrigue as a frightened lady, who believes her life is in danger, involves him in a bizarre situation.
Echoes of the Mind (2)
Oct 4, 1984
Magnum finds himself torn between twin sisters as his involvement with one brings him into conflict with the other.
Mac's Back
Oct 11, 1984
Magnum seems to be lost between reality and fantasy, past and present, when he is convinced that he has seen an old friend, Mac, very much alive, walking the streets of Honolulu.
The Legacy of Garwood Huddle
Oct 18, 1984
A reluctant Magnum agrees to help a friend of Higgins to find the person or persons responsible for the kidnapping of his grandchild.
Under World
Oct 25, 1984
TC's chopper is about to touch down at the helipad when he loses control over it and plunges into the sea.
Fragments
Nov 1, 1984
Laura Griffin, a young woman with amazing psychic abilities, hires Magnum to investigate her own murder.
Blind Justice
Nov 8, 1984
Magnum is working on a case for assistant D.A. Carol and is forced to face a difficult dilemma concerning the guilt of innocence of the suspected murdered who is guilty of another
Murder 101
Nov 15, 1984
Magnum is very enthusiastic about his new project, teaching a class at the University about private investigation. The class is small but interest is great about everyone helps a s
Tran Quoc Jones
Nov 29, 1984
Magnum tries to help a young Amerasian boy find his long lost G.I. father and ends up in the middle of political corruption and mob intrigue.
Luther Gillis: File #001
Dec 6, 1984
While Magnum is preoccupied with a very difficult case, help arrives just in time in the person of Luther Gillis, the hard-nosed private eye from St. Louis.
Kiss of the Sabre
Dec 13, 1984
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 l
Little Games
Jan 3, 1985
A very attractive security expert brings out the romantic in Magnum when she is hired to help protect Robin's Nest during a jewelry exhibit worth millions of dollars.
Professor Jonathan Higgins
Jan 10, 1985
Higgins is very pleased with the prospect of his distant cousin's arrival. She is to marry the heir of an old Hawaiian family but turns out to be a true punk rocker.
Compulsion
Jan 24, 1985
Magnum investigates a case which involves his friend Carol who works for the D.A. and who is about to testify against a man sent to prison by her father while Higgins struggles wit
All for One (1)
Jan 31, 1985
Magnum and his friends, including Higgins, help a former Vietnam buddy to find a mutual friend being held prisoner in Cambodia.
All for One (2)
Feb 7, 1985
While in Cambodia on a rescue mission of an old Army buddy, Magnum, Higgins, Rick and TC realize that their lives are on the line because of great danger and deceit.
The Love-For-Sale Boat
Feb 14, 1985
Rick is the target of yet another of Mac's schemes but this time Mac goes too far, endangering everyone's life with his fantastic plan.
Let Me Hear the Music
Feb 21, 1985
Lacy Fletcher seeks Magnum's help to unearth five songs which has been written by the legendary George Lee Jessup for the woman he loves before he died 25 years ago.
Ms. Jones
Mar 7, 1985
After Magnum has just been put through the wringer at the Hall of Records, he is very reluctant but finally agrees to help one of the clerks, a woman named Ms. Jones, who is lookin
The Man from Marseilles
Mar 14, 1985
A distinguished Frenchman contacts Magnum and asks for his help in supposedly finding a missing heir.
Torah, Torah, Torah
Mar 28, 1985
Danger and death are the overtones that result from a simple visit with Rabbi Asher Solomon when he arrives in Hawaii.
A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken
Apr 4, 1985
Magnum goes undercover and into a prison farm to find Darryl Jacobs who is the last person and former boyfriend of a missing young girl.