Magnum, P.I.
The Aunt Who Came to Dinner
Season 7, Episode 20 · Aired 1987-03-18
Synopsis
Magnum's private investigator license has expired, and he has the frustrating task of trying to renew it. But he has a welcome surprise when his aunt, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Phoebe Sullivan, pays an unexpected visit to Hawaii from New York. The rather eccentric authoress has just finished writing a new play, but now is convinced that someone is trying to kill her for it, and that they have trailed her to the Islands.
In the series
This episode is part of Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988) on CBS.
Ferrari daydreams and Vietnam ghosts under the Hawaiian sun.
Key cast
- Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum
- John Hillerman as Jonathan Quayle Higgins III
- Roger E. Mosley as Theodore "T.C." Calvin
- Larry Manetti as Orville "Rick" Wright