Higgins asks Magnum to find a long-lost artifact, "The Lost Art of the Ancients" before it can fall into the wrong hands.Higgins asks Magnum to find a long-lost artifact, "The Lost Art of the Ancients" before it can fall into the wrong hands.Higgins asks Magnum to find a long-lost artifact, "The Lost Art of the Ancients" before it can fall into the wrong hands.
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Walter Scott
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- TriviaThis episode is a "Raiders of the Lost Ark" parody, in which Magnum is dressed up as Indiana Jones. Tom Selleck's prior commitment to the series forced him to turn down the role of Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). However, production on the series was slated to start in May of 1980, but was delayed by an actors' strike. When the series finally went into production a few months later, "Raiders" had just completed filming. Although this time period would have allowed Selleck to do the movie, Harrison Ford had already been cast in the film by the time the actors' strike began.
- GoofsSnakes are not native to Hawaii and even Magnum says there is no snakes on the island yet they find themselves in the cave full of snakes. The question is left wide open in a plot hole as to how all the snakes got there and survived there.
- ConnectionsFeatures Nyoka and the Lost Secrets of Hippocrates (1966)
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Tom Selleck gets to show how he would have appeared as Indiana Jones
Tom Selleck was unable to star in the Raiders of the Lost Ark movie due to his TV commitments. So the role of Indiana Jones went to Harrison Ford. It mirrored what happened in the Wizard of Oz where the role of Dorothy intended for Shirley Temple instead went to Judy Garland due to Fox studios not willing to lend Ms. Temple over to MGM. Tom Selleck gets to emulate the role of Indiana Jones by wearing clothing similar to the role and use a whip and come across snakes. The title of the episode is aptly named Raiders of the Lost Art with Higgins constantly correcting others who keep saying Ark instead. You get an idea of how Selleck would have portrayed the role of Indiana Jones. Selleck starred in several Western movies, so he fit the character for the movie IMHO. The episode is more humorous and silly than other episodes in the series and that was probably how it was intended to be made. At the end of the episode, Higgins tries to get Magnum to put the Indiana Jones style clothing and hat again, but Magnum locks him out and puts on his baseball cap making for a final rejection about assuming the Indiana Jones character.
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