OK. Come up with any question to do with any 80's TV show. If you answer the question, you have to post a new question. No answering the question and getting back to season 2 of Knight Rider or anything like that.
I'll start (obviously)
In the show Magnum PI, what was his usual fee?
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
this game is great, but alas, i do not know the answer and i will not cheat and look it up, watching all of magnum is on my to do list. hopefully i can get one i know down the road
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
well lomax i got a question for you.
Norm Peterson on the show cheers frequented a ceartin resturant, what is the resturant's name?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
I have been watching some Magum P I lately and have heard his fee come up several times but not the amount just the word "fee". I do wonder if the amount is known or if this is a trick question. Bernie?
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
No, not a trick question. It has been years since I even asked the question and now I am at risk of answering my own question wrong. Without looking it up and going with my gut I think it was 200 dollars a day plus expenses.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Im saddened you answered the question Bernie. My goal was to try and get this while watching reruns on TV on Thursday nights. Thats ok, I will continue to watch Magnum and hopefully confirm your thought.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Sorry man. I thought you wanted me to answer it.
Another question for you. What are the names of Higgins' Dobermans?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
its all good Bernie Lomax
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
So, what's your answer to the Doberman question?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Ive heard their names before but cant think of them right now. When I hear it on an episode I will answer on here. I will not cheat, so it may take awhile.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I won't answer my own question this time and this also is definitely not a trick question.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
boy, it sure is tough to get the answers by watching the show. Thought I was gonna get the dogs names last night. When Magnum was trapped by the dogs and yelling at Higgins to get them. I thought to myself, oh yeah Bernie, i got the answer. Wrong! Higgins ignored Magnums cries for help then came a commercial. I got shut down again.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Typical! Damn Higgins! Higgins had them trained to not like Magnum for sure. Hopefully next Thursday night you can get the answer.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
i meant to put this on last week after Magnum. Higgins called the DOGS the LADS. Is that right Bernie
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Unfortunately not TNT. They both have individual names. It just means more episodes of Magnum to watch. Not a bad thing IMO.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
This is a major tease. Watched two episodes last night. Magnum inherited $50 million and two doberman dogs from some guy. Of course they said THEIR(the inherited dogs) names but no mention of the Lads names.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
What were the names of the inherited dogs?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
i couldnt understand the guy that said their names. He had a foreign accent Bernie.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
It's only a matter of time TNT. I can hear in my head Higgins saying the dogs names. If I had two Dobermans that is what I would call them. I know it is a major tease cos Higgins does refer to them as the lads most of the time but they do have individual names. It's been a long time since I watched the whole series so I can't say how often the names are actually mentioned.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Fisher Stevens makes a mention of Magnum in the movie My Science Project. "I could be home watchin Magnum"
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have only seen that movie once. I remember in an episode of Quantum Leap, Sam leaped back to the early eighties and the girl was talking about watching it. Magnum ran from 80-88. Must have been pretty cool living in Hawaii for 8 years.
I think it has to be the best TV show theme ever. You got the chopper dropping at the start, awesome music, scenes of Hawaii, Magnum doing a burnout on Robin Masters lawn in the Ferrari - what more could you want?
I started figuring this theme out on the guitar a while ago. I should get to finishing it off. I love the theme tune!
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
And don't forget the bikinis. I agree Bernie, one of the best theme songs. I also dabbled with a guitar for 7 or so years but haven't touched it much over the last 10 years. Try the James Bond theme. Shouldn't take too long to get the hang of it. Its pretty simple.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Dust that guitar off! I can play those themes in my own way but I try hard to play them exactly note for note which does get very gruelling.
After 7 years you must have been OK on the guitar? Get that electric out and play Eruption! Now!
Funny thing is after I had written that spiel about Magnum I thought to myself; What about the girl in the swimsuit? - I was too lazy to edit my post.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Would love to get the 'ol Ibanez out and rip off some heavy palm mutes but just don't have the time anymore. Do you get to play much?
Oh by the way, on the episode Heal Thyself (1982), around the 50 minute mark with commercials, Higgins mentions Zeus and Apollo!!
I see you added your 12th update. Congrats. What was it?
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, I play a reasonable amount but I don't have much of a life. I am a uni student so I have plenty of time for guitar but I have almost finished my degree so my time of doing nothing is drawing closer to an end Even if you can squeeze in 10-15 minutes of guitar a day would be good. I am working on You Shook Me All Night Long at the moment.
I can hear Higgins saying "Zeus, Apollo".
You must have been relieved when you heard that. Great names I reckon. How many episodes did you have to sit through to get that?
I decided to add in that filming goof with the reflection of the chopper from Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I thought I would check to see if anyone else had mentioned it. They hadn't so I thought I might as well chuck it in. I see you have 3. One was for Real Genius and the other Tuff Turf. What was the other?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
yip. any amount of time makes a difference. perhaps while watching Magnum it should be tinkered with. watched maybe 6 or 8 episodes before Higgins said their names. when i saw the dogs sitting there i did get a little excited. ACDC has some very cool riffs.
my third update was in My Science Project. Have you seen this movie
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, it takes ages to get good at guitar for most people. I will do the Magnum theme soon I think. Yep, get out the Ibanez next time you sit down for Magnum. I just finished figuring out the solo for You Shook Me All Night Long - It took me about 4 days of listening to it and practising it for about 2 hours a day. I try to figure it all out by ear so it's time consuming.
It's about time Higgins spilled the beans on the names of his two pets. Those dogs are ultra cool.
I remember seeing that movie once a few years back. I don't really remember if it was good or not but perhaps I will have to check it out again.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
where did the Jeffersons live?
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have got no idea. That show did not get much air time here in OZ when I was growing up. I do remember seeing it. I will take a guess. I am assuming they would have been living in one of the N.Y boroughs. I will take a guess. The Bronx?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
New York City. Nice guess
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I guess I am technically wrong then cos they weren't living in The Bronx - I was fairly sure it would have been N.Y somewhere.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Ill give it to you Bernie.
Here is another. What was the name of the ship in The LOVE BOAT?
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have seen the show. It was on TV here a bit over the years but was never a big watcher. I have seen only a few episodes. I am assuming the ship is not called The Love Boat but that would be my best guess.
What is the function called that allows K.I.T.T. to jump over things in Knight Rider?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Ill give you the answer to that Mr. Lomax next Tuesday!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Call me Bernie. I mean my father is Mr. Lomax, right?
I thought you would know that one. It's an easy Knight Rider question.
I have no excuses for not knowing the name of the Love Boat. What is it?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
since you and i seem to be the only ones playing, here is the answer.
Pacific Princess
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I would never have got that in a million years. Perhaps people see that we are playing our own little game and are respectfully leaving us to it
I assume you are watching Knight Rider next Tuesday night?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
just u and i Bernie. I am gonna watch some Knight Rider tonight at 9 oclock. Will be flipping between that and the college world series. Im gonna throw a guess out before i watch.....is it the flux capacitor, b
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
No, but in Knight Rider if Michael can see that there is something in the way and needs to jump over he hits a button. The name of that button is what I wanna know. I will give you small hint. It's initials are T.B. I believe the flux capacitor is for time travel in Back to the Future.
It's hard to believe that as much time has travelled between 1955 and 1985 as it has has from 1985 to 2015.
Do you guys have constant reruns over there? I might start a thread up soon about television in America and how television in the rest of the world sucks. Our television networks in OZ are trash. There is hardly ever anything decent on.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Some channels show alot of reruns of stuff from the 80s and older. They change them up every now and then. Seinfeld, Magnum, Married with Children, Knight Rider, Hart to Hart, Gilligans Island, some old westerns, Miami Vice, Starsky and Hutch,Charlies Angels, Quantam Leap. I wish they would bring back Taxi, Whos the Boss, Cheers, Brady Bunch, Jeffersons and Good Times just to name a few.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
How many channels do you guys get in America?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
We have satellite. Just the basic channels. A person could get quite a few channels if they don't mind coughing up the cash. The Basic, Its over 100 channels but only 50 or so are to our tastes. The local channels(free TV) actually have some decent stuff. They play a lot of the reruns I mentioned before including Knight Rider that is about to come on.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
What is the pay TV situation? How many channels could you potentially get? How long has pay TV been around for in USA? How many channels are on free TV?
Pay TV only came here in about 94-95. I was one of the first people in Australia to have it cos my mum worked at the satellite company. Unfortunately that company was short lived and got taken over. There was only about 4 channels to start with. I suppose now it would have 50 or so channels. I don't have Pay TV any more because it costs way too much. If you want all the channels it cost over $150 a month. Free TV has improved here. There used to be only 5 channels for the last 30-40 years and now there is about 15. Mostly have crap reality TV shows though. There are a couple of channels that do some reruns but it's not much. Recently there has been Starsky & Hutch, T.J Hooker, Beverly Hills 90210 (guilty pleasure), Taxi, Charlie's Angels but there needs to be more.
I was watching Against All Odds (1984) the other night and the security guard had a vicious but well trained Doberman - it reminded me of the lads from Magnum.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Turbo Boost was mentioned 7 minutes into this episode. Its funny, this very recognizeable Volkswagon keeps showing up in different scenes even though its not being driven by any of the characters in the show plus a wood paneled station wagon.
Depending on where you live you can get cable TV or Satellite Dish. We live in the country and can only get a satellite dish since the cable TV is mainly in the populated areas. Not sure how many channels are possible but you could get more than a person really needs. Since free TV is through a special receiver box that we do not have hooked up , I cant answer that Bernie, although like yours it has improved greatly also. Our satellite bill is $75 a month.
HAHA! Yes , that Doberman was vicious. I have always liked scenes with dogs showing their teeth. Love that movie. I like when she stabs the guard in the hand with the scissors.
Remember Dinky in Vacation growling at Clark. Crax me up
I first remember pay TV around 1980 and it was like 13 channels.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Turbo boost, you got it. Only 7 minutes in. Not 10 episodes to get the answer this time. I never noticed the VW. I have noticed many times though that when he uses Turbo Boost you can see the ramp (you can't miss it most of the time)
$75 I would pay but not $150. There is only one pay TV company here so they have the monopoly.
Against All Odds is great. I first saw it as a kid and remember mainly the Porsche/Ferrari race scene but have seen it a couple times since. The first time I saw it I didn't really like it that much but watched it the other night and thought it was great. The one thing I liked about the Doberman is that besides growling and showing it's teeth that it actually tapped it's teeth together (classic) - You know that it's possible that given the year of the movie (1984) that it could have potentially been one of the lads from Magnum.
Dinky was great until the dog killer had his way with him. I had a pooch like him when I was a kid
Pay TV in 1980 - I had a feeling it had been around at least that long in USA. We are so far behind the times here. Some people say "Hmm Australia - didn't that used to be a penal colony?" And I say "Whadda ya mean, used to be?"
What episode of Knight Rider was on? I used to have the episode with the gypsy kid Tino on videotape.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
yeah. the Porsche/Ferrari scene was great and I have never forgotten it. It was in the trailer and It was one of the reasons i had to go see it.
The teeth clack by the doberman was great. Nice catch Bernie.
not sure what the episode was but the girl Knight was helping was blind. KITT got put in a car crusher but was able to launch itself out at the perfect angle
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
My mum thought that the Doberman teeth clacking was dubbed on but it wasn't. If you look closely the dog does tap it's teeth together at the precise time as the sound of it. She did observe though that the Doberman could have been restrained with a leash that the camera is not showing. I think this is possible.
I might buy some Magnum and Knight Rider. When I first got Pay TV I did not know if it was going to be a short lived thing so I went to work videotaping many of the series that came on. I have all but lost all these videos over the years but I used to have all the episodes for many shows including Knight Rider, Magnum, The A-Team, Taxi, Who's The Boss, My Two Dads, Starsky and Hutch, T.J. Hooker, Rawhide and a few others I can't think of now. I wish I still had all those tapes.
I used to have a Doberman about 15 years ago too. It's funny cos they all look pretty much identical especially in the face.
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Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Pay TV is not needed but my wife wanted it even though she doesn't watch it much and having a child now we will keep it but before I was married I did not have pay TV. It was easy to just watch my favorite movies, TV series and motocross/supercross races that my dad would record for me. Bummer you cant find all those tapes you recorded. DO you still have a VCR?
My wife has a miniature Doberman/Chihuahua. Shes a pretty good dog.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah. I still have a VCR but you can't record on them now because if you are using a digital TV the VCR can't record off of it.
That's a strange mix of dog.
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have pretty much finsihed watching the 3rd season of Magum. I think I enjoyed it more than when I watched it twenty years ago.
I think the acting is quite good. Tom Selleck and John Hillerman really do a great job as does Roger E. Mosley and Larry Manetti. I can't get over how good the character of Higgins is. It is a really well thought out character but whoever writes the dialogue for Higgins must get completely mentally exhausted.
Tom Selleck does a great job playing Magnum and often does look at the fourth wall but obviously it's intentional. It's a bit cheesy him always doing that but I guess they made the decision to do it and stuck by it so that's cool.
I think the dogs Zeus and Apollo affectionately known as The Lads do a a great job. They are extremely loyal to Higgins and like to growl at and chase after Magum.
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and this also is definitely not a trick question.
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Even if you can squeeze in 10-15 minutes of guitar a day would be good. I am working on You Shook Me All Night Long at the moment.![[Smile]](smile.gif)