The 1980s is the peak era for crime shows.
They started not only showing police procedures on every network but a little something from the other side of fighting crime and solving mysteries.
The people who sometimes lurk in the shadows, cross the line, or bend the truth to serve justice on a platter.
But the ’80s was the time for amateur detectives and private investigators like Jessica Fletcher (Dame Angela Lansbury) of Murder She Wrote, the A-Team, Macgyver (Richard Dean Anderson), and Johnathan and Jennifer Hart from Hart to Hart.
But in all the glory held by those television investigators, none is as iconic of the bunch as Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV, played most dashingly by Tom Selleck in the series Magnum P.I.
(And not just because of his character’s short shorts — but it doesn’t hurt!)…
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