“There was a time I could have been mistaken for Burt Reynolds. I had a mustache and so did he. But he was the number one star in the world, so there wasn’t really much confusion.” – Tom Selleck

Charge (17-3 in central Iowa) has started carrying reruns of Magnum, P.I.. What’s incredible is they’ve replaced the intro and theme music. It completely ruins the ‘bling’ aspect of the show. Stations do that because they don’t want to pay residuals to the musicians. I’ve seen it before with Bonanza and Walker Texas Ranger. I don’t know what it is with Hollywood contracts but for some reason musicians seem to have better contracts than the actors. That would be fun to know the answer to. The original series really benefitted from the music. Its just staggering the lengths Hollywood Jews will go to to avoid paying someone their rightful earnings. Your mind is subconsciously expecting to hear a certain music, then it doesn’t. Its unsettling.

The other thing it reminded me of was the complete lack of class/imagination by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). They now have in the year 2020 a good part of their 80s lineup on in remakes of Magnum, P.I., MacGyver and Hawaii 5-0 (I just learned the other day that CBS is now also remaking Walker Texas Ranger). Is that incredible or what? Classic series that they couldn’t possibly hope to hold a candle to. And they didn’t. The twits of today don’t stand a chance of comparing well to Hollywood legends. Another tidbit is that on IMDB Magnum is listed as a 48 minute show. Today’s “1 hour” shows are invariably 41 or 42 minute shows, with 1 actually being 43 minutes. They talk about “creative” editing in the original run to add some commercial time.

Tom Selleck is an interesting guy. They wanted him for the Indiana Jones role, and he knew it was a good one, but he felt his obligation to the newly signed Magnum role was just too great not to uphold. It turns out there was a 6 month delay in the startup of Magnum shooting, so he could have done Indiana Jones as well! Such is life. He had another great quote (as goes with being one of Hollywood’s few ‘conservatives’). “I don’t know if my political opinions ever lost me work, but I know for sure they never got me any.” Oh, and to show the pure genius of Hollywood producers, the Magnum role was first offered to Kojak’s Kevin Dobson.