Magnum P.I. - The Complete Fourth Season | 
| Directors: Robert Totten, Ray Danton, Georg Stanford Brown, John C. Flinn Iii, Harry Falk
Actor: Tom Selleck
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 2640
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 1019 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.4 x 1
MPN: MCAD29300D
UPC: 025192930027
EAN: 0025192930027
ASIN: B000E5KQMI
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 1980
Release Date: April 4, 2006
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Product Description
TOM SELLECK RETURNS AS THOMAS MAGNUM, TELEVISION'S MOST CHARISMATIC DETECTIVE, IN THE COMPLETE FOURTH SEASON OF MAGNUM P.I.
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A mid-life crisis that lasted for 8 seasons... June 26, 2009
Jim Davis (Maryland Heights, MO USA)
Magnum, PI is in its essentials about a man who sees the oncoming train of approaching middle age and flees the station. He is enabled in this by landing a dream "job" which doesn't really entail him having to work unless he really wants to. His friends indulge him and his fellow estate resident despairs of him.
Magnum, PI had a lot going for it - likable characters (a must for any show I watch), exotic locale, good writing, and on screen talent that could make it all work. It's a hard show to pigeonhole - it can swing from comedy to action to drama to tragedy - sometimes in the same episode.
The centerpiece of the show is the relationship between Magnum and Higgins - Higgins obviously likes Magnum but just can't bring himself to approve of Magnum's infuriating irresponsibility. Magnum for his part likes Higgins but just can't understand why he worries about things Magnum considers unimportant. The development of this relationship is a joy to watch. The relationship between Magnum and his much put upon friends Rick and TC is much more longstanding and stable.
Season 4 offers 21 episodes and 1 bonus episode from season 5. All that is not excellent is very good. There is nary a loser in the bunch - my least favorite is "Jororo Farewell".
I dock this collection a single star based on production values. Double sided DVDs are a crime against nature although mine played fine with only occasional artifacting. There has also been a slip in value as there are no on disc episode summaries, original air dates, or scene selections as there were for previous seasons. In addition to the season 5 bonus episode already mentioned there is a "The Great '80s TV Flashback" feature describing other (presumably Universal) TV shows available on DVD.
If you're new to Magnum starting at season 1 would be advisable since there is a certain amount of continuity that carries forward but nothing that would prevent you from enjoying this season. If you've already worked your way through seasons 1, 2, and 3 this is more of the same great stuff. Enjoy!
 Gotta have it! May 18, 2009
Craig J. Taylor (Vancouver, WA USA)
I'm a 50 yr old male, happily married, couple of late teen boys...and I just have a blast watching these DVDs...I have all of them now. I'm quite an admirer of Mr. Selleck, due to his independent conservative beliefs as well as his views on the 2nd Ammendment. I also gained GREAT respect for him for his handling of the Rosie O. attack he endured! I also find his cowboy movies are especially terrific examples of his acting ability, great story telling there. Never payed much attention to Magnum PI in the 80's when on TV, but now with TODAY's TV which is...well... total garbage, this show is a breath of fresh air. So I thought I'd buy the first season of Magnum, as I recalled it was a pretty good show, plus it has Selleck. What a great decision. The whole cast and the way they interact is like a tight family, funny, strong and loyal ties that bind, and is great fun to watch. You may find that a few episodes (here & there in season 4, 5, 6) are pretty simple (poorly written), BUT the actors tried to work with it and it's still the Magnum PI family. Buy it, enjoy it and turn OFF modern TV! It'll be good for you and yours, I promise ya ~
Magnum, The Man May 11, 2009
Steven Hudson
Our growing love affair with Thomas Sullivan, AKA, MAGNUM, has grown over the years and this wonderfully assembled set of DVD ,allow each of us to continue loving the series MAGNUM PI. I have had no real issues with any of the DVD's by way of skipping, or not playing due to defects. Just last week I started Season 5, and man what a rush. The cast and crew in my opinion set the bar pretty high, with superb writing, directing and acting. Each day that I'm allowed to return to Hawaii and crack the hot case with Tom, it takes me back to a time where you knew who the good guys were, black was still black and white was white, none of this grey business. I would certainly recommend this DVD series to anyone for their enjoyment of a time when television series had class.
"I made it Dad... why didn't you?" January 13, 2009
BPDNEDCID (East Coast, United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
OK, so I am not the biggest Magnum P.I. fan to ever watch the show. Sure, I liked it when it was on... but come 1984, my interests shifted over to Miami Vice: The Complete Series and they never returned. Oh I still watched.. but to be completely honest, I never really cared that much if the show was on or not.
But...
When the Season Four premier episode entitled HOME FROM THE SEA first aired on 29 September 1983, I - like many other viewers - was treated to one of the most moving episodes of the entire Magnum P.I. series. I must admit that I only ever saw that episode one time... on the day it first aired... but it stuck with me for over twenty-three years. HOME FROM THE SEA was the only episode from the entire series that I vividly remembered for all of that time. It was the one episode that I told anyone and everyone about. It was the one episode that I tried and tried to catch when the show went into syndication. I never found it. So when Universal started releasing the series on DVD, I searched and I waited.
I purchased this boxed set FOR THAT EPISODE AND THAT EPISODE ONLY. And that episode alone warrants the five star rating. I cannot stress enough the impact this one show had on my psyche. I simply never stopped thinking about it. Just watch it and you will understand. I cried and so did my Wife.
I am sure that I will enjoy watching the rest of Season Four, and that may even cause me to want to buy some of the other Seasons. But all I really wanted is HOME FROM THE SEA, and now I have it. It only took twenty-three years for me to find it. I doubt if even Thomas Magnum could tread water for that long. If you are even remotely a Magnum P.I. fan, this is the Season you want because this is the Season with HOME FROM THE SEA.
From www.tv.com:
"It's the 4th of July, and Higgins is playing in a polo match, T.C. is taking his baseball team to a professional game, Rick is out with his latest girlfriend on the King Kamehameha II yacht, and Thomas is observing his annual Independence Day tradition of a solitary day at sea -- until his surf ski is capsized in the wake of a recklessly driven speedboat and set adrift. Carried off further and further away from land by the powerful Molokai Channel, Thomas relies on childhood memories of his father's training him to tread water to keep himself afloat as he struggles desperately to stay above water and fend off a menacing shark. As the hours pass, Higgins, T.C. and Rick each have a sixth sense that Thomas is in trouble, and they team up to rescue him. Thomas approaches the twenty-four hour mark in the water recalling his wedding to Michelle and his father's burial -- on July 4, 1951 -- as Higgins scoops him out of the ocean, with T.C. in his helicopter overhead and Rick on the yacht nearby."
 A Less Than Exceptional Season November 24, 2008
Taheen Lopez (United States- San Diego, CA)
Magnum's 1983-84 Season is only a so-so season, because it wasn't as good as the first 3 seasons of Magnum, PI and it seemed almost as if they were trying to make it too much like the 3rd Season of Magnum, because the action seemed to have started getting a less & less interesting for a while until Magnum hit it's 6th Season on CBS.
It was interesting seeing
-Robert Pine in the "Dad" episode after his days as the grumpy arrogant Sgt. Getraer on CHiPs.
-Gretchen Corbett in "The Look" episode after her co-starring days as Rockford's foxy attorney girlfriend(Beth Davenport) on THE ROCKFORD FILES
-Shannen Doherty before her co-starring days as the sleazy bad girl(Brenda Walsh) on BEVERLY HILLS 90210 and her Christine Witherspoon days on OUR HOUSE
So now that Universal has all 8 seasons of MAGNUM on DVD, I'm hoping this will inspire Warner Bros. to finally release MATT HOUSTON on DVD, since MATT HOUSTON was a pretty cool private detective show too that was in competition with MAGNUM, P.I. throughout MATT HOUSTON's whole 3-year run on ABC, not to mention that Houston(Lee Horseley) had a slight resemeblence to Magnum(Tom Selleck).
Magnum's 4th Season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to the days when I was 11 years old and still living in my hometown(El Centro, CA) since I was living in the Imperial Valley at the time, which by the way is a small secluded desert community with nothing to do for fun or entertainment, unless of course you're married or a cop.
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