MAGNUMB, PUBLIC IDIOT

MAGNUM, P. I.
CBS 1980-1988


Parodies from MAD, Crazy, and Bananas were posted yesterday. Here's the rest.

MAGNUMB, PUBLIC IDIOT
Cracked #191, November 1982
a: John Severin

Thomas Magnum (Tom Selleck) is a Navy veteran who is now working as a private investigator in Hawaii in a beachhouse, a/k/a Robin's Nest, owned by the unseen novelist Robin Masters. His friends are former navy buddies T.C. (Roger Mosley) and Rick (Larry Manetti). The caretaker of Robin's Nest was Jonathan Higgins (John Hillerman).

Two running jokes on the show were that Higgins was a stuffy by-the-book Englishman to Magnum's laid-back personality, and Magnum was always at odds with Apollo and Zeus, the two dobermans of the estate. Cases of Magnum's were usually guests at Robin's Nest.

MAGDUMB P. I.
Cracked #204, July 1984
a: O. O. Severin (John Severin)

Severin's stories always had these stamps as background sight gags similar to Marvel value stamps. I always wonder if people cut them out and put them in an album.

John Hillerman did commercials as his character for Mauna Loa Macadamia Nuts (see below)

They eventually did have Mr. Robin in the last few episodes in narration, voiced by Orson Welles.

MAGNUMB R.I.P.
Cracked #232, November 1987
w: Robert Loren Fleming
a: John Severin

T. C.'s name keeps being changed.

John Severin must have not known anything about Ghostbusters or its cast. Bill Murray looks more like Jack Nicholson and has a mustache while Dan Aykroyd has a mask.