On Magnum P.I., was Higgins actually Robin Masters?

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Watching reruns and I can't tell if I've missed a major subtext for the whole series or whether these are just some episode-specific jokes.

Oh the important things we unemployed get up to!

pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

No.
Higgins is a friend of Masters' just like Magnum is.
Masters actually sort of shows up in some episodes, I believe.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

He does? My mom was a fanatic for Magnum and said he never showed.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Robin’s Nest is managed by Englishman Jonathan Quayle Higgins III (played by Texan John Hillerman), an ex-British Army Sergeant Major, and is guarded by two highly trained Dobermann pinschers, Zeus & Apollo (AKA “The Lads”). Near the end of the series it was suggested that Higgins and Robin Masters might be the same person. In the final episode Higgins ostensibly admits to being Robin Masters, but at its conclusion he recants, perhaps whimsically telling Magnum that he had lied about Robin Masters, leaving viewers to wonder whether he was lying about Robin or lying about being Robin. During the early seasons of Magnum, the voice of Robin Masters (heard only a few times a season) was played by Orson Welles.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Orson.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I remembered him having a voice on the series a la Charlie.
though perhaps it is a bit more fun to imagine that Higgins is Robin Masters, etc etc.

TOMBOT (TOMBOT), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

What were the names of Magnum's friends again -- Rick and TC, right?

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

The great crossover

Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

perhaps the big-screen adaptation will answer these questions

kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that was going to be about the Simon & Simon crossover, which was on earlier this week.

pleased to mitya (mitya), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)


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