Magnum, P.I. (1980)

Action · Adventure · Crime

A private investigator who works when he wants, lives in a beachfront estate in Hawaii, drives a posh Ferrari, runs up an unlimited tab at a swank bar, and charms attractive women in peril - that's the lifestyle of Thomas Magnum, aka Magnum, P.I.

IMDb rating: 7.5 (32,187 votes)
Episode average: 7.7 ↑ +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons: 8
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 8 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1980)

7.49 avg 18 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 50 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii: Part 1	7.8	1,539
2	Don't Eat the Snow in Hawaii: Part 2	7.8	792
3	China Doll	7.4	771
4	Thank Heaven for Little Girls and Big Ones Too	7.1	712
5	No Need to Know	7.6	671
6	Skin Deep	7.4	673
7	Never Again... Never Again	7.5	647
8	The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii	6.6	692
9	Missing in Action	7.2	608
10	Lest We Forget	8.2	678
11	The Curse of the King Kamehameha Club	7.5	571
12	Thicker Than Blood	7.7	567
13	All Roads Lead to Floyd	7.3	557
14	Adelaide	7.1	571
15	Don't Say Goodbye	7.5	593
16	The Black Orchid	7.2	566
17	J. "Digger" Doyle	8.3	614
18	Beauty Knows No Pain	7.6	527

Season 2 (1981)

7.51 avg 21 episodes 7.3 → 7.3 51 min avg

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Billy Joe Bob	7.3	543
2	Dead Man's Channel	7.7	538
3	The Woman on the Beach	7.5	559
4	From Moscow to Maui	7.3	505
5	Memories Are Forever	8.3	637
6	Tropical Madness	7.5	510
7	Wave Goodbye	7.6	501
8	Mad Buck Gibson	7.4	495
9	The Taking of Dick McWilliams	7.1	450
10	The Sixth Position	7.1	472
11	Ghost Writer	7.2	490
12	The Jororo Kill	7.7	458
13	Computer Date	7.7	447
14	Try to Remember	8.1	480
15	Italian Ice	7.8	487
16	One More Summer	7.1	450
17	Texas Lightning	7.3	449
18	Double Jeopardy	7.5	433
19	The Last Page	7.5	430
20	The Elmo Ziller Story	7.7	460
21	Three Minus Two	7.3	435

Season 3 (1982)

7.76 avg 22 episodes 9.0 → 7.8 51 min avg

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Did You See the Sunrise?	9.0	887
2	Ki'is Don't Lie	7.9	494
3	The Eighth Part of the Village	7.5	422
4	Past Tense	7.7	436
5	Black on White	8.0	468
6	Flashback	8.1	458
7	Foiled Again	7.7	423
8	Mr. White Death	7.8	423
9	Mixed Doubles	7.2	449
10	Almost Home	7.7	424
11	Heal Thyself	7.6	410
12	Of Sound Mind	8.1	461
13	The Arrow That Is Not Aimed	7.8	405
14	Basket Case	7.5	406
15	Birdman of Budapest	7.6	406
16	I Do?	7.5	383
17	Forty Years from Sand Island	7.8	391
18	Legacy from a Friend	7.7	408
19	Two Birds of a Feather	7.1	423
20	...By Its Cover	7.6	381
21	The Big Blow	8.1	438
22	Faith and Begorrah	7.8	404

Season 4 (1983)

7.67 avg 21 episodes 8.7 → 8.0 49 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Home from the Sea	8.7	642
2	Luther Gillis: File #521	7.8	432
3	Smaller Than Life	7.0	375
4	Distant Relative	7.8	404
5	Limited Engagement	7.8	396
6	Letter to a Duchess	7.7	373
7	Squeeze Play	7.7	419
8	A Sense of Debt	7.4	390
9	The Look	7.7	389
10	Operation: Silent Night	8.3	425
11	Jororo Farewell	7.0	375
12	The Case of the Red Faced Thespian	7.9	403
13	No More Mr. Nice Guy	7.5	357
14	Rembrandt's Girl	7.5	394
15	Paradise Blues	7.2	367
16	The Return of Luther Gillis	7.3	365
17	Let the Punishment Fit the Crime	7.4	347
18	Holmes Is Where the Heart Is	8.0	386
19	On Face Value	8.0	383
20	Dream a Little Dream	7.3	362
21	I Witness	8.0	366

Season 5 (1984)

7.70 avg 22 episodes 8.0 → 7.4 48 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Echoes of the Mind: Part 1	8.0	447
2	Echoes of the Mind: Part 2	8.1	431
3	Mac's Back	7.8	390
4	The Legacy of Garwood Huddle	7.6	358
5	Under World	8.1	347
6	Fragments	7.3	343
7	Blind Justice	7.8	322
8	Murder 101	8.1	363
9	Tran Quoc Jones	7.6	339
10	Luther Gillis: File #001	7.6	326
11	Kiss of the Sabre	6.8	344
12	Little Games	8.2	375
13	Professor Jonathan Higgins	7.7	339
14	Compulsion	7.6	323
15	All for One: Part 1	8.2	351
16	All for One: Part 2	8.1	334
17	The Love-for-Sale Boat	7.4	331
18	Let Me Hear the Music	7.5	339
19	Ms. Jones	7.5	322
20	The Man from Marseilles	7.4	298
21	Torah, Torah, Torah	7.6	320
22	A Pretty Good Dancing Chicken	7.4	299

Season 6 (1985)

7.65 avg 20 episodes 8.2 → 7.3 50 min avg

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Deja Vu	8.2	393
2	Old Acquaintance	7.4	318
3	The Kona Winds	7.7	336
4	The Hotel Dick	7.5	328
5	Round and Around	7.6	314
6	Going Home	8.1	377
7	Paniolo	7.3	318
8	The Treasure of Kalaniopu'u	7.7	325
9	Blood and Honor	8.1	331
10	Rapture	7.4	302
11	I Never Wanted to Go to France, Anyway	7.3	310
12	Summer School	7.4	312
13	Mad Dogs and Englishmen	7.8	321
14	All Thieves on Deck	7.9	317
15	This Island Isn't Big Enough....	7.7	287
16	Way of the Stalking Horse	8.2	325
17	Find Me a Rainbow	7.6	302
18	Who Is Don Luis Higgins... and Why Is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me?	7.6	303
19	A Little Bit of Luck... a Little Bit of Grief	7.2	295
20	Photo Play	7.3	291

Season 7 (1986)

7.96 avg 21 episodes 8.1 → 8.8 51 min avg

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	L.A.	8.1	371
2	One Picture Is Worth	8.0	303
3	Straight and Narrow	7.3	302
4	A.A.P.I.	7.9	336
5	Death and Taxes	8.8	437
6	Little Girl Who	8.5	371
7	Paper War	8.6	372
8	Novel Connection	7.5	430
9	Kapu	7.5	309
10	Missing Melody	7.7	302
11	Death of the Flowers	7.8	293
12	Autumn Warrior	8.1	307
13	Murder by Night	7.9	317
14	On the Fly	7.8	282
15	Solo Flight	7.3	324
16	Forty	7.8	289
17	Laura	8.8	473
18	Out of Sync	7.4	291
19	The Aunt Who Came to Dinner	7.6	291
20	The People vs. Orville Wright	7.9	295
21	Limbo	8.8	459

Season 8 (1987)

8.02 avg 13 episodes 8.5 → 8.4 47 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts	8.5	373
2	Pleasure Principle	7.7	308
3	Innocence... A Broad	7.8	284
4	Tigers Fan	8.6	323
5	Forever in Time	7.7	290
6	The Love That Lies	7.4	287
7	A Girl Named Sue	7.8	303
8	Unfinished Business	8.8	365
9	The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company	7.3	273
10	Legend of the Lost Art	7.9	369
11	Transitions	8.1	284
12	Resolutions: Part I	8.3	380
13	Resolutions: Part II	8.4	387

Magnum, P.I. (1980)

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